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Hill Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002 — Intelligence Panels' Chiefs Did Not Then Protest CIA Technique — In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody.
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The 'O' Show sweeps Iowa — CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Iowans turned out by the thousands Saturday to watch the "O" Show: Oprah Winfrey stepping into presidential politics for the first time, hailing Sen. Barack Obama as a "rare thing." — Winfrey bounded on the stage like she does her 22-year-old talk show …
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NBC Decides to Run Conservative-Group Ad — WASHINGTON — NBC reversed course Saturday and decided to air a conservative group's television ad thanking U.S. troops. — The ad, by the group Freedom's Watch, asks viewers to remember the troops during the holiday season.
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NBC Lawyer who nixed troop ad gives generously to Congressional Democrats — According to a Fox News report, Richard Cotton, the general counsel for NBC/Universal, was one of two network officials who decided not to sell ad time to Freedom's Watch, which describes itself as …
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Detainee Says He Was Tortured in C.I.A. Prison — The first of the so-called high value Guantánamo detainees to have seen a lawyer claims he was subjected to "state-sanctioned torture" while in secret C.I.A. prisons, and he has asked for a court order barring the government from destroying evidence of his treatment.
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Inquiry Begins Into Tapes' Destruction
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Election 2008: Michigan Republican Primary — Michigan: Huckabee 21% Romney 20% Giuliani 19% — Mike Huckabee's surging campaign has created a three-way toss-up in Michigan's Republican Primary. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds Huckabee earning 21% of the vote.
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Tom Tancredo boycotts Univision/Spanish Debate: Attacks their entire viewership — Tancredo has a little problem speaking English himself, but that's beside the point. The racist platform upon which his campaign is built is very saddening to witness. Watch his reasoning for boycotting the Univision debate.
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Like Subprime Mortgages, Some Construction Loans Are Delinquent — BANKS across the United States, particularly the smaller ones, have become dependent on construction lending just as that area of the economy is weakening and the number of bad loans is growing.
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RADAMISTO
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Like Father, Like Son — How the Romneys Tackled the Faith Question — Forty-two years ago, when he was preparing to run for president, George Romney, the Republican governor of Michigan, told reporter Wallace Turner of the New York Times, "I am completely the product of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."
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Re: Huck AIDS Statement — The Huckabee statement Byron posts below is exceedingly disingenuous. By 1992 it was well understood that AIDS could not be transmitted by casual contact. Citing concerns about breast milk or exposure from health care workers in a medical context are not particularly relevant.
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Huckabee '92: Isolate AIDS patients; Update: Huck issues statement
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Where is Jose Rodriguez? Apparently in business with the brother of top Democrat on Intel Panel — I tend to agree with my colleague Scott Horton that Jose Rodriguez Jr., the former head of the CIA's clandestine service, is being made the scapegoat for the destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of two Al Qaeda members.
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Racist is as racist quotes — Jim Henley has his say on my present legal woes: … Etc. The words that so offend him are, indeed "frank bigotry". However, if you read my racist diatribe, you'll see the bigotry is not mine but Mullah Krekar's: … Hello, Mr Henley? Anybody home in there?
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Spies Like You and Me — Let the witch hunt begin. Are you now or have you ever been an illegal immigrant? — Are any of your friends illegal? Relatives? — The last place you'd expect to encounter a chilling moment is at a presidential debate sponsored by National Public Radio.
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The book they used to burn now fires new revolution of faith in China — In China it is known as the "sacred doctrine" and it has become one of the country's bestselling books. Yet it has nothing to do with the thoughts of Chairman Mao and its teachings have been in conflict with the forces of Communism for generations.
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