Judy Shepard, mother of Matthew Shepard and executive director of the Matthew Shepard Foundation responds to recent statements regarding her son’s death by Rep. Foxx and shares her perspective on the new hate crimes bill in Congress. This video is from MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, broadcast Apr. 30, 2009.…

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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told students at Stanford that she didn’t authorize torture, she merely forwarded the authorization for it. Author John Dean told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann that Rice may have admitted to a criminal conspiracy. This video is from MSNBC’s Countdown, broadcast Apr. 30, 2009. Download video…

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Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff talks with Rachel Maddow about the guilty plea by Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri and what it means for the future prosecution of terrorists. This video is from MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, broadcast Apr. 30, 2009. Download video via RawReplay.com…

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House Minority Leader John Boehner has posted an alarming new video on his YouTube page that includes images of the Pentagon burning on Sept. 11, 2009. “I’m trying to push the administration to describe what their overarching strategy is,” Boehner told Politico. This video is from YouTube, broadcast Apr. 29,…

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President Obama says Chrysler and Fiat will form a partnership following Chrysler bankruptcy reorganization. RAW STORY has more details here. This video is from MSNBC’s News Live, broadcast Apr. 30, 2009. Download video via RawReplay.com…

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A group of students at Stanford confronted former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice about her role in authorizing the waterboarding of detainees. Rice said that she didn’t authorize torture. Rather, she just “conveyed the authorization” to the CIA. Rice also contended that waterboarding wasn’t illegal because it had been authorized…

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Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that President Obama’s suggestion that waterboarding yielded valuable information was “disturbing.” The President told reporters that he thought “waterboarding was torture” during a Wednesday news conference but also implied that reliable intelligence was gained from the interrogation technique. “It is obviously…

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The Daily Show featured a “ceremonial changing of the party designation” to celebrate Sen. Arlen Specter’s defection to the Democratic Party. Jon Stewart questioned Specter’s principles in making the party switch. “Senator, people are saying you made the switch just to win reelection. That can’t be true, right?” The Daily…

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The White House has backtracked over comments Vice President Joe Biden said this morning on The Today Show in which he remarked that he’d told his family to avoid subways, trains and “confined places” over the recent scare of swine flu. A White House source purportedly called Biden’s remarks “imprecise”…

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Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) read a very long list of sex acts not covered by the hate crimes bill on the House floor Wednesday. The Huffington Post speculated that he “likely set a congressional record” for citing the most sex acts of any speech in Congress. “I apologize to our…

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