nytimes.com - 5/5/2009
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Washington I CAN imagine the Treasury secretary’s face turning pale as he is told by the attorney general that one of the financial institutions on government life support has been indicted by a grand jury. Worse, I can imagine the attorney general facing not too subtle pressure from the ...
nytimes.com - 4/29/2009
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Washington IT is disheartening and disconcerting, at the
very least, that here we are today almost...
exactly eight years after Senator Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party witnessing the departure of my good friend and fellow moderate Republican, ...
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Op-Ed Contributor - We Didn’t Have to Lose Arlen ...
nytimes.com - 5/13/2009
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Washington JUST four members of Congress were notified
in 2002 when the Central Intelligence Agency’s “enhanced interrogation...
techniques” program was first approved and carried out, according to documents released by the agency last week. They were ...
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Op-Ed Contributor - Congress’s Torture Bubble
nytimes.com - 5/7/2009
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Washington THIS afternoon, Treasury , the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation , the Office of the Comptroller of...
the Currency and the Federal Reserve will announce the results of an unprecedented review of the capital position of the nation’s ...
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Ashcroft Indirectly Makes An Argument For Torture Accountability
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... Today in a New York Times op-ed, former Bush Attorney General John Ashcroft noted that because the federal government has poured billions of dollars into the nation’s financial institutions to keep them afloat, a dilemma arises over how to deal with these companies’ illegal activities: Does the Justice Department issue an indictment when such an act, as Ashcroft noted, “is often a death sentence for a corporation” and thus would undermine the federal government’s efforts to save these companies and boost the economy? ...
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... Today in a New York Times op-ed, former Bush Attorney General John Ashcroft noted that because the federal government has poured billions of dollars into the nation’s financial institutions to keep them afloat, a dilemma arises over how to deal with these companies’ illegal activities: Does the Justice Department issue an indictment when such an […] ashcroftwebnew0505 Today in a New York Times op-ed , former Bush Attorney General John Ashcroft noted that because the federal government has poured billions of dollars into the nation’s financial institutions to keep them afloat, ...
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