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• Indian officials wary after perceived White House slights

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 171
  Days before Indias Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is to be welcomed in the White House for his first state visit with President Obama, two perceived missteps by the Obama administration have concerned Indian officials that New Delhi suddenly has been relegated to the second tier of U.S.-Asian relations. Singh arrives ...
  6 hours ago

• Oil and gas industry slams Salazar for yanking drilling leases near Utah parks

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 679
  A study by an association representing the oil and gas industry – not surprisingly – found Interior Secretary Ken Salazar engaged in political gamesmanship when he pulled back leases on 60 parcels of BLM land sold in a heavily protested and fraud-marred auction last December in Salt Lake City. Salazar, who ...
  10 hours ago

• Country at a Crossroads

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 558
  by John Browne – Senior Market Strategist, Euro Pacific Capital The U.S. economy is in uncertain times. Analysts are split between those seeing recovery and those fearing a second downturn. This confusion is being echoed in the highest levels of government as President Obama simultaneously speaks about the need ...
  11 hours ago

• Bush Justice officials support trying terror suspects in civilian court

  
  Later On — Authority: 499
  Alex Seitz-Wald at ThinkProgress : Saying that critics are “understating the criminal justice system’s capacities,” two top Bush Justice officials came out in support of Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other Guantanamo detainees in federal court. Writing in the ...
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• Small Town To Liz Cheney: We Want Gitmo Detainees, Not Your Fearmongering

  
  The Plum Line — Authority: 782
  Officials in a small Michigan town featured in a new video about Guantanamo by Liz Cheney’s national security group want her to know that they’re not falling for her “fearmongering” — and tell us they want Gitmo detainees in their town. Cheney’s group, Keep America Safe, has released a short ...
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• Eliot Spitzer’s New Crusade Against Obamanomics

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 438
  Are Obama’s economic policies actually working ? Eliot Spitzer says No! Spitzer is taking aim at the [Obama} administration’s approach, accusing it of shying away from the kind of comprehensive reform that the financial system needs. The Obama administration is not so different from the Bush administration, at ...
  17 hours ago

• Lithuania harboured secret CIA prison to interrogate Qaeda terrorists: Report

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  London, Nov. 20 (ANI): The CIA reportedly used a horse riding school in Lithuania as a secret prison to hold and interrogate top al-Qaeda terrorists. According to The Telegraph, the CIA built the secret jail in 2004 and used it for more than a year, flying in at least eight suspected al-Qaeda terrorists from ...
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• Investigating Torture ~ Bush Tactics Harmed U.S. National Security

  
  Past in Print Weblog — Authority: 110
  Evidence of torture, new and old, has landed President Obama in a bit of a quandary.  A significant percentage of his supporters are calling for criminal prosecution of Bush officials responsible for apparent war crimes.  Meanwhile, the President’s detractors pose numerous counter arguments, recommending against ...
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• Remainders: Sarah Palin: like Reagan, only dumber, Rudy won’t be ‘America’s governor,’ and more

  
  The Reid Report — Authority: 482
  Missed this one yesterday in the blizzard of co-dependent, obsessive media coverage of Sarah Palin: she now says “death panels” aren’t really “panels of death,” just like the Soviet Union wasn’t really an evil empire … see how that works? Marco Rubio (otherwise known as the “Florida Sarah ...
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• Dana “Pig Missile” Perino to Help Oversee TV Marti

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 728
  I realize that Mitch McConnell really pushed Obama to do this . (h/t SE) Still, there seems an inherent–and glaring–problem with appointing Dana Perino to serve on the Broadcast Board of Governors. It’s this : Created in 1994, the BBG oversees all of the US government’s non-military international ...
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• Bush In 2006: Terrorists Should Be “Tried In Courts Here In The U.S.”

  
  The Plum Line — Authority: 782
  With Republicans hammering the Obama administration for trying suspected 9/11 terrorists in a New York court, a Democrat points out that in 2006, George W. Bush seemed to say outright that terrorists should be “tried in courts here in the United States.” There was no outcry at the time. In a news conference on ...
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• U.S. Judge Finds Army Engineers Liable for Katrina Damage

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 729
  More than four years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, a federal judge has ruled in favor of four plaintiffs from the vicinity of the city’s 9th Ward, finding that the Army Corps of Engineers was responsible for some of the damage incurred by the storm and awarding each plaintiff more than $700,000. ...
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• Asian leaders to Obama: Wheres the beef?

  
  Shadow Government — Authority: 651
  By Phil Levy In Tokyo, President Obama spoke outin favor of trade. It was not exactly the much-heralded Trade Speech, in whichhe would lay out a detailed agenda and soothe U.S. public fears that he himselfhad helped to arouse . Instead, this talk was addressed to an Asianaudience, but it offered some tantalizing ...
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• Obama Nominates Former Bush Aide Dana Perino for Administration Job

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 815
  Filed under: George W. Bush , Bush Administration , Obama Administration President Obama has nominated George W. Bushs former press secretary Dana Perino for a post on the board overseeing government-sponsored international broadcasting. Perino, who worked in the Bush White House from 2005-2009, was appointed ...
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• The Morning Plum

  
  The Plum Line — Authority: 782
  * Eric Holder has an encounter with the 9/11 families over his decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in New York. * David Axelrod , on criticism of Obama’s failure to gain any major breakthroughs during his foreign trip: We’re not in the “immediate gratification business.” * Tapper lists ...
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• No matter how hard Republicans want to pretend that Barack Obama was president from 2000-2008, that doesnt make it true

  
  Brilliant at Breakfast — Authority: 497
  And while the right is having vapors about how President Barack Hussein Obama, the secret Muslim terrorist who is both a Nazi and a part of the Great Jewish Conspiracy at the same time "allowed" a "possible terrorist" to remain in the military, the fact of the matter is that the Bush Administrations policy to let ...
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• Tech workers take H-1B case to Supreme Court

  
  Joejolly's Weblog — Authority: 134
  Programmers Guild, others seek OK to challenge Bush-era foreign student visa extensions COMPUTERWORLD Careers By Patrick Thibodeau November 18, 2009 Computerworld – After losing two lower court decisions, a group of tech workers are turning to the U.S. Supreme Court in their fight against a federal ...
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• Leftists Call Conservatives Cowards

  
  American Power — Authority: 700
  Sister Toldjah call it the " Democratic Theme of the Week ." This "cowardly" meme is coming from the Democratic Party mainstream, naturally, but Markos Moulitsas essay is particularly loathesome, " Conservative Cowards ." But no worries. Sister Toldjahs got a devasting smackdown : 8 years after 9/11, ...
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• Cute: Newsweek feigns ignorance of ethics

  
  Later On — Authority: 499
  Ari Melber at Huffington Post : See if you can follow this logic . A recent article in Newsweek states that Democrats could have won a "very significant number of Republican votes in Congress" for the stimulus — had there only been a "meaningful tax-cut component." Political journalism is often ...
  2 days ago

• CIA torture site located in Lithuania

  
  Psyche, Science, and Society — Authority: 428
  Another of the CIA torture centers has been located : CIA Secret ‘Torture’ Prison Found at Fancy Horseback Riding Academy ABC News Finds the Location of a “Black Site” for Alleged Terrorists in Lithuania By Brian Ross and Mathew Cole The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an ...
  2 days ago

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