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huffingtonpost.com - 11/22/2008
Obama Considering Commission On Bush Admin Torture
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"Despite the hopes of many human-rights advocates, the new Obama Justice Department is not likely to launch major new criminal probes of harsh interrogations and other alleged abuses by the Bush administration," Newsweek's Michael Isikoff reports. "But one idea that has currency among some top ...
newsweek.com - 11/22/2008
Obama Considers Commission on Bush Admin Torture | Newsweek Periscope
— newsweek.com — Despite the hopes of many human-rights advocates, the new Obama Justice Department is not likely to launch... major new criminal probes of harsh interrogations and other alleged abuses by the Bush administration. But one idea that has currency among some ... (more) Obama Considers Commission on Bush Admin Torture | ...

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mediamatters.org - 11/21/2008
Boehlert: Covering new presidents: the media's double standard
— 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 ... (more) Boehlert: Covering new presidents: the media's double ...

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washingtonmonthly.com - 11/24/2008
Last Secrets of the Bush Administration - Charles Homans
— washingtonmonthly.com — I n March 2001, U.S. Archivist John W. Carlin received a letter from Alberto Gonzales, then counsel... to the newly inaugurated president George W. Bush. It concerned an important deadline that was looming one that Bush owed to Richard Nixon. In 1974, ... (more) Last Secrets of the Bush Administration - Charles Homans

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A Gitmo Commission?
Newshoggers.com — ... According to the HuffPo and Newsweek today, Obama is considering a middle course between straight-out investigating the need for prosecutions for war crimes and just letting the Bush administration's torturers skate. ...

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