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Jason Leopold on Cheney, Torture, and Obama's Shortsightedness

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W e keep thinking that things can't possibly get any worse. And then they do. It's so disheartening. Anything else you'd like to add before we wrap this up, Jason?

Thanks Joan. Sadly, I think things are going to become much worse before it gets better, particularly in the civil liberties area. This administration still has not made a clean break from the past administration's abuses. And, as Republicans continue to hammer the Democrats for being weak on national security, Democrats will continue to respond by implementing or renewing Bush era policies as a way of showing how tough they are. It's a vicious circle.

Well, this was informative even if it wasn't particularly fun or uplifting. Thanks for talking with me, Jason. We'll look forward to reading your coverage on this and other matters of public concern.

Thank you so much for your patience and for conducting a truly, truly great interview!

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These are links to my reporting over the past two years on the OPR report on Yoo (all of which contained information that turned out to be dead on)

DOJ Report on Torture Memo: Yoo Said Bush Could Order "Massacre" of Civilians

Justice Department Clears Torture Memo Authors John Yoo, Jay Bybee of Misconduct

DOJ Report on Yoo/Bybee Torture Memos "Damning'

Four Years Later, Probe Into Genesis of "Torture Memo' Still Incomplete

Bush Aides Changed Watchdog Report

Yoo Memos Gave Retroactive Cover

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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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