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This legacy is precisely why we find President Obama’s recent decision to block the release of more detainee abuse photographs—which span a total of five years’ worth of images and depict a series of extreme interrogation techniques classified as torture, including waterboarding—to be extremely disappointing. Last month, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs announced that the Obama administration planned to release the photographs, citing a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. But, on May 13, the administration changed its mind. The White House?...
...plane to the Maldives, tourists sigh about the luxury resorts and sun-dappled beaches to which they are bound. From above, the country's coral-fringed lagoons in the Indian Ocean look computer-generated: arrayed in turquoise pods, they stretch over an azure expanse that would span from Rome to Budapest. Ibn Battuta, the 14th century Arab explorer, hailed the archipelago as "one of the wonders of the world." Ever since, the Maldives has enchanted shipwrecked sailors, Hollywood celebrities and Russian oligarchs fortunate enough to wash up by its shores. Yet beneath this outsiders' vision of paradise lurks a more...
...rental records were published in search of dirty secrets--that to this day, a nominee sidelined by activists is said to have been "borked." Clarence Thomas' 1991 bid was nearly scuppered when former colleague Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment; their lurid testimony was aired live on C-SPAN for a mesmerized American public...
Howard Mortman, C-SPAN (6:55 p.m.) in search of don draper from mad men. saw justice scalia instead. oh well. #nerdprom...
...patient relationship" by never "putting politicians in charge of your health care." And not just any old politicians, but "federal bureaucrats, Washington lobbyists and out-of-touch politicians." Luntz even strings his creations together into mini-speeches on the topic, including phrases such as this soon-to-be C-SPAN classic: "We need targeted reform with measurable results that improves patient care - not a politicized, special interest-driven radical restructuring...