prospect.org - 11/18/2008
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Whatever one makes of conflicting media reports regarding the Obama Administration's likely position on torture, if Michael Isikoff is correct in reporting that Eric Holder will be the new Attorney General it's probably a good sign that Obama really does intend to abandon the Bush torture ...
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 11/18/2008
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You will notice that the website of the
biggest gay rights group in the country has one...
single mention - it's a blog about a celebrity, of course - of the massive protests that occurred for marriage equality across the country yesterday. (A letter ...
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Obama's AG
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Eric Holder gets the job. His rhetoric on torture: Eric H. Holder Jr., Deputy Attorney General during the Clinton administration, asserted in a speech to the American Constitution Society (ACS) that the United States must reverse “the disastrous course” set by the Bush administration in the struggle against terrorism by closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, declaring without qualification that the U.S. does not torture people, ending the practice of transferring individuals involuntarily to countries that engage in torture and ceasing warrantless domestic surveillance. “Our needlessly abusive and unlawful practices in ...
DAY'S END ROUNDUP
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DAY'S END ROUNDUP Senate Democrats' decision to keep Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) as chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is not going over well on the liberal blogosphere. By giving Lieberman only a slap on the wrist for campaigning for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Democratic leaders show that they're not up to the task of leading, according to bloggers on the left. The choice of Eric Holder as attorney general in the Obama administration gets mixed reviews from bloggers. By bucking the loud calls for removing the committee gavel from Lieberman, Democrats in the Senate are telling regular people that they don't matter, writes Firedoglake's Jane ...
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