nytimes.com - 1/12/2009
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Charlottesville, Va. INSTEAD of looking closely at what high-level officeholders in the Bush administration have done over the past eight years, and recognizing what we have tacitly permitted, we would rather turn our faces forward toward a better future, promising that 2009 and the inauguration ...
blogs.abcnews.com - 1/10/2009
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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 the most popular question on his own website, www.change.gov. "Will you appoint a Special Prosecutor -- ...
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Will Obama Administration Prosecute Bush Officials?
nytimes.com - 1/12/2009
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New Haven IN the past eight years, our
government has tortured people and spied on its own...
citizens. Administration lawyers created a series of secret laws to justify these activities. The Justice Department has been riddled with scandals alleging ...
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Op-Contributor - Not One Truth Commission, But Many - Op-Ed
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Better Than Hitler? Get Out of Jail Free!
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
I strongly endorse Dahlia Lithwick's position in the debate in the Sunday Times about the prosecution of Bush administration war criminals. Making Lithwick's argument stronger are the embarrassingly weak conclusions ...
Weekend Opinionator: Closing Gitmo, Opening a Can of Worms
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... is above the law,” implied Eric Holder would have some role in making these decisions, and said “we’re going to be looking at past practices” — but he clearly intended to convey his emphatic view that he opposes “past-looking” investigations. In the U.S., high political officials aren’t investigated, let alone held accountable, for lawbreaking, and that is rather clearly something Obama has no intention of changing. While liberal legal experts like Greenwald and Dahlia Lithwick have been calling for putting Cheney and his minions on trial for a while now, a far less ...
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Now prosecute them
highclearing.com 1/20/2009 — By Thoreau
George Bush utterly shocked me today: As far as I can tell, there were no massive pardons of everyone involved in torture. This means that everyone involved is legally vulnerable. Mr. President, it's time to start offering immunity in ...
Op-Ed Contributor - Make My Filibuster
nytimes.com 3/2/2009 — Charlottesville, Va. PRESIDENT OBAMA has decided to spend his political capital now, pushing through an ambitious agenda of health care, education and energy reform. If the Democrats in the Senate want to help him accomplish his goals, they should ...
Op-Ed Contributor - The Mile-High Office
nytimes.com 2/2/2009 — BUSINESS jets are a force for good. Really. This may seem like an outrageous statement, especially right after the public hubbub that caused Citigroup the beneficiary of billions in government bailout money to cancel the delivery of a new $42 ...
Op-Ed Contributor - Justice Will Come Via History
nytimes.com 1/12/2009 — Cambridge, Mass. IN the wake of the Abu Ghraib revelations, the White House counsel, Alberto Gonzales, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2005 that “we care very much about finding out what happened and holding people accountable.” ...
Senate Report Confirms Top-Level Officials Authorized Torture
blog.aclu.org 4/22/2009 — Late last night, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) released its full report on the Department of Defense's (DOD) role in the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody (PDF). (A summary of the report was released last December, but it was only ...
Obama's Op-Ed
correntewire.com 2/8/2009 — Pravda. Go read . Read more…
Op-Ed Contributor - One Side to Every Story
nytimes.com 2/17/2009 — Providence, R.I.“THIS is not a time for partisanship,” declared Senator Judd Gregg, Republican of New Hampshire, when he accepted President Obama’s invitation to serve as commerce secretary. By last week, Mr. Gregg had changed his mind, citing ...
Op-Ed Contributor - Please Raise My Taxes
nytimes.com 2/7/2009 — Los Gatos, Calif. I’M the chief executive of a publicly traded company and, like my peers, I’m very highly paid. The difference between salaries like mine and those of average Americans creates a lot of tension, and I’d like to offer a suggestion. ...
Daily Kos: Special Comment - Prosecute Torture
dailykos.com 1/20/2009 — Submitted this of all evenings, from this of all places, with the respect and hope due any President-Elect on the eve of his or her inauguration (but particularly this one), I am agreeing with Mr. Obama when he told George Stephanopoulos: "What we ...
Obama asks for $350 billion —
First Read 1/12/2009
From NBC's Savannah Guthrie and Domenico Montanaro
President Bush mentioned at this morning's news conference that Presiden-elect Obama hadn't asked him to formally notify Congress of his want for the $350 billion in TARP money. And that he ...
Grandson of slaves: Obama is our Moses —
CNN.com - Politics 1/12/2009
James Presley stands amid chopped cotton, the thick Mississippi mud caked on his well-worn boots. A smile spreads across his face when he talks about voting for Barack Obama and what that might mean for generations to come. His voice picks up a notch. ...
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