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Obama Restores Power To Intelligence Oversight Board

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama Thursday restored an independent intelligence advisory agency's authority to tell the attorney general if it...

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Lobbyists Fight Back: Accuse Obama Of Demonization, Suggest Lawsuit In The Offing

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics

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A strange bedfellows coalition of non-governmental organizations is pushing back hard against one of the Obama administration's most stringent ethics ...

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Obama To Overturn Ban On Federal Funding For Stem Cell Research

AP | BEN FELLER and LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Reversing an eight-year-old limit on potentially life-saving science, President Barack Obama plans to lift restrictions Monday on t...

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Behind The Scenes: Obama Worked For Over A Year On Ending Torture

New Yorker | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

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On Thursday, President Barack Obama consigned to history the worst excesses of the Bush Administration's "war on terror." One of the four executive or...

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Obama's Decisive Break with Bush's "War on Terror" Policies

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.23.2009 | World

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Obama's new Orders are a bold start, but more detail is required, dangerous loopholes must be shut off permanently, and other parts of the Bush administration's dark legacy need to be swiftly addressed.

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Obama Official: Closing Gitmo Won't Be Easy

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

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At a briefing with a senior White House official on the topic of closing of Guantanamo Bay, one gets the sense that the process will be far more compl...

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Obama's Guantánamo Mistake: He's Not Closing Gitmo the Right Way

Brandt Goldstein | Posted 02.22.2009 | World

Obama has issued an executive order to shut down the prison. That alone is not enough. An executive order can be changed -- easily.

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Gone-tanamo Bay: the Right Decision

Rep. John Murtha | Posted 02.22.2009 | World

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The problem with Guantanamo was never about its bricks and mortar. The problem with Guantanamo is that its very existence stains and defies the moral fiber of our great nation.

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Obama Signs Executive Order To Close Guantanamo Bay

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

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The Obama administration called on Thursday for the closure of Guantanamo Bay within the next year. The move will be greeted with widespread approval ...

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