hosted.ap.org - 1/17/2009
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to prohibit the use of waterboarding and harsh interrogation techniques by ordering the CIA to follow military rules for questioning prisoners, according to two U.S. officials familiar with drafts of the plans. Still under debate is ...
abcnews.go.com - 1/23/2009
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The CIA's bombing campaign against al Qaeda leadership
in Pakistan continued with two more attacks today, an...
indication, senior officials say, that President Barack Obama has approved the U.S. strategy that has killed at least eight of al Qaeda's top ...
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Obama to CIA: Bombs Away! No Let Up in US Drone Attacks
online.wsj.com - 1/23/2009
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Most politicians would rather do anything than make
a difficult choice, and it seems President Obama hasn't...
abandoned this Senatorial habit. To wit, yesterday's executive order on interrogation: It imposes broad limits on how aggressively U.S. ...
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Jack Bauer Exception: Obama's Order Wants It Both ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 1/23/2009
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From today's WaPo: President Obama yesterday eliminated the
most controversial tools employed by his predecessor against terrorism...
suspects. With the stroke of his pen, he effectively declared an end to the "war on terror," as President George W. ...
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So Much for Listening to Dick Cheney
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Obama: We Won’t Torture (Except When We Have To)
Patterico's Pontifications —
[Guest post by DRJ]
Glenn Reynolds links to this KnoxNews article that reports Obama is ready to end harsh interrogations, except to the extent he’s not:
“President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to prohibit the use of waterboarding and harsh interrogation techniques by ordering the CIA to follow military rules for questioning prisoners, according to two U.S. officials familiar with drafts of the plans. Still under debate is whether to include a loophole that would allow exceptions in extraordinary cases.”
How is this different from President Bush’s policy?
– DRJ
Comment on Question for the Cynics by gattsuru
Comments for Lean Left —
So far, the stuff he’s lied about is the least of my personal concerns. I’ll go from a strawman political left-wing individual’s perspective, if you don’t mind, and things that Mr. Obama promised earlier.
The broadband for all promise, currently still up on whitehouse.gov, is another one. Broadband (and faster-than-200k broadband) regardless of economics or position is something a vast majority of the voting public would get behind, and even Rethuglicans wouldn’t try to filibuster. It’s also something that’s damned near impossible, as anyone with an MSCE or CCNA and a brain could tell you, and sadly Mrs. Palin knows more about ...
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Obama Won't Prosecute Past Waterboarding
cbsnews.com 4/16/2009 — Administration Tells CIA Officials That Justice Department Doesn't Plan To Charge Them For Harsh Interrogation Techniques Comments Comments 104 WASHINGTON, April 16, 2009 (CBS/AP) Seeking to move beyond what he calls a "a dark and painful chapter in ...
RE: Rendition
corner.nationalreview.com 2/3/2009 — Buried in that LAT article on rendition Jonah linked below is a flip-flop from Human Rights Watch that would impress even the East German judge. Here's Human Rights Watch in April of last year:
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·Repudiate the use of ...
Man Is Arrested in Obama Threat —
NYT > Politics 1/17/2009
Secret Service agents arrested a man in Mississippi who wrote a series of entries in an Internet chat room saying he intended to kill Barack Obama, the Justice Department said. >
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