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11.17.2009 9:00 pm

Scare mongering about trials, prison is cynical partisanship

An aerial view of the Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Ill. AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast

An aerial view of the Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Ill. AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast

There’s poetic symmetry to the press release Sen. Christopher S. “Kit” Bond, R-Mo., issued last week after Attorney General Eric Holder decided that Guantanamo Bay detainees will…

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08.24.2009 9:01 pm

Drilling down on the torture issue

Eric Holder

Eric Holder

So now it begins — months, perhaps even years of Justice Department investigations and, perhaps, prosecutions of CIA agents and contractors who may have violated U.S. laws in interrogating terrorism suspects. Who knows where it will end, but probably…

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07.14.2009 9:00 pm

Assassination, the law and politics

CIA assassins have it easier in the movies.

CIA assassins have it easier in the movies.

So now we are told that shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Central Intelligence Agency began planning to unleash assassination teams on al-Qaida’s leadership, but for almost eight years, the…

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