By AP | January 30, 2009 - 9:22 pm - Posted in Politics

According to Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), should Karl Rove continue refusing to give testimony, the House of Representatives will “presumably” hold him in contempt, landing Rove in jail…

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Jon Stewart puts the relocation of ‘Gitmo’ detainees in its proper perspective.

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Reality will continue to sink in with the American people and the massive fraud perpetrated by Wanniski, Reagan, Laffer, Graham, Bush(s), and all their “conservative” enablers will be seen for what it was and is. And the Obama administration can get about the business of repairing the damage and recovering the stolen assets of these cheap hustlers…

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A Justice Department lawyer told a federal judge yesterday that the Bush administration will meet its legal requirement to transfer e-mails to the National Archives after spending more than $10 million to locate 14 million e-mails reported missing four years ago from White House computer files.
(But no one’s seen them yet.)

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By AP | January 21, 2009 - 3:35 pm - Posted in Politics

Originally posted at Care2.com — by, Aaron D. Pendell

We may have to wait a while for it to happen, but George W. Bush will likely face charges of war crimes.  Stubborn, dejected Senate Republicans are postponing prospective Attorney General Eric Holder’s confirmation vote, presumably to seek assurances that the Department of Justice won’t go on a war crimes “witch hunt” while under Holder’s direction.

Of course, no such assurances will be made.  The whole situation is dripping with irony:  Republicans are concerned about DOJ scrutiny after using the department as a partisan political blunt object for beating Democrats over the head with during last decade.  (Don Siegelman is spinning in his grave, and he isn’t even dead yet.)

What do they expect Holder to say?  They can’t expect him to ignore the complaints of Susan Crawford, a lifelong Republican and the Bush official in charge of bringing “enemy combatants” to trial at Guantanamo Bay.  Crawford refused to bring charges against suspected terrorist, Mohammed al-Qahtani, upon her discovery that he had been tortured.  Discussing the matter with Bob Woodward, Crawford described her feelings:

I was upset by it. I was embarrassed by it. If we tolerate this and allow it, then how can we object when our servicemen and women, or others in foreign service, are captured and subjected to the same techniques? How can we complain? Where is our moral authority to complain? Well, we may have lost it.

Further, Obama and Holder are already facing external pressure from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture.  As a signatory nation at the UN convention on torture:

“Judicially speaking, the United States has a clear obligation” to bring proceedings against Bush and Rumsfeld…

Constitutional Law Professor Jonathan Turley is of the opinion that if the Obama administration fails to heed the statements of Crawford and others, the new president runs the risk of appearing culpable in the mistreatment of detainees.  Here’s Turley discussing the matter with Keith Olbermann last week:

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See Also – Olbermann:  Bush Guilty of Torture, 19 January 2009.

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Obama’s Inauguration Address – Part 1

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From RawStory.com - My fellow Americans, we have a New President.

REMARKS OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
Inaugural Address
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Washington, D.C.

My fellow citizens:

I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.

Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents.

So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans…

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By AP | January 19, 2009 - 11:30 am - Posted in American History

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By AP | January 14, 2009 - 10:35 pm - Posted in Uncategorized

Incredible photographs.

From Martin Miller at photographyserved.com:
Although the term, WMD, has become a part of our daily lexicon, it remains very much an abstraction for most of us. This series of images offers a retrospective look at some of these weapons. Most of my subjects are drawn from the Cold War period during which there was a very real threat to the survival of civilization itself…

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