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Conservatives Rework Rhetoric After Loss in NY Special

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Independent - By David Weigel - Nov. 05 (News Report) - Jim Kelly walked into the lounge of the Hotel Saranac, his red tie undone and flapping against his shirt. He sighed. He plopped into a chair. “Four thousand votes,” he said. “That couldn’t fill up one side of seats at Shea

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No Afghanistan ‘Checkposts’ Abandoned While Pak Military Offensive Proceeds ?

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By Spencer Ackerman - Oct. 19 (News Analysis) - "A piece in the Pakistan paper the News accused the U.S. military of taking the inexplicable step of abandoning “checkposts” on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border while the Pakistani military offensive in nearby Waziristan intensifies. According to Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s staff, it’s just not true".

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Finance Committee Dems Are No Rubber Stamp for Health Reform

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:27:09 -0700

Washington Independent - Oct. 05 - With so much speculation on whether Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) will support the health reform bill finalized by the Senate Finance Committee last week, the world might be surprised to learn that some panel Democrats are also wary of the legislation.

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Clinton: Not ‘Either/Or’ Between Negotiating With Iran and Supporting Dissidents «

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By Spencer Ackerman - Oct. 05 (News Report) - Asked at the George Washington University forum about whether the Obama administration was effectively undermining the Iranian opposition by negotiating with the Iranian regime over its nuclear program, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the choice was not “either/or.” Citing the U.S. experience throughout the Cold War of “always press[ing]” the Soviet Union on [...]

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» Latino Leaders Riled by Role of Immigration in Health Care Debate

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:41:17 -0700

Washington Independent - Sep. 22 - Current proposals could even prevent legal immigrants from obtaining health care.

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Grayson, POGO Use ACORN Defunding Push to Go After Military Contractors

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By Spencer Ackerman - Sep. 22 (Breaking News) - Ryan Grim has the story, I have stifled guffaws. Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) picked up on the legislative overreach and asked the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) to sift through its database to find which contractors might be caught in the ACORN net. Lockheed Martin and Northrop Gumman both popped up quickly, with 20 fraud cases between [...]

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Memos Suggest Legal Cherry-Picking in Justifying Torture

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By Daphne Eviatar - Aug. 27 (Special Report) - On the same day that the government produced the 2004 CIA Inspector General’s report on interrogations, it also turned over seven more memos and letters from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel.

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Obtained: The RNC’s Health Care Survey

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - Aug. 27 (Comment) - I just chatted with Raymond Denny, the La Center, Washington man who received the RNC’s “2009 Future of American Health Survey,” which alleged that President Obama’s health reform plans might discriminate about Republicans. Here’s the survey question: “I’ve been getting these things for years,” said Denny, who opened the letter with his wife Louise, “getting them [...]

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Conservatives Find Town Hall Strategy in Leftist Text

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By David Weigel - Aug. 12 (Special Report) - Protesters outside a health care town hall meeting held by Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) in Tampa last Thursday (YouTube) Michael Patrick Leahy’s self-published conservative manifesto is coming off the presses this week, and not a moment too soon. “The

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Blackwater Heir Wants to Keep State Dept. Security Contract

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By Spencer Ackerman - Aug. 10 (News Report) - Even as a wrongful-death lawsuit moves forward against the controversial private security company formerly known as Blackwater, the firm seeks to renew its contract with the State Department to guard diplomats when the deal expires next year.

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Military Commissions Debate Rages On in Senate

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By Daphne Eviatar - Jul. 29 (News Report) - According to David Kris, assistant attorney general in the national security division of the Justice Department, the task force is “more than half way through its review of the 240 detainees” at Guantanamo, and expects to complete its review by October

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Band of Senate Dems Pressuring Obama on Cram-Down

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Mike Lillis - Jul. 23 (News) - Roughly three months after Senate lawmakers killed legislation empowering homeowners to escape foreclosure through bankruptcy, some upper-chamber Democrats are looking to revive the corpse. They hope to pressure the White House into spending valuable political capital on a cause fallen by the wayside.

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Lindsey Graham: GOP Isn’t Just ‘the Party of Short White Guys’

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By Daphne Eviatar - Jul. 17 (News Report) - Despite his apparent disagreement with her on a range of issues, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is emerging as one of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s biggest supporters. Perhaps because it’s clear she’ll be confirmed and he wants to convince

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Only Forceful Action Can Turn Foreclosure Crisis Tide

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Mary Kane - Jul. 13 (News) - The time may be ripe for a shift in strategy as the foreclosure machine grinds on, and new foreclosure notices reach the troubling milestone of 10,000 per day.

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Band of House Dems Revisits Cramdown

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Mike Lillis - Jul. 10 (News) - The Obama administration has all but abandoned it, and the Senate has already voted it down. But a proposal to allow struggling homeowners to escape foreclosure through bankruptcy got a boost Thursday from a small band of House Democrats convinced that voluntary mortgage modifications aren't alone solving the housing crisis.

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Fight Brews Between Civil Liberties Groups and Obama

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By Spencer Ackerman - Jul. 01 (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 Friday afternoon, the Obama administration was readying an executive order for a system for preventive detention in terrorism cases.

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Congress Unlikely to Reform Root Cause of Economic Crisis

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By Mary Kane - Jun. 09 (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 practices that led to the crisis had to be reined in.

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Plan to Support Counterinsurgency in Pakistan Reveals Rift

Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By Spencer Ackerman - May. 27 (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 militarizing the problem.

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FBI Agent’s Account of Interrogations Conflicts With Report

Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By Spencer Ackerman - May. 13 (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 portraying the FBI as a lonely institutional outpost of opposition to harsh interrogations.

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Bankers Turn Off Campaign Cash Spigot

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By Elana Schor - Apr. 28 (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 with taxpayer aid, an unexpected chill is occurring: Bank employees are slamming their checkbooks shut.

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Holder Affirms Rule of Law, Won’t Say How He’ll Enforce It

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By Daphne Eviatar - Apr. 17 (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 Bush administration by affirming the United States’ commitment to international law and acknowledging that the United States has not always lived up to those legal commitments. But even as he extolled the the military officials who’ve stood up for the rule of law, he carefully avoided mentioning the controversial legal policies initiated by the Bush administration that his own Justice Department continues to support.

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Bush Environment Waivers Intact at Border

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By Mike Lillis - Apr. 06 (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 capital for decades — would best be knocked down.

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Yemeni Detainees Pose Problem in Closing Gitmo

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By Daphne Eviatar - Mar. 30 (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, President Obama will have serious problems keeping his pledge to shut down the prison camp anytime soon.

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As Troops Withdraw, Iraq Provincial Reconstruction Teams to Change

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By Spencer Ackerman - Mar. 12 (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 modifications, its Washington-based director said. But concerns remain about whether the program will be sufficient to address the continuing political and economic challenges in Iraq as U.S. troops withdraw.

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CIA Confirms 12 Destroyed Videotapes Depicted "Enhanced Interrogation Methods"

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Daphne Eviatar - Mar. 06 (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 investigation and the subject of a pending lawsuit depicted the "enhanced interrogation methods" that detainees' advocates were worried about.

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