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Cenk Uygur: As Good As It Gets for McCain
About a month ago, I said on the show that this as good as it gets for John McCain . That was in the middle of the Barack Obama and ... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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McCain Boosters Blast Obama on Terror
GOP supporters respond on morning conference call to Obama’s suggestion that terrorists be arrested and tried as criminals. Participants criticize ... Full Article At Time - The Page
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'If detainee dies, you're doing it wrong'
by Frank James One of the most memorable and chilling lines from today's Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the treatment of detainees came when Sen. Carl Levin, the ... Full Article At The Swamp
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Officials Warned Against Using Snarling Dogs, Forced Nudity During Interrogations, Senate Investigation Finds
WASHINGTON — Military psychologists were enlisted to help develop more aggressive interrogation methods, including snarling dogs, forced nudity and long periods of standing, against Terrorism suspects, according to a ... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Bob Gates? Really?
I've been noticing how Andrew Sullivan has been pushing the idea of Obama, if he wins in November, keeping Bob Gates on as Secretary of Defense. But now I see that Joe Klein's pushing the idea . And now Noam Scheiber too . So I'm... Full Article At Talking Points Memo
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McClellan hearing: 'Book of Month Club'
By Katie Fretland Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan began his testimony this morning before the House Judiciary Committee in what committee member Rep. Lamar Smith called... Full Article At The Swamp
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Missouri, Illinois floodwatch...Obama, Clinton...McClellan ...
Sabah Missouri, Illinois floodwatchObama, ClintonMcClellan KXMC, ND - Jun 20, 2008 CAPITOL HILL (AP) Former presidential spokesman ... Full Article At Google News
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Scott McClellan Testifies: Bush, Cheney Wanted Me To Cover-Up Information
WASHINGTON - A former White House spokesman told Congress on Friday that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney wanted him to say that Cheney's chief of staff wasn't involved... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
Scott McClellan Testifies Before Congress - Opening Statement
Download | Play Download | Play Former White House Press Secretary, Scott McClellan, appeared before the House Judiciary Committee this morning to answer questions about what he knew about, and his role in the treasonous... Full Article At Crooks and Liars
McClellan doubts Bush knew about CIA leak
Scott McClellan testified before Congress Friday. WASHINGTON (CNN) — A former Bush spokesman said Friday he did not think the president knew about the leak of a CIA agent's identity, but... Full Article At CNN - Political Ticker
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McClellan Testifies About Bush Team
Scott McClellan, the former White House spokesman turned Bush administration critic, took to Capitol Hill yesterday to decry an insular and secretive White House that he said lied about the leaking of a ... Full Article At Washington Post
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Bush the Iranian Mole
Atrios linked to this post by Matthew Yglesias earlier this week, inspired by this past week's Senate Intelligence report showing the CIA ignored intel about Iran . Some bits: The appeal of the Bush social... Full Article At Square State
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The L.A. Times on "McCain the Moderate"
Talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations! Just because John McCain, at some phases of the moon, is less reality-challenged than most of his Republican opponents this year doesn'... Full Article At The Reality-Based Community
Obama on Terrorist Rights: Joe Calls Out Mika on 'Moral Choices'
It would be hard to overstate the significance of Barack Obama's blunder. As a certain junior senator from New York said during the Primary... Full Article At Newsbusters
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Jay Rockefeller: Democrat, Liar
Bluto is working a story that I admit only loosely following. It doesn’t quote cleanly, so I’ll have you go read the thing. The update gives a nifty tease: The New York Sun’s editorial board notes that Rockefeller deliberately manipulated... Full Article At BitsBlog
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McClellan: I share blame
by Katie Fretland Applause erupted, the crowd parted and then there he was. Scott McClellan strode into the bookstore wearing khaki pants and a light-blue buttoned-down shirt with the sleeves rolled up. There was standing room only-- almost... Full Article At The Swamp
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McClellan assails Bush over Iraq, leak - Inrich.com
Former presidential spokesman Scott McClellan told Congress yesterday that the Bush White House mishandled the Iraq War and hasn't owned up to how the name of a ... Full Article At Live Search News
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Amitai Etzioni: Bush Waves a White Flag
President Bush has surrendered the rationalization that he used for seven years as a fig leaf to cover his limp Foreign Policy. By removing North Korea from the list of terrorist supporting states and by lifting sanctions imposed on it for decades... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Scott McClellan to testify next week
by Katie Fretland and Mark Silva Scott McClellan, the president's former spokesman who wrote a tell-all book about the White House's "culture of deception," will testify next week before a House committee about the leak of ... Full Article At The Swamp
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Iran Remembers U.S. Downing Of Civilian Plane
On Wednesday, Iran observed the 20th anniversary of a U.S. attack against a civilian airbus carrying 290 people, with citizens releasing doves into the air and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterating the government's long-held claim that the attack was intentional. Iran's official state... Full Article At HuffingtonPost