Archive for May 13th, 2009
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With Minnesota Race Still Undecided, GOP Presses Online Fundraising Effort (CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com – Republicans are hoping a lot of familiar faces will convince YouTube viewers to kick money into the kitty for Norm Coleman’s Minnesota Senate recount fight.
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Obama reverses course on alleged prison abuse photos
President Obama said Wednesday he told government lawyers to object to a court-ordered release of additional images showing alleged abuse of detainees because the release could affect the safety of U.S. troops and “inflame anti-American opinion.”
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Obama says his, graduates’ best work ahead
In a commencement speech to a stadium full of young graduates at Arizona State University, President Obama told the audience to keep striving and never rely on past achievement. -
Obama seeks to block release of abuse photos (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama declared Wednesday he would try to block the court-ordered release of photos showing U.S. troops abusing prisoners, abruptly reversing his position out of concern the pictures would “further inflame anti-American opinion” and endanger U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. -
Bill Clinton Urges Action on Repayments to TARP, Climate Bill (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg – May 14 (Bloomberg) — Former President Bill Clinton called
on the Obama administration to make a âgenuine effortâ to prod
healthy banks to repay the Troubled Asset Relief Program and
urged Congress to act on legislation to cut U.S. greenhouse-gas
emissions before the global warming summit in Copenhagen this
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Lawyers scoff at W.H. photo claim (Politico)
Politico – Legal experts are scoffing at the White House’s chances of persuading the courts to consider new arguments against the release of photos of abused detainees, though a legislative fix under discussion in Congress might give President Barack Obama the leeway he’s seeking to keep the pictures secret.
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Photo flip: Growing up or selling out? (Politico)
Politico – President Barack Obama’s decision to withhold photographs of abused detainees marks the next phase in the education of the new president on the complicated, combustible issue of torture. -
In reversal, Obama seeks to block abuse photos
The president will try to block the release of hundreds of photos showing U.S. troops allegedly abusing prisoners, after military commanders warned the images could endanger soldiers. -
Actress testifies at NY campaign corruption trial (AP)
AP – A television actress testified Wednesday about her real-life role in a campaign corruption scandal that has embarrassed some of the Democratic Party’s biggest names.
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Senate Democrats want Gitmo inmates kept out of US (AP)
AP – New legislation by Senate Democrats would fund the closure of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but it would block the transfer of any of the detainees to the United States.
