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Calling Out the Torture Enablers at St. Thomas Law School

Coleen Rowley | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

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Coleen Rowley

As details emerged on Monday of CIA interrogators' abuse of prisoners involving mock executions, Law Professor Robert Delahunty quietly resumed teaching fall classes in Minneapolis.

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100 Days: Obama's Office of Legal Counsel Staffed With Prominent Opponents Of Torture

Washington Monthly | Steve Benen | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

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It's encouraging, then, to know who'll be sitting in John Yoo's office for the foreseeable future. A Georgetown source forwards over an email fro...

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Obama Team Faces Major Task In Justice Dept Overhaul

Washington Post | Carrie Johnson | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics

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As a transition team for the Obama administration begins work on a Justice Department overhaul, the key question is where to begin. Political consid...

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

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

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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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