andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 2/3/2009
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Scott Horton : In the course of the last week we’ve seen a steady stream of efforts designed to show that Obama is continuing the counterterrorism programs that he previously labeled as abusive and promised to shut down. These stories are regularly sourced to unnamed current or former CIA ...
washingtonmonthly.com - 2/2/2009
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The LA Times On Rendition The LA Times
has an article today called "Obama preserves renditions as...
counter-terrorism tool": "The CIA's secret prisons are being shuttered. Harsh interrogation techniques are off-limits. And Guantanamo Bay will eventually ...
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The LA Times On Rendition
corner.nationalreview.com - 2/2/2009
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corner.nationalreview.com —
An author I don't know, writing at The
Washington Monthly, which I have long considered one of...
this city's minor cesspools, argues that "rendition" would not permit CIA to transfer terrorists to foreign countries that practice torture. I hope he's ...
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"Rendition" Revisited
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 2/2/2009
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For some reason, many people on the right
and a few within the CIA feel the need...
to minimize the difference between Obama and Bush on the terror war. And so we are greeted with whoops and hollers because the Obama administration will return to the ...
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The Rendition Canard
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Andrew Sullivan still can’t handle the truth on Obama renditions
Patterico's Pontifications —
Andrew Sullivan must have been miffed by the pantsing he took over his slavish defense of Pres. Obama’s expanded renditions policy, as he now resorts to quoting Scott Horton (someone who is almost as fond of conspiracy theories as Sully himself):
There are two fundamental distinctions between the (Clinton and Bush) programs. The extraordinary renditions program involved the operation of long-term detention facilities either by the CIA or by a cooperating host government together with the CIA, in which prisoners were ...
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 2/4/2009 — A reader writes:
I had the same reaction . I happened to walk into the room and hear the words, "...and I've got to own up to my mistake..." and I immediately thought: Grownups in the White House. Hallelujah.
Furthermore I just so ...
RE: Rendition
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The Census Canard
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 2/13/2009 — Again, this is not a real issue . It's an issue driven by the paranoid GOP base. The census has not been removed from the Commerce Department's purview, as Ambers explains above. And past censuses have long been conducted with coordination from the ...
Obama's Rendition Decision and the Pro-Torture Left
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SCOTT HORTON—The Enemy Combatant Canard
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Ask Dr. Rendition!
washingtonmonthly.com 2/3/2009 — Ask Dr. Rendition! Since the publication of the LA Times story about rendition yesterday, I've noticed some confusion about the topic. So Dr. Rendition will try to make things easy. Q: What is rendition? A: Rendition is the act of...
The Mexican Canard
saysuncle.com 3/21/2009 — It keeps coming. Except that it's not real. Testimony from law enforcement officials concludes that, generally, military hardware is not flowing into Mexico from the United States. We gun nuts have been saying that for years. More testimony here. The ...
Ask Dr. Rendition!
obsidianwings.blogs.com 2/3/2009 — by hilzoy Since the publication of the LA Times story about rendition yesterday, I've noticed some confusion about the topic. So Dr. Rendition will try to answer your questions. Q: What is rendition? A: Rendition is the act of ...
No Exit, Ctd
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 3/13/2009 — Megan throws some more cold water on health care wonks: If we get national healthcare, we will not get anything like the neat little systems proposed by academics who can assume away many of the political problems. I am aware that proponents ...
Obama The Thug, Ctd.
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 2/13/2009 — Megan defends Kling . His shift on Keynesian economics seems to me a fair point but in full context, the racism innuendo is unfair. Poor wording and a little excitable, at the most. But not in any way racist.
Senate Democrats back Obama health pick Daschle —
Reuters: Politics 2/3/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats rallied behind Tom Daschle, President Barack Obama's choice to lead reforms of the costly U.S. health-care system, on Monday after he apologized for tax issues that raised questions about his nomination.
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