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FBI Watch List Includes 400,000 People

Washington Post | Walter Pincus | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

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During a 12-month period ended in March this year, for example, the U.S. intelligence community suggested on a daily basis that 1,600 people qualified...

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Sen. Ted Kennedy: A Loss for the Nation Should Not Mean a Loss for Democracy

Rob Richie | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

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Rob Richie

As the nation honors Sen. Kennedy, I trust his former advisers will drop this effort to revise Massachusetts law in pursuit of short-term partisan advantage.

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Feingold To Oppose Afghan War Troop Increase

Washington Independent | Posted 09.05.2009 | World

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If Gen. Stanley McChrystal proposes, as expected, an increase in U.S. troops for the Afghanistan war, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) is "likely to oppose...

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Obama's Radical Gitmo Plan

Ari Melber | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

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Ari Melber

Obama's controversial detention plan for Guantanamo detainees keeps leaking and it is a fundamentally radical, dangerous and potentially unconstitutional approach.

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Sam Stein

Feingold Rebukes Obama For Detainee Photo Reversal

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

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Senator Russ Feingold became one of the first elected officials to criticize Barack Obama for his reversal on releasing of detainee abuse in a stateme...

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Sam Stein

Feingold Sought Bybee's Torture Memo Back In '03, Suggests Impeachment Now

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics

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Criticism of Judge Jay Bybee and calls for his impeachment continue to grow, with two leading progressives airing serious concerns about the infamous ...

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Feingold Slams Obama For Extraordinary Rendition Decision

The Plum Line | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

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Senator Russ Feingold is sharply criticizing the Obama administration over its controversial decision to maintain the Bush administration's position i...

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Friday Talking Points [55] -- "Bretton Woods II"? Not Quite.

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

I have to begin here today by stomping all over a cutesy term the media has come up with for the upcoming economic "summit" George W. Bush is holding ...

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Friday Talking Points [48] -- Throwing Out The Rulebook

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Back in Volume 36 of this Friday Talking Points column, I pointed out what seemed to me to be an obvious observation -- that the media was going a lot...

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Dodd And Feingold Will Filibuster Telecom Immunity

Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

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Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Russ Feingold (D-WI) released the following statement today in response to the announcement that the Senate this week w...

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