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...accused in criminal cases, who supported gay rights and opposed school prayer. As a nominee Souter had the strong support of Bush's White House chief of staff John Sununu, who would assure his fellow conservatives that Souter would be a "home run" for their team. In retrospect, he was right about the home run, wrong about the team. (TIME judges the possible Souter replacements...
...throughout each scene as characters walk in and out of the frame. However, this lack of sophistication serves also to enhance the bare setting and the serious reflection the filmmakers had in mind. “Every kind of criticism leveled against the film is precisely its strength in retrospect,” Wang says...
...retrospect, the apparent change of heart was almost a self-fulfilling prophecy: after all, it was Obama himself who last week ordered the release of four Bush Administration legal memos justifying interrogations that included waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other harsh methods. The documents - with their excruciating details largely intact, despite CIA Director Leon Panetta's call that more be blacked out - outraged partisans on both sides...
...been called the world's most famous capitalist. How is the recession treating you? We've been doing well. I finished many jobs a year ago, two years ago, sold things a couple of years ago - not because I had any great vision, but I guess in retrospect I did. But we have many great jobs that were finished a couple of years ago, as opposed to now. We really missed a large portion of the depression...
...states that, "According to the [CIA] IG Report, the CIA, at least initially, could not always distinguish detainees who had information but were successfully resisting interrogation from those who did not actually have information ... On at least one occasion, this may have resulted in what might be deemed in retrospect to have been the unnecessary use of enhanced techniques. On that occasion, although the on-scene interrogation team judged Zubaydah to be compliant, elements within CIA headquarters still believed he was withholding information ... At the direction of CIA Headquarters, interrogators therefore used the waterboard one more time on Zubaydah...