harpers.org - 1/6/2009
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Scott Horton Yesterday, President-elect Obama announced two key members for his national security team: former Clinton chief-of-staff Leon Panetta to be director at the CIA and Admiral Dennis Blair to be national intelligence director. The Panetta appointment drew some grumbles from incoming ...
harpers.org - 1/1/2009
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Scott Horton In the view of Carl Schmitt
and other critics of traditional liberalism on the European
hard right (though later picked up and echoed by some in the critical studies movement on the American left), the liberal system produced hopeless ...
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‘Reasonable Minds Can Differ’—By Scott Horton (Harper's ...
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... interrogation
tactics of the Bush years. "We all want a break with the past," she
told the reporters milling around her in the Senate. "I was the one who
went into the conference committee" between the House and the Senate
last year with an amendment that would use the Army Field Manual as the
universal standard for detainee interrogations, she added. Meanwhile, Roberts is fine with it. Scott Horton thinks the Blair-Panetta combo is inspired. Me too. ...
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... Scott Horton is very pleased with Obama's choices for director of the CIA (Leon Panetta) and national intelligence director (Admiral Dennis Blair). mcjoan ...
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