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Zelikow Memo is Further Evidence of Criminal Culpability

By | 04.24.09 | 10:54 am

While much of the mainstream media — Charlie Savage at The New York Times and John MacKinnon at The Wall Street Journal, among others — were reporting yesterday on how it would be virtually impossible to prove that the Bush administration’s lawyers’ approval of torture amounted to a More…

The Washington Post Wakes Up to Civil Liberties

By | 03.25.09 | 12:41 pm

Carrie Johnson in The Washington Post today picks up on a problem we’ve been writing about at TWI for months now: when it comes to information about crimes committed by the previous administration, President Obama isn’t following through on his big commitments to “open government.”

“Civil liberties advocates are More…