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• Busy Reading!

  
  And So it Goes in Shreveport — Authority: 616
  Blogging has been light over the past couple of days; Im deep into Marc Thiessens Courting Disaster . I expected it to be good but its even better than that. This is a subject area, of course, that regular readers know is something Im interested in. I blog a lot about Gitmo and about national security. However, ...
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• Goehring says McNerney soft on terrorism

  
  HALFWAY TO CONCORD — Authority: 433
  B rad Goehring, Republican candidate for California’s sprawling 11th Congressional district, hammered two-time incumbent, Democrat backbencher Jerry McNerney , for being “soft on terrorism” and blindly following the Obama administration in support of trying terrorists in civilian courts and closing Guantanamo. ...
  6 hours ago

• You, Sir, Are No Dick Cheney

  
  Bloodthirsty Liberal — Authority: 152
  Let me put this as succinctly as I can:To elaborate:Dick Cheney is not the most popular of politicians, but when he offered a harsh assessment of the Obama Administration’s approach to terrorism last May, his criticism stung—so much that the President gave a speech the same day that was widely seen as a direct ...
  12 hours ago

• New York Daily News: Keep 9/11 trial ‘the hell out’ of New York City (we say ‘not in America’)

  
  9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America — Authority: 120
  The New York Daily News nearly matched their title ‘Keep the hell out: Obama must stop waffling and move 9/11 terror trial’ with the content of their editorial:One of the most astonishing aspects of Obama’s struggle to find a location for perhaps the most important trial in American history is that the Justice ...
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• Taking Guantánamo to Norway: “Human Rights, Human Wrongs” Film Festival Report

  
  Andy Worthington — Authority: 569
  Over the weekend, Polly Nash and I, co-directors of the new Guantánamo documentary film, “ Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo ,” travelled to Oslo, where our film had been chosen as part of the Human Rights, Human Wrongs Film Festival . Organized by Oslo Dokumentarkino and the Human Rights House ...
  13 hours ago

• Key figure in Bush’s military commissions set for Obama job

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 622
  A key behind-the-scenes architect of the Bush administration’s first version of the military commissions for terrorism suspects — which the Supreme Court found to unconstitutionally restrict the legal rights of detainees — will take a central Pentagon position dealing with detainee policy for the Obama ...
  14 hours ago

• Key Figure in Bush’s Military Commissions Set for Obama Job

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 748
  William Lietzau (Defense Department photo) A key behind-the-scenes architect of the Bush administration’s first version of the military commissions for terrorism suspects — which the Supreme Court found to unconstitutionally restrict the legal rights of detainees — will take a central Pentagon position dealing ...
  18 hours ago

• Media Uses Story of Child Abuse as a Teachable Moment of Bush-Era “Torture” Practices

  
  Flopping Aces — Authority: 669
  This story , about a U.S. soldier who abused his child by holding her head under water for not saying her abc’s, is disgusting: An Army sergeant who served in Iraq for 15 months has been restricted to his Washington military base after being accused of waterboarding his 4-year-old daughter because she refused to ...
  21 hours ago

• U.S. Sen. Grassley Q & A: Transparency in the federal government

  
  Coralville Courier — Authority: 489
  Q: Why is transparency in the federal government so important? A: I’ve worked for years to make the federal government a more accessible and transparent operation. The public’s business ought to be public. So, I had high hopes when President Obama pledged to make his administration more transparent than any ...
  1 day ago

• Slates Kaplan: Tea Parties Dont Amount to Much; Blasts GOP, Palin

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 804
  On Monday’s Rick’s List program on CNN, Slate’s Fred Kaplan attacked Republicans for politicizing national security, accused the GOP of being in an alternate reality, and blasted Sarah Palin for “talking...complete and utter nonsense.” Kaplan also wrote off the tea parties as not a “mass movement,” and, ...
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• White House Repeats Pentagon Lies About Guantanamo “Recidivists”

  
  The Public Record — Authority: 138
  Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security John Brennan. Photo/Pete Souza What is to be done about the idiocy that has spread, like a poisonous but imperceptible gas, from the Pentagon to Congress, and is now wafting through the White House, deranging all it touches? As it travels, this dismal infection ...
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• White House Repeats Pentagon Lies About Guantánamo “Recidivists”

  
  Andy Worthington — Authority: 569
  What is to be done about the idiocy that has spread, like a poisonous but imperceptible gas, from the Pentagon to Congress, and is now wafting through the White House, deranging all it touches? As it travels, this dismal infection transforms statistical impossibilities into magic numbers, which appear, to the ...
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• ‘When Guantanamo walked in the door, Rahm walked out’

  
  War in Context — Authority: 547
  In her New Yorker piece on Attorney General Eric Holder and the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial, Jane Mayer describes White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel’s role in blocking the investigation of torture by the CIA:Emanuel viewed many of the legal problems that [Greg] Craig [Obama’s first White House counsel] and ...
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• Clarke Speaks Out Against "The Party Out of Power"

  
  And So it Goes in Shreveport — Authority: 616
  Richard Clarke, former counter-terrorism adviser for Clinton and G.W. Bush, calls in the New York Daily News for "the party out of power" to back off the criticism of Obamas national security policies. Clarke lists several bones of contention in support of Obamas program. His first point is that it was Bush who ...
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• Andy Worthington Discusses Bagram and Guantánamo with Jeff Farias

  
  Andy Worthington — Authority: 569
  Last week, I was delighted to be invited by Jeff Farias to take part in his radio show, just a week after my previous visit . The show is available here (it starts just over two hours in), and Jeff wanted to talk in particular about my article on the recent appeal in the Military Commissions, in the cases of Salim ...
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• No rights for terrorists

  
  A Step At A Time — Authority: 420
  A senior official at Amnesty International, Gita Sahgal, has gone public and has openly accused the human rights organization of collaborating with terrorist suspects. In the Sunday Times, Richard Kerbaj writes that Sahgal has taken this step because she feels that Amnesty has ignored warnings about the involvement ...
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• Civil Libertarians Reject Obama’s Guantanamo Closure Plan

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 161
  By SPENCER ACKERMAN The Washington Independent If there was any doubt that Republicans in Congress will oppose this year’s push from President Obama to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s ( R-KY ) speech Wednesday to the Heritage Foundation ought to have laid it ...
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• US soldier gives four-year-old daughter waterboarding over alphabet

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 960
  A soldier subjected his four-year-old daughter to waterboard-style torture when she failed to recite her alphabet, it has been claimed.
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• Illinois Senate race: Giannoulias still silent about banking woes

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 535
  This is rich. The same man who was the first politician to call for a special election to fill the US Senate seat eventually filled by Rod Blagojevich appointee Roland Burris is the campaign chair for the Democratic nominee for that same position, Alexi Giannoulis. As soon as Durbin figured out a Republican, such as ...
  2 days ago

• U.S. soldier waterboarded his own daughter, 4, because she couldnt recite alphabet

  
  BeltwayBlips - Top Political News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 557
  Joshua Tabor admitted that he submerged her face - upwards - three or four times until the water was lapping around her forehead and jawline. Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News found this 2 hours ago on dailymail.co.uk Find more top political news, videos, and blogs on BeltwayBlips: World , CIA , ...
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