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            <title><![CDATA[Sonia Scores a KO]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Not even the roughest-and most leading-questions from the GOP peanut gallery could derail Obama's Supreme Court nominee Tuesday. As Scott Horton argues, she's cruising toward confirmation. 
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            <title><![CDATA[Torture Prosecution Turnaround?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The attorney general is leaning toward appointing a special prosecutor to investigate Bush-era torture policy, sources tell Scott Horton. Inside the logic driving Eric Holder's possible conversion.
The Obama White House has deflected calls for...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Where Iran's Regime Learned Its Tricks]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Iran's torture practices are even worse than the beatings on YouTube. Daily Beast contributor and human rights lawyer Scott Horton on the nation's most notorious torturer.
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            <title><![CDATA[The Real Story Behind the CIA's Torture Policy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Daily Beast's Scott Horton gets the inside scoop from Jane Mayer on CIA chief Leon Panetta-and how he advocated for a truth commission on torture but was rebuffed by Obama, who saw it as a potentially dangerous political distraction.
On Monday,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Torture: Update and Correction]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Update and correction: Since my story on torture photos posted Friday, Salon has accurately pointed out that the sexually explicit photographs focused on in my story were first published by Salon in 2006, and that all the Salon photographs have in fact...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Bogus Torture Coverup]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Update and correction: Since this story posted Friday, Salon has accurately pointed out that the sexually explicit photographs focused on in my story were first published by Salon in 2006, and that all the Salon photographs have in fact been released...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Closing the Case Against Sotomayor]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Three lines of attack have been outlined against Sonia Sotomayor: The Princeton and Yale Law graduate is dim, a product of affirmative action, and a reverse-racist. The Daily Beast's Scott Horton debunks each one.
Plus, more Daily Beast contributors...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[One Tough Judge]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sonia Sotomayor built a reputation (and made a lot of enemies) by driving prosecutors nuts, The Daily Beast's Scott Horton reports. Now, the questions begin about her religion and her mysterious views on abortion.
Plus, more Daily Beast contributors...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Turning Point in the Torture Debate]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ As Speaker Pelosi accuses the CIA of lying to her about waterboarding, The Daily Beast's Scott Horton asks if the tide is turning in the debate.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) opened a hearing on the Bush administration's torture policy quoting...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Did Pelosi Know?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Republicans are using reports that the speaker was briefed on torture to turn around the debate and duck further hearings. The Daily Beast's Scott Horton asks: Will the tactic work?
Republicans are launching a counteroffensive as the torture debate...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Justice Department Probe Slams Bush Lawyers Over Torture Ethics]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A new Justice Department report about Bush lawyers who legitimized torture techniques is "devastating," a source tells The Daily Beast's Scott Horton, and contrary to The New York Times, criminal charges aren't off the table-Attorney General Eric...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Prosecution of Bush Six Back On]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Daily Beast's Scott Horton reports that a judge in Spain decided today that an investigation of Bush officials involved in torture policy will go forward and can lead to prosecution.
In a ruling in Madrid today, Judge Baltasar Garz&oacute;n has...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Busting the Torture Myths]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Scott Horton, who has led coverage of Bush-era wrongdoing, exposes three pervasive myths-and the surprising reason Cheney and Rove are keeping the issue alive.
&bull; A torture memo writer refused to comply with a warning about criminal risks-and...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama v. the Justice Department]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[UPDATE, 5/06: The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) has completed a 220-page report looking into possible ethics violations by Jay S. Bybee, John C. Yoo and Steven G. Bradbury-the three principal authors of the Bush...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gonzales' New Coverup]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The emerging wiretap scandal ensnaring House Democrat Jane Harman leads to a familiar face: Alberto Gonzales, who may have stifled the investigation for his own political gain.
While press coverage of potential political corruption surrounding an...]]></description>
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