A few days after hijacked planes smashed into the World Trade Center, reporters asked President George W. Bush about his plans for Osama bin Laden. “There’s an old poster out West,” Bush replied. It says, “Wanted, Dead or Alive.” Ten ...

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney accomplished something last week that Republicans have seldom been able to do: directly challenge President Barack Obama in real time on a major policy issue. In a nationally televised speech delivered just minutes after Obama ...

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When high-ups at Central Intelligence Agency headquarters ordered the torture of Abu Zubaydah, they thought he had been withholding valuable information. There was no ticking time bomb, and no one ever claimed there was. They just thought he knew more ...

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Barack Obama has promised many times that he will have the most accountable administration in history. But early on, he missed two opportunities to show he means what he says. First, Tim Geithner's nomination to head the Treasury Department should have been withdrawn once his weaknesses were apparent. Second, Obama should have never picked Eric Holder to be attorney general.

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