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What We Don’t Know Will Hurt Us
Frank Rich AND so on the 29th day of his presidency, Barack Obama signed the stimulus bill. But the earth did not move. The Dow Jones fell almost 300 points. G.M. and Chrysler together asked taxpayers...
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To Investigate or Not: Four Ways to Look Back at Bush
New York Times POISON DARTS Senator Frank Church, whose committee looked into intelligence abuses, shows a dart gun from a C.I.A. lab in 1975. (Henry Griffin/AP) WASHINGTON — Two days after his...
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A Little Torture
“There is no such thing as a little torture.” — Alfred M. McCoy, author of A Question of Torture The Bush administration is really an impressive force of nature. Whenever I was absolutely certain that...
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Peggy Noonan Braces For Next Emotional Breakdown
The American media has a shockingly short attention span and is prone to bouts of hysteria. Just as September 11th was a game changer that was the Event to Change All Events, so the media tells us that...
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The Law is Not a Fringe Issue
Barbara Herbert, a course director at Tufts University School of Medicine, made a short, but compelling plea in today’s New York Times. Herbert argued that the United States government should convene a...
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CIA man: Nevermind about that 'waterboarding works' thing
Image by Getty Images via Daylife John Kiriakou, the former CIA operative who gained international fame by affirming the Neo-Conservative wet dream that waterboarding quickly unloosens the tongues of...
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Obama administration advocates transparency by fighting transparency
Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair. Image via Wikipedia The Obama administration continued its commitment to transparency this week by unleashing Director of National Intelligence, Dennis...
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Kinder, gentler Cheney admits to war crimes
Image via Wikipedia While haunting the nation’s airwaves this past Sunday, Darth Vader dropped The Bomb: he supports repealing DADT. “The society has moved on,” Cheney said. “It’s partly a...
View ArticleThe legal kind of torture
I write a lot about tasers on this blog – usually from the victim’s perspective – but tasering is dangerous business all around, even for the police officers doing the electrocuting. Three South...
View ArticleCreate your own NYT torture-euphemism headline!
BoingBoing features a neat little tool that allows readers to create their own New York Times torture-euphemism headline. Some examples: Detainees suffered unusual concept gathering inquiries Reports...
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