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The NYT sums up Obama’s civil liberties record in one paragraph
Glenn Greenwald
Obama "has backtracked, in substantial if often nuanced ways, from the approach to national security that he preached as a candidate."
Obama’s kinder, gentler military commissions
Glenn Greenwald
Bush critics vehemently objected to the idea of commissions generally. Will they continue to do so now that Obama supports them?
We wouldn’t want to inflame anti-American sentiment
Glenn Greenwald
Obama's excuses for covering-up torture evidence are as incoherent as they are dangerous.
They’re Obama’s wars now
Gene Lyons
George W. Bush may have started the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but it's up to the new president to resolve them.
Obama’s latest effort to conceal evidence of Bush era crimes
Glenn Greenwald
The President's rationale for changing his mind is as incoherent as it is reminiscent of the Bush/Cheney mindset.
Obama decides to fight release of abuse photos
Alex Koppelman
The president reportedly told his legal team to reverse an earlier decision on the grounds that the pictures would endanger American troops.
Administration could renege on release of abuse photos
Alex Koppelman
The Justice Department committed, in court, to making the pictures public, but the White House seems to be walking that back.
The hidden hand of Dick Cheney
Juan Cole
Out of office, he continues to push his tortured version of reality -- and his vision of an imperial presidency -- and there are signs he is succeeding.
Army suicides soar past 2008’s pace
Mark Benjamin
The day after the shooting at a combat stress clinic in Iraq, new data released to Salon shows soldiers committing suicide at a record-setting pace. Is combat stress the reason?
Roxana Saberi’s plight and American media propaganda
Glenn Greenwald
Abridgments of press freedom by Iran receive endless attention from the American press while far more severe abridgments by the U.S. are ignored.
A secret e-mail argument among psychologists about torture
Sheri Fink
Private messages reveal a dispute at the highest levels about the proper role of psychologists in interrogation, and whether cooperating with the Bush administration was unethical.
“Nuclear weapons are not Kalashnikovs”
Susanne Koelbl
Prior to his meeting with Obama, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari discusses his country's nuclear arsenal, failed peace talks with the Taliban and the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden.
The White House’s full-court press on Afghanistan and Pakistan
Alex Koppelman
Leaders from both countries, vital to the administration's counter-terror strategy, came to Washington for a series of meetings Wednesday.
The faux defense of Western liberties from the anti-Muslim, Mark Steyn Right
Glenn Greenwald
Selective application of free speech principles is the hallmark of those who oppose free speech.
The reluctant enablers of torture
Sheri Fink
A Senate report shows that during the Bush administration's War on Terror, mental health professionals raised questions about harsh interrogations -- but helped design interrogation programs anyway.
Dems drop money for Guantanamo closure
Alex Koppelman
A new spending bill written by House Democrats doesn't include $50 million the administration wants to pay for closing the detention facility.
Joseph Stiglitz and the minke whales
Andrew Leonard
Finally, the true story of the Norwegian Olympic boycott that never happened.
Ronald Reagan: vengeful, score-settling, Hard Left ideologue
Glenn Greenwald
The principles that the right-wing President advocated and bound the U.S. to abide by are today deemed hallmarks of leftist extremism.
Farewell to the American Century
Andrew Bacevich
Americans have perpetuated a mythic version of the past that never even approximated reality and today has become downright malignant.
Obama’s 100-day report card
Mark Schone, Vincent Rossmeier, Gabriel Winant
Bloggers, activists, economists and writers grade the president's performance so far. Featuring Sen. Russ Feingold, Dan Savage, Markos, Michael Pollan, Gloria Feldt and many others.
New evidence of a secret torture prison
Britta Sandberg, John Goetz
It has long been clear that the CIA used the Szymany military airbase in Poland for extraordinary renditions. Now there is new evidence of a secret torture prison nearby.
Transcript: Interview with U.N. torture official Manfred Novak
Glenn Greenwald
The U.N. Special Rapporteur explains why amnesty for torturers violates our treaty obligations and international law.
Our misguided fight against Somali pirates
John Feffer
Those teenage high-seas renegades are not about to team up with terrorists, so why is the U.S. military devoting so much attention to them?
The Army investigates itself again
Mark Benjamin
Why is the Army sending sick troops back into combat? You won't learn the answer from a new internal report.
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