January 18, 2009
There's actually a lot Obama can learn from the troubled presidency of George W. Bush....
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January 16, 2009
Attorney General-designate Eric H. Holder Jr. brushed aside Republican concerns about his record yesterday as he charted a new, less divisive course for the Justice Department on issues of national security, civil rights and financial crime....
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Carrie Johnson
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January 15, 2009
What a sunny view Condoleezza Rice took in a valedictory conversation with Post journalists this week. She could have been Dr. Pangloss's daughter in her steadfastly upbeat account of the world. Asked about policies she regretted, she offered the cheerful retort: "Aren't you going to say, 'Aren't yo...
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January 14, 2009
The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial has concluded that the U.S. military tortured a Saudi national who allegedly planned to participate in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, interrogating him with techniques that included sustained....
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Bob Woodward
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January 10, 2009
President-elect Barack Obama introduced his nominees to head his national security team on Friday. But now Obama begins a perilous balancing act to fulfill his pledge to make a clean break with the detention and interrogation policies of the Bush administration while still effectively ensuring the.....
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January 07, 2009
As a top official at the White House in 1996, Richard A. Clarke was looking for an ally after concluding that the CIA and FBI needed an additional $1 billion for counterterrorism programs. Officials at the Office of Management of Budget were dismissive of the request, so Clarke sought an audience......
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December 24, 2008
Loop Fan alert! Some of the following material may be shocking. We'll warn you at the appropriate point....
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Loop Fan alert! Some of the following material may be shocking. We'll warn you at the appropriate point....
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December 16, 2008
The Bush administration has decided to transfer three Algerian detainees to their adopted homeland of Bosnia, a decision that partially complies with the order of a federal judge who said last month that five Algerians should be released "forthwith," rejecting government allegations that the men......
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Peter Finn
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The Bush administration has decided to transfer three Algerian detainees to their adopted homeland of Bosnia, a decision that partially complies with the order of a federal judge who said last month that five Algerians should be released "forthwith," rejecting government allegations that the men......
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