TIME’s Bobby Ghosh contributes this post: Good riddance! That’s the response of many in Langley to President Obama’s plan to take the interrogation of terrorist suspects away from the CIA. that task will now fall to a new interagency interrogation team announced by the White House today. The High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, or HIG, will [...]
The Department of Justice has announced today that Attorney General Eric Holder will assign a prosecutor to investigate whether crimes were committed in the CIA interrogation of detainees during the Bush Administration. White House aides say that President Obama did not sign off on the decision. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs released this statement today: The [...]
Dog days of summer edition, by Brooks Kraft, via our White House Photo Blog:
Speaking of published garbage, the Swedish newspaper story about Israeli soldiers harvesting organs from Palestinians is the sort of demented nonsense that has reinforced 2000 years of anti-semitism. The “journalist” who wrote the piece apparently linked urban legends he’d been told by Palestinians in the 1990s…to–this is really fantastic–the recent New Jersey corruption scandal, in [...]
A few weeks ago, President Obama gave a rather bizarre answer to Katie Couric, of CBS, who asked if he supported a government insurance option–a so-called “public plan”–that would cover abortions. Though he has previously said he wants the new public insurance option to cover abortion, Obama dodged the question this time. As you know, [...]
The President packed a whole stack of books to take with him to Martha’s Vineyard this week, according to deputy press secretary Bill Burton, who dutifully read off the list of titles at a briefing this morning: The Way Home, by George Pelecanos Hot, Flat, and Crowded, by Tom Friedman Lush Life, by Richard Price [...]
The Telegraph is reporting that Hamid Karzai seems to have “won” the election with “72%” of the vote. If so, a fix will be claimed by his opponents, which may lead to more and greater confusion. But there also have been reports that Karzai wants to bring two of his main opponents–Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani–back [...]
Commonsense rule #1 for influence peddlers: Don’t flaunt it. The poster child for what happens when you do is Michael Deaver, who posed in the back of a limo for this magazine’s cover in 1986. It didn’t have quite the effect he might have hoped: “Who’s This Man Calling?” the headline asked, then answered: “Influence [...]
Here’s how it should work: I’m a columnist and I have a right to my opinions but, in the words of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, I don’t have a right to my own facts. And so every column I write is checked assiduously by Time Magazine researchers. Occasionally, we screw up. Left-wing readers still haven’t let [...]
It is easy to imagine Rahm Emanuel chuckling when he read the Republican Party’s new statement of principles for health care reform, which were released Monday. Like Democrats who decided in 2005 to oppose President George W. Bush’s Social Security reforms without offering any real constructive counter-proposal, the Republican Party, under the leadership of Michael [...]
