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Glenn Greenwald's Blog (67 Links)
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Glenn Greenwald worked as an American Constitutional and civil rights lawyer prior to becoming an award-winning blogger, focusing on political and legal topics. This channel is automatically updated!
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Those authoritarian, torture-loving French
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French documentarians conducted an experiment where they created a faux game show -- with all the typical studio trappings -- and then instructed participants (who thought it was a real TV show) to administer electric shock to unseen contestants each [More...]
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Obama threatens to veto greater intelligence oversight
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(updated below) One of the principal weapons used by the Bush administration to engage in illegal surveillance activities -- from torture to warrantless eavesdropping -- was its refusal to brief the full Congressional Intelligence Committees about its [More...]
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U.S.-Israel rift undermining some long-standing taboos
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The rather extraordinary dust-up between the U.S. and Israel has, among other benefits, shined a light on two of the most taboo yet self-evidently true propositions:   (1) our joined-at-the-hip relationship with Israel is a [More...]
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Salon Radio: Manipulative use of the term "Terrorism"
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There's a great paradox in the American political landscape:  the word that is used most frequently to justify everything from invasions and bombings to torture, indefinite detention, and the sprawling Surveillance State -- Terrorism [More...]
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Salon Radio: Remi Brulin Transcript
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To read about and listen to this podcast discussion, go here. Glenn Greenwald: My guest today on Salon Radio is Rémi Brulin, who teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at NYU, and is currently working on and close to finishing his Ph.D. [More...]
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The warped platitude of DC "centrism"
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The Washington Post's Dana Milbank dresses up in idiotic costumes, and the overriding attribute of his commentary is adolescent, above-it-all snideness, and he's thus deemed a wild, unpredictable, creative "contrarian" in Beltway media circles. [More...]
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The Democrats' scam becomes more transparent
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about what seemed to be a glaring (and quite typical) scam perpetrated by Congressional Democrats:  all year long, they insisted that the White House and a majority of Democratic Senators vigorously [More...]
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Carville/Greenberg strategists and national security
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Earlier this week, a new poll and accompanying "strategic analysis" was released by Democracy Corps (the Democratic firm founded by James Carville, Stan Greenberg and Bob Shrum), along with Greenberg Quinlan Rosner [More...]
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American elites abandon their faux regret over Iraq
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The New York Times' Tom Friedman, who did as much as any single individual to persuade large numbers of Democrats and "moderates" to support the invasion of Iraq, today writes: Former President George W. Bush’s gut instinct that this [More...]
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The majestic petulance of John Roberts
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The petulance and sense of self-importance on display here is quite something to behold: U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Obama's State of the Union address was "very troubling" . . . . Obama [More...]
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Compare and contrast
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I'll just go ahead and pass this on without (much) comment, because the point is self-evident: Iran Torture Trials Begin EHRAN, Iran — The trial in Iran opened Tuesday for 12 suspects accused of torturing to death three anti-government protesters [More...]
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NYU Law School event
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On February 26, I spoke at NYU School of Law, at an event hosted by that school's Center on Law and Security, regarding civil liberties, Obama, Terrorism and many political and media issues that are frequent topics of discussion [More...]
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Obama sabotages himself with pseudo "pragmatism"
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A new poll from the Democratic polling firm founded by James Carville and Stan Greenberg -- and co-sponsored by the "centrist" Third Way -- provides what its sponsors call "a wake-up call for President Obama, his party, and [More...]
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High standards at The Washington Post
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By publishing a book that clearly and unapologetically defends the Bush torture regime, Marc Thiessen catapulted himself from obscure, low-level Bush speechwriter into regular Washington Post columnist, joining fellow torture defenders Charles Krauthammer [More...]
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Congressional condemnation of Cheney/Kristol?
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One of the most inane acts undertaken by the Democratic Congress was its formal and highly bipartisan condemnation of MoveOn.org's "Petraeus/Betrayus" ad.  Regardless of one's views of that ad, formally opining on particular newspaper [More...]
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Why do journalists expect to have credibility?
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(updated below) Clark Hoyt, New York Times Public Editor, March 21, 2009: THE Times has a tough policy on anonymous sources, but continues to fall down in living up to it. . . .Last year, at my request, a group of journalism students at Columbia [More...]
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The WP: Obama close to reversing Holder on civilian trials
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(updated below) One of the very few commendable steps taken by the Obama administration toward reversing the Bush/Cheney Constitution/Terrorism template was the DOJ's decision to try the five accused 9/11 defendants in a civilian court (just as [More...]
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The right kind of bigotry
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From the long-time Editor-in-Chief and owner of The New Republic, this morning: There were moments--long moments--during the Iraq war when I had my doubts. Even deep doubts. Frankly, I couldn’t quite imagine any venture requiring trust with Arabs [More...]
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The WP's employment of a fear-mongering smear artist
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(updated below) One of the DOJ lawyers being smeared as part of the "Al Qaeda 7" campaign by Cheney/Kristol (and Wolf Blitzer/CNN) is Karl Thompson, who, while at the law firm O'Melveney & Myers in 2007, represented [More...]
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The full-scale collapse: From Murrow to Blitzer
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(updated below) When discussing the McCarthyite DOJ witch hunt spawned by Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol, I wrote yesterday:  now that "we have real, live, contemporary McCarthyites in our midst -- Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol -- [More...]

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