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Articles Written by: BEN WHITFORD
The Post fronts word, via a late-breaking Newsweek scoop, of a long-concealed CIA report that found that agency interrogators staged mock executions using a handgun and an electric drill in an attempt to frighten a captured al-Qaeda commander into ...
From BEN WHITFORD,
Slate,
22 Aug 2009
The New York Times leads with news that in the face of stiffening Republican opposition to healthcare reform, Democrats look increasingly likely to quit wooing minority lawmakers and focus instead on building support among their own ranks. In theory, ...
From BEN WHITFORD,
Slate,
19 Aug 2009
The Los Angeles Times leads with a report on the burgeoning Republican resistance to healthcare reform – a campaign that's energized the party's base, but about which many party leaders remain deeply ambivalent. The so-called "August revolt," powered ...
From BEN WHITFORD,
Slate,
16 Aug 2009
The New York Times leads with a report from Tehran, where one of the country's top clerics sharply rebuked the government for its handling of the post-election unrest, even as police used tear gas and batons to disperse a huge crowd of opposition ...
From BEN WHITFORD,
Slate,
18 Jul 2009
The Washington Post leads with word from Tehran, where opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi yesterday published a dossier accusing the government's supporters of orchestrating electoral fraud on a massive scale; meanwhile, a newspaper with close ties ...
From BEN WHITFORD,
Slate,
5 Jul 2009
The New York Times leads on word that the Obama administration may allow Guantanamo detainees to plead guilty on capital charges without facing a full trial—a move that would potentially sidestep the complex legal questions raised by the harsh ...
From BEN WHITFORD,
Slate,
6 Jun 2009
The New York Times leads with word that senior CIA officials ordered the use of waterboarding and other rough treatment against an Al-Qaeda detainee, despite interrogators' conviction that the prisoner had already revealed everything he knew. In a ...
From BEN WHITFORD,
Slate,
18 Apr 2009
The Washington Post and the New York Times lead on Chinese Premier Wen Jinbao's demand that the Obama administration guarantee the safety of Beijing's trillion-dollar investment in U.S. Treasury bonds. "We have lent a huge amount of money to the U.S.," ...
From BEN WHITFORD,
Slate,
14 Mar 2009
Ben Whitford: Hugo Chávez's opponents in Venezuela's cities won a victory this weekend, but they also have their work cut out for ...
Transition is in the air: the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the LA Times all lead with reports that Barack Obama, under pressure to fill a perceived leadership vacuum in the face of the global financial crisis, is to appoint Timothy ...
From BEN WHITFORD,
Slate,
22 Nov 2008
