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Bill Moyers
The Bush administration's hostility toward freedom of information dates back to the days when Rumsfeld and Cheney worked for Gerald Ford.

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Gareth Porter

At long last, American officials are preparing to negotiate with the Sunni resistance.
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The Bush administration's intransigence on climate change has inspired a mutiny of mayors.
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Torture and morality; the Muslim Brotherhood; and the unfairness of fair trade: Readers react in this week's letters.
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Iraq's Tipping Point Robert Dreyfuss
Fear Of The Pill Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney
America's Gulag Problem Aziz Huq


			Number of people in the United States the National Security Agency has eavesdropped on, without warrants, at any given time since 2002: 500

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"I said I made the right decision. Knowing what I know today, I would have still made that decision."

This week on Brit Hume, Bush said he would have invaded even if there weren't any WMDs in Iraq.


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	Our Editors' Blog The Peril Of Detached Rhetoric By placing polls and the opinion of officers above the hard lessons of the 1990s, Democrats have lost the high ground on Iraq. Friday 12:58 PM A Victory Against Bigotry Liberal bloggers and equality groups lobbied Ford not to cave to pressure from anti-gay forces—and they won. Thursday 12:08 PM Chase Scrooge From Capitol Hill This week is the final showdown in the battle to save funding for social programs. Wednesday 10:58 AM


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