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FOIA Reveals Details of CIA's Secret Prisons
By Lindsay Machak - Politics DailyThanks to the Freedom of Information Act, the government last week released declassified files revealing insight to the CIA's interrogation methods under the Bush administration. The Los Angeles Times reported on the CIA's policy of subjecting each prisoner to harsh treatment so that he would "perceive and value his personal welfare, comfort and immediate needs more than the information he is protecting." A day in the life of a prisoner at these interrogation sites is outlined in the documents. The New York Times reported more than 100 prisoners passed through the program, including three who ...
Tom Ridge: I'm Not Second-Guessing Bush Terror Alerts
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyTom Ridge's new book, The Test of Our Times, isn't even out yet and already the former Homeland Security chief is backing off some of its claims. In the book Ridge says that shortly before the 2004 election, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft, in a "vigorous" discussion, pressured him to raise the national terror threat alert level after Osama bin Laden released a videotaped message, suggesting they did so for political reasons. Ridge writes that @he rejected raising the level because bin Laden had released nearly 20 such tapes since 9/11 and the latest ...
Glenn Beck Boycott Grows: Walmart, Best Buy Pull Ads
By David Knowles - Politics DailyFox News faces something of a quandary when it comes to Glenn Beck. On the one hand, his brand of incendiary commentary makes him extremely popular with the news channel's audience. On the other, his controversial rhetoric is driving away a growing number of corporate sponsors. Like many of Fox's on-air personalities, Beck routinely takes issue with President Obama's policies and governing priorities, but the self-described regular guy seemed to cross the line when he labeled the president a "racist" who "has a deep-seated hatred of white people." Watch: Those remarks have proven too much for ...
Washington in 60 Seconds: Jenny Sanford in Vogue, Delay on His 'Dancing' Chances
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyGood morning, Capitolists! Health care dominates the headlines as August in Washington drags on. What else is new? Bill Clinton in the Oval Office; Jenny Sanford in Vogue; and Tom Delay on what could sink his chances on the dance floor. Here's what's making news in Washington today: * President Obama meets with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak this morning to talk Middle East peace, and with former President Bill Clinton this afternoon to talk about that "private mission" to North Korea. * Explosions have rocked Kabul two days before elections in Afghanistan, one targeting the presidential ...
Senators Urge Continued Lockup for Pan Am Lockerbie Bomber
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailySeven U.S. senators on Monday signed a letter imploring Scotland's justice minister not to release the Libyan man convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, PoliticsDaily.com has learned.The senators' letter underscores calls made by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder to Scotland's Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill last week asking him to keep Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi in prison and not let him return to Libya. (My PoliticsDaily.com scoop about Clinton and Holder here.) ...
Women in Combat: GI Jane Goes to Iraq and Afghanistan
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyGiven the ever-shifting measures of success regarding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it's heartening to know that one major battle is being won, decisively. Monday's New York Times reports that the fight to integrate female soldiers into combat zones -- in this case, the front lines of battle in the Mideast – has been won. Handily. The combat in Iraq and Afghanistan marks the first time that "tens of thousands of American military women have lived, worked and fought with men for prolonged periods . . . They have changed the way the United States military goes to war. They have ...
Local Governments: An Economic Bright Spot in the Recession?
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyEarlier today, I reported on Chicago's city-wide government shutdown on Monday in response to a looming budgetary shortfall of over a half billion dollars. That news, combined with forced furloughs and stagnant property values around the country, paint what should be a grim economic picture for local governments. Instead, not only has overall spending by local governments risen, their revenues have remained almost steady. The reason: the influx of federal stimulus money.So, could local governments be an economic bright spot in the recession? It appears so. USA Today reports that the latest ...
Progressives Declare Public Option a Must in Health Care Reform
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyCongressman Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said Monday that the group would insist on a public option in any health care reform plan. In a statement responding to the possibility that health care reform may not include a public option, the congressman said that progressive Democrats, who number 70-plus in the House, will not vote for a plan without a public option. "The public option is central to health care reform," the congressman said. "Real reform, which lowers costs and ensures all Americans get the quality, affordable health care that they ...
Obama Education Plan Links Student-Teacher Performance
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyRepublican governors have tried at their peril to refuse federal cash, but the economic stimulus package and federal purse known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has given President Obama's administration an effective carrot to persuade state governments to conform to his federal agendas. ...
Obama's Plan B on Health Care: Co-Ops
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyYou heard over the weekend that President Obama and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius backed off of having a public option in his health care reform package. Then an administration official, who refused to use his name, told The Atlantic that Sebelius "misspoke." The next morning, liberal Democrats like Howard Dean said a bill without a public option is not really reform, while Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) told the AP that "leaving private insurance companies the job of controlling the costs of health care is like making a pyromaniac the fire chief." ...
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