washingtonmonthly.com - 4/16/2009
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RELEASING THE TORTURE MEMOS.... There's been consider behind-the-scenes wrangling between the Justice Department and intelligence agencies over the potential release of Bush-era torture memos. It looks like Holder, accountability, and transparency, are going to win. After a tense internal debate,...
salon.com - 4/16/2009
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salon.com —
(updated below) In a just-released statement, Barack Obama
announced that -- in response to an ACLU FOIA...
lawsuit -- he has ordered four key Bush-era torture memos released, and the Associated Press, citing anonymous Obama sources, is reporting that ...
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Obama to release OLC torture memos; promises no ...
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 4/16/2009
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Torture Memo Update
Shakesville —
... Meanwhile, as Steve notes, Senate Republicans "recently vowed to derail administration nominees for key legal positions unless the White House agreed to suppress the torture memos," so look for the GOP to go nuclear on Obama if/when his administration fails to adhere to their extortionist ultimatum. ...
Who Could Vote for Hate? Why, the Fundamentalists and the GOP Right Wing, of Course.
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... in our nation's elections -- will not waiver." (A case now before the Supreme Court of the United States challenges Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.) He said the DOJ's Civil Rights Division "is on its way to regaining its luster." All that is music to progressives' ears, of course. Although Obama's attorney general has disappointed many in how he has continued some cases begun under the Bush Administration, he does stand up for principles, as when he argued for the release of the torture memos in April. And he told a West Point audience, "the strength of ...
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