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Who Will Be The Next Kennedy Idol?

In the wake of Ted Kennedy’s death , many people are assuming the age of Camelot has come to an end. These people have obviously forgotten the family’s fecundity, for there are plenty of Kennedy’s to take the helm

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Who Will Be The Next Kennedy Idol?

D.O.J. Report Advises Pursuing C.I.A. Abuse Cases

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department’s ethics office has recommended reversing the Bush administration and reopening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cases, potentially exposing Central Intelligence Agency employees and contractors to prosecution for brutal treatment of terrorism suspects, according to a person officially briefed on the matter.

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Report: CIA hired Blackwater to help with hit squads

The controversial private contractor Blackwater was enlisted by the CIA during the Bush administration for a secret plan to form anti-Al Qaeda hit squads, the New York Times reported Wednesday night, citing unnamed sources familiar with the plan. The hit squad proposal, when revealed this summer, caused an uproar because congressional leaders hadn't yet been briefed. The program apparently never got off the ground, and President Obama's CIA director, Leon Panetta, canceled the program as soon as he learned of it before notifying Congress.

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US will report same-sex couples in the 2010 census

WASHINGTON, July 31 — The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force was on hand for today's official announcement by the U.S. Commerce Department that the U.S

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US will report same-sex couples in the 2010 census

Will We Get a Frost/Bush?

Tonight, New York’s channel 21 will broadcast the Watergate portion of the David Frost interviews of Richard Nixon . This seems as good a time as any to ask if we’ll ever get the equivalent from George W

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CIA Torture option," Put him in a cell filled with cadavers…"

Two of the key designers of the Bush administration’s torture program ended up in a “tug of war” with their superiors about how far to go when coercing information out of suspects, says a new article in the Washington Post. The article, published Sunday, provides graphic descriptions of some of the techniques contemplated when the torture program was just beginning, in the months after 9/11

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AP source: Holder considering torture probe (AP)

AP – Attorney General Eric Holder is considering whether to appoint a prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration’s interrogation practices.

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