President Obama has not ruled out potential criminal prosecution of former high-level Bush administration officials if the attorney general establishes that laws were broken in the sanctioning and ordering of water boarding and other forms of torture.
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A Penny for Your Thoughts: News from Greater Falls Church
Last week’s historic Inauguration of our 44th president, Barack Obama, was an electrifying experience for almost anyone involved.
Nicholas F. Benton: Hillary: A Champion Of Women, Globally
Sen. Hillary Clinton’s tour-de-force in the confirmation hearing on her appointment as Secretary of State before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee provided a picture window into the scope and depth of the transformative power the in-coming Obama administration will bring globally.
The Peak Oil Crisis: Parsing Obama’s Remarks
On Monday President-elect Obama introduced the folks that will lead the nation’s energy and environmental policies for the next four or possibly eight years.
Anything But Straight: The Day After A Democratic Victory
Who can blame John McCain and Sarah Palin for saying that Barack Obama is “palling around with terrorists?” The GOP ticket is bombing so badly that they must blow up the race to have a shot at winning.
Nicholas F. Benton: Global Financial Meltdown
It’s becoming unclear which will bring the McCain candidacy down faster or harder: the economy or Sarah Palin.
Nicholas F. Benton: Blame Gas Prices On the Banks
The Washington Post and most other Republicans, including presumptive GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, chose to turn their backs on hours of explosive, expert testimony before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Tuesday that nailed unbridled financial speculation as the root cause of the recent period’s absurd run up in […]
Congressman Moran’s News Commentary
A report released this week by the non-profit research organization Media Matters found that military analysts secretly cultivated by the Pentagon’s communications apparatus appeared a whopping 4,500 plus times on major TV and radio networks since 2002 on segments covering the Iraq war, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and other foreign […]
Congressman Moran’s News Commentary
A report released this week by the non-profit research organization Media Matters found that military analysts secretly cultivated by the Pentagon’s communications apparatus appeared a whopping 4,500 plus times on major TV and radio networks since 2002 on segments covering the Iraq war, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and other foreign […]
Paul Krugman: The Dilbert Strategy
Anyone who has worked in a large organization — or, for that matter, reads the comic strip “Dilbert” — is familiar with the “org chart” strategy.
