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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

America then and now

It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 08:12 AM

    Principles and also John Brennan

    A nation is defined not just by its actions but also by the principles it affirms and rejects.--GG

    Hard to tell what 'principles' we hold at all. Seems to depend from one situation to the next.

    In other related news:

    The New York Times reports that John Brennan, the controversial ex-CIA official who abruptly withdrew as Barack Obama's CIA director in November, will become White House director of counterterrorism.

    Is Obama a comedian or something?

    http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/01/08/the-re-up/#comments

    —Kitt Read Kitt's other letters

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