salon.com - 10/16/2008
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This interview can be heard by clicking PLAY on the recorder below: Glenn Greenwald : My guest today is Scott Horton, who is an international human rights lawyer in New York, an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School, and a contributor to Harper's . And Scott has a couple of pieces in The ...
harpers.org - 10/15/2008
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harpers.org —
The last hundred days of any presidency are
frequently known as “legacy time.” The die may be...
cast, but the occupant of the White House begins making plans to leave and wonders inevitably about how he will be seen by posterity. So what image will ...
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SCOTT HORTON—The Torture Presidency
salon.com - 10/20/2008
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salon.com —
(updated below) I'm anything but a fan of
Colin Powell, and have no idea what impact (if...
any) his Meet the Press endorsement of Obama will have (full video is below), but I was really glad to see him make the following point in explaining why he has ...
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Colin Powell condemns the ugliness of the Republican ...
marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 10/18/2008
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marcambinder.theatlantic.com —
He writes : Is investigating Cindy McCain's fitness
as a mother actually a legitimate function for the...
political reporters at the NYT ? Doesn't that question answer itself? It's true that the Right -- which built a cottage industry of ...
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Glenn Greenwald On Cindy McCain's Private Life
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Scott Horton sat down with Greenwald to talk about Bill Kristol's role in the Palin pick (transcript here). Horton: ...if you look just in the news cycle from the last 48 hours, I would say the anger and irritation between a number of the senior people in the McCain camp and Bill Kristol is become really acute. I mean, it's flashed and Kristol again, saying basically that the entire campaign team should be fired, and they respond in kind criticizing him, saying he was mouthing Obama talking points, and so on. What is the touchiness that underlies all ...
McCain aides privately call Palin a ‘total disaster.’
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... Horton said neoconservatives are “now just proceeding to develop Palin as their candidate, as somebody they want to bring up in 2012, as the neo-con favored Republican.” Last month, a former Republican White House official, who now works at the American Enterprise Institute, said, “She’s bright and she’s a blank page. She’s going places and ...
Blaming Kristol for Palin
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... , saying, "[I]t's a good thing Bill Kristol has never run a political campaign because he'd probably have to fire himself at least two or three times." The ongoing animosity may have something to do with the McCain campaign blaming Kristol for one its biggest problems -- picking Sarah Palin was his idea. Harper's Scott Horton told Glenn Greenwald that McCain aides see Palin as a " ...
Palin is a "Disaster" and it's All Bill Kristol's Fault
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So sez Republican insiders, according to an interview between Glenn Greenwald and Scott Horton, who wrote about how Kristol was responsible for her nomination in The Daily Beast. The interview is audio, so you'll have to listen for yourself, but here's a bit from the piece: Kristol can fairly lay claim to having “discovered” Palin for Washington political circles. Palin’s name appeared in 41 Weekly Standard articles since the Juneau meeting—starting with a paean entitled “The Most Popular Governor” that ran right after the reception. Indeed, Kristol, who was a loyal McCain supporter in 2000 and is often thought to ...
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crooksandliars.com 12/14/2008 — Download | Play Download | Play [H/t to Heather] Glenn Greenwald talked with Bill Moyers Friday night about the rule of law and how it was perverted by the Bush administration: BILL MOYERS: To be fair, you make a strong case in here ...
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