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The Obama justice system

Due process is seen as window dressing to enable the president to detain whomever he wants for as long as he wants

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  • Wednesday, July 8, 2009 07:34 AM

    Utterly Extraordinary

    "She also said -- when the host asked about the recent example I cited of NPR's calling what was done to a reporter in Gambia "torture" (at the 20:20 mark) -- that NPR will use the word "torture" to describe what other governments do because they do it merely to sadistically inflict pain on people while the U.S. did it for a noble reason: to obtain information about Terrorist attacks."

    Do we know anything else about this person? Is this merely a case of another shockingly negligent journalist, or does she actually have a political agenda?

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