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CNSNews.com Headlines: Newspaper Roundup for Nov. 13, 2008
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society: Justice Department Offers Challenges To Obama Transition Team
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash: Real Change vs Cheap Change -- GOP Political Pocket Change
Newspaper Roundup for Nov. 13, 2008
CNSNews.com Headlines —
... Watchdog Panel Is Empty; Report Is Unfinished Washington Post: Obama Team Plans Major Justice Dept. Overhaul Goal Is to Restore Confidence in Law Enforcement Actions Washington Times: ...
Justice Department Offers Challenges To Obama Transition Team
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society —
... President-elect Barack Obama’s Justice Department transition team has plenty of challenges to confront in a relatively short period of time. Likely near the top of the team’s list is getting a handle on the politicization of much the Department’s work. The Washington Post reports that, “Political consideration affected every crevice of the department during the Bush years,” citing extensive reports by the Department’s Office of Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility. The ...
Obama Transition Team Looking To Reform Hobbled Justice Dept.
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society —
... President-elect Barack Obama’s Justice Department transition team has plenty of challenges to confront in a relatively short period of time. Likely near the top of the team’s list is getting a handle on the politicization of much the Department’s work. The Washington Post reports that, “Political consideration affected every crevice of the department during the Bush years,” citing extensive reports by the Department’s Office of Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility. The ...
Real Change vs Cheap Change -- GOP Political Pocket Change
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
... (Pa.), the panel's ranking Republican, wrote in an opinion piece last month. "Great damage has been done to the credibility and effectiveness of the Justice Department." (snip)"It would not be beneficial to spend a lot of time calling people up to Congress or in front of grand juries," Litt said. "It would really spend a lot of the bipartisan capital Obama managed to build up." Obama Team Faces Major Task in Justice Dept. Overhaul - washingtonpost.com This election was a rebuke of all Bush GOP politics. It was a bipartisan vote for sure. The time for bipartisan politics in ...
Who needs accountability
Newshoggers.com —
... ghosts of Richard Nixon would ever be allowed to haunt another White House (hi Vice President Cheney and Secretary Rumsfeld), our political process is too mature for that. Who could imagine an ignorant Know Nothing could become President or nominated for Vice President for any party larger than the Constitution Party.
That would just be uncivil. Our institutions are too strong to be bothered with accountability.
Or at least that is what the Wise Old Men of Washington want to argue: "At a conference in Washington ...
Obama May OK Torture Investigation
Daily Kos —
... But Obama advisor and Bush enabler Cass Sunstein sees things just that way. And, apparently, so does Clinton era Department of Justice official Robert Litt. As noted in today’s Washington Post: ...
