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Marty Lederman / Balkinization:
The March 2003 Yoo Memo Emerges! (not an April Fool's Joke): The Torture Memo to Top All Torture Memos — Subhead: The Big Kahuna: The Torture Memo that Makes the August 2002 Memo Look Like Objective and Thoughtful Legal Analysis — On Friday, March 13, 2003, Jay Bybee left his office …
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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.
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 …
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
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Hillary fired for lies, unethical behavior from Congressional job: former boss — Dan Calabrese's new column on Hillary Clinton's past may bring the curtain down on her political future. Calabrese interviewed Jerry Zeifman, the man who served as chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during …
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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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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.
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
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Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Dean says superdelegates are free agents — The Democratic National Committee chairman upholds the party's rules. His stance undercuts that of Obama supporters. — WASHINGTON — Citing Democratic rules, national committee Chairman Howard Dean on Tuesday said that the superdelegates …
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TPM Election Central
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Democrats' Turmoil Tests Party's Low-Key Leader
Democrats' Turmoil Tests Party's Low-Key Leader
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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 …
Elizabeth Holmes / Wall Street Journal:
McCain Has Yet to Win Over Key Conservatives — On the campaign trail last week, Sen. John McCain declared at least three times that the Republican Party is “united.” — But is it? — Some prominent conservatives say they remain disenchanted with the party's likely nominee.
Jon Henke / Megan McArdle:
Dark Clouds — First, Matt Stoller claimed that McCain's speech in Meridian, MS was a “racist dogwhistle” because a civil rights worker who had been murdered in a completely different Mississippi city had been born in Meridian. Never mind that Meridian is “not far from the naval air station …
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