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Throughout the Bush administration, Bush officials — including the president, as you can see here – consistently said that “this government does not torture people.” The Bush administration also promised that it doesn’t send prisoners to be tortured elsewhere.
The Obama administration is now saying the same thing.
Today, it assured reporters in a background briefing with [...]

Marcy Wheeler made a great point on Friday that’s worth following up on. President Obama’s declaration to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention Against Torture tosses the responsibility for developing “effective policies and programs for stopping torture” to the State Department, asking it to “solicit information from all of our diplomatic missions [...]

I guess I see what Washington Times mainstay Wes Pruden is trying to say here, but there could be a less Cecil Rhodes-ian way of expressing it.
Mr. Obama’s revelation of his “inner Muslim” in Cairo reveals much about who he is. He is our first president without an instinctive appreciation of the culture, history, tradition, [...]

Kerry Picket of The Washington Times trekked to Baltimore to hear former Weatherman Bill Ayers speak yesterday and sparked an exchange that the paper is teasing on its op-ed page with a lot of huffing about Ayers’s terrorist past (”His radicalism and chosen profession bring to mind Oscar Wilde’s quip that, ‘Everybody who is incapable [...]

On April 28, I called The Washington Times editorial “Barack’s in the Basement” the worst such column of the day, citing the wrong Gallup Poll number to make the argument that President Obama was in the weakest position after the Hundred Day of any president since Eisenhower. Today,  The Times retracted the editorial.
We used figures [...]

It’s got to be “Barack’s in the basement” from The Washington Times, which argues that “at the 100-day mark of his presidency, Mr. Obama is the second-least-popular president in 40 years.”
The only new president less popular was Bill Clinton, who got off to a notoriously bad start after trying to force homosexuals on the military [...]

This story that ran Sunday in The Los Angeles Times, “Obama Preserves Rendition as Counter-Terrorism Tool”, has caused quite a stir.  Swirling ’round the blogosphere, it’s got all sorts of people in a tizzy that President Obama isn’t really ending torture and the Bush administration policy of “extraordinary rendition” of suspected terrorists to torturing countries.
But [...]

Via Ezra Klein, today the Washington Times gives us a gift-wrapped present for the holidays: