Karl Rove met with his attorneys Friday morning before he was scheduled to to be interviewed before a special prosecutor about the firing of several U.S. attorneys. This video is from MSNBC’s News Live, broadcast May 15, 2009. Download video via RawReplay.com…

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Any torture investigation should focus on the deaths of approximately 100 prisoners who were in U.S. custody, says attorney and human rights investigator John Sifton. Senate torture hearings have examined the effectiveness of enhanced interrogation techniques but Sifton says this is the wrong focus. “Those are the wrong debates to…

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Lt. Dan Choi is an Arabic translator that is being fired from the military for admitting that he is gay. Jon Stewart finds hypocrisy in that the government will bend its moral standards to allow waterboarding but then fires the resources that could translate the results of that waterboarding. This…

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A “Vanity Fair” article written by David Rose reports that the 2007 Sunni Awakening, during which vast numbers of anti-America Iraqis switched sides and began to support U.S. efforts, could have happened in 2004. In Still Bushed, Countdown’s Keith Olbermann ponders why former President Bush prolonged the war. This video…

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Dr. Rand Paul, son of Congressman Ron Paul joins MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow to discuss the turmoil in the Republican Party and to announce that he has launched an exploratory committee for a 2010 Senate run in Kentucky. This video is from MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, broadcast May 14, 2009.…

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Former NBC News investigative producer Bob Windrem and former Iraq weapons inspector Charles Duelfer talk with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow about the origins of the Bush torture policy and the role of the office of Vice President Dick Cheney in the implementation of waterboarding. This video is from MSNBC’s The Rachel…

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FireDogLake’s Emptywheel reported:…

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA-DEM) held a press conference Thursday morning to fight back against reports that she had been told about waterboarding years ago but did little to nothing to stop it. RAW STORY has more details here. This video is from MSNBC’s News Live, broadcast May 14, 2009.…

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CNN caught up with Bill Clinton at a campaign event for Terry McAuliffe in Virginia. They asked Clinton about former Vice President Dick Cheney’s ongoing criticism of President Obama. “I wish him well. It’s over. But I do hope he gets some more target practice before he goes out again,”…

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The Republican National Committee is expected to pass a resolution branding the Democratic Party as the “Democrat Socialist Party” later this week. Keith Olbermann expressed outrage at the GOP namecalling Wednesday. “Since the election, the Republicans seem to be doing whatever has just popped into one of their leaders’ heads,”…

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