openleft.com - 4/20/2009
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Attorney General Eric Holder during his confirmation hearing : I understand that the attorney general is different from every other cabinet officer. Though I am a part of the president's team, I am not a part of the president's team in the way that any other cabinet officer is. I have a ...
thinkprogress.org - 4/21/2009
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thinkprogress.org —
Recently, the White House has sent mixed signals
about whether it supports investigations into the Bush administration
officials who authored the torture policies. On Sunday, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said that "those who devised the ...
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Obama: Holder Will Decide Whether To Prosecute Torture ...
washingtonindependent.com - 4/23/2009
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washingtonindependent.com —
bush-frown When President George W. Bush wrote on
February 7, 2002 that Common Article 3 of the
Geneva Conventions did not apply to al Qaeda or Taliban detainees, he took the first step down a slippery slope of legal interpretation that he and members ...
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Pressure Mounts for Torture Prosecutions
huffingtonpost.com - 4/22/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
MoveOn.org is set to launch an aggressive new
ad campaign calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to
investigate the use of torture during the Bush administration and even raising the specter of targeting former Vice President Dick Cheney. The ad, ...
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MoveOn Torture Ad Highlights Cheney For Prosecution
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266 and 183.
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