bucknakedpolitics.typepad.com - 1/18/2009
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Last week, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers released a 400+ page report detailing why the incoming Obama Administration should seek to hold certain Bush Administration officials accountable for alleged crimes and abuses of power. Paul Krugman also explained why Bush Administration officials ...
foxnews.com - 1/18/2009
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foxnews.com —
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is receptive to the
idea of prosecuting some Bush administration officials, while letting...
others who are accused of misdeeds leave office without prosecution, she told Chris Wallace in an interview on "FOX News Sunday." "I ...
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Pelosi Open to Prosecution of Bush Administration ...
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.
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Instahoglets Sunday
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... miniter.
- Mookie al-Sadr and his movement still aren't dead despite dozens of premature obituaries written by rightwing fans of the occupation. And while David Ignatius tries to put lipstick on a pig, Ryan Crocker knows a US victory worth the name isn't attainable in Iraq: "Not this year, not in five years, maybe not in 10 years."
- It's simple. Binding US law requires prosecution for those who authorize torture. Those who have the power but who won't prosecute become criminally complicit.
- "We have not yet hit the third week of the ...
A New World?
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... . Holding people in high office accountable for low down crimes? Just words? Or is there hope the truth will set us free? ...
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