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Mary Elizabeth Williams

Vincent Rossmeier

Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney speaks about national security at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington May 21, 2009. Cheney on Thursday sharply criticized President Barack Obama's handling of terrorism policy and defended harsh interrogation methods that Obama has labeled torture.

A view of Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base August 5, 2009. The facility, which has been left in its present state as it is being preserved as an evidence in law suits and was opened after the deadly Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, became a symbol of detainee abuse and detention without charge under the previous administration of George W. Bush. U.S. President Barack Obama has vowed to close Guantanamo Bay, which currently holds some 225 detainees, and has also ordered a stop to harsh interrogation methods. Picture taken August 5, 2009.

Inmates at Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women, pass the time in the HIV ward in Wetumpka, Ala., Monday, March 17, 2008. Inmate advocates say Alabama is the only state that bars prisoners with the AIDS virus from participating in work release programs.

Rachel Maddow, Margaret Winter

Families of the Lockerbie bombing victims said on August 14, 2003, a $2.7 billion compensation fund agreed by Libya was just the first step mercurial leader Muammar Gaddafi must take to prove he had quit "the terrorism business". Syria's U.N. envoy, the Security Council president for August, said he expects Libya to deliver a letter accepting responsibility for the mid-air bombing of Pan Am flight 103 on Thursday or Friday. This file photo shows rescue personnel carrying a body away from the crash site in December 1988.

General Stanley McChrystal is the new head of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan. He is taking a new approach to fighting the war.

Image from "The Sartorialist" by Scott Schuman.

Stephanie Zacharek

Tracy Clark-Flory

Conservative writer: Obama plans to desecrate 9/11

Protesters confront John Yoo, a constitutional law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, as he makes his way to a classroom on Monday, Aug. 17, 2009, in Berkeley, Calif. About 75 demonstrators called for the university to fire Yoo, a former Bush administration attorney, who wrote legal memos used to support harsh interrogation techniques that critics say constituted torture.

Every American should know what's in the IG Report

Glenn Greenwald

Tracy Clark-Flory

Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009.

Holder announces Abu Ghraib-like investigation

Glenn Greenwald

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