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President Obama recently took significant steps to repair the damage done to American justice by the Bush administration, issuing an executive order banning torture and releasing three previously classified memos issued by the Office of Legal Counsel—a group of lawyers who provide binding legal advice to the executive branch. However, in order to truly close the book on the dark days of America’s endorsement of torture, Obama should go further and see that those who committed torture are held accountable for their actions...
...center on emissions from motor vehicles - the cause behind the 2007 Supreme Court case that originally spurred the endangerment finding. (In the case, Massachusetts v. EPA, the court found that the EPA had a responsibility to regulate carbon from cars - despite arguments to the contrary by the George W. Bush-era agency...
...likely to be advice Perry will heed. He is already the longest serving governor in Texas history - as lieutenant governor, he took over for President-elect George W. Bush in December 2000. That has given him unparalleled influence over state government, where much of the governor's power resides in appointments to boards and commissions. Masset believes that more of that kind of centralization of power "will lead to Washington-style corruption. We need new people with new ideas. We need new appointees and new blood...
...about their assets; and predatory lenders duped customers into adjustable-rate loans that turned out to be financial time bombs. But according to the Justice Department, prosecutions of cases like those actually dropped between 2000 and 2007. Because so many law enforcement resources were thrown at terrorism during the Bush Administration, federal real estate fraud cases often took a back seat. Last year, even as the crisis became apparent, the Bush Justice Department still rejected a congressional recommendation to create a mortgage fraud task force...
...prisoners through the years - and still does. The most recent human rights report from the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq cites "continuing reports of the widespread and routine torture or ill-treatment of detainees, particularly those being held in pre-trial detention facilities, including police stations." (Read how the Bush Administration approved the use of insects during torture...