httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4U3OLLTOjk&eurl=http://taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=28945&feature=player_embedded Cressey has a logical argument for Panetta in the video above, while what I’m getting is that sources can’t comment because they don’t know Panetta at all. Others tell me that their intel sources aren’t upset over Panetta. Laura Rozen over at her new blog at FP has collected some reaction from former intel [...]
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Smoke Signals
“We cannot and we must not use torture under any circumstances. We are better than that.” – Leon Panetta The New York Times is reporting that Obama’s choice for the C.I.A. is Leon Panetta. It continues the signals the president-elect sent earlier today on Justice. The Office of Legal Counsel is getting a heroine, Dawn [...]
Dick and George’s Mushroom Cloud, and What Brought Obama to The Show
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeYXnXpOwNA&eurl With the flippancy of a teenage thug shrugging off his personal responsibility for the lies he told that got someone else killed, outgoing Vice President Dick Cheney proclaimed with the ease that the goals of Iraq have mostly been accomplished. The truth, as always with Bush-Cheney, is something quite different, as Rand Beers NSN [...]
JOE BIDEN: A New Approach to Pakistan
Expert Guest Post by presidential candidate Senator Joe Biden Today, I delivered a major foreign policy address to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Manchester. The events of the last week serve as a reminder of what is at stake if we do not take immediate steps to change the [...]
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Iraq, Abu Graib, and a Vet Turned Candidate
– reporting from YearlyKos – TM is serving as a volunteer on the advisory committee to the convention’s leadership forum. Jonathan Powers, now running for Congress in New York (26th district), was part of the “swat team,” as he put it, that went in to get the man, named Yunis, featured in the film I [...]
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George Soros’s on Bush’s ‘Terror on War’
Reporting from Washington, D.C., on a beautiful evening, weather wonderful, after taking a long walk after a divine supper. Now, on to the post I've wanted to share for a few days, which is now perfectly timed. After all, as our president has his “war council,” the saner souls among us might begin with talking [...]
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