The Justice Department will investigate alleged abuses by CIA officers under the Bush administration after newly released reports suggested interrogators threatened prisoners with power drills and mock executions. But will the independent prosecutor create a partisan mess and sever the administration's relationship with the intelligence community?
7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk
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Colin Powell blasts Rush, Bill Maher weighs in on his feud with Fox News, and an apology is demanded of Newt Gingrich. That and more highlights from our roundup of Sunday's talk shows.
Obama vs. Cheney
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
Barack Obama squared off against his new archnemesis, Dick Cheney, with dueling speeches on national security Thursday. The speeches read like point-by-point rebuttals of one another. The Daily Beast scores the fight.
Forget 100 Days. By Saturday afternoon, Obama will have already hit his first milestone-100 hours in office. In a head-spinning week he closed Gitmo, fired up the stimulus package, worked the phones in the Middle East, and took an oath or two. But the problems are quickly mounting. By Benjamin Sarlin.
Closing Guantanamo when Bush leaves office could set hundreds of terrorists free. Leaving it open may be America's best--and only--option.
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Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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