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Gonzales: 'Drawing the line' on torture
The Swampby Mark Silva This just in from Lubbock, Texas, where former U.S. Att'y Gen. Alberto Gonzales poses the perennial question: "Where do you draw the line?'' And allows that anyone who thinks that anyone who operates at the level that......Tags: National Security, Laws, George W. Bush, Texas, Washington (U.S. state)
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GOP Rep. calls escrow deal "shakedown"
The Swampby Mike Memoli The agreement reached between the White House and energy giant BP emerged as an early partisan flashpoint at a Congressional hearing this morning, as a Republican Congressman apologized to the company's CEO for what he called a......Tags: White House, Joe Barton, Texas, Companies and Corporations, Republican Party
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Torture probe 'offends hell out of' Cheney
The Swampby Mark Silva Former Vice President Dick Cheney, whose administration authorized and legally justified interrogation tactics for detainees captured in its "war on terror,'' has this to say about the Obama administration's investigation of interrogations...Tags: National Security, Laws, Prosecution, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Police Investigations
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Obama's Ramadan dinner: Big crowd
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated at 9:40 pm EDT President Barack Obama's White House seder was a small affair for family and friends. Tonight's Ramadan dinner was a big one: Cabinet members -- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Attorney General......Tags: Robert Gates, John Conyers, Jr., PepsiCo Inc., Radian Group Incorporated, Georgetown University
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Richardson evades charge, not questions
The Swampby Mark Silva A federal prosecutor in New Mexico today acknowledged that Gov. Bill Richardson and former aides won't face any charges stemming from the probe of an alleged "pay-to-play'' scheme there - a shadow that had prompted the Democrat......Tags: Executive Branch, Corruption, Prosecution, Regional Authority, Judges
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Interrogations: New tactics, old abuses
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated at 10:55 am Two new developments on the interrogation front: President Barack Obama has approved the establishment of an "elite team of interrogators to question key terrorism suspects'' as part of a strategy to overhaul......Tags: White House, Washington (U.S. state), Prisoners and Detainees, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Police Investigations
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Torture probe: Americans divided
The Swampby Mark Silva Americans are evenly split on the question of ithe Obama administration investigating past interrogation practices of the Bush administration. The excesses of interrogators who had been authorized by the Bush Justice Department to employ...Tags: Social Issues, Dick Cheney, Lawyers, Justice System, Barack Obama
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Obama: 'Somehow, not breaking through'
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated at 11:15 am EDT President Barack Obama, acknowledging trouble in "breaking through'' to the American public with his proposal for a health-care overhaul, made an unprecedented public push today with a series of nationally...Tags: Laws, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Finance, Czech Republic, Michael Steele
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Holder's handle: Stiff upper-lip contest
The Swampby Mark Silva Attorney General Eric Holder. David Axelrod, presidential adviser. And, this year, for the first time, a woman: Finalists for the American Mustache Institute's "Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year" award, bestowed each year...Tags: White House, U.S. Airways, Air Transportation, Air Transportation Industry, Chesley B. Sullenberger III
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Chicago violence (and guns?): Obama
The Swampby Mark Silva At least 47 school-age children in Chicago have died in homicides -- mostly victims of gun violence - since January, when President Barack Obama, of Chicago, took office, our Chicago-based friend, John McCormick, notes at Bloomberg News........Tags: Crimes, White House, Public Schools, Personal Weapon Control, Richard M. Daley
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'Barack and Yukio:' Tokyo talks today
The Swampby Peter Nicholas President Obama sought today to reassure Japan that he views the country as an equal partner and that the United States will strive to lessen the disruption caused by military forces housed on Japanese soil. After a......Tags: New York, China, Japan, Asia, Crime, Law and Justice
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9/11 plotters bound for trial in New York
The Swampby David G. Savage and Josh Meyer The plotters of the 9/11 attacks on New York City and Washington will be tried as terrorists and criminals in a federal court in New York, the Obama administration will announce today. Five......Tags: New York, New York City, Washington (U.S. state), Trials, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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