Eric Holder
November 13, 2009
- President Obama has announced that he is going to have a Jobs Summit in December.For the love of God, Barack, can't you do anything without some grandstanding? You've finally come to accept the fact that joblessness is a problem - despite your claims that the stimulus has created or saved - what is it now? - a gajillion jobs? Something gets my Spidey senses a-tingling over your numbers, though I ...
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August 9, 2009
- It looks like Attorney General Eric Holder is on the verge of appointing a criminal prosecutor to investigate waterboarding, and other illegal acts that were part of the interrogation policies put in place under the Bush administration. We've heard this for awhile now, but Holder appears to have decided on a criminal probe According to today's Los Angeles Times, members of the ...
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March 14, 2009
- Friday's decision by the Justice Department that the Obama administration has the right to detain enemies during wartime, and without charging them, comes as a disappointment to those who expect carte blanche change, and especially to those who have yet learned how to read the fine print.For the first time in more than a decade, the fine print actually works in favor of those who want an ...
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December 9, 2008
- BEIJING, China...Dec. 9...a top-secret report prepared for China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) predicts that none of President-elect Obama's appointees will be in office at the end of his first term. They are all qiao zong huo fan," the anonymous author says, using the Chinese term for bridge burners. "They will depart, leaving flames in their wake." The report, which was ...
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November 22, 2008
- When I was a community news reporter, I found that one of the hardest things about the job was that, no matter how much reporting you did, you never had enough information. For example, imagine you’re reporting that a well-known chocolatier, whose store burned down the year before, is about to reopen. You sit down to begin writing and you come up with a lede like, “After a bitter setback and ...
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November 19, 2008
- Six members of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team for government operations worked in the Clinton administration, and one of them runs a consulting firm that has listed Freddie Mac as a client. Image Credit: AP Obama’s Empty Suit Filled With Clinton Brain TrustWhat happens when a junior Senator from Illinois campaigns on the themes of Hope and Change, with the thinnest of ...
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