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Edward Murray | Posted 11.10.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Birthers, Liberal Media, Rush Limbaugh, Liberals, Bloggers, George W. Bush, 9/11, Obama, Conservative, Michelle Malkin, Obama Speech, Bush Administration, Tax Cuts, Evolution, Iraq, Health Care, 9/11 Truthers, Comedy News
Edward Murray

Average Conservative Blogger responds to readers' questions.

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No Escape From Guantanamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

Rulings made by District Court judges in the habeas corpus appeals of prisoners held at Guantánamo seemed to confirm that the courts were uniquely placed to deliver justice to the prisoners.

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Eight Weeks of America's War, Not Eight Years of "Obama's War"

Jonathan Morgenstein | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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Jonathan Morgenstein

The Obama administration is trying to salvage the situation in Afghanistan after the Bush Administration lost the war over eight years.

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The Bush Administration -- a Casablanca Ending (a Short Script)

Ben Berkon | Posted 11.09.2009 | Comedy

Read More: George Bush, Barak Obama, John McCain, Casablanca, Laura Bush, Bush Administration, Hillary Clinton, Script, Comedy, Dick Cheney, Comedy News
Ben Berkon

GEORGE:But ever since we separated at that state carnival last year, I said I would never leave you. DICK:And you never will. But I've got a job to do. Where I'm going you can't follow.

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Obama to Join the Republican Party?

Dave Astor | Posted 11.09.2009 | Comedy

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Dave Astor

Barack Obama has tried to make the GOP happy. He appointed Republicans to high posts, expanded the U.S. presence in Afghanistan and never pushed for a single-payer health plan

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Bush White House Sought To Soften Treaty On 'Enforced Disappearances'

Washington Post | R. Jeffrey Smith | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Human Rights, Bush, Foreign Prisons, Cia, CIA Secret Prisons, George Bush, Bush White House, Secret Prisons, Torture, Rendition, Politics News

From 2003 to 2006, the Bush administration quietly tried to relax the draft language of a treaty meant to bar and punish "enforced disappearances" so ...

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Bush Admin Tried To Shield Those Running Secret CIA Prisons From Prosecution By Softening Treaty

Washington Post | R. Jeffrey Smith | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Prisons, Bush Administration, Cia, Secret CIA Prisons, Politics News

From 2003 to 2006, the Bush administration quietly tried to relax the draft language of a treaty meant to bar and punish "enforced disappearances" so ...

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Ryan Grim

Alberto Gonzales Flip Flops On Torture Investigation

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Alberto Gonzales, Torture Investigation, Eric Holder, Torture, Politics News

Former attorney general Alberto Gonzales became the second Bush-era official in a week to walk back a controversial remark on Thursday, reversing his ...

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Gonzales Backtracks On Support For CIA Torture Investigation

Washington Times | Ben Conery | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Torture, Department of Justice, Bush Administration, Terror Suspects, Alberto Gonzales, CIA Investigation, Politics News

Former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said Thursday that his previous assertion that it was "legitimate to question and examine" charges of CIA ...

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Bush Damage To DOJ's Civil Rights Division Will Take Years To Fix

The Daily Beast | Benjamin Sarlin | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fema, CIA Scandal, Bush Administration, Department of Justice, Bradley Schlozman, Eric Holder, Civil Rights, Investigation, Politics News

Attorney General Eric Holder committed this week to repairing the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, one of the most scandal-plagued institut...

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Labor Department Tries To Roll Back Last-Minute Bush Rules

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: H-2a, Farm Workers, Bush Administration, Foreign Workers, Labor Department, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Labor Department is trying again to roll back Bush administration regulations that made it easier for farmers to hire temporary...

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Broder Sees Too Many Consequences To CIA Accountability

Washington Post | David S. Broder | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Bush Administration, CIA Interrogations, Richard Nixon, Obama Administration, CIA Torture, Eugene Robinson, Accountability, John Durham, Eric Holder, Dick Cheney, Politics News

My friend and fellow columnist Eugene Robinson has written a characteristically passionate and well-reasoned piece commending Attorney General Eric Ho...

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NYT Breaks Down Cheney's Twisted Version Of History

New York Times | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Cia Inspector General Report, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, CIA Torture, Detainee Abuse, Fox News, Obama Administration, Alberto Gonzales, Eric Holder, Dick Cheney, Politics News

After the C.I.A. inspector general's report on prisoner interrogation was released last week, former Vice President Dick Cheney settled into his usual...

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DNC: Cheney "Wrong" Then, "Wrong" Now On CIA Torture (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dnc, Bush Administration, President Obama, CIA Torture, Political Ads, Terror Suspects, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Controversy surrounding interrogation techniques used by the CIA on terror suspects under the Bush administration has been astir since President Obama...

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Sound and Fury: The Cheney Show

Rick Horowitz | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chris Wallace, Bush Administration, Liz Cheney, George Stephanapoulos, Bush Administration and Torture, Fox News, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Cheney and Torture, Richard Cheney, Eric Holder, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Rick Horowitz

If I were Dick Cheney I'd probably be doing exactly what Dick Cheney is doing. It beats going to prison.

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American Diplomats Advocated "Nuremberg Defense"

Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Bush Administration Nuremberg Defense, Nuremberg Defense, Politics News

By Scott Horton Special to the Huffington Post Two newly-obtained documents show how American diplomats during the Bush administration worked tenaci...

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Whitehouse Calls For Wider Criminal Probe Of Torture

Washington Independent | Daphne Eviatar | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Bush Administration, Waterboarding, Sheldon Whitehouse, Cia, Eric Holder, Politics News

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), the former U.S. Attorney who's been pointing out for more than a year that waterboarding is and always has been tort...

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Ridge: Waterboarding Was "Wrong"; America Shouldn't Have Done It

The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Enhanced Interrogations, Bush Administration, Waterboarding, Tom Ridge, Eric Holder, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Looks like Tom Ridge has joined the ranks of terrorist-sympathizers. In a throwaway comment in this interview with ABC News earlier today, the former...

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Ridge Backpedals, Says There Was No Pressure To Raise Terror Alerts

AP/Huffington Post | Mimi Hall | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Terror Alert Levels, Bush Administration, Tom Ridge, Tom Ridge Book, Terror Alerts, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Monday people "are hyperventilating" about his assertion that politics played a r...

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Torture Rules: How Much Pain and Suffering Works for You?

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Torture, Michael Wolff, Bush Administration Torture, Bush Administration, Torture, Politics News
Michael Wolff

So what is our policy on torture? What's allowed?

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Tighter oversight on border laptop searches

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Customs, Civil Liberties, Bush Administration, Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, Travel, Obama Administration, Laptop Searches, U.S. Border, Canadian Border, Mexican Border, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Thursday put new restrictions on searches of laptops at U.S. borders to address concerns that federal a...

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Fix the Field Manual

Stephen Rickard | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, CIA Interrogation Tapes, Bush Administration, Cia, Obama Administration, Enhanced Interrogations, Waterboarding, Torture, Politics News
Stephen Rickard

President Obama and the Interrogation Task Force deserve high praise for making a decisive break with Bush Administration practices, but some forms of torture remain on the books.

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Report Reveals Cheney Misled About "Trained Interrogators"

Rawstory.com | Daniel Tencer | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, CIA Interrogations, Cia, GuantáNamo Bay, Obama Administration, Cia Report, Dick Cheney and Torture, Torture, Politics News

Since Monday, when the CIA released a significant part of those documents -- a 2004 CIA inspector general's report on torture practices -- there has b...

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Freed Academic Haleh Esfandiari: 'Iranians Want Evolution, Not Revolution'

Diane Tucker | Posted 10.01.2009 | World

Read More: Evin Prison, Kennebunkport, Harsh Interrogations, Iran Election, One Million Signatures Campaign, Iran Regime Change, Iran, Iran Liveblogging, Diane Tucker, Mental Stress, Green Wave, The Inner Life, Voting Problems, Haleh Esfandiari, Civil Rights, Stress, Green Movement, Iran Post Election Crisis, Women’s Rights, Kian Tajbakhsh, Press Freedom, Mixed Marriage, Women’s Books, Voting, Fear Watch, Tehron Mass Trial, Twitter, Hijab, Iran Solitary Confinement, Middle East Politics, European Union, Georgia, Color Revolution, Obama Mideast Trip, Velvet Revolution, Islamic Veil, Iran Protest Movement, Ukraine, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Nico Pitney Iran Liveblogging, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Haleh Esfandiari Solitary Confinement, Bush Administration, My Prison My Home, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Iran Family Protection Law, Islamic Revolution, Democracy Promotion, Diane Tucker Iran Blogs, Iranian Women’s Rights, Voter’s Rights, Woodrow Wilson Center, Iran's Cultural Prison, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, World News
Diane Tucker

Every two or three years, there has been a wave of protests like this in Iran. But this time I think there has been a fundamental change.

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What's the Big Deal?

Jane Smiley | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: War Crimes, Bush Administration, Guantanamo Torture, Guantanamo, Gitmo Torture, Bush Torture, Cia Memos, Gitmo, Dick Cheney, Republicans, Torture, Jane Smiley, Politics News
Jane Smiley

Make no mistake, if we as a nation sweep the Bush crimes, committed both here and abroad, under the rug because we're too lazy or afraid or "poor" to investigate, our criminals will be back with bigger plans.

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