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Newly-released OLC Memos Support Critics’ Claims

By | 01.09.09 | 11:52 am

The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel today released another slew of previously-classified legal memos, setting forth the department’s justifications for everything from the legality of the use of military commissions to try suspected terrorists to the authority of the president to use force against Iraq to the status of More…

Israeli Generals for Obama

By | 10.02.08 | 11:30 am

Admittedly not as sexy as Sarah Silverman, but Shaul Arieli and his brothers in arms are similarly aiming their big emotional guns at the state of Florida.

Note how Arieli says, bluntly, the Bush Doctrine damaged Israeli security.