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Politicizing Intelligence

April 23, 2009 – 1:18 am

Stephen Hayes has the goods on the Obama Administration.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Bush Administration, Cover-Up, Interrogation Policy, Law, National Security, Obama Administration, torture, transparency | Comments

Debating Interrogation Policy: The Need For Transparency

April 22, 2009 – 1:14 am

When it comes to the issue of interrogation, I am quite sensitive to and insistent on the need for the United States not to drift into the realm of torture.

Your “Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda . . . Didn’t” Post Of The Day

April 22, 2009 – 12:30 am

Greg Sargent, formerly of Talking Points Memo, and now of the Washington Post (make of that what you will; I know what conclusions I draw), informs us that Democrats coulda, woulda, shoulda won the 2004 election.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged 2004, Bush Administration, Greg Sargent, Jane Harman, John Edwards, John Kerry, Law, National Security, Plum Line, Warrantless Wiretapping, Washington Post | Comments

George W. Bush And Accusations Of Fascism

April 19, 2009 – 3:23 am

Recall that Kevin Drum wrote that no one on the Left ever made any serious accusations of fascism against George W. Bush.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Bush Administration, Fascism, Jim Lindgren, Kevin Drum, Nazis | Comments

Interrogation Memos, Universal Jurisdiction, And Forgotten Complicity

April 18, 2009 – 1:16 am

I would be remiss if I didn’t give my thoughts on the release of the interrogation memos that occurred on Thursday.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Baltasar Garzón, Barack Obama, Bush Administration, Congress, Democrats, Detention, Interrogation, Law, National Security, Obama Administration, torture | Comments

International Law and the Torture Memos

April 17, 2009 – 10:53 pm

In releasing the so-called torture memos this week, President Obama stated that CIA officials who relied on the legal advice contained in the memos would not be prosecuted. This latter stance is a good one on the part of the President and he deserves credit for having taken it. But there’s more to this story.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged Alberto Gonzales, Baltasar Garzón, Barack Obama, Douglas Feith, John Yoo, Judge Garzón, Ron Kampeas, Spain, torture memos | Comments

The Internet Remembers, You Know

April 17, 2009 – 12:24 am

Kevin Drum puzzles me.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Bush Administration, Fascism, Fascist, Politics | Comments

Christopher Hill: Deep Kimchee for Iraq

April 17, 2009 – 12:22 am

Of the many things that will be written about North Korea this week, the least likely of these is, “Now there’s the kind of diplomacy we need more of.” But that’s exactly what we’ll get if Christopher Hill is confirmed as President Obama’s nominee to be our next Ambassador to Iraq.

By Joshua Stanton | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Christopher Hill, North Korea, Richard Holbrooke | Comments

Barack Obama’s India-Pakistan Mess

April 13, 2009 – 12:59 am

What Team Obama has given us thus far is not a foreign policy, it is a mess. It is not realism, but a resignation to the way the world wants to go, a rejection of the idea that America can influence it. It is a destruction of years of bipartisan effort to align democracies with common interests against failed states and rising tyrants, from which no good is coming.

By Christopher Badeaux | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged American foreign policy, Asia, Barack Obama, Christopher Badeaux, democracies, foreign policy, Hillary Clinton, India, Indo-Pakistan, Pakistan, Realism, Realpolitik | Comments

“Tax Breaks For The Rich!”

April 7, 2009 – 1:50 am

Anytime any Republican tries to lower the tax burden, we hear cries that the effort is made solely and exclusively on behalf of the rich friends of Republicans. It’s “trickle-down economics” this, and “the rich aren’t paying their fair share” that, and so much for anything resembling honest and sober analysis once class warfare gets thrown into the picture.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Class Warfare, economy, Tax Structure, Taxing The Rich, Trickle-Down Economics? | Comments

Our Cosmopolitan President

April 3, 2009 – 9:47 am

In electing President Obama, many American voters expressed a great degree of satisfaction in having a president who would no longer embarrass them on the world stage. So why does he keep doing exactly that?

By Ben Domenech | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged Barack Obama, France, G-20, hubris, Jon Stewart | Comments

Iraq, Reconsidered

March 31, 2009 – 1:55 am

Iraq today is not the Iraq of the 2006 nadir. How Iraq, the U.S. military leadership, and the American civilian war leadership changed for the better are the subjects of Thomas Ricks’s outstanding and eminently readable new book, The Gamble, in which the villains get their comeuppance, and the emerging heroes triumph.

By Joshua Treviño | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged Afghanistan, David Petraeus, Donald Rumsfeld, Fiasco, GWOT, Iraq, Joshua Trevino, Obama's War, The Gamble, Thomas Ricks, Tom Ricks | Comments

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