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• Gov Quinn/Sen Durbin praise decision re: Thomson

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 151
  December 15, 2009Presidential memo re: ThomsonLetter from defense team to Gov QuinnNote that the alleged 3000 jobs created are not all going to be local hires and a large percentage will be going to the military for security purposes.Couldn’t find a comment from Rep Kirk as yet. Also noteworthy, Sen Roland Burris ...
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• Letter from defense team to Gov Quinn re: Thomson

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 151
  December 15, 2009Presidential memo re: ThomsonJoint statement from Gov Quinn/Sen DurbinLetter to Gov Pat Quinn from the Secy of State, Secy of Defense, Secy of Homeland Security, Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General concerning the acquisition of Thomson Correctional Center to house federal ...
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• POTUS Memo re: Thomson Correctional Center

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 151
  December 15, 2009Letter from defense team to Gov QuinnJoint statement from Gov Quinn/Sen DurbinPOTUS MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSETHE ATTORNEY GENERALSUBJECT: Directing Certain Actions with Respect to Acquisition and Use of Thomson Correctional Center to Facilitate Closure of Detention Facilities at ...
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• WH comment re: leaked Thomson memo

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 151
  December 11, 2009Gov Quinn/Sen Durbin re: leaked memoWhite House “senior administration official” comment re: leaked memo concerning Gitmo detainees going to Thomson Correctional Center via FOX:This is a draft, predecisional document that lawyers at various agencies were drafting in preparation for a potential ...
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• Leaked memo re: Gitmo detainees going to Thomson

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 151
  December 12, 2009WH comment re: leaked memoGov Quinn/Sen Durbin re: leaked memo“Leaked” memo from Eric Holder to Defense Secretary Robert Gates re: purchasing Thomson Correctional Center to house the muslim terrorists. A WH official said a final decision has not been made and the memo is “pre-decisional”. It ...
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• Gates: Iran Could Face “Significant Additional Sanctions”

  
  niacINsight — Authority: 501
  With President Obama’s year-end deadline approaching for Iran to resume nuclear negotiations, the administration is seriously considering applying sanctions on Iran. “I think that you are going to see some significant additional sanctions imposed by the international community, assuming that the Iranians don’t ...
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• Senator Specter (PA): "Why I Oppose the Surge in Afghanistan" (Blast Email to Constituents)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Dear Friends: I want to share with you an op-ed I wrote that ran in todays Philadelphia Daily News about why I oppose sending additional American troops to Afghanistan. If you are interested in learning more about how I came to this decision, I encourage you read the floor statement I made in September in which I ...
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• Colin Powell Portrait Unveiled to Tears and Cheers

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 785
  Filed under: Emilys Post Gen. Colin Powell returned to the State Department Monday for an emotional unveiling of his official Secretary of State portrait. Powell and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presided over the unveiling of the portrait, which will hang with those of the other former ...
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• Rumsfeld’s Office Rejects White House Explanation of Obama’s Criticism

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 461
  A spokesman for Donald Rumsfeld fired back at the White House Friday for suggesting that the former secretary of defense was off base in his criticism of President Obamas claim that he inherited a war in Afghanistan that was neglected by the Bush administration.
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• Iraq War Inquiry, Day Seven

  
  'Imagine' A World Of Peace,Understanding,Tolerance — Authority: 133
  Today, Dec 4th, theyre already into day eight of the Inquiry with that covering "Military Planning" and "The view from London and Baghdad 2004-2007".But so far some of what has come forth has been that the administration, long before Sept 11 2001 were focusing on regime change in Iraq and probably looking for ways to ...
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• A Realistic Look At Obama's Afghanistan Strategy

  
  ChrisWeigant.com — Authority: 420
  At first glance, it seems like nobodys happy with President Obamas new Afghanistan strategy, announced Tuesday night before an audience of West Point cadets. Voices from the left and right (for different reasons, of course) are decrying the presidents decision as not what they wanted to hear. Hard-liners are ...
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• Afghanistan and Obama’s surge

  
  Where's the Outrage? — Authority: 430
  President Barack Obama gave a fantastic, marvelous, thoughtful, middle-of-the-road speech last night on Afghanistan. Barack Obama, in spite of his critics, looks for common ground in almost every debate. This is why he became president. He was able to appeal to a wide variety of people. So on the Afghanistan debate, ...
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• Gibbs Zings Rumsfeld: ‘You Go To War With The Sec. Of Defense You Have’

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 781
  At today’s White House press briefing, ABC’s Jake Tapper asked Robert Gibbs to clarify this statement from last night’s address, which former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has taken exception with : Commanders in Afghanistan repeatedly asked for support to deal with the reemergence of the Taliban, but ...
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• What Did He Say?

  
  Regaining the Center — Authority: 125
  Last night, President Obama gave a solid speech (no surprise) to the cadets of West Point, and to the nation. Rhetorically proper, it was more than just a speech. It marked how a President should act and speak when addressing a serious subject.  There were no references to a higher power, or distortions of ...
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• White House Party Crashers Emails Released (Michaele & Tareq Salahi): Can You Say Douchey, Much?

  
  Shabooty.com — Authority: 602
  White House Party Crashers Emails Released: Can You Say Douchey? Obama’s sending 30000 Troops? He needs to send these two nudniks over there… Excepts from e-mails exchanged between Tareq and Michaele Salahi and Michele Jones, special assistant to the defense secretary, as part of their effort to obtain an ...
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• President Obama to Announce Troop Increase in Afghanistan

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 752
  There are two things that President Obama’s plan won’t do: win the war, or end the war. While all Americans hope that the mission in Afghanistan will turn out well, the U.S. military’s counterinsurgency doctrine says that stabilizing a country the size of Afghanistan would require far more troops than the ...
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• To justify Iraq war: ‘Bush intentionally let Bin Laden get away’

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 593
  According to Rep. Maurice Hinchey, a Democratic congressman from New York, ‘the Bush administration permitted the world’s most notorious terrorist mastermind to escape because it needed additional justification to invade Iraq.’ The lawmaker ‘accused President Bush of purposely letting Osama bin Laden escape ...
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• Senate Report Blames Donald Rumsfeld for Osama bin Laden Still Being Not-Dead

  
  Indecision Forever — Authority: 535
  The U.S. Senate is today releasing a report entitled "Tora Bora Revisited: How We Failed to Get Bin Laden and Why It Matters Today," which — if Im not mistaken — is a kind of modern retelling of Evelyn Waughs classic " Brideshead Revisted ." Except instead of dealing with "the unmerited and unilateral act of love ...
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• Obama unveiled Afghan plan to war council members

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 461
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House spokesman says President Barack Obama held an unannounced meeting with members of his war council on Afghanistan in the Oval Office Sunday night. Robert Gibbs says Obama used the meeting, that included Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and National Security Adviser James Jones, to ...
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• Obama: The Terrorist Within

  
  Forgot To Ask — Authority: 114
  He wont pledge America, but hell kill America! Some reading this will not like what I have to say, but I am as mad as I have ever been in my life and I need to say this.  First I will say I don’t give a damn where Obama was born.  I think he should be impeached;  Biden, Reid, and Pelosi be declared non compos ...
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