washingtonmonthly.com - 11/23/2008
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OBAMA TO CREATE COMMISSION ON TORTURE?.... The AP reported this week that the Obama 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."...
newsweek.com - 11/22/2008
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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 ...
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Obama Considers Commission on Bush Admin Torture | ...
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 ...
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Take It Patiently
Balloon Juice —
... Even if you support prosecuting the entire damned Bush administration for torture and any of ten thousand other crimes, a 9/11-style commission is clearly the right thing to do. A decision this consequential could make the country practically ungovernable if the administration imposes it on the nation from the top down. Actually, let me correct myself. A well-meaning administration might lose control if it tried indicting half of the previous one without giving the public a full accounting. With enough fear and made-up war powers Obama might pull it off but, fortunately, ...
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Obama Considering Commission On Bush Admin Torture
huffingtonpost.com 11/22/2008 — "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. ...
Obama Advisers: Torture Prosecutions Not Likely
huffingtonpost.com 11/19/2008 — 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 ...
Perino: ‘We Did Not Torture’
thinkprogress.org 11/19/2008 — The Bush had administration repeatedly insists that it does not practice torture: “ We do not torture ,” President Bush declared in 2005. The U.S. “ is not torturing any detainees ,” White House Press Secretary Dana Perino ...
Obama should be like Bush
the-reaction.blogspot.com 11/10/2008 — By Michael J.W. Stickings At least according to TNR's Jonathan Cohn. Cohn argues that has actually accomplished a great deal as president, from overhauling the tax code to reforming education to gutting the regulatory state to rewriting ...
More on Torture
swampland.blogs.time.com 1/13/2009 — A number of readers have taken me to task for not calling for the prosecution of George Bush et al for war crimes. Glenn Greenwald has now piled on . Let me say this: I would have no moral, legal or spiritual problem with the Obama Administration ...
No we can't
lefarkins.blogspot.com 11/18/2008 — This story , indicating that the Obama administration is bailing on the idea even investigating whether criminal charges ought to be brought against Bush administration officials who committed war crimes such as torture, is very discouraging. From the ...
A Gitmo Commission?
atlargely.com 11/23/2008 — 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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pajamasmedia.com 11/11/2008 — November 11, 2008 NO SURPRISE: "President-elect Barack Obama is unlikely to radically overhaul controversial Bush administration intelligence policies, advisers say, an approach that is almost certain to create tension within the Democratic Party. ...
Rehabilitating Bush
chicagoboyz.net 11/11/2008 — Let the rehabilitation of Bush begin! For the past 8 years, the most strident and hysterical leftist criticism of Bush has centered on his intelligence policies which leftist assured us arose purely out of a callous disregard for civil liberties and ...
Obama Leading In Eight Battlegrounds Bush Led In Four Years Ago
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/28/2008 — Here's another way to assess the state of the race right now: We've drawn up a chart comparing the Real Clear Politics averages right now in 13 core battleground states with the RCP averages in the same states from right before the 2004 election .
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