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Matt Taibbi | 10 Craziest Things in the Senate Report on Torture
A guard tower at Guantanamo Bay. (photo: file)
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "Capitol Hill yesterday provided America with a classic set piece of partisan performance art: a pair of sanctimonious legislative events, one for each chamber, the two parties blaming each other for high crimes."
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Cheney: President George W. Bush 'Knew Everything' About CIA Interrogation
BBC News
Excerpt: "Former US President George W Bush was "fully informed" about CIA interrogation techniques condemned in a Senate report, his vice-president says."
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Robert Parry | Obama and the Truth Agenda
Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "Yes, some Republicans have grumbled about Obama abusing his executive powers over immigration, and some torture-implicated CIA officials and a few far rightists continued quibbling that the torture wasn't really torture. But the backlash has been surprisingly mild."
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Hungary Throws Out Monsanto AND the IMF
Raúl Ilargi Meijer, The Automatic Earth
Meijer reports: "The IMF and EU, like the tandem team of Monsanto and Washington before them, act like schoolyard bullies. It's become their standard MO, and it usually works."
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Law Professors: U.S. Net Neutrality an International Human Rights Issue
Nancy Scola, The Washington Post
Scola reports: "Two human rights professors at the George Washington University Law School have come up with that rarest of unicorns in the debate over net neutrality: a novel argument."
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Surprise: The Congressman Who Just Destroyed DC's Marijuana Plans Is Bought Off by Big Pharma
Attn.com
Excerpt: "So given the tenuous intellectual reasoning from Harris, we were left wondering, why might he be so zealous against the will of the DC electorate? Look no further than his campaign contributions."
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Obama Administration Muzzling its Climate Scientists
Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog
Horn reports: "Critics say muzzling of these scientists matters because they make policy decisions with real-world impacts on society."
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