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Jason Allardyce / Times of London:
Lockerbie bomber ‘set free for oil’ — The British government decided it was “in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom” to make Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, eligible for return to Libya, leaked ministerial letters reveal.
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Times of London:
Secret letters reveal Labour's Libyan deal — DURING the past year a small ship bristling with computers and seismic equipment has been crisscrossing the Gulf of Sidra, in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast. Its mission: to help to find BP's next offshore oilfields.
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Washington Post:
How a Detainee Became An Asset — Sept. 11 Plotter Cooperated After Waterboarding — By Peter Finn, Joby Warrick and Julie Tate, Page A01 — After enduring the CIA's harshest interrogation methods and spending more than a year in the agency's secret prisons, Khalid Sheik Mohammed stood …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The Washington Post's Cheney-ite defense of torture
The Washington Post's Cheney-ite defense of torture
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Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
An Alternative for Accountability on Torture: A Presidential Commission
An Alternative for Accountability on Torture: A Presidential Commission
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Acknowledging the Obvious — Is the mainstream media coming around?
Acknowledging the Obvious — Is the mainstream media coming around?
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
It's come to this: Dems task Teddy's grandson with leading funeral prayer for ObamaCare — The boss has been writing about the left's use of kids as sympathetic “human shields” for their policies for years and years, but even so, I'm amazed. I thought the moral authority of the religious setting …
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Associated Press:
Family, leaders pay final tribute to Kennedy — Obama praises late senator as ‘the greatest legislator of our time’ — WASHINGTON - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was laid to rest alongside slain brothers John and Robert on hallowed ground at Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday evening …
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Geoff Garin / Washington Post:
GOP Should Move on Health-Care Reform in Ted Kennedy's Memory
GOP Should Move on Health-Care Reform in Ted Kennedy's Memory
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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Va. Candidate McDonnell Says Views Changed Since He Wrote Thesis — Va. GOP Candidate Wrote on Women, Marriage and Gays — At age 34, two years before his first election and two decades before he would run for governor of Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell submitted a master's thesis …
Eleanor Clift / Newsweek:
All The Senator's Women … From the magazine issue dated Sep 7, 2009 — The city editor at a small daily in Iowa sent a reporter out last week to gather reminiscences of Senator Kennedy. “Be sure to ask about Chappaquiddick,” he said, a request that drew a blank look.
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Students Get New Assignment: Pick Books You Like — JONESBORO, Ga. — For years Lorrie McNeill loved teaching “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the Harper Lee classic that many Americans regard as a literary rite of passage. — But last fall, for the first time in 15 years, Ms. McNeill, 42, did not assign “Mockingbird” — or any novel.
Robbie Brown / New York Times:
South Carolina Republican Lawmakers Consider Asking Sanford to Resign, or Else — ATLANTA — Republican lawmakers in South Carolina are considering asking Gov. Mark Sanford to resign or face likely impeachment as a state investigation continues into his travel records after an extramarital affair.
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Russ Feingold / Wall Street Journal:
The Road Home From Afghanistan — Why a flexible timetable to withdraw U.S. troops will best advance our national security interests. — Printer — Friendly — After nearly eight long years, we seem to be no closer to the end of the war in Afghanistan.
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Peter Baker / The Caucus:
Democrats Seem Forgetful on Senate Appointments — WASHINGTON - The Democratic National Committee wasted no time Friday slamming Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida for installing a Republican crony in the Senate as a seat warmer until Mr. Crist can run for the post himself next year.
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
A.C.L.U. Lawyers Mine Documents for Truth — WASHINGTON — In the spring of 2003, long before Abu Ghraib or secret prisons became part of the American vocabulary, a pair of recently hired lawyers at the American Civil Liberties Union noticed a handful of news reports about allegations of abuse of prisoners in American custody.
Agence France Presse:
Two Guantanamo inmates freed in Portugal: official — LISBON — Two Syrian detainees held at the US-run Guantanamo Bay prison were transferred to Portugal on Friday by US authorities where they were freed to live in the community, officials said. — The two detainees “arrived August 28 in Portugal …