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stoptheaclu.com - 1/17/2009
Eric Holder States That Waterboarding Is Torture
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From his confirmation hearings Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder Jr. forcefully broke from the Bush administration's counterterrorism policies Thursday, declaring that waterboarding is torture and pledging to prosecute some Guantanamo Bay detainees in U.S. courts. It was the latest signal ...
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/15/2009
Holder: "I Will Review That Determination" Not To Prosecute Schlozman
— tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com — Not that it's likely, but Brad Schlozman may want to hope that Eric Holder's confirmation somehow gets... derailed. That's because Holder just told the Senate Judiciary committee that he wants to reconsider the Bush Justice Department's curious ... (more) Holder: "I Will Review That Determination" Not To ...

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Cornyn’s Absurd Hypothetical For Holder: What If Waterboarding Were Your Only Interrogation Option?
thinkprogress.org - 1/16/2009
Cornyn’s Absurd Hypothetical For Holder: What If Waterboarding Were Your Only Interrogation Option?
— thinkprogress.org — During his confirmation hearing today, Attorey General nominee Eric Holder unequivocally rejected torture . “No one is... above the law,” Holder said repeatedly during the hearing. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) could not fathom that an Attorney ... (more) Cornyn’s Absurd Hypothetical For Holder: What If ...

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Feingold Questions Attorney General Nominee Eric Holder on FISA (video)
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Feingold Questions Attorney General Nominee Eric Holder on FISA (video)
— youtube.com — U.S. Senator Russ Feingold questions Attorney General nominee Eric Holder about FISA during a Senate Judiciary Committee... hearing on January 15, 2009. (more) Feingold Questions Attorney General Nominee Eric Holder ...

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Obama Named Gun Salesman Of The Year
Pirate's Cove — ... In fact, Shepherd says, gun and ammunition sales are at such frantic levels that they have surpassed the panic-buying of Y2K or anything during the Clinton years when the first Assault Weapons Ban was passed. Hey, are you really surprised? Obama is pretty much the best snake oil salesman of all time, considered that he was elected president on Hope ‘n Change, no record…..you know the deal. Via Hot Air. Check out my post over at Stop The ACLU on Waterboarding and Eric Holder. PPS: the picture denotes ...

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