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What Would Kennedy Do?

By | 08.26.09 | 12:13 pm

Former George W. Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen today commends the Bush administration’s “well-run, highly disciplined CIA interrogation program, where clear guidelines were established and abuses or deviations from approved techniques were stopped, reported and addressed.”

I guess Thiessen didn’t read the same CIA inspector general report More…

Hatch Reveals Republican Angle on Sotomayor Hearing

By | 07.13.09 | 10:53 am

Senator Orrin Hatch just tipped us off as to how Republicans intend to fight the Sotomayor nomination:  As a Supreme Court justice, he warned, she’d be in a very different position than on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Rather than simply follow precedent, as is the role of an More…

Reports: Obama to Name Sotomayor as Supreme Court Nominee

By | 05.26.09 | 8:54 am

The Associated Press, NBC News and The Washington Post are reporting that President Obama will announce this morning that federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor is his choice to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter. If confirmed, Sotomayor will be the first Hispanic high court justice More…

The Right Idea on Justice — Mostly

By | 02.24.09 | 10:35 pm

He says all the right things, doesn’t he?  Here’s President Obama from tonight’s speech, on American values, justice and torture:

To overcome extremism, we must also be vigilant in upholding the values our troops defend – because there is no force in the world more powerful than the example of

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What to Look For As the Obama Detention/Interrogation Review Process Proceeds

By | 01.23.09 | 10:50 am

I think the Obama administration is not likely to cede that authority back to the Congress.

Dick Cheney, Dec. 15, 2008

What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them.

Barack Obama, Jan. 20, 2009

I was talking with a More…

Wait, I Thought He Couldn’t Remember Anything?

By | 01.01.09 | 10:41 am

The Wall Street Journal plays “Where are they now?” with former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales:

WASHINGTON — Alberto Gonzales, who has kept a low profile since resigning as attorney general nearly 16 months ago, said he is writing a book to set the record straight about his controversial tenure as

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