Cheney Has His Facts Wrong?

White House: Cheney has his facts wrong
Raw Story
By David Edwards and Stephen Webster
Published: August 31, 2009 Updated 6 hours ago
The Obama White House is pushing back against former Vice President Dick Cheney’s allegation that a probe of unsanctioned CIA torture of terror war prisoners is politically motivated.
“This is the same song and dance we’ve heard [...]

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Evening Jukebox- In The Air Tonight

Phil Collins- In The Air Tonight (LIVE)

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Jack Straw admits cave-in over Libyan Lockerbie bomber demands

Jack Straw has admitted the Government caved in to Libyan demands that the Lockerbie bomber be included in a prisoner transfer deal with Britain.
Telegraph.co.uk | By Simon Johnson, Scottish Political Editor
Published: 5:10PM BST 30 Aug 2009
The Justice Secretary said he originally wanted Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi omitted from the agreement, but relented and agreed [...]

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Investigate Top Officials, not Just CIA Interrogators

Doug Bandow, The Huffington Post, Aug 24, 2009
Buzz up!
Attorney General Eric Holder is appointing a special prosecutor to review CIA interrogations of terrorist suspects. However, the investigation shouldn’t stop at the agency. No one should be above the law, especially top policymakers.
Investigating Bush administration policies and officials is bound to be controversial. President George W. [...]

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Netanyahu’s peace is a cynical evasion

Editorial
Financial Times/UK, August 25 2009

When Barack Obama told Israel that “part of being a good friend is being honest”, the country’s political elites got an inkling that decades of double-talk on the conflict with the Palestinians were over. In his June 4 speech at Cairo University he spelled it out: “Just as Israel’s right to [...]

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Senator Kennedy Lived On- To Care & To Serve

What the Kennedy Who Lived on Had to Offer
Huffington Post    By- Alec Baldwin
Posted: August 28, 2009 10:29 AM
How unusual to mark the death of a Kennedy man in old age and from ordinary circumstances like illness. No tragic accidents. No political homicides. No footage to watch, obsessively, for decades to come, wondering what brought that [...]

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Evening Jukebox- Mr. Boombastic

Shaggy- Mr. Boombastic

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The Afghanistan Gap: Press vs. Public

by Norman Solomon | CommonDreams.org, Aug 28, 2009

This month, a lot of media stories have compared President Johnson’s war in Vietnam and President Obama’s war in Afghanistan. The comparisons are often valid, but a key parallel rarely gets mentioned — the media’s insistent support for the war even after most of the public has turned [...]

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American public: We don’t want to rule the world

The US public largely opposes America’s foreign wars and economic meddling. They need a voice in US foreign policy

Mark Weisbrot | The Guradian/UK, Aug 27, 2009
Americans are famous for not paying much attention to the rest of the world, and it is often said that foreign wars are the way that we learn geography. But [...]

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Abuse Issue Puts the Justice Dept. and C.I.A. at Odds

By PETER BAKER, DAVID JOHNSTON and MARK MAZZETTI
Published: August 27, 2009
WASHINGTON — With the appointment of a prosecutor to investigate detainee abuses, long-simmering conflicts between the Central Intelligence Agency and the Justice Department burst into plain view this week, threatening relations between two critical players on President Obama’s national security team.
The tension between the agencies [...]

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Jaycee Lee Dugard: alleged kidnapper launches bizarre defence

Telegraph.co.uk
The man who allegedly abducted American schoolgirl Jaycee Lee Dugard almost two decades ago has admitted that he did a “disgusting thing” but went on to defend himself, saying the public would be surprised by the “heart-warming story”.
By Alex Spillius in Washington
Published: 8:15AM BST 28 Aug 2009
Convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido, 58, is being held [...]

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Naming Healthcare After Senator Kennedy

If they’re going to name the final healthcare reform bill after Senator Kennedy, we ought to be demanding with voices as powerful and booming as the late senator’s…
The bill must not suck.
But if it does, perhaps they should name it after Max Baucus and Chuck Grassley. The Blame Baucus and Grassley for This Sucky Act. [...]

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Waxman Gears Up for Health Care Showdown

If you’re a reporter looking for a hot quote, Waxman’s the wrong man to see. Anyone watching his “Daily Show” appearance with Jon Stewart could tell you that. Waxman is all policy, determined to explain everything in detail. But he’s smart, tough and knows how to get results. He showed that last year when he [...]

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Senator Edward “Teddy” Kennedy – “The Dream shall never Die”

This is Ted Kennedy’s presidential concession speech to Jimmy Carter in 1980 on the floor of the Democratic Convention. It is widely recognized as the last of the famous Camelot speeches by the Kennedy’s.

This is just an excerpt. To hear the entire oration, and to see his appearance at the 2008 [...]

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Edward Kennedy, Senate Stalwart, Dies

August 27, 2009
By JOHN M. BRODER
Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, a son of one of the most storied families in American politics, a man who knew triumph and tragedy in near-equal measure and who will be remembered as one of the most effective lawmakers in the history of the Senate, died late Tuesday night. [...]

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