thinkprogress.org - 11/26/2008
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Last night on MSNBC Rachel Maddow highlighted a report from the Wall Street Journal that said that President Bush is unlikely to pardon any officials involved in engineering or executing the Bush administration’s torture program. According to the Wall Street Journal report, the White ...
mediamatters.org - 11/21/2008
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mediamatters.org —
In anticipation of the new administration, Beltway media
insiders are busy laying the groundwork for how reporters...
and pundits will treat the new team on Pennsylvania Avenue. "Once a president takes office ... an adversarial relationship ...
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Boehlert: Covering new presidents: the media's double ...
washingtonmonthly.com - 11/24/2008
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washingtonmonthly.com —
I n March 2001, U.S. Archivist John W.
Carlin received a letter from Alberto Gonzales, then counsel...
to the newly inaugurated president George W. Bush. It concerned an important deadline that was looming one that Bush owed to Richard Nixon. In 1974, ...
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Last Secrets of the Bush Administration - Charles Homans
theanchoressonline.com - 11/20/2008
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theanchoressonline.com —
I’m still trying to keep to my new
pledge of only writing about politics when it intersects...
with religion, but it does seem only fair to note that, Old Europe, which has been struggling all along with its restrictions, has finally admitted ...
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Bush was right. Victorious, too
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The Mahablog —
... Last night on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show, Jonathan Turley said that Bush was refusing to pardon officials involved in torture because he figures the Dems are too spineless to indict anyone. Probably, yes. I hope I’m wrong. ...
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The Hollywood Liberal —
... : Based on my experience in talking to Al Qaida members, I am persuaded that revenge in the form of a catastrophic attack on the homeland is coming; that a new generation of jihadist martyrs, motivated in part by the images from Abu Ghraib, is, as we speak, planning to kill Americans ; and that nothing gleaned from the use of coercive interrogation techniques will be of any significant use in forestalling this calamitous eventuality. Cheney appeared unconcerned about the possibility of being held legally responsible for what many are ...
The Rude Pundit —
... of the pardon talk, when not centered on Scooter Libby, was about whether or not Bush would pardon those involved in torturing detainees. But he didn't. Because pardoning them would be tantamount to admitting that a crime had been done. And Bush wasn't going to admit error at the very end of his agonizingly epic delusion of a presidency. ...
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downwithtyranny.blogspot.com 11/25/2008 — Republicrook Tom Kontogiannis already paid Bush $400,000 for his pardon Most observers feel certain that pre-emptive pardons will be granted to everyone involved in the organized unconstitutional operations the Bush Regime was involved in, ...
Would Bush pre-emptively pardon Rumsfeld? —
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The Wall Street Journal reported that the White House is “ isn’t inclined to grant sweeping pardons ” for former officials involved in its torture program. ThinkProgress wondered whether former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was seeking a pardon anyway, but a person close ...
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