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• Alberto Gonzales Wont Be Charged Over Eavesdropping Testimony

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 683
  By GottaLaff Bush made me do it! Its his fault. I just followed orders: Alberto Gonzales, pilloried for allegedly misleading Congress about the Bush administration’s warrantless eavesdropping program, has been exonerated — sort of. According to public records and interviews with federal ...
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• Obama administration will not sign land mine ban

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 683
  By GottaLaff A BushCo policy lives on: The Obama administration has decided not to sign an international convention banning land mines. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Tuesday that the administration recently completed a review and decided not to change the Bush-era policy. Patrick Leahy was ...
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• Liz Cheney Warns Against “Walking Away” from Afghanistan, Apparently Forgetting that Dick Cheney Walked Away from Afghanistan

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 765
  Listening to a Cheney give advice about how to “win” in Afghanistan is rather like asking an arsonist what to do about your house as it burns to the ground. I mean, there was something completely surreal about listening to Liz Cheney criticize Obama on “This Week” for trying to grapple with the disaster her ...
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• Gates Invokes New Authority to Block Release of Detainee Abuse Photos

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 683
  By GottaLaff ( via ) My dear friend Jason Leopold has an exclusive (which has since made its way into the media) that is making my blood boil: Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has blocked the release of photographs depicting US soldiers abusing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, using authority just granted ...
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• HillBuzz Masthead. Fixed.

  
  Rumproast — Authority: 673
  The Palin-lovin’ PUMA loons who run the asylum that is HillBuzz have been getting a lot of love from the wingnutosphere this week for their magnificently fucktarded post “Thank you former President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush.” Not only do they heap lavish praise and tear-drenched ...
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• You say “thinking” like it’s a bad thing…

  
  Rumproast — Authority: 673
  The usual suspects at National Review’s The Corner are irked as hell at Obama for taking his time with a decision on Afghanistan: What Is [Kathryn Jean Lopez] Obama thinking? Obama is still close to announcing his revamped war strategy — most likely shortly after he returns from a trip to Asia that ends ...
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• Robert Gates: George W. Bush Was No Ronald Reagan

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 765
  Here’s Gates, talking about Reagan and the military. You don’t even have to read between the lines . President Reagan was circumspect about putting or keeping America’s troops and America’s credibility at risk without a clear mission or strong odds of success . Unlike Commander McFlightsuit. He ...
  2 weeks ago

• VIDEO: America attacked as George W. Bush and Dick Cheney dithered

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 683
  By GottaLaff My pal Greg Skilling wrote up a piece at The Examiner on this and passed it along to me. Wow. Id missed 60 Minutes last night so I didnt see this. Double wow: Watch CBS News Videos Online Unnerving much? While the administration of former President George W. Bush and his erstwhile partner ...
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• New Docs: Pentagon Ignored FBI’s Warnings on Abusive Interrogations

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 683
  By GottaLaff After reading The Dark Side by Jane Mayer, this isnt all that new. But thats a book, and these are declassified Department of Justice-released documents : Sadly, they reveal that the FBI knew perfectly well — and repeatedly warned Defense Department officials, as well as Justice Department ...
  2 weeks ago

• Italian court convicts 23 Americans of kidnapping in CIA rendition case

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 683
  By GottaLaff Meaningless/meaningful, depending on how you look at it: Twenty three Americans have been convicted in absentia, after an Italian court found them guilty of kidnapping in the CIA rendition of a Muslim cleric, the Associated Press reports . Three other Americans were acquitted. [...] The ...
  3 weeks ago

• MUST SEE VIDEO- Justice Denied: Voices from Gitmo- "Its a place where people lose their mind"

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 683
  By GottaLaff "People were sodomized... with broomsticks..." The men in this video were held at Guantánamo for years without charge and denied any meaningful opportunity to challenge the legality of their detention. But now they are finally free. This is their story. Produced for the ACLU by Joel P. ...
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• Welcome to America

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 683
  By GottaLaff Crime: Being Not White and Muslim. Punishment: Unlawful imprisonment, abuse, humiliation. Era: Bush Crime Family: The U.S. government will pay $1.26 million to five Muslim men detained for months without charges after the September 11 attacks who sued for unlawful imprisonment and abuse , their ...
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• Bush’s interrogators used slaps to ‘instill fear and despair’

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 683
  By GottaLaff My friend Larisa Alexandrovna has a piece up at Raw Story that you should go read. Heres a sample: Recently declassified documents on the Bush administration interrogation program describe several techniques used on detainees in US custody, some of which may have violated the United Nations ...
  3 weeks ago

• Runoff Canceled—Karzai Wins!

  
  Rumproast — Authority: 673
  This can’t be good. Juan Cole is not optimistic here and here . Whether or not backing Karzai ever made sense as an improvised strategic make-do, you have to admit the US has never had a gift for craftily installing credible puppet governments. And anyone who doesn’t see this as a toxic legacy of the Bush ...
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• VIDEOS: Jason Leopold interviews Valerie Plame about CIA leak case

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 683
  By GottaLaff My pal Jason Leopold is not only the go-to guy for all things Plame/Rove/Cheney , he also conducts interviews with newsmakers. Heres a Q and A from 2007 that he had with Valerie Plame Wilson herself that deserves more attention, especially in light of the newest revelations about what a big fat liar ...
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• Obama Ditches Another Bush Rule

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 683
  By GottaLaff Scrubbing out another Bush stain. GObama! The latest rule to get the boot was finalized in December 2008 and upped the number of hours truckers could stay behind the wheel , despite safety concerns about driver fatigue . [...] They issued the same rule three times [3] , even though the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Working Through the Extra Hour Tonight

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 765
  An extra hour. Tonight, when we turn the clocks back , we get 60 more minutes to do with as we please. Being Halloween, that might mean an extra hour of reveling for many. For kids, it might mean staying up an extra hour. For others, it might mean an extra hour of sleeping. But for a couple of folks, it definitely ...
  3 weeks ago

• Evening Read

  
  Delaware Liberal — Authority: 566
  No Phillies tonight, no problem. Three good articles to get those brain cells warmed up.The Nation: Why Reparations are good? It’s not what you think.The Daily Beast: The Left’s hero on Fox “News”: Shep Smith.Paul Krugman: Time to decide which side of history you are on.
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• Attention Bush Apologists: Reagan Greeted Fallen Americans at an Air Force Base, Idiots

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 765
  It appears my post yesterday got the teabaggers all riled up . Apparently, their position is that George W. Bush’s refusal to honor fallen Americans as they return to this country for the last time — something his predecessors all did — is proof that a) he loves the troops more than anyone else and; b) ...
  3 weeks ago

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