memeorandum: GW Bush on “known killers” (Turcopolier/Sic Semper Tyrannis)

4:15 PM ET, January 11, 2009

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Mary Bruce / ABCNEWS:

Obama: Gitmo Likely Won't Close in His First 100 Days — Closing Guantanamo Bay More Difficult Than People Realize, President-Elect Says — President-elect Barack Obama said this weekend that he does not expect to close Guantanamo Bay in his first 100 days in office.

Discussion: Townhall.com, TIME.com, theheretik.us, The Caucus, Big Brass Blog, PoliGazette, George's Bottom Line, Washington Monthly, AMERICAblog News, Don Surber, JammieWearingFool and Macsmind

ABCNEWS:

‘This Week’ Transcript: Barack Obama — George Stephanopoulos' Exlusive Interview with President-Elect Barack Obama — GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Hello, again. In nine days he will be president of the United States. This morning Barack Obama is our exclusive headliner.Welcome back to THIS WEEK.

Discussion: NewsBusters.org, TalkLeft, Commentary, Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, RedState, TIME.com and George's Bottom Line

Digby / Hullabaloo:

Fiscal Madness — I can't believe what I saw yesterday: CNN showed the Shock Doctrine documentary I.O.U.S.A. It is an amazing piece of propaganda, which, if it isn't designed to destroy any chance of enacting a necessary stimulus, will persuade more than a few Americans that the biggest problem …

Discussion: QandO

ABCNEWS:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Barack Obama

Discussion: Political Machine, Daily Kos and Washington Post

Jennifer Parker / George's Bottom Line:
Obama Calls for ‘Grand Bargain’ on Economy: 'Everybody's Going to Have to Give'

Discussion: PoliGazette, Talking Points Memo, Corrente and Don Surber

Ali Frick / Think Progress:

Bush: I Personally Authorized Torture Of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — In an interview with Brit Hume that aired today on Fox News Sunday, President Bush admitted that he personally authorized the torture of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. He said he personally asked “what tools” …

Discussion: theheretik.us

Bill Sammon / Fox News:

Bush Says He Refused to Bail Out Republicans With Iraq Withdrawal — President Bush exudes serenity as he prepares to leave office, content that the war in Iraq is nearly won and he had the fortitude to buck his party despite incredible pressure to withdraw. — FOXNews.com

Discussion: Think Progress, Gateway Pundit, Vox Popoli and Macsmind

english.pravda.ru:

Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age — The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm …

Discussion: A Blog For All, NewsBusters.org, Don Surber and Maggie's Farm

Frank Rich / New York Times:

Eight Years of Madoffs — THREE days after the world learned that $50 billion may have disappeared in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, The Times led its front page of Dec. 14 with the revelation of another $50 billion rip-off. This time the vanished loot belonged to American taxpayers.

Discussion: theheretik.us, QandO and The Mahablog

Jewish Odysseus:

GERMAN “POLICE” JOIN JEW-HATING MUSLIM MOB — Only one word comes to mind as I read and watch this: UNBELIEVABLE. — Wow. In Germany. Wow. — I read this story at the excellent Gaza war-posting blog, “Muqata,” and I was just able to dig up the vid on YouTube...It is obviously the same episode.

Discussion: Jihad Watch, Infidel Bloggers Alliance, Gateway Pundit, The Muqata, Boker tov, Boulder!, Atlas Shrugs, TigerHawk and Israel Matzav

Anthony H. Cordesman / CSIS:

DATE OF PUBLICATION: … SYNOPSIS: — The Israeli-Hamas War, and there is little else that it can be called, has now lasted two weeks. Israeli jets have flown some 800 strike sorties, and the IDF has pushed deep into Gaza. Israel also continues to report tactical gains.

Discussion: Matthew Yglesias, Outside The Beltway, Buck Naked Politics, Harry's Place, James Fallows and NO QUARTER

Bono / New York Times:

Notes From the Chairman — Once upon a couple of weeks ago ... I'm in a crush in a Dublin pub around New Year's. Glasses clinking clicking, clashing crashing in Gaelic revelry: swinging doors, sweethearts falling in and out of the season's blessings, family feuds subsumed or resumed.

Discussion: Daniel W. Drezner, The E&P Pub, The Debatable Land and Althouse

Tom Segev / Washington Post:

Peace Is No Longer in Sight — At the end of the 10th day of Israel's operation in the Gaza Strip, I was zapping between Israeli, Arab and international TV channels. The pictures grew more gruesome from moment to moment. Then a friend called to tell me that Mezzo, a French concert channel …

Discussion: War in Context, The E&P Pub and New York Times

John / Power Line:

Manufacturing Disaster — It is commonly said that by storing weapons in mosques and firing rockets and mortars from residential areas and school yards, Hamas is using human shields in Gaza, a war crime. But the truth is really worse than that. Hamas doesn't endanger civilians in hopes …

Discussion: The Corner

Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:

IAF targets 20 smuggling tunnels along Philadelphi Corridor — IAF planes on Sunday afternoon attacked at least twenty smuggling tunnels along the Philadelphi Corridor, on Gaza's southern border with Egypt. The tunnels were being used to smuggle weaponry into Gaza, according to the IDF.

Discussion: Ynetnews, A Blog For All, New York Times, Israellycool and Israel Matzav