salon.com - 4/21/2009
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(updated below - Update II - Update III) Whatever else one thinks about the debate over investigations and prosecutions for Bush crimes, there is no question that huge numbers of Americans -- likely majorities -- favor them. And that was true even before the release of the most graphic and ...
salon.com - 4/24/2009
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(updated below - Update II- Update III) Karl
Rove on torture prosecutions : It is now clear...
that the Obama White House didn't think before it tried to appease the hard left of the Democratic Party. Gloria Borger on Karl Rove : When Rove speaks, the ...
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Three key rules of media behavior shape their ...
julescrittenden.com - 4/24/2009
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Fair's fair. US Rep Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich, ranking
Repub on House Intel at WSJ: Director of National...
Intelligence Dennis Blair got it right last week when he noted how easy it is to condemn the enhanced interrogation program "on a bright sunny day in ...
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Does President Obama Have The Right To Stop Torture Prosecutions?
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... that "David Szady, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s former top counterintelligence official who ran the investigation of Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman, said in an interview Monday that he was confident Ms. Harman had never intervened."), but when it comes to the intercession of President Obama regarding torture prosecutions, many of these same people are quiet as church mice. Why is it okay for, as Glenn Greenwald states it, to interfere with "the very important (and overlooked) duty of the responsibilities of the Attorney General to make decisions about prosecutions ...
There's Hope, And Then There's Clapping For Fairies
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... But I'm wondering at what point Obama's twisting on such a clear cut issue will backlash for him with progressives who have until now been prepared to cut him far too much slack - Hope (tm) again - on other issues. If he's so wrong on this, perhaps being led by the Establishment elite who really do think they are privileged (privi lege = "private law"), maybe we need to look long and hard at what else he might be wrong on. Topics that spring to mind include healthcare, warrantless surveillance, bailouts for Fat Cats and especially his escalation of Bush's failed ...
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clivecrook.theatlantic.com 4/30/2009 — Let me reprise some of the main points from my column on torture prosecutions: (a) Possibly, torture can succeed in extracting vital information. (b) On balance, however, torture does not make the US safer. (c) In any event, it is shameful and ...
Torture prosecutions finally begin in the U.S. - Glenn Greenwald
salon.com 12/31/2008 — (updated below - Update II) While fiercely loyal establishment spokespeople such as The Washington Post 's Ruth Marcus continue to insist that prosecutions are only appropriate for common criminals ("someone breaking into your house") but not our ...
Obama keeps prosecutions on the table
washingtonmonthly.com 4/21/2009 — OBAMA KEEPS PROSECUTIONS ON THE TABLE.... During a press availability Jordan's King Abdullah, President Obama fielded a couple of questions about possible sanctions against Bush administration officials who wrote torture memos. The president went a ...
Quote of the Week: Bush on War Crimes Prosecutions
librarygrape.com 4/22/2009 — Funny how times change, isn't it? "War crimes will be prosecuted, war criminals will be punished and it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders.'" -- President George W. Bush, March 13, 2003, on the eve of the Iraq War.
Gibbs Confirms: No Torture Prosecutions By Obama Administration
talkleft.com 4/25/2009 — Confirming Rahmbo , via think Progress, WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs say no to torture prosecutions : CNN’S ED HENRY: Just so I understand, you’re saying the people in the CIA who followed through on what they were told was legal, ...
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