salon.com - 1/13/2009
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(updated below - Update II- Update III) Barack Obama's announced intentions on ABC News this Sunday regarding Guantanamo sparked substantial objections from civil liberties and human rights advocates. The result of those objections? From today's New York Times : President-elect Barack Obama ...
salon.com - 1/11/2009
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The central tenets of the Beltway religion -- particularly
when a Democrat is in the White House -- have long been "centrism" and "bipartisanship." The only good Democrats are the ones who scorn their ...
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Obama's allegedly "new" centrism and his ABC interview ...
salon.com - 1/8/2009
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(updated below - Update II) Principles of International
Law Recognized in the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal
and in the Judgment of the Nuremberg Tribunal. Adopted by the International Law Commission of the United Nations, 1950 : Principle I Any ...
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America then and now - Glenn Greenwald
salon.com - 1/16/2009
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( Updated below - Update II - Update
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's David Ignatius today does what he does best : serve as the spokesman for the Washington establishment's most conventional wisdom in a way that really illuminates what it ...
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Establishment Washington unifies against prosecutions - ...
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Pols Are Pols . . .
TalkLeft —
Glenn Greenwald: Politicians, by definition, respond to political pressure. Those who decide that it's best to keep quiet and simply trust in the goodness and just nature of their leader are certain to have their political goals ignored. It's always better -- far better -- for a politician to know that he's being scrutinized closely and will be praised and supported only when his actions warrant that, and will be criticized and opposed when they don't. Why is so hard for some folks to understand this? Speaking for me only ...
Compare and Contrast
Balloon Juice —
... Greenwald, in a long post on why it is important to hold team Obama to the fire, provides an example of what happens when only one side of a debate has anyone working for them: ...
Closing Gitmo
Newshoggers.com —
... Obama is apparently sticking to his Sunday claim that it could take more than 100 days to shutter America's Shame. But after an outcry from civil liberties groups, human rights advocates and many of his own supporters he is now also saying (or leaking, to be precise) that he'll ...
Closing Gitmo
Crooks and Liars —
... Obama is apparently sticking to his Sunday claim that it could take more than 100 days to shutter America's Shame. But after an outcry from civil liberties groups, human rights advocates and many of his own supporters he is now also saying (or leaking, to be precise) that he'll ...
About That Torture Thing
Jules Crittenden —
... There’s a lot of fretting over whether Obama will do the right thing about Guantanamo, and whether the CIA will barred from using harsh interrogation methods in the GWOT.* Greenwald’s having a snit . Now a Guantanamo judge comes forward, says she barred a trial for one terror suspect because his unkind treatment ...
“We Don’t Torture”
Balloon Juice —
... About prosecuting the torturers, I understand the point that Obama needs pressure from us to do the right thing, but on that particular point I really wish that people would calm down a notch. There are several reasons why I feel that way. ...
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — President-elect Barack Obama is trying to rally Congress — and the public — around a two-year plan ...
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