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A Tortured Sense Of Priorites

In the Financial Times, Clive Crook wonders why President Obama is so keen on going after the Bush Administration on the “torture” issue: Common sense may tell you waterboarding is torture, but the law is less clear-cut. Congress should make waterboarding a crime, for the reasons I have stated, and it has had many chances [...]

Posted in Obama Administration, Politics, War On Terror

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A Curious Coincidence

Ed Morrisey has a good synopsis of the declassified National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear weapons program. (The document itself is available here.) It’s conclusions are quite interesting: We assess with high confidence that until fall 2003, Iranian military entities were working under government direction to develop nuclear weapons. Glenn Reynolds puts it best: “Well, [...]

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