salon.com - 11/13/2008
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( Updated below - Update II - Update III - Update IV - Update V ) A Washington Post article today on the need to restore confidence in the Justice Department quotes former high-level Clinton DOJ official Robert Litt urging the new Obama administration to avoid any investigations or prosecutions ...
salon.com - 11/12/2008
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salon.com —
(updated below) Though it hasn't happened yet, it
is appearing increasingly likely that Senate Democrats -- led...
by Barack Obama (who seems to be playing a much more active role in all of this than his spokesperson yesterday suggested ) -- are going to ...
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The Democrats of 2002 and 2007 haven't gone anywhere - ...
salon.com - 11/18/2008
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salon.com —
(updated below) As Senate Democrats this morning prepare
to reward Joe Lieberman with the powerful Chairmanship of...
the Homeland Security Committee, the most commonly recited claim -- both with regard to the Lieberman issue and Washington more ...
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Has there been too much bipartisanship or too little? - ...
salon.com - 11/18/2008
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salon.com —
(updated below - Update II) An article in
The Hill , describing how profoundly House Democrats will...
miss the leadership of Rahm Emanuel, recounts this episode, involving the vote by Democratic Rep. Tim Walz of Minnesota in favor of the dreadful ...
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The mind of the Democratic leadership - Glenn Greenwald
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Hullabaloo —
... against humanity and, in extreme cases, genocide. Patricia M. Wald, the writer of that foreward, served on the DC Court of Appeals and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. She was also appointed by the Bush Administration to serve on the President’s Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the U.S. Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. This is not a DFH. This is a jurist who has examined the evidence. So when people like Robert Litt seek to excuse these actions by the executive, it's very clear what they are ...
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The Sideshow —
Glennzilla: "How is this anything other than a full-scale exemption issued to political leaders to break our laws? There's nothing unique about circumstances now. New Presidents are always going to have Very Important Things to do. And investigations and prosecutions of past administration officials are always going to be politically divisive. By definition, investigations of past criminality are going to be "distractions" from the Important Work that political leaders must attend to. They're always going to be what Litt perversely refers to as "old battles." To ...
In Case You Forgot
N/A —
... When Obama and the Democrats come riding into town, they may not be on horses so white that they prosecute their predecessors for war crimes because everybody wants to get along. But Dick Cheney and David Addington may think about where they travel as they could end up at The Hague well charged for their all to ill actions. ...
What is this "rule of law" of which you speak?
Corrente —
Glenn:
To argue that new administrations should refrain from investigating crimes that were committed by past administrations due to the need to avoid partisan division is to announce that the rule of law does not apply to our highest political leaders. It’s just as simple as that.
Yeah, and? What’s your point, Glenn?
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