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Rita: Clearing the High Bar
As the focus of judgment draws back over time, it will become more apparent that Bush and Rumsfeld defined the strategic landscape.
AFP: Bush, Rumsfeld should be pursued for torture: UN rapporteur
google.com — 22 hours ago BERLIN (AFP) The UN's special torture rapporteur called on the US Tuesday to pursue... former president George W. Bush and defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld for torture and bad treatment of Guantanamo prisoners. "Judicially speaking, the ... (more) AFP: Bush, Rumsfeld should be pursued for torture: UN ...
10 Take Aways From the Bush Years
washingtonpost.com — Sunday, January 18, 2009; B01 Coming Sunday in Outlook There's actually a lot that President-elect Barack Obama... can learn from the troubled presidency of George W. Bush . Over the past eight years, I have interviewed President Bush for nearly 11 ... (more) 10 Take Aways From the Bush Years
SCOTT HORTON—UN Rapporteur: Initiate criminal proceedings against Bush and Rumsfeld now
harpers.org — In an interview on Tuesday evening with the German television program “Frontal 21,” on channel ZDF Professor... Manfred Nowak, the United Nations Rapporteur responsible for torture, stated that with George W. Bush’s head of state immunity now terminated, ... (more) SCOTT HORTON—UN Rapporteur: Initiate criminal ...
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War and Piece — ... : "Larry Di Rita’s defense of his former bosses is a remarkable demonstration of the personal loyalty that made the Bush administration, and particularly the Bush Pentagon through 2006, what it was: a tight-knit, inward-looking group largely unable to entertain facts or ideas that did not fit into the world they had constructed for themselves. ..." Posted by Laura at January 18, 2009 10:13 PM

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