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White House as helpless victim on healthcareIn an ideal world, Congress would be -- and should be -- an autonomous branch of government, exercising judgment independent of the White House's influence, but that's not the world we live in. Does anyone actually believe that Rahm Emanuel (who built his career on industry support for the ...
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A new report questions "suicides" at GuantanamoThe problem, however, is that the Obama DOJ has been using every Bush tactic -- and inventing whole new ones -- to block the lawsuit from proceeding. As The Washington Independent's Daphne Eviatar detailed in October, "the Obama administration has surprisingly endorsed the same legal positions ...
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Editorial - Photos and Freedom - NYTimes.comPhotos and Freedom In a sad but unsurprising denouement this week, the Supreme Court tossed out a federal appellate court ruling that would have required the government to release photographs of soldiers abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan during the Bush administration. The vacated ...
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Is Obama's civil liberties record understandable?By Glenn Greenwald Earlier this week, Kevin Drum said that "nine times out of ten" Obama's policies are "pretty much what [he] expected" but that "the biggest one-time-out-of-ten where he's not doing what [he] expected is in the area of detainee and civil liberties issues." Similarly, Andrew ...
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Gitmo Politics in Obama's White House | Mother JonesLiberals have not done enough public wrestling with Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf's Time article on the ouster of White House counsel Gregory Craig. Perhaps that's because they don't want to deal with the article's troubling implications. As Kevin explains, Craig was "the White House ...
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Glenn Greenwald - Salon.comGreg Craig and Obama's worsening civil liberties record
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Glenn Greenwald - Salon.comOnce conservatives became embarrassed by their cowardly warnings that we would all be killed if we held a 9/11 trial in New York, they switched to a new argument: trials in a real court would lead to the disclosure of classified information that would help the Terrorists. In advancing this ...
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Obama kicks off massive science education effort! | Bad Astronomy | Discover MagazineObama kicks off massive science education effort! I just finished watching a live stream of a speech President Obama gave at the White House, pledging more support for science education in this country . Woohoo! [Edited to add: the speech transcript is now online , complete with ...
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Patterico's Pontifications » KSM Show Trial Watch: The Evidence Mounts11/19/2009 KSM Show Trial Watch: The Evidence Mounts Filed under: General — Patterico @ 6:35 am Eric Holder, reassuring the mother of a 9/11 victim that trying KSM in federal court is the right thing to do: There are reasons why bringing this case in an Article III court when it comes to ...
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Guantanamo - Salon.comDetainees to get the "state-always-wins" system of "justice" Obama's announcement to try 9/11 defendants would be commendable if it applied to all, rather than some, detainees. By Glenn Greenwald
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