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The 83 Waterboardings of Abu Zubaydah

The following is a transcript of notes taken at the interrogation of Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah. It was released by the C.I.A. at the request of Vice President Dick Cheney in order to demonstrate...

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For Obama, the More Cheney the Better

Tom Andrews, a former Democratic congressman from Maine and an early and outspoken opponent of the Iraq War, used his Huffington Post blog last week to ask in frustration: “How is it that someone as...

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But Not a Drop to Drink: The Threat to America’s Drinking Water

For those of us who worked closely with environmental professionals during the eight years of the Bush Administration, we know that it was a time of declining resources and reduced political support...

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An Award for Defeating Cheneyism

Outraged babble and sanctimonious tut-tutting over President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize will pour forth until the very evening he accepts the prize in Oslo, and then for years afterward. His critics are...

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Big Business as Evil as Everyone Thought, Basically

“I became a villain for doing the right thing,” BP chief Tony Hayward said this July in a huge interview, in which he intermittently spoke in the third person, and disclosed that in London strangers...

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Liz Krueger Would Like You To Know Who Isn't Invited To Her Fundraiser

Manhattan State Senator Liz Krueger sent out a fundraising email earlier this week that features what may be called an “anti-Host Committee.” On the space on the invite where it is usually listed which...

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Morning Media Mix: Drop the Policy, Hold the Mic

Mic.com, formerly known as PolicyMic.com PolicyMic, the start-up news site for millennials that recently got $10 million dollars worth of VC funding, got a new look and a new name. It will now be known...

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Dick Cavett Takes His Turn On The Hot Seat

Illustration by Paul Kisselev. Conversation with Dick Cavett evokes good psychoanalysis—a flurry of free association and childhood memories. In the edited and condensed phone session that follows, Mr....

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Look, Dick Cheney’s Back. And Republicans Want To Hide.

The tone of that interview is striking because Mr. Cheney appears to enjoy the opportunity to unequivocally defend his record and the CIA program. While perhaps this a commendable display of...

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Cheney woos NJ Republicans at annual Reagan Day Dinner

WOODLAND PARK -- The star guest speaker of this year's New Jersey Reagan Day Dinner was met with raucous applause tonight when he offered a scathing critique of President Barack Obama's foreign policy,...

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Daily Caller’s Tucker Carlson: Today’s Journalists ‘Cowards, Trite and Stupid’

The pundit says he'll never hire a journalism school graduate to work at The Daily Caller, his rapidly growing news site.

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Black Joe Lewis on Austin’s Segregated Music Scene and ‘Backlash’

Austin's Black Joe Lewis makes the kind of urgent, unrestrained music that you just don't hear anymore.

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In Presidential Ambition, Joe Biden Is No Dick Cheney

In considering what role Joe Biden will play in the Obama White House, the most important question hasn’t yet been answered: Does Biden, a veteran of two unsuccessful presidential bids, still want to...

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Dick Cheney Isn’t Helping

One of the more intelligent decisions made by the Bush White House was to limit Dick Cheney’s public visibility. He would grant interviews from time to time, but Bush and his strategists – and Cheney...

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Who Keeps Inviting the Bush-bots?

Just over four years ago, after George W. Bush was reelected by the smallest margin for an incumbent since Woodrow Wilson held off Charles Evans Hughes in 1916, a palpable sense somehow took hold in...

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In Preparation for Obama’s Hundred-Day Reviews

Barack Obama won't complete his 100th day in office until next Wednesday, but already the reviews and commemorations are pouring in. Obama's has already been the most closely watched and dissected...

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Torture: Ineffective, Illegal, and Unprincipled

The issue of torture and security keeps reemerging in the news, as we debate matters of national survival and our core values. The issue is often posed in the following way: What if a terrorist had...

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Democrats Should Be Weary of Anti-Russia Conservative Hucksters

Several media outlets reported former Vice President Dick Cheney’s comments at a speech he gave on March 27 that Russia’s alleged election interference could be considered an “act of war,” lending...

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Who Should Play Donald Trump in the Inevitable Movie?

Though we may have officially entered the era of Trump fatigue, there’s no denying that his presence still looms large over media and entertainment. Saturday Night Live continues to lampoon the...

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Adam McKay Had a Heart Attack After Making a Movie About Dick Cheney’s Heart...

In the great words of comedians everywhere, sometimes you just gotta commit to the bit. However, director Adam McKay found out just how dangerous this sort of dedication can be when he had a heart...

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