undispatch.com - 1/14/2009
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Just returning from and event at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC in which Steve Clemons played host/inquisitor/moderator to a discussion with outgoing United States ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad.
Khalilzad reflected that the United Nations was a "net ...
whitehouse.gov - 1/20/2009
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whitehouse.gov —
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA Barack H. Obama is the
44th President of the United States. His story is
the American story values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the ...
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President Barack Obama
julescrittenden.com - 1/14/2009
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julescrittenden.com —
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 ...
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About That Torture Thing
mediamatters.org - 1/21/2009
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mediamatters.org —
During Fox News' coverage of President Barack Obama's
January 20 inauguration, Chris Wallace, host of Fox News
Sunday , asserted, "I'm not sure that Barack Obama really is the president of the United States, because the oath of office is set in ...
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Fox News anchors harp on oath story that experts ...
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Condi Rice Calls Olmert's Story "Fiction"
The Washington Note —
... and UN Dispatch's Mark Goldberg both have more on this, but the exchange below today with Secretary Rice shows that she knows how to manage the optics of this diplomatic tiff with Olmert. Nonetheless, she calls his understanding of events related to the ceasefire resolution "fiction." ...
Condi Rice Calls Olmert's Story "Fiction"
TPMCafe —
... and UN Dispatch's Mark Goldberg both have more on this, but the exchange below today with Secretary Rice shows that she knows how to manage the optics of this diplomatic tiff with Olmert. Nonetheless, she calls his understanding of events related to the ceasefire resolution as "fiction." ...
Olmert stands by his story on Rice’s Gaza vote.
Think Progress —
... ” and that he “told the story as it happened.” U.N. Dispatch notes these comments from U.N. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad: ...
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