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Report Finds US Use of Torture During Bush Administration ‘Indisputable’

A damning and explosive report prepared by a group of bipartisan high-ranking officials concludes that the United States engaged in the ”indisputable” use of torture during the Bush administration and it urges President Obama to close the Guantanamo detention camp by the end of 2014. The report comes as U.S. officials defend a raid they conducted last Saturday [...]

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Bush Urges GOP ‘Benevolent Spirit’ With Immigration Reform

The man who first invoked “compassionate conservatism” en route to first winning the White House 12 years ago is imploring the Republican Part to do likewise when it comes to the issue of immigration. Making just his second policy speech since leaving office four years ago, former President George W. Bush made an implicit rebuke [...]

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Obama and Romney Enlist Thousands of Lawyers Should Outcome Of Election Be Contested

Both President Barack Obama‘s and Mitt Romney‘s campaigns have enlisted thousands of attorneys in case any factors cause the upcoming election to be contested, the Washington Post reported. One particularly notable factor being Hurricane Sandy. Both campaigns have legal staffs that have already begun war-gaming the legal possibilities. Obama’s effort is headed by former White House counsel [...]

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George W. Bush Gets Beheaded, HBO Apologizes

HBO was forced to apologize on Wednesday after a brewing backlash that its lead show “Game of Thrones” featured former President George W. Bush’s severed head impaled on a spike. In a newly released DVD of the first season, one of the writers confirms that the head is indeed that of Bush but insist it [...]

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Americans Still Blame Bad Economy on Bush More than Obama

In a bit of news that likely will drive Republicans batty, a new Gallup poll shows that many more Americans still blame the nation’s economic woes on George W. Bush than on Barack Obama, more than three years after Obama took office. When asked, “Thinking about the economic problems currently facing the United States, how [...]

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Colin Powell Reveals In New Book, Iraq War Wasn’t Debated

George W. Bush’s national security advisers never met to discuss the wisdom of going to war with Iraq in 2003, former Secretary of State Colin Powell writes in a new book. In the book, Powell reportedly calls his February speech before the United Nations “one of my most momentous failures, the one with the widest-ranging [...]