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GOP Senators Pull Out Of Inquiry Into CIA Program

Washington Post | Peter Finn | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

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Republicans on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said Friday that they will no longer participate in an investigation into the Bush administ...

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CIA Wants DOJ To Investigate Assassinations Leak

Washington Independent | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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The CIA is none too happy about the recent disclosure of apparently inchoate "significant actions" canceled by Director Leon Panetta. After the activi...

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Ryan Grim

Senate Republican Leaders Plan Closed Health Care Forum

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

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Senate Republicans may have found a way to keep public health care meetings at home from getting out of control: keep the public out. On Monday, Sena...

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A Tale of Two Houses: Congress Debates the Peace Corps

Laurence Leamer | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics

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Laurence Leamer

Sen. Leahy detailed how, during the Bush years, the Peace Corps had arrogantly ignored his repeated requests for information. I told him it was a new administration and a new time, but that didn't seem to matter.

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Chris Dodd's Peace Corps: "The Ambitious Sense of the Possible"

Laurence Leamer | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

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Laurence Leamer

Dodd's bill was born not in his office in the Russell Building but in the tiny village of Moncion in the Dominican Republic more than forty years ago.

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Sam Stein

Sen. Kit Bond: Obama Is Building A Banana Republic (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Kit Bond suggested on Thursday that the openness of the Obama administration to merely investigating the possibility of criminal activity during ...

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Republican Senator Admits Torture Helps Al Qaeda Recruitment

The Plum Line | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics

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This is a good one. In the course of attacking Obama's decision to release the torture memos, GOP Senator Kit Bond appears to have admitted that the ...

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Ryan Grim

Red States Gobble Up Omnibus Earmarks

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

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If it's budget time, it's good to be a red state. And it's very good to be Mississippi. According to an analysis by the nonpartisan Taxpayers for Co...

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Are GOP Governors Who Turn Down Stimulus Money Unpatriotic?

Mitchell Bard | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

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Mitchell Bard

Bobby Jindal is playing politics, branding himself and his party in an effort to return to power, all at the expense of the people of his state.

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Democrat Robin Carnahan Will Run For Republican Kit Bond's Senate Seat

CNN | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

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Robin Carnahan, scion of a Missouri political dynasty, announced Tuesday she's running for the seat set to be vacated by longtime Missouri Sen. Kit Bo...

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GOP Senator Kit Bond Won't Run For Re-election

AP | DAVID A. LIEB | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Republican Sen. Kit Bond announced Thursday that he will not seek re-election in 2010, saying he wants to go out "at the t...

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GOP Sen. Bond: Obama Wants Judges Who Empathize With "The Gay"

CBS News | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics

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Taking the stage as one of the pre-program speakers at a Sarah Palin rally here in Rush Limbaugh's hometown, Sen. Kit Bond, R-Missouri, fired up the c...

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Kit Bond Tries To Backpedal From Waterboarding Comments

Crooks and Liars | Nicolle Bell | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Obviously, the Republican leadership has gotten to Sen. Kit Bond with the message: You're. Not. Helping. Our. Cause. by likening waterboarding to swim...

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GOP Senator Says Waterboarding Is "Like Swimming, Freestyle, Backstroke"

Talking Points Memo | David Kurtz | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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GWEN IFILL: I just would like to -- but do you think that waterboarding, as I described it, constitutes torture? SEN. KIT BOND: There are different w...

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GOP Senator Pushes To Expand Wiretap Powers

Associated Press | PAMELA HESS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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Bond, along with Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., sponsored the bill enacted last month. It was largely drawn from an 11-page proposal pushed by the Bush ...

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