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All you need to know about Julian Assange's value as a crusading journalist is that The New York Times and most of the world's other leading newspapers have led daily with important news stories based on his WikiLeaks releases. All you need to know about the collapse of traditional support for the constitutional protection of a free press is that Dianne Feinstein, the centrist Democrat who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, has called for Assange "to be vigorously prosecuted for espionage.
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Feinstein, who strongly supported the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, has the audacity to call for the imprisonment of the man who, more than any other individual, has allowed the public to learn the truth about those disastrous imperial adventures - fact...
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DUPLICITY -- ***-- Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Paul Giamatti; rated PG-13 (vulgarity, profanity, brief sex, violence, drugs, brief nudity, slurs); in general release
For someone who supposedly had no interest in becoming the new James Bond, Clive Owen sure keeps taking on a lot of parts that are similar to that of the suave superspy.
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In a sign that electric vehicles are serious business indeed, French automaker Renault fired two employees who are accused of selling corporate secret...
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**1/2 Writer/director Tony Gilroy-the director of Michael Clayton and The Bourne Ultimatum- runs his ship aground with a smarty-pants crime romance set amid the world of corporate espionage. Über...
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There is an ongoing debate at the highest levels of government about what to do about alleged illegal conduct of the Bush administration. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi favors prosecutions, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday on Chairman Patrick Leahy's plan to establish a South African-style "truth commission," and President Obama has spoken variously about prosecuting "instances of wrongdoing" or "moving forward" by putting past mistakes behind us.
A truly independent and non-partisan inquiry might prove interesting, as many of the most controversial positions of the Bush administration appear to have already been embraced by the Obama team. During confirmation hearings, both Attorney General Eric Holder and Solicitor General nominee Elena Kagan testified that Ameri...
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** 1/2 Writer/director Tony Gilroy -the director of Michael Clayton and The Bourne Ultimatum- runs his ship aground with a smarty-pants crime romance set amid the world of corporate espionage. Über...
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An example of climate change political duplicity by environmental czar Carol Browner is displayed in a recent Wall Street Journal article by Jonathan Weisman ("Browner Shrugs Off Hot Debate on Climate Change Emails," Nov. 25).
I wonder why the BDN, which supports climate change legislation, has yet to report on the recent release of the potentially damaging e-mails related to the subject and reported recently in the Wall Street Journal and other news sources.
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** 1/2 Writer/director Tony Gilroy Michael Clayton, The Bourne Ultimatum) runs his ship aground with a smarty-pants crime romance set amid the world of corporate espionage. Über...
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In a sign that electric vehicles are serious business indeed, French automaker Renault fired two employees who are accused of selling corporate secret...