A historian's account of Democrats and Bush-era war crimes

Salon by Glenn Greenwald | Oct. 8, 2009 (Opinion)

this Lieberman amendment, which is now likely to pass, undermines all of that and -- as EBay founder Pierre Omidyar put it today -- its central purpose is to "legalize suppression" of evidence of American war crimes. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Oct 8, 2009 - 12:50 PM PDT
Reviewed by: Dwight Rousu (review), Tanya J. Maurer (review)
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Oct 11, 2009 - 12:48 AM PDT
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 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 11, 2009

Greenwald writes clearly and strongly of behind the scenes moves by the administration to continue the abuse of the constitution and open governement, contrary to campaign rhetoric.

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