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In arkansas he nominated to be federal judge the former president of arkansas right to life. who said if you favored abortion rights you're like a nazi. he's the one that wrote concern for rape victims is a red herring because conceptions from rape occur with the same frequency of snowfall in miami. he should be a judge. then there was jay bybee famous nationally only for authored the memo of bybee. it's a lifetime appointment. he's not going anywhere. to torture guy. republicans now filibuster everything in the senate. they require a 60-vote supermajority for everything down to the level of n...

Surveillance? it seems like a pick your poison kind of thing. obama seems to be a little more discrete. he is not a torture guy. he is a surveillance guy. he is get the bad guys. >> obama wants to wage the war on terror on the cheap by defining it more narrowly. drones are relatively cheap and they don't put u.s. troops on the ground. but i think the important point is whether you like obama or don't like obama presidents have the tendency when the power is there and unchecked to use it. it grows and it is abused. it is not about whether you are a nice guy or a bad guy. that is the message tha...

Away. i am as guilty as anybody. i think it's an understandable thing and it is embarrassing, but it can be helpful. when the vice president of egypt declared he would talk with opposition leaders about government reforms and the government redo disputed elections and suleman appeared on television this afternoon to say those things, it was helpful to remember the american context in which you might have heard of this guy before. the new yorker's jane mayer reminded us that omar suleman, the vice president of egypt was the cia's point man in egypt for renditions, the covert program in which th...

There was a downside. he was not squeamish, by the way. from an admittedly chauvinist chauvinistically america perspective, the two choices that we understand for the leadership in egypt are to the guy from which we outsourced torter from the bush administration or this guy who won the nobel peace price for being right about wmd in iraq and the bush administration was wrong. from this great distance, 5600 miles between here and cairo, looking from america, that's what the choices look like. that does more about the way we look at things than about why. it's getting to things from closer up. he...

It is an american angle. sometimes it can be helpful like today when the newly appointed vice president of egypt declared on tv that he would talk with opposition leaders about government reforms and that the government redo some disputed elections. it was helpful to remember the american context in which you might have heard of this guy before. the new yorkers jane mayor wrote about this reminding us that omar seleiman was the cia's point man. reporting for her 2008 book, the dark side, jane mayor was told