Back-room maneuvering to save the Culture of Corruption:
• Conservative Lawyers Urge Bush to Issue ‘Pre-Emptive Pardons' to Officials Involved in Illegal Programs
• Gitmo judge bars 'highly coercive' evidence
• Gitmo Trial to Put Gitmo Trials on Trial at Gitmo
• Author: Officials against torture memo feared wiretaps, physical danger
• Barack Obama tells Afghans, Pakistanis that they need to do more
More below the fold…
• War crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic nabbed
• Homeland Security Adviser Offering Cash-For-Access Deal Worked with McCain's Foreign Policy Adviser
• Maliki meets with Obama, discusses withdrawal timeline close to that proposed by candidate
• “All Roads Lead to Rove” – a Netroots Nation Interview with Don Siegelman
• The Rude Pundit Gets Tossed from the "Wingnuts in Denial""Defending the American Dream" Conference
• George W. Bush's Overall Job Approval Drops to 21%
• bama begins firsthand look at Baghdad; White Housepressured sought 'clarification' after Iraqi PM backed Obama's Iraq plan
• Obama vows 'vigor' in terror fight
• Rain new focus in mountain west water wars
• Obama lands in Baghdad to meet Iraqi prime minister
• TSA targeting investigative journalists
• Gitmo 'Justice' for US Citizens?
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