slate.com - 3/9/2009
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Having inherited an undifferentiated mass of legal "war on terror" doctrine from the Bush administration's constitutional chop shop, President Obama finds himself in the position of being Bush's Secret-Keeper. Picking its way warily through a minefield of secrecy and privacy claims, the Obama ...
google.com - 3/17/2009
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google.com —
3 hours ago OTTAWA (AFP) Canadians amassed shoes
to throw in protest against George W. Bush on...
Tuesday when he gives his first post-presidential speech in western Canada's oil patch. The footwear was to be tossed at an effigy of the 43rd US president ...
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AFP: Bush faces footwear protest in Canada
tampabay.com - 3/3/2009
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tampabay.com —
David Adams , Times Latin America Correspondent In
Print: Thursday, December 4, 2008 In a landmark shift...
of opinion, a majority of Cuban-Americans now favor ending the 46-year-old economic embargo and restoring diplomatic relations with the ...
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Most Cuban-Americans favor ending embargo, poll shows - ...
adnkronos.com - 3/13/2009
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adnkronos.com —
Baghdad, 13 March (AKI) - A prominent Shia
Iraqi cleric has called for the release of Iraqi...
journalist Montazer al-Zaidi, a day after he was sentenced to three years in jail for throwing his shoes at former United States president George W. Bush. ...
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Iraq: Cleric calls for release of Bush 'shoe-thrower' - ...
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ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer: Transparency, the OLC, and the Rule Of Law
Firedoglake —
... It is these questions which face the nation -- and the legal profession -- and about which I want to begin discussions with Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU's National Security Project. ...
The science president
The Reaction —
... asked recently, "Is Obama embracing the lawless, omnipotent executive?" Alas, yes -- Obama isn't Cheney, but it's too close for comfort. (For more on this, see Dahlia Lithwick's piece from Friday, "Obama, Bush Secret-Keeper.") ...
Unforgettable "Yoo"
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society —
... Echoing that call for having Yoo and others answer for their OLC work, Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick asks, “What’s the president’s rationale for keeping so many legal skeletons in the closet?” In addition to recently releasing the Yoo-era OLC memos, Lithwick describes Obama’s relationship with Bush administration legal issues: “[Obama officials] brokered a deal whereby ...
Howdy strangers
The Poor Man Institute —
... But I am disturbed from my pony stupor. Dahlia Lithwick lays out some of the possible rationales for Obama’s seeming unwillingness to reverse the expansively secretive Bush approach in Global War On Whatever civil liberties cases. She neglects to consider the obvious one, of course, which is that preserving these precedents will make it that much easier when it comes time to dissappear gun-owners and surrender the USA to The People’s Homoslamic Republic of Afro-Aztlan. Allahu Eric Estrada! ...
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