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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
John Yoo's war crimes — Yet again, the ACLU has performed the function which Congress and the media are intended to perform but do not. As the result of a FOIA lawsuit the ACLU filed and then prosecuted for several years, numerous documents relating to the Bush administration's torture regime …
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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
'03 U.S. Memo Approved Harsh Interrogations — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department in 2003 gave military interrogators broad authority to use extreme methods in questioning detainees and argued that wartime powers largely exempted interrogators from laws banning harsh treatment, according to a memorandum publicly disclosed on Tuesday.
Marty Lederman / Balkinization:
Full Employment Memo for Bloggers (and Prosecutors?)
Full Employment Memo for Bloggers (and Prosecutors?)
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Convictions
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
THE TORTURE MEMO....The infamous John Yoo torture memo has finally …
THE TORTURE MEMO....The infamous John Yoo torture memo has finally …
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The Carpetbagger Report
Zachary Roth / CJR:
The U.S., Iraq, and 100 Years — Press needs to call Obama on distortion of McCain's statement — Ever since John McCain said at a town hall meeting in January that he could see U.S. troops staying in Iraq for a hundred years, the Democrats have been trying to use the quote to paint the Arizona senator as a dangerous warmonger.
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Michael Cooper / The Caucus:
McCain and Letterman Trade Insults on ‘Late Show’
McCain and Letterman Trade Insults on ‘Late Show’
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The Campaign Spot
Julianna Goldman / Bloomberg:
Obama Wins Backing of 9/11 Commission Co-Chairman Lee Hamilton — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has won the endorsement of one of his party's top foreign policy figures, Lee Hamilton, who hails from Indiana, home to one of the next crucial primary votes.
San Francisco Chronicle:
MATIER AND ROSS — Bill Clinton's tirade stunned some delegates — The Bill Clinton who met privately with California's superdelegates at last weekend's state convention was a far cry from the congenial former president who afterward publicly urged fellow Democrats to “chill out” …
TBogg:
A Vast Right ...No, Left. Wait,...No, More Sorta Rightish, Kinda Leftish -Wing Conspiracy — Captain Ed discovers an intrepid [unemployable doof living in a friends garage] citizen journalist who is going to single-handedly bring down Senator Hillary Clinton's presidential ambitions and, as a result, possibly save The Republic
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WKMG-TV:
Passenger At Orlando Airport Had Bomb Materials, Literature In Bag — Behavioral Specialists Spot Suspicious Passenger — ORLANDO, Fla. — A Jamaican man behavior specialists spotted acting suspiciously was detained and arrested after components used to make pipe bombs …
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Testimony — Chairman Ben S. Bernanke — The economic outlook — Before the Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress — Chairman Schumer, Vice Chairman Maloney, Representative Saxton, and other members of the Committee, I am pleased to appear before the Joint Economic Committee.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The Hillary Waltz — Democrats getting jittery about the alienating effects of the endless soap opera they call their campaign should buck up. These “hand-wringers,” as the Hillary strategist Harold Ickes calls them, are not seeing the larger picture. — Hillary is cruelly misunderstood …
Richard Florida and The Creative Class Exchange:
The Singles Map — This is the new and improved version the singles map published yesterday in the Boston Globe. — A Singles Map of the United States — Which cities have a surplus of single men (or women) - and what that means for the country — By Richard Florida
Jacqueline Lee / Des Moines Register:
Pizza driver: ‘There was no way out’ — A Des Moines pizza driver who was suspended from his job after he shot an armed robber said today he has been overwhelmed by support from people who cheered what happened. — “But no one had contacted me directly about a job offer,” …
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The Jawa Report
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Heavy Troop Deployments Are Called Major Risk — Readiness Is Dangerously Low, Army Chief Says — Senior Army and Marine Corps leaders said yesterday that the increase of more than 30,000 troops in Iraq and Afghanistan has put unsustainable levels of stress on U.S. ground forces and has put …
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Paltry results of Iraqi offensive silence U.S. withdrawal talk — WASHINGTON — The Bush administration was caught off-guard by the first Iraqi-led military offensive since the fall of Saddam Hussein, a weeklong thrust in southern Iraq whose paltry results have silenced talk at the Pentagon …
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Patricia Sullivan / Washington Post:
A ‘Death’ Is Noticed — An “in memoriam” ad about a former U.S. ambassador that was placed as an April Fools' Day joke backfired yesterday. — A photo of Edward M. Gabriel, a very much alive international business consultant who was the U.S. ambassador to Morocco from 1997 to 2001 …