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Obama’s Sideline Strategy May Signal Shift in U.S. Democracy Policy
Washington Independent - by Spencer Ackerman - Jun. 19, 2009 (News Report)
It turned out money couldn’t buy a revolution. After the 2005 election of hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Bush administration sought about $75 million ...
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Supreme Court Detainee Decision May Not Block Suits Against Top Officials
Washington Independent - by Daphne Eviatar - May. 20, 2009 (News Report)
In denying the right of a Muslim Pakistani immigrant to sue former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI director Robert Mueller for his prolonged imprisonment and harsh ...
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School of Hock
Washington Independent - by Martha C. White - May. 1, 2009 (Opinion)
With a growing number of college grads finding themselves crushed under the weight of their student loan debt, the Obama administration is considering action that could derail ...
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Big Break From Bush on ‘State Secrets’ Unlikely Under Obama
Washington Independent - by Daphne Evitar - Apr. 11, 2009 (News Analysis)
In an interview that aired Wednesday night on the CBS Evening News, Attorney General Eric Holder suggested to Katie Couric that the Obama administration is unlikely to depart ...
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AIG Contracts Provide No Escape From Bonus Fury
Washington Independent - by Daphne Eviatar - Mar. 20, 2009 (News Analysis)
The AIG bonus scandal probably won’t lead to any forced return of those bonuses after all. Instead, what emerged from the House Financial Services Committee hearing on ...
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Conservative Think Tank Adjusts to Tough Times
Washington Independent - by David Weigel - Mar. 14, 2009 (Special Report)
These are trying times for most Washington, D.C. think tanks. Since the financial crisis began, the corporate and philanthropic foundations and donors who gird most think ...
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Future of Public Diplomacy Unsettled at State
Washington Independent - by Spencer Ackerman - Feb. 19, 2009 (News Report)
As President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton near an announcement of a top State Department official to promote the United States’s image abroad, some ...
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Immigration Fight Simmered During Stimulus Negotiations
Washington Independent - by Daphne Eviatar - Feb. 12, 2009 (News Report)
Among the many provisions of the $800–plus billion stimulus bill that were hotly debated and horse-traded behind closed doors, one that remained largely under the radar ...
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The Triumph of Blue Patriotism
Washington Independent - by Jefferson Morley - Jan. 21, 2009 (Opinion)
When Barack Obama took the stage at the We Are One concert at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday, he signaled not only the arrival of a new administration to Washington but the ...
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Lawmakers & Lobbyists Celebrate Inauguration
Washington Independent - by Lindsay Beyerstein - Jan. 21, 2009 (Special Report)
Despite Obama’s efforts, inaugural festivities still represent a giant loophole in lobbying rules that have grown progressively stricter in recent years. Whether it’s the ...
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Fight Brews Between Civil Liberties Groups and Obama
Washington Independent - by Spencer Ackerman - Jul. 1, 2009 (News Analysis)
It was a blind quote hitting the civil-libertarian solar plexus. Bad enough that, as ProPublica’s Dafna Linzner and The Washington Post’s Peter Finn reported late on ...
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Congress Unlikely to Reform Root Cause of Economic Crisis
Washington Independent - by Mary Kane - Jun. 9, 2009 (Special Report)
Not long after foreclosures started to take off in 2007 and the mortgage market’s collapse began to cripple the economy, one lesson seemed obvious: The predatory lending ...
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Plan to Support Counterinsurgency in Pakistan Reveals Rift
Washington Independent - by Spencer Ackerman - May. 27, 2009 (News Report)
A program that the Obama administration calls crucial to Pakistan’s fight against the Taliban is being criticized at the State Department and on Capitol Hill for overly ...
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FBI Agent’s Account of Interrogations Conflicts With Report
Washington Independent - by Spencer Ackerman - May. 13, 2009 (News Analysis)
Alongside accounts of FBI agents resisting torture at Guantanamo Bay and with another al-Qaeda detainee named Ibn Shaikh al-Libi, Soufan’s account has gone a long way toward ...
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Bankers Turn Off Campaign Cash Spigot
Washington Independent - by Elana Schor - Apr. 28, 2009 (News Report)
Since the financial industry bailouts began, Wall Street and Washington have never looked closer. But as the recession deepens and banks grow to resent the stigma associated ...
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Holder Affirms Rule of Law, Won’t Say How He’ll Enforce It
Washington Independent - by Daphne Eviatar - Apr. 17, 2009 (Opinion)
In a keynote speech at the opening of the West Point Military Academy’s Center for the Rule of Law last night, Attorney General Eric Holder made a point of breaking with the ...
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Bush Environment Waivers Intact at Border
Washington Independent - by Mike Lillis - Apr. 6, 2009 (Special Report)
Last July, presidential candidate Barack Obama took a stage in Berlin and told the adoring crowd that a wall erected between people — like that which divided the German ...
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Yemeni Detainees Pose Problem in Closing Gitmo
Washington Independent - by Daphne Eviatar - Mar. 30, 2009 (News Report)
Human rights advocates are warning that unless the United States resolves some particularly thorny problems posed by almost 100 prisoners from Yemen stuck at Guantanamo Bay, ...
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As Troops Withdraw, Iraq Provincial Reconstruction Teams to Change
Washington Independent - by Spencer Ackerman - Mar. 12, 2009 (Special Report)
A key State Department program that seeks to bolster the capability of Iraqi provincial and local authorities to govern will remain in place over the next year with some ...
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CIA Confirms 12 Destroyed Videotapes Depicted "Enhanced Interrogation Methods"
TruthOut, Washington Independent - by Daphne Eviatar - Mar. 6, 2009 (News Report)
The CIA has reportedly just confirmed - conveniently late on a Friday afternoon - that 12 of the videotapes it destroyed while its interrogation methods were under ...
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| Story Formats | Special Report (22), News Report (20), News Analysis (10), Opinion (7) |
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