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Apr. 2nd, 2003 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sisyphusshruggedNo Clinton papers over the table from this White House, nossir.
A federal judge has upheld the Bush administration's claims of secrecy for the records of former president Bill Clinton's last-day pardons, including writings of officials Clinton never talked to and papers he never saw.
U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler handed the Justice Department a broad victory against Judicial Watch over the inside story of the pardons and commutations Clinton granted or considered in his final days in office.
In a 14-page ruling, Kessler said that the "presidential communications privilege" President Bush's lawyers invoked had to be considered not only in the context of an individual president's interest in shielding information from the public, but also in its "broader, historical context" of allowing presidential advisers to give the fullest and most candid advice they can on sensitive issues. "Thus, the presidential communications privilege [a subset of executive privilege] serves as a vitally important protection for the institution," she said.
Clinton recently waived his right to restrict access to most of the confidential advice he received during his administration. The step will allow historians, scholars and others to have access to the documents within a few years unless Bush, or any successor, vetoes their release.
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Texas to Toss Drug Convictions Against 38 People
Texas Court Acts to Clear 38, Almost All Black, in Drug Case
Earl Caldwell Bob Herbert (thanks, Chris) ought to get a Pulitzer for this. If he hadn't kept the heat on, a lot of people would still be in jail for LWB.
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War Sure Is Just Heck, Isn't It? The House of Cards files:
Sniping at the 'Plan' Strikes Some Nerves
Prelate Reassures Catholic Soldiers
Geraldo Rivera 'Volunteered' to Leave Iraq [in wake of pinpointing his position and plans, accurately this time, to the enemy]
Text: A General's Views on Defense at Checkpoints and Lack of Iraqi Defections
O'Connor Questions Foes of U-Michigan Policy
Missing Journalists Safe, Had Been Jailed in Iraq
Panels Approve War Spending but Reject Free Rein for White House
Head of Military Denounces Critics of Iraq Campaign
Ex-Generals Defend Their Blunt Comments
House Moves to Give Millions in Security Aid to New York
Stupidest controversy ever.
still, not all the international news is bad:
A Mission Travels on Its Stomach - because our guy at the UN is doing such a great job...
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On Affirmative Action, High Court Seeks Nuance
Transcript of Arguments in Grutter v. Bollinger
Transcript of Arguments in Gratz v. Bollinger
the short version
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Report Said Directors Should Return Unfair Trading Profits and it don't rain in Indianapolis in the summertime.
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Nominee backpeddles into hyperspace
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Health Workers, Once Allies, Jam Albany to Denounce Pataki's Cuts
They have enough trouble without my saying I told you so, I think.
Is everybody enjoying the moderate Governor Pataki since his move to the center?
Dennis Rivera delenda est. Or at least yelled at.
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some good news
Medicine for Sickle Cell Anemia Also Prolongs Life for Sickest Patients, Study Says
Anti-Cancer Drug Greatly Reduces Sickle Cell Mortality (washingtonpost.com)
Agency to End Ads That Link Drugs, Terror
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Writing 9/11 Eulogies Links Two Disparate New Yorkers
If this is as good as the play, find a way to see it.
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TV goes to war * Collateral damage * Farewell, Senator Moynihan * An Iraqi butcher in New York * Rumors of war and the barking of dogs * Archived coverage of the war from The New Yorker * Sy Hersh: why did we lie? * What are we planning to do when it's over? * the infamous Perle/Khashoggi article * What was Bush thinking? * Bombing Baghdad
A federal judge has upheld the Bush administration's claims of secrecy for the records of former president Bill Clinton's last-day pardons, including writings of officials Clinton never talked to and papers he never saw.
U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler handed the Justice Department a broad victory against Judicial Watch over the inside story of the pardons and commutations Clinton granted or considered in his final days in office.
In a 14-page ruling, Kessler said that the "presidential communications privilege" President Bush's lawyers invoked had to be considered not only in the context of an individual president's interest in shielding information from the public, but also in its "broader, historical context" of allowing presidential advisers to give the fullest and most candid advice they can on sensitive issues. "Thus, the presidential communications privilege [a subset of executive privilege] serves as a vitally important protection for the institution," she said.
Clinton recently waived his right to restrict access to most of the confidential advice he received during his administration. The step will allow historians, scholars and others to have access to the documents within a few years unless Bush, or any successor, vetoes their release.
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Texas to Toss Drug Convictions Against 38 People
Texas Court Acts to Clear 38, Almost All Black, in Drug Case
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War Sure Is Just Heck, Isn't It? The House of Cards files:
Sniping at the 'Plan' Strikes Some Nerves
Prelate Reassures Catholic Soldiers
Geraldo Rivera 'Volunteered' to Leave Iraq [in wake of pinpointing his position and plans, accurately this time, to the enemy]
Text: A General's Views on Defense at Checkpoints and Lack of Iraqi Defections
O'Connor Questions Foes of U-Michigan Policy
Missing Journalists Safe, Had Been Jailed in Iraq
Panels Approve War Spending but Reject Free Rein for White House
Head of Military Denounces Critics of Iraq Campaign
Ex-Generals Defend Their Blunt Comments
House Moves to Give Millions in Security Aid to New York
Stupidest controversy ever.
still, not all the international news is bad:
A Mission Travels on Its Stomach - because our guy at the UN is doing such a great job...
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On Affirmative Action, High Court Seeks Nuance
Transcript of Arguments in Grutter v. Bollinger
Transcript of Arguments in Gratz v. Bollinger
the short version
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Report Said Directors Should Return Unfair Trading Profits and it don't rain in Indianapolis in the summertime.
-----
Nominee backpeddles into hyperspace
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Health Workers, Once Allies, Jam Albany to Denounce Pataki's Cuts
They have enough trouble without my saying I told you so, I think.
Is everybody enjoying the moderate Governor Pataki since his move to the center?
Dennis Rivera delenda est. Or at least yelled at.
-----
some good news
Medicine for Sickle Cell Anemia Also Prolongs Life for Sickest Patients, Study Says
Anti-Cancer Drug Greatly Reduces Sickle Cell Mortality (washingtonpost.com)
Agency to End Ads That Link Drugs, Terror
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Writing 9/11 Eulogies Links Two Disparate New Yorkers
If this is as good as the play, find a way to see it.
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TV goes to war * Collateral damage * Farewell, Senator Moynihan * An Iraqi butcher in New York * Rumors of war and the barking of dogs * Archived coverage of the war from The New Yorker * Sy Hersh: why did we lie? * What are we planning to do when it's over? * the infamous Perle/Khashoggi article * What was Bush thinking? * Bombing Baghdad
Chris Q. from Hindsight Aforethought here.
Date: 2003-04-02 12:40 pm (UTC)(I haven't read the Daily News regularly in years, so I don't know what Caldwell's done lately, but Herbert has been all over the Tulia case in the Times.)