It’s a small gesture, but during a press briefing yesterday on coordinating NATO civilian-military planning with Afghan efforts, Amb. Richard Holbrooke, the administration’s special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, made sure to single out the country’s increasingly volatile president for conspicuous praise:
After being repudiated by pillars of the GOP legal establishment over a video that calls Justice Department lawyers who represented Guantanamo detainees “the al-Qaeda Seven,” you might think Liz Cheney’s group Keep America Safe would back away from its gutter McCarthyism. But then you don’t know Liz.
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When a lawyer who finds a legal avenue for shoving someone into a “confinement box” with an insect that person might believe is poisonous thinks you’ve crossed a line — wow. The New York Times:
John C. Yoo, the former Justice official whose memorandums on torture and presidential
My story this morning found the outrage over Keep America Safe’s “al-Qaeda 7″ ad petering out, with one reason being a general disinterest from politicians who could feed the story. But Josh Rogin got Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on the record about the ad, and the pivotal GOP More…
Dave may be correct that the conservative rebuke to Keep America Safe has possibly peaked — conservatives, after all, don’t have an interest in keeping their internal disputes public — but no less a Democratic persecutor than Ken Starr went on ‘Countdown’ last night to admonish the Cheneys for slandering More…
One of the things Charles “Cully” Stimson remembers about the interview that cost him his job is just how run down he was when it happened. His January 11, 2007 sit-down with Federal News Radio, said Stimson, was one of 40 interviews he’d More…
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is trying to convince the White House that the only way to win congressional Republican support for closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay — or at least provide political cover to nervous Democrats — is to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in a military commission. More…
There are two senators who’ve accused Justice Department attorneys who represented Guantanamo detainees of sympathizing with terrorists: Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and, perhaps more disturbingly, Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee who very nearly became a federal judge in the 1980s. Their logic is no More…
The following quote was emailed to me by Matthew Alexander, the pseudonym of a military interrogator and vocal torture opponent who helped track down Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq killed in 2006. A veteran of three wars and the Special Forces community, Alexander claims to More…
Dear Ms. Cheney,
I don’t know if you saw ‘Meet The Press’ this morning, but a general you may have heard of named David Petraeus — he’s the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East and South Asia and is the most distinguished Army general since Colin Powell — More…
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