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A Photographic Tour of Guantanamo Bay

By | 04.27.10 | 4:21 pm

Over four months after President Obama missed his self-imposed deadline to shutter the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, approximately 180 detainees remain behind the wire and within the walls of the seven camps that comprise Camp Delta. All have been there for years on end: The most recent detainee arrived More…

Scenes From the Code Red Rally

By | 03.21.10 | 12:19 pm

I was on the scene at the Code Red rally against the health care reform bill, but I did not witness the events getting the most attention today — the reported racial and sexual slurs lobbed at some black members of Congress and Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.). Instead, I took More…

Scenes From CPAC 2010, Round One

By | 02.18.10 | 5:17 pm

After the jump, a slideshow of photos from the first day of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.

Scenes From the National Tea Party Convention

By | 02.06.10 | 8:25 pm

NASHVILLE — Below are some photos I took at the National Tea Party Convention, featuring Tea Party merchandise, Palin 2012 signs and a few of the attendees.

Photos From the ‘Code Red’ Rally

By | 12.15.09 | 5:17 pm

Here are more photos (see round one here) from the “Code Red” rally against health care reform that shook the upper Senate Park this afternoon.

Photos: Iranian Dissidents Document Election Brutality

By | 09.21.09 | 3:59 pm

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WARNING: Photos in the slideshow below depict graphic violence.

As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prepares to speak to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, a trove of photographs — most of which have never before been published — documenting the summer’s uprising against the disputed election has More…

Secret Player Behind Obama’s Torture-Photos Reversal: Iraqi PM

By | 06.02.09 | 9:07 am

Strange as it sounds, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was a strong proponent of President Obama’s decision to reverse course and argue in court that photographs depicting torture of Iraqis by U.S. troops ought to be kept private, according to McClatchy’s Nancy Youssef:

The official said Maliki warned that

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Dick Cheney’s Faint Praise

By | 05.21.09 | 11:10 am

From the man who wants President Obama to succeed:

When President Obama makes wise decisions, as I believe he has done in some respects on Afghanistan, and in reversing his plan to release incendiary photos, he deserves our support.

One of those decisions was a campaign promise, and the other More…

Lieberman and Graham Urge Obama to Keep Hiding Detainee Abuse Photos

By | 05.07.09 | 3:11 pm

Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) wrote to President Obama yesterday urging him to block the impending release of photographs showing detainees abused by U.S. military personnel, reports Secrecy News, the blog of the Federation of American Scientists.

The photos are supposed to be released on May More…

Scenes from the DC Tea Party: Round One

By | 04.15.09 | 12:39 pm

img_24341The Washington, D.C. tea party is underway! Several hundred intrepid protesters turned out in the rain to voice their opposition to taxes, bailouts, the Obama administration, the Federal Reserve and a slew of other political issues. TWI’s Dave Weigel will have full coverage of the event later this afternoon, More…