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By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Feb. 22) -- Two of the nation's best-known military figures are challenging former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration. Gen. David Petraeus, head of the U.S. Central Command, and Colin Powell, who chaired the Joint Chiefs of Staff and served as secretary of state, defended the president on Sunday morning talk shows after fresh attacks by Cheney and his daughter, Liz, at last week's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The ex-VP got into a TV duel with Vice President Joe Biden the previous weekend over the administration's approach to fighting ...
Brain Study: Torture Impairs Suspects' Recall
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyThe objections to torture have been moral, legal, even pragmatic. Here's another: from a neuroscience standpoint, it doesn't work and in fact could actually make subjects less able to remember credible information. A review for the journal "Trends in Cognitive Science" takes the details from the legal memos released by the Department of Justice on the use of torture on terrorism suspects during the Bush administration and compares the information to current neuroscience research. The findings were that not only were their interrogations likely to create a host of memory problems, but the ...
Obama Argues for Closing Gitmo
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyIn Netherland – a novel written in the shadow of post-9/11 New York that Barack Obama has repeatedly announced he is reading – there is a minor (and, yes, mildly deranged) character who wears angel wings from a costume shop. When the character's disorientation worsens, he neglects his hygiene and the once shimmering white angel wings become sooty and stained with the grit of the city. ...
New York Times Defends Maureen Dowd on Plagiarism Charge
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAs David Knowles wrote earlier, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is under fire for a passage in her op-ed piece that is a near-identical copy of one from TPM's Josh Marshall.Now, Politico reports that the New York Times has issued them a statement defending Dowd:...I put the question of whether this is common practice for columnists before Times editorial page editor Andy Rosenthal, who passed me along to PR. But now I've now received a statement supporting Dowd from spokesperson Diane McNulty. Maureen had us correct the column online as soon as the error was brought to her attention, ...
Three Cheers for Dick Cheney!
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyIf you first came to this country, say, sometime in the last five years, and are interested in politics, you might be a bit overwhelmed at the universal revulsion expressed in the media and among Democrats -- not exactly two warring camps -- directed at the personage of former Vice President Dick Cheney. ...
Should Obama Prosecute Cheney?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyAndrew Sullivan, for one, says yes. The primary reason? The Vice President's strong and guiding advocacy for legalizing torture:The hardcore torture advocates like Cheney were always alone among those who had any actual idea of how the world works. What Cheney lacked in a grip on reality he sadly made up with such bravura certainty and bereaucratic shamelessness that an entire administration went along for eight years.Prosecute him.What's your take on the matter? ...
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