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Is Dick Cheney Promising to Obstruct Justice?

By | 08.31.09 | 9:50 am

One more thing from the former  vice president’s Fox interview yesterday. Discussing John Durham’s torture probe:

WALLACE: If the prosecutor asks to speak to you, will you speak to him?

CHENEY: It will depend on the circumstances and what I think their activities are really involved in. I’ve been

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At the Foreign Policy Initiative

By | 03.31.09 | 8:50 am

I’m at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington for “Afghanistan: Planning for Success,” the first conference put on by the Foreign Policy Initiative, the new neoconservative think tank/messaging operation. Before the first panel kicked off, FPI directors Bill Kristol, Dan Senor and Robert Kagan milled around in the hall, near More…

No Last-Minute Pardons For Torture

By | 01.19.09 | 10:33 pm

Contrary to the expectations of many of us who’ve been speculating about this for months, it’s looking like President George W. Bush may well leave office without issuing pardons to any of the myriad high officials in his administration — or the low-level operatives who took their orders — More…