Mark Sanford: When Bullsh**ters See Red...
When bullsh**ters see red, their common sense is dead. What is it that Mark Sanford, Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Elliott Spitzer AND Bernie Madoff ha...
When bullsh**ters see red, their common sense is dead. What is it that Mark Sanford, Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Elliott Spitzer AND Bernie Madoff ha...
The government will not use any statements made by the suspect in secret prisons, nor will the evidence "be very different" from that used when his alleged co-conspirators were tried by the federal court in 2001.
I like fireworks as much as anyone, but the whole rah-rah America thing always seemed pretty distasteful when Bush and Cheney were running the show.
This is a fight between some neocons who still want to promote Palin and their discredited geopolitical agenda against some Republican would-be modernizers.
I wasn't aware dermatologists will father your children and I'm even less familiar with what services a spiritual advisor provides.
Our nation continues to undermine international law by sweeping torture under the rug, with serious implications going forward.
This shabby performance is all the more dismaying because abandoning the Bush/Cheney years and all they represent is why Mr. Obama was elected in the first place.
Don't be surprised if the spike in violence that came in advance of Iraqi Day of National Sovereignty continues. And don't be surprised if here at home, the right-wing goes on the attack with its favorite weapon, fear.
Republicans' private embraces are often in complete contradistinction with their own oft-trumpeted, Biblically-mandated "moral" guidelines for the rest of us.
As much as I was fully prepared to be disappointed in the Obama administration, I am surprised by my disappointment. They seem to have other priorities than full civil rights for LGBT people.
In over three years of researching and reporting about the prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, I learned that many of the men were "Mickey Mouse" prisoners, with no connection to terrorism whatsoever.
It is a bit ironic that this august body could unanimously deal with a sex crime but not with massive war crimes against humanity.
Don? This thing on? I'm sure HuffPo hasn't made it into your briefing folders, but here you go: Colin Powell lied. Condi lied. I've said it before. I'll say it again.
Big Coal is writing the talking points for the House GOP that attack the American Clean Energy & Security Act, coming up for a vote as soon as next week.
It's easy to fall into the trap that LeBron James' teammates often do -- we get so used to watching him put up fantastical stats each night, we assume he can do anything. The same is true of Obama.
How to respond to the Ayatollah is a particularly tricky question for Obama, because he has an unusual dual role to play: Inspirational global icon and president of the United States.
While times are tough for most Americans, one group is doing remarkably well. For former members of the Bush administration, the economic outlook remains bright and jobs are seemingly plentiful.
Khalid Saad Mohammed seized from a hospital in Pakistan and sold to the U.S. military. But the authorities in GITMO had never managed to build up a credible case against him.
The Democrats have pretty much gotten it: The Panetta point is that Cheney's not just a fearmonger, but something like a short-seller.
Most decent people cannot conceive that anyone would profit from knowingly harming others. That is the flaw in capitalism. And that is one reason that evil can exist.
Karl Rove never designed anything other than a way to help elect George Bush and Dick Cheney. He should be ashamed to show his face in public but, of course, that's why Fox loves him.
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"Acting Assistant Attorney General David Barron argued that parts of Cheney's interview should be kept secret because they involve confidential deliberations among White House officials. Barron said their disclosure could limit frank and open discussion about matters of national importance in the White House in the future."
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There must be no more secrets kept from the public so our officials will be forced not to violate the law or do questionable acts. If we don't get this then "transparency" is a sham.
One of their own long serving intelligence operative can be treasonously outed, but their conversations regarding important details of that betrayal as paid public servants can be kept secret? Outrageous.
So, 'Barron said their disclosure could limit frank and open discussion about matters of national importance in the White House in the future.' Maybe it should, when those frank and open discussions involve elected public servants who may be caught up in something illegal or treasonous against their own.
What was it they said in defense of their own treasonous searches of electronic communications without warrants? If you're not a terrorist, ex vice president Cheney, then you shouldn't need to keep secrets from us. Conversely, the more secretively you behave, the more we should suspect you of intentionally betraying your country to the terrorists.
I personally think that both Chaney, Bush, Rove and co should be sent to GITMO...they should be forced to live there for many, many years! Obama needs to get off the crapper on this one for sure!
"We cannot justify a government which takes from the people our right to privacy and then assumes for itself a right to total secrecy." Dennis Kucinich, in debate over the Patriot Act
Gotta love Dennis. He's got the guts to tell it like it is. There are too many potitians playing CYA.
I love Dennis. I wanted to vote for him in 2008 for President but he withdrew from the race before California had a chance to vote. What a loss for the country!
And Obama is using the same exact excuse that Bush did to prevent the publishing of Whitehouse visitor, Bush and admin. met with Oil execs and Obama meets with Coal Company execs in "secret. What change?
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