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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Webb Says Afghanistan is Beset With Logistical Woe
Virginia U.S. Senator James Webb told the monthly breakfast meeting of the Northern Virginia Democratic Business Council in Falls Church last Friday that there’s no way the U.S. can build a stable, pro-western nation in Afghanistan, and that if more U.S. troops are sent in there, it should only be […]
Delegate Jim Scott’s Richmond Report
The 2009 session of the Virginia General Assembly is nearing its scheduled end 45 days after it began.
Helen Thomas: Obama Learns The Limits Of Bipartisan Overtures
WASHINGTON — President Obama should stop trying to win over Republican lawmakers in Congress.
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.
Helen Thomas: Bush Countdown Begins
WASHINGTON – President Bush needs no reminder that his White House days are dwindling down.
Helen Thomas: Change: It’s Coming
WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama is getting a lot of advice on how to govern when he takes office on Jan. 20.
Helen Thomas: Democracy Is the Real Winner
WASHINGTON – Democracy is the real winner in this week’s presidential election, when American voters made history.
Nicholas F. Benton: Why McCain Has Nothing to Say
The McCain campaign descended in the last week from nastiness toward an almost cartoon-like caricature of reality, in the face of massive social and economic dissembling caused by its political and Wall Street friends simply too big for it to handle.
Congressman Moran’s News Commentary
As we enter the final stretch of the electoral season, what can be learned from the past eight years?-a period in our nation’s history marked by conservative control: Republicans had two terms in the White House and six years controlling the congressional levers of power.
