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Why Trial Date for African Embassy Bombing Suspect Is Good News
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.
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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.
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I wasn't aware dermatologists will father your children and I'm even less familiar with what services a spiritual advisor provides.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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