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UN investigator: Obama must release details of Bush kidnapping and torture program

President Barack Obama must release the details of internal probes into the Bush administration’s practice of kidnapping and torturing terrorism suspects, a United Nations investigator said Monday. Ben Emmerson, the U.N. special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism, will release a new report on…

Fox can’t guard the henhouse if the fox is extinct

Bush wants science where it really belongs: in the hands of the federal government. The Bush administration wants federal agencies to decide for themselves whether highways, dams, mines and other construction projects might harm endangered animals and plants. New regulations, which don’t require the approval of Congress, would reduce the…