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Whatever Happened to That New Justice Department Policy on ‘State Secrets’?

By | 08.11.09 | 8:58 am

After my post yesterday updating the status of the Obama administration’s ongoing efforts to conceal evidence that British resident and former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Binyam Mohamed was tortured, Ed Brayton, a fellow with the Center for Independent Media and author of the blog Dispatches from the More…

Mayor Palin: ‘Under God’ Stays

By | 09.05.08 | 7:02 pm

ANCHORAGE — We’re still going through documents from the time Sarah Palin served as mayor of her hometown, Wasilla, that I picked up from the clerk’s office on Tuesday. We’ve got about seven years worth of city council meeting minutes, agendas, resolutions and other related local government paperwork in all. More…