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Inquiry sought into disappearance of e-mails in interrogations case

added on 2010-03-02 23:01:21 (Washington Post - Politics)

Senior Democratic lawmakers and watchdog groups demanded Friday that the Justice Department investigate the disappearance of e-mail messages written by Bush administration lawyers who drafted memos blessing harsh interrogation tactics, saying their absence cast doubt on an ethics report that cleared the lawyers of professional misconduct. ...more.

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Yes, My Dear, Actions Do Have Consequences

added on 2010-02-27 11:31:50 (Pravda.Ru: Russian news and analysis)

As previously in the Bush Regime, so too now in the Obama regime, the masters of the universe are learning that their actions do have consequences. This week news came that the Germans, led by Merkel, are demanding the instant removal of American nuclear weapons from their soil. Germany, after numerous betrayals and back stabs, has had enough ...more.

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Inquiry sought into disappearance of e-mails in interrogations case

added on 2010-02-27 06:31:20 (Washington Post - Politics)

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Nigeria protest arrests condemned

added on 2010-02-22 15:01:06 (BBC News | World | UK Edition)

A rights activist criticises his arrest during a protest against the visit of Tony Blair and George W Bush to Nigeria. ...more.

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Justice Department decision on terror memos sparks legal debate

added on 2010-02-21 09:31:14 (Washington Post - Politics)

A Justice Department decision to reject sanctions against Bush-era lawyers who approved harsh treatment of terrorism suspects provoked a heated exchange among legal experts Saturday over whether the lawyers' actions had constituted unethical conduct or violated professional standards. ...more.

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Report clears Bush lawyers for memos

added on 2010-02-20 03:30:39 (CNN - Top Stories)

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Authors of waterboarding memos won't be disciplined

added on 2010-02-20 07:31:13 (Washington Post - Politics)

Bush administration lawyers who wrote memos that paved the way for waterboarding of terrorism suspects and other harsh interrogation tactics "exercised poor judgment" but will not face discipline for their actions, according to long-awaited Justice Department documents released Friday. ...more.

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added on 2010-02-18 09:12:13 (Pravda.Ru: Russian news and analysis)

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are following different trends, as shown in the chart that illustrates this text. George Bush, who initiated the two, had a strong preference for Iraq. It went all wrong. He completed his term of office, leaving both in a water bath, except in speeches. Barack Obama says he will leave Iraq in the next year, but has radicalized in Afghanistan. Neither will that work out, as is already beginning to show with the ostentatious Operation Moshtarak. ...more.

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Obama Insists on Escalating the Arms Race: Romania Bends

added on 2010-02-16 08:38:50 (Pravda.Ru: Russian news and analysis)

Romanian authorities have taken American missile 'interceptors' on their territory, the country's president Traian Basescu, announced 4 days ago. After the Obama administration had given up last September on the controversial missile shield plan the team of his predecessor Bush wanted to install in Czechoslovakia and Poland, behold, the White House revamps the project and has already obtained the acceptance of Romania. ...more.

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U.S. presses E.U. for access to bank transfer data in counterterrorism efforts

added on 2010-02-12 06:01:15 (Washington Post - Politics)

The outcome of the Obama administration's intense lobbying to continue a global terrorist finance tracking program begun under George W. Bush probably will be decided by a hotly contested vote of the European Parliament on Thursday. ...more.

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