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Defeat of Graham-Lieberman and the ongoing war on transparency
Salon - by Glenn Greenwald - Jun. 9, 2009 (Opinion)
the Graham-Lieberman amendment -- which Obama supports -- is nothing but a pure manifestation of the Bush mentality, as its core premise is that we can't remain Safe unless we ...
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What the new Jim Comey torture emails actually reveal
Salon - by Glenn Greenwald - Jun. 7, 2009 (News Analysis)
The primary argument against prosecutions for Bush officials who ordered torture is that DOJ lawyers told the White House that these tactics were legal, and White House ...
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Stimulus money going to scofflaw companies
Salon, ProPublica - by Michael Grabell, David Epstein - May. 21, 2009 (Special Report)
One company paid nearly $1 million for destroying seagrass in the Florida Keys marine sanctuary. Another settled a discrimination case after federal investigators found it ...
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The 13 people who made torture possible
Salon - by Marcy Wheeler - May. 18, 2009 (Opinion)
13 key people in the Bush administration cannot claim they relied on the memos from the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel. Some of the 13 manipulated the federal bureaucracy and ...
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Stem cell division
Salon - by Peter Dizikes - May. 11, 2009 (Special Report)
No sooner had Obama issued his order than conservative lawmakers in state legislatures began proposing new restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, ranging from criminal ...
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Major defeat for Bush/Obama position on secrecy
Salon - by Glenn Greenwald - Apr. 28, 2009 (Opinion)
In rejecting this radical secrecy theory, the court emphasized how the Bush/Obama doctrine, if accepted, would essentially place the President above and beyond the rule of law:
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David Broder and media culpability for Bush crimes
Salon - by Glenn Greenwald - Apr. 26, 2009 (Opinion)
What Broder states today as fact (that the Bush presidency is "one of the darkest chapters of American history") is almost verbatim that which, when it mattered, when it was ...
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Democratic complicity and what "politicizing justice" really means
Salon - by Glenn Greenwald - Apr. 25, 2009 (Opinion)
Bush-defending opponents of investigations and prosecutions think they've discovered a trump card: the claim that Democratic leaders such as Nancy Pelosi, Jay Rockefeller and ...
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Torture works sometimes -- but it's always wrong
Salon - by Gary Kamiya - Apr. 23, 2009 (Opinion)
Led astray by leaders who played on their fear and anger, Americans have been deaf and blind and mute for too long. It is past time for our country to say an absolute no. No ...
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Spare change for news
Salon - by Katharine Mieszkowski - Apr. 14, 2009 (Special Report)
As newspaper newsrooms around the nation cut back or shutter, an urgent conversation is taking place about where the reporting that exposes corruption and holds public ...
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Neda, Obama, Iran -- and the rest of us
Salon - by Joan Walsh - Jun. 23, 2009 (Opinion)
I haven't been able to shake the image of the Iranian martyr, 26-year-old Neda Agha-Soltan, dying, live, on a cellphone video in Tehran on Saturday. The way her eyes follow ...
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A nation of Herbert Hoovers
Salon - by Andrew Leonard - Jun. 19, 2009 (Opinion)
(Blog Post) One wonders what the poll numbers would be like if Obama had decided not to pass a stimulus bill or rescue the automakers. I'd bet his negatives would be much worse than they ...
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The Washington Post fires its best columnist. Why?
Salon - by Glenn Greenwald - Jun. 18, 2009 (News Analysis)
What makes this firing so bizarre and worthy of inquiry is that, as Gavin notes, Froomkin was easily one of the most linked-to and cited Post columnists. At a time when ...
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Pregnancy "options" counselors: Give birth!
Salon - by Tracy Clark-Flory - Jun. 18, 2009 (News Analysis)
(Video - streaming) It's quite simple: Students visit these sham clinics seeking so-called "pregnancy options counseling" and then share their experience. The result is a slew of first-hand ...
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Obama's new rules for Wall Street
Salon - by Andrew Leonard - Jun. 17, 2009 (Opinion)
(Blog Post) The White House is getting what it can, mindful of congressional priorities and resistance, in full knowledge that an all-out blitz on every front would undoubtedly spawn ...
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Letter from Tehran: The day after
Salon - by Anonymous - Jun. 15, 2009 (Opinion)
It is a remarkable turn of events. But one thing is for certain, the many millions who showed up to vote, a great many for the first time ever, were not fooled. Their vote ...
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Obama's hit -- and big miss
Salon - by Camille Paglia - Jun. 10, 2009 (Opinion)
Barack Obama was elected to do exactly what he did last week at Cairo University -- to open a dialogue with the Muslim world...There is no more crucial issue for the future of ...
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Crazy right-wing myths about Obama 2.0
Salon - by (Staff) - Jun. 8, 2009 (Special Report)
the mythmaking has not stopped. The wheels of rumor grind fast, but they grind exceedingly dumb. Marooned on a grassy knoll of the mind, the right has spun new and scarier ...
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ABC News' interview with Lakhdar Boumediene and our current policies
Salon - by Glenn Greenwald - Jun. 8, 2009 (News Report)
Lakhdar Boumediene is an Algerian (and Bosnian citizen) who, while living in Bosnia and working for the International Red Crescent, was arrested by the Bosnian government (at ...
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The NYT's nice, new euphemism for torture
Salon - by Glenn Greenwald - Jun. 6, 2009 (News Analysis)
The primary reason to avoid trials upon a guilty plea is to prevent public disclosure of the details of the torture we inflicted on these detainees. Despite that, the word ...
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