washingtonindependent.com - 1/26/2009
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President Obama’s sweeping reversals of torture and state secret policies are about to face an early test. After Obama issued an executive order and two presidential memoranda last week proclaiming a new transparency in the workings of the federal government, advocates for open government were ...
npr.org - 2/3/2009
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npr.org —
Tom Gjelten Morning Edition , February 3, 2009
CIA-directed airstrikes against al-Qaida leaders and facilities in Pakistan...
over the past six to nine months have been so successful, according to senior U.S. officials, that it is now possible to ...
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U.S. Officials: Al-Qaida Leadership Cadre 'Decimated'
digbysblog.blogspot.com - 2/2/2009
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digbysblog.blogspot.com —
Monday, February 02, 2009 Punk'd Part VII by
digby This time it was I who got punk'd,...
and after I've been so skeptical of both the media's and the intelligence community's desire to show Obama as continuing the torture regime, too. You'd think I'd ...
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Hullabaloo
corner.nationalreview.com - 2/3/2009
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corner.nationalreview.com —
Buried in that LAT article on rendition Jonah
linked below is a flip-flop from Human Rights Watch...
that would impress even the East German judge. Here's Human Rights Watch in April of last year: The US government should: ·Repudiate the use of ...
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RE: Rendition
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If Torture is for the Lazy, Stupid, and Pseudo-Tough, What Does that Make the CIA?
Firedoglake —
After you're done with Daphne's piece about legal tests for President Obama's abandonment of torture, don't miss Jane Mayer's interview with White House counsel Greg Craig about the backstory to last week's executive orders. Craig tells Mayer that the advocates for the new reviews of detentions and interrogations policy who made the biggest impact on Obama were a team of retired flag officers who've met with Obama over the course of 2007. Their arguments about torture being "the tool of the lazy, the stupid, and the pseudo-tough," in the ...
Federal Court To Consider Case Involving Rendition, State Secrets Privilege
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society —
... The Obama administration is preparing for its first major case dealing with the state secrets privilege, The Washington Independent and ...
Obama Continues Bush Policy On State Secrets
Firedoglake —
... with a scalpel. The Mohamed case is of critical significance for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that there was an oral argument in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco this morning that was to provide a crucial test of the new Obama Administration's willingness to continue the Bush policy of concealing torture, wiretapping and other crimes by the assertion of the state secrets privilege.
From an excellent article by Daphne Eviatar at the Washington Independent at the end of January: ...
The OLC Memos and State Secrets
Daily Kos —
... , of the current DOJ to employ the same state secrets approach as the Bush administration in the Al-Haramain wiretapping case and in Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan rendition case. ...
10 JUL 2009 Joint Chiefs' Chair Memo: Don't Torture
Corrente —
New President, new Congress, new policy, new rules, new Joint Chiefs, new chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
Same old torture. Same old coverup.
Six months in, Read more…
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Obama Redacts His Rendition Position
patdollard.com 2/6/2009 —
Must’ve actually READ some of the daily shit Pres. Bush has been reading for the last eight years. Hey, Bam … break all mirrors in the White House. You’re about to go gray.
Just wondering here …
Think those Hollywood ...
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mahablog.com 4/17/2009 — By now you’ve heard the Obama Administration released the memos used by the Bush Administration to justify torture. As Digby says ,
This is the very definition of the banality of evil — a dry, legalistic series of justifications for acts of barbaric cruelty.
Many are angry that ...
"Truth Commission" a Go
minx.cc 2/28/2009 — The Church Committee destroyed the CIA's operations division for... well, forever. Let's see if we can't hit that mark again. The 'fact-finding' effort will seek details on secret prisons and interrogation methods -- but will not aim to determine if...
Debunking the Torture Apologists’ “Half the Intelligence” Claim
emptywheel.firedoglake.com 4/20/2009 —
image courtesy of quapan
In another thread, Bob Schacht wrote ,
BTW, according to CNN, Haynes and Mukasey are claiming that “half” of what we “know” about Al Qaeda came from torture sessions. Did they really write that, and if so, I’m ...
So Much Torture Disclosure to Be Had
washingtonindependent.com 4/21/2009 — Former Vice President Dick Cheney — the avatar of secrecy — really did say this last night . Daphne puts together a wish list : [I]f there are memos showing that torture and the CIA’s other “extreme” interrogation techniques were successful, I’d like ...
Don't Kill the CIA
WWW.samefacts.com 4/27/2009 — It was only a matter of time before the torture debate turned on the CIA. Matthew Yglesias has done it, suggesting that we "consider" abolishing the agency. This would be a great idea if it weren't completely wrong. Let me suggest just a few reasons why:
Double Jeopardy | Human Rights Watch
hrw.org 2/2/2009 — Recommendations The US government should: Repudiate the use of rendition to torture as a counterterrorism tactic and permanently discontinue the CIA's rendition program; Disclose the identities, fate, and current whereabouts of all persons detained by ...
Obama approval ranks near top —
First Read 1/26/2009
From NBC's Domenico Montanaro President Obama 's first Gallup approval rating since taking office is the highest for a president -- after an election -- at the start of their tenure since Kennedy .
Obama had a 69% approval rating, according ...
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