crooksandliars.com - 1/8/2009
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Download | Play Download | Play I guess Bill O'Reilly decided he'd had enough of being just a demagogue last night and made the leap into his new persona as an unmistakably dangerous demagogue. His Talking Points Memo segment is almost always amusing for its incoherence, but ...
sfgate.com - 1/7/2009
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sfgate.com —
Feinstein - the new chairwoman of the Senate
Intelligence Committee, who will oversee Panetta's confirmation hearings -...
raised eyebrows when she expressed surprisingly sharp disapproval of Panetta as nominee for CIA chief on Monday. She said that "the ...
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Why Feinstein broke with Obama on Panetta
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 1/6/2009
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Leon Panetta’s served in congress, served in the
military, served as Chief of Staff in the White...
House; he’s served on blue ribbon commissions and worked for politicians of both parties. And Barack Obama wants him to be CIA Director. ...
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The Panetta Pick
slate.com - 1/7/2009
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slate.com —
Leon Panetta. Click image to expand. Leon Panetta
The puzzler of the hour: Why is Barack Obama...
picking Leon Panetta , a former congressman and White House official with no intelligence experience, to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency? ...
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Why Obama picked Panetta to run the CIA. - By Fred ...
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Scritti Politti: January 7, 2007
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... Ugh, O'Reilly: So, Bill O'Reilly "thinks" that Leon Panetta's appointment will lead to more terrorism, because of Panetta's opposition to torture, which leads to more terrorism. ...
Scritti Politti: January 7, 2007
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Ugh, O'Reilly: So, Bill O'Reilly "thinks" that Leon Panetta's appointment will lead to more terrorism, because of Panetta's opposition to torture, which leads to more terrorism. ...
Rove and O'Reilly: Torture keeps us safe
Orcinus —
... Bill O'Reilly devoted another Talking Points Memo segment last night to his new pet thesis that Barack Obama is going to make the nation vulnerable to terrorist attack by taking torture off the table, and then brought Karl Rove on to back it all up: ...
Calling Your Bluff, Joe. Put Up or Shut Up.
Daily Kos —
The theme gets wider and deeper by the day. Cheney, Bush, Duncan Hunter, Karl Rove, Bill O'Reilly, William McGurn and a multitude of others all say torture works. They hint, or say directly, that Barack Obama would be foolish to give it up. They declare this would put America at risk of another 9/11. They say arguments to the contrary are "leftwing rubbish." Message: Not only should those who ordered and implemented torture not be prosecuted, they also deserve medals. Anybody who would deny U.S. intelligence agencies the torture tool undermines ...
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weeklystandard.com 1/16/2009 — Eli Lake has an excellent piece in the Washington Times today sifting through Leon Panetta's record on rendition as Clinton's chief of staff. Panetta, Obama's nominee to head the CIA, will face confirmation hearings next week. As Lake points out, ...
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Senate Confirms Panetta As CIA Director
npr.org 2/13/2009 — The Senate confirmed Leon Panetta as director of the CIA on Thursday, placing the nation's top spy agency in the hands of a government veteran valued for his skills as a lawmaker and policy manager rather than as an expert at intelligence-gathering ...
Bill O'Reilly's 'Shut Up' Conservatism of Silent Obedience?
newsbusters.org 12/31/2008 — As 2008 comes to a close, Bill O'Reilly had another successful year as king of the cable-news mountain. But he really brings out the superiority complex in liberals and leftists. On Alternet, writer John Dolan attempts to review his latest book, but ...
No, Bill O'Reilly, they're laughing at you
crooksandliars.com 12/16/2008 — My home state has been getting an inordinate amount of attention from Bill O'Reilly lately over that awful display by atheists located next to the Nativity scene in the state Capitol. You can tell it's really been a slow couple of weeks because ...
Panetta: No Prosecutions For CIA Torturers
newshoggers.com 2/7/2009 — By Cernig
The AP reports that CIA Director-nominee Leon Panetta has stated categorically that there will be no prosecutions for torturers .
Asked by The Associated Press if that was official policy, Panetta said, "That is the case."
It was ...
A little less O'Reilly
washingtonmonthly.com 12/6/2008 — A LITTLE LESS O'REILLY.... Bill O'Reilly's baffling fans will, starting in a few months, just have to settle for his weekday television show, his books, and his weekly newspaper column. His radio show will be no more. Bill O'Reilly has...
Paulson says Obama will decide on rescue spending —
Reuters: Politics 1/8/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The architect of the Bush administration's effort to stabilize the troubled U.S. financial system said on Wednesday President-elect Barack Obama will make the decisions on how to spend the remaining half of a $700 billion bank ...
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