February 24, 2010
February 23, 2010
"Andrew Kreig on Bernie Kerik and Don Siegelman: What They Have in Common and Why We Should Care"
By Joan Brunwasser, opednews.com, February 22, 2010. This is a must-read. See also Andrew Kreig's Justice Integrity Project.
February 22, 2010
Glenn Greenwald re Obama health care plan
Glenn Greenwald, New York Times "Room for Debate," February 22, 2010:
President Obama, in introducing his own health care proposal, exposed a transparent, year-long sham. White House loyalists insisted for months that the president genuinely supported a public option, but they told progressives that there could be no public option in the final bill even though more than 50 Democratic Senators supported it and even though the public option consistently polled as being very popular with Americans.
Why not? Because, they argued, the public option lacked the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster, and there was simply nothing the White House could do to change that.
But the plan President Obama unveiled does not include a public option. If he were truly in favor of it, why would he exclude it from his own plan? . . .
February 10, 2010
February 09, 2010
Jane Mayer re "The Trial"
Jane Mayer, author of the February 15 New Yorker article "The Trial: Eric Holder and the Battle over Khalid Sheikh Mohammed," is interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air, February 9, 2010.
Amnesty International and Cageprisoners
Sunday Times, February 7, 2010: "Amnesty International is ‘damaged’ by Taliban link: An official at the human rights charity deplores its work with a ‘jihadist.’"
Amnesty's response.
Cageprisoners' response.
BBC World Service Newshour discussion, February 9, 2010.
Amnesty's response.
Cageprisoners' response.
BBC World Service Newshour discussion, February 9, 2010.
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