Cheney: CIA did nothing illegal in interrogations
ABC News
Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday that he sees no reason for President George W. Bush to pre-emptively pardon anyone at the CIA involved in harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists. ‘I don’t have any reason to believe that anybody in the agency did anything illegal,’ he said. In an interview with The Associated Press, Cheney also said that Bush has no need to apologize for not foreseeing the economic crisis...
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=6606473
Bush to tout his “No Child Left Behind” initiative
Wall Street Journal
01/07/09
President George W. Bush will tout the successes of his No Child Left Behind education reform and challenge Democrats not to weaken it, in one of his final speeches recapping his White House record. ‘He will talk about the fact that now is not the time to water down standards or roll back accountability,’ White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said. ‘Leaders in the business community and among civil rights organizations want to make sure that we maintain high standards’...
https://tinyurl.com/9ytgbe
From Information Clearing House
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Mythbusting the Obama recovery package
Our Future
by Sara Robinson
01/08/09
Here it is: our moment of economic truth. We’re standing at that historic fork in the road where the nation decides, now and for the foreseeable future, whether it’s going to hang on to the catastrophic assumptions of the free-market fundamentalists and rely once more on the nostrums that have so far failed to fix the mess, or take a bold step down a new, more progressive path that will finally re-empower the American people to build an economy that works for us all. As usual, the conservatives have absolutely no conscience about what they did to create this mess. If they did, they’d all be holed up in their gated communities or on their private islands, embarrassed into silence at best and terrified of peasant uprisings at worst...
https://tinyurl.com/95uace
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=emptive+pardon
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=economic+crisis
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=No+Child+Left+Behind
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sara+Robinson
Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday that he sees no reason for President George W. Bush to pre-emptively pardon anyone at the CIA involved in harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists. ‘I don’t have any reason to believe that anybody in the agency did anything illegal,’ he said. In an interview with The Associated Press, Cheney also said that Bush has no need to apologize for not foreseeing the economic crisis...
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=6606473
Bush to tout his “No Child Left Behind” initiative
Wall Street Journal
01/07/09
President George W. Bush will tout the successes of his No Child Left Behind education reform and challenge Democrats not to weaken it, in one of his final speeches recapping his White House record. ‘He will talk about the fact that now is not the time to water down standards or roll back accountability,’ White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said. ‘Leaders in the business community and among civil rights organizations want to make sure that we maintain high standards’...
https://tinyurl.com/9ytgbe
From Information Clearing House
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Mythbusting the Obama recovery package
Our Future
by Sara Robinson
01/08/09
Here it is: our moment of economic truth. We’re standing at that historic fork in the road where the nation decides, now and for the foreseeable future, whether it’s going to hang on to the catastrophic assumptions of the free-market fundamentalists and rely once more on the nostrums that have so far failed to fix the mess, or take a bold step down a new, more progressive path that will finally re-empower the American people to build an economy that works for us all. As usual, the conservatives have absolutely no conscience about what they did to create this mess. If they did, they’d all be holed up in their gated communities or on their private islands, embarrassed into silence at best and terrified of peasant uprisings at worst...
https://tinyurl.com/95uace
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=emptive+pardon
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=economic+crisis
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=No+Child+Left+Behind
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sara+Robinson
rudkla - 9. Jan, 10:18
