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Bush was eating soufflé when he learned of bin Laden death, told hedge-funders he was ‘not overjoyed’

By | 05.13.11 | 12:01 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

George W. Bush has been mostly mum on the death of Osama bin Laden, but he talked openly about getting the news from President Obama with hedge fund managers conferencing at the swank Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas this week. He was eating soufflé at Rise Restaurant when the president More…

Torture Boosts Terrorism, or the Power of Playing Nice

By | 05.11.09 | 9:01 am

This probably won’t come as a huge surprise to most readers, but since it still might to former Vice President Dick Cheney or former National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, both of who’ve been going around asserting that the Bush administration’s torture and abuse tactics as have More…

Actually, Condi, When the President Breaks the Law, It’s Still Illegal

By | 05.01.09 | 1:23 pm

Former National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s statement to a bunch of Stanford students Monday that “by definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Conventions Against Torture” — much repeated, analyzed and More…