huffingtonpost.com - 11/19/2008
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WASHINGTON — Barack Obama's incoming administration is unlikely to bring criminal charges against government officials who authorized or engaged in harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists during the George W. Bush presidency. Obama, who has criticized the use of torture, is being ...
mediamatters.org - 11/21/2008
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mediamatters.org —
In anticipation of the new administration, Beltway media
insiders are busy laying the groundwork for how reporters
and pundits will treat the new team on Pennsylvania Avenue. "Once a president takes office ... an adversarial relationship ...
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Boehlert: Covering new presidents: the media's double ...
theanchoressonline.com - 11/20/2008
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theanchoressonline.com —
I’m still trying to keep to my new
pledge of only writing about politics when it intersects
with religion, but it does seem only fair to note that, Old Europe, which has been struggling all along with its restrictions, has finally admitted ...
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Bush was right. Victorious, too
washingtonindependent.com - 11/20/2008
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washingtonindependent.com —
Buoyed by high expectations for the first year
of Barack Obama’s administration, an informal coalition of progressive
national-security and civil-liberties experts are urging the president-elect to redefine the war on terrorism. Eight years of the ...
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Recasting the War on Terrorism
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CNN fails to identify former Bush homeland security official in report on torture.
Think Progress —
... CNN aired a story this afternoon reporting that human rights groups are urging President-elect Obama to “investigate whether the Bush administration is ...
The Hamdan release: George W. Bush's gift to Barack Obama
TigerHawk —
... serve out the remaining month of his term before returning to the warm embrace of his family. The Bush administration's alternative -- and the likely one, given its reputation for stubbornness -- would have been to stick to its position that it could detain Hamdan indefinitely and hand the resulting litigation and sticky political problem to the Obama administration. Barack Obama will surely notice the gesture. Indeed, one cannot help but wonder whether the signals from Obama that he will not pursue prosecutions of Bush administration officials are predicated in part, at ...
How Do I Fuck My Base? Let Me Count The Ways.
Jesus' General —
How Do I Fuck My Base? Let Me Count The Ways. A poem by Barack Obama How do I fuck my base. Let me count the ways? I fuck them by reaching out to homophobic pastors and the bigoted throngs they represent. I fuck them by embracing war-mongering apparatchiks and the neo-con wet dreams they blindly followed. I fuck them by allowing war-criminals and torturers to escape the punishment they so richly deserve. I fuck them by endorsing domestic spying and allowing the telecoms to profit from their complicity. I fuck ...
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