blogs.abcnews.com - 1/11/2009
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During my exclusive interview with President-elect Barack Obama airing Sunday morning on "This Week" I asked the president-elect to respond to a one of the most popular questions on his own website, www.Change.gov. "Will you appoint a Special Prosecutor --...
thinkprogress.org - 1/18/2009
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thinkprogress.org —
On Fox News Sunday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
said she was open to pursuing investigations of abuses...
by the Bush Justice Department. “I think that we have to learn from the past and we cannot let the politicizing, for example, of the Justice ...
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Pelosi open to prosecuting Bush administration officials.
blogs.abcnews.com - 1/10/2009
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blogs.abcnews.com —
During my exclusive interview with President-elect Barack Obama
airing Sunday morning on "This Week" I asked the...
president-elect to respond to the most popular question on his own website, www.change.gov. "Will you appoint a Special Prosecutor -- ...
(more)
Will Obama Administration Prosecute Bush Officials?
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sweep it under the rug
The Latest on Air America —
and it is still under the rug... I hope we don't see a rash of criminals telling the judge ...."let's just move forward'
PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA: "We're still evaluating how we're
going to approach the whole issue of interrogations, detentions, and so
forth. And obviously we're going to look at past practices. And I don't
believe that anybody is above the law. On the other hand, I also have a
belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards.
And part of my job is to make sure that for example at the CIA, ...
Ari Melber: Obama on Torture: Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... last week, out of over 70,000 submissions, but Obama aide Robert Gibbs refused to respond, leading ABC's George Stephanopoulos to press the question during an ...
Maybe, Going Forward, We Should Just Let Bernie Madoff Off?
Firedoglake —
... "My orientation's going to be to move forward," Obama said. The attorney general has to stay above politics and "uphold the Constitution," Obama added, but his administration will focus on "getting things right in the future as opposed to looking at what we got wrong in the past." ...
Jane Hamsher: Maybe, Going Forward, We Should Just Let Bernie Madoff Off?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... "My orientation's going to be to move forward," Obama said. The attorney general has to stay above politics and "uphold the Constitution," Obama added, but his administration will focus on "getting things right in the future as opposed to looking at what we got wrong in the past." ...
Daily Digest: Amplified, Asked, and Answered
techPresident —
... . So Fertik took his cause to George Stephanopoulos, who drew a vague but still illuminating response from the President-elect on his "This Week" show on ABC yesterday. (Obama left the door open a bit on the idea of prosecuting executive branch higher-ups for torture and more, but said "my orientation's going to be to move forward.") On techPresident, Tom Watson says that the ...
Peggy Noonan’s Long Walk to Nowhere
The Republic of T. —
... And the Obama administration has moved close to that door. It wasn’t that long ago that Obama made a statement similar to Noonan’s. ...
Peggy Noonan’s Long Walk to Nowhere
The Republic of T. —
... And the Obama administration has moved close to that door. It wasn’t that long ago that Obama made a statement similar to Noonan’s. ...
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