Entries by emptywheel

The al-Haramain Case Stays On Track

It was late and welcome news Friday afternoon when Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision in the al-Haramain case came in. The seminal importance of Walker’s decision to allow the matter to proceed against the fierce efforts to dismiss it by the government simply cannot be overstated.

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The Torture Memos and the FBI-CIA Dispute

David Johnston wrote an article shortly after Bush brought the High Value Detainees to Gitmo. It helps elucidate a lot of the details we’re seeing in the torture memos. And the torture memos serve to explain why the FBI-CIA dispute he portrayed took the form it did.

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Do CEOs Really Matter?

There’s a BusinessWeek report that confirms two things I’ve been arguing for a while: that Bob Nardelli will be ousted no matter what happens with Chrysler in the upcoming two weeks.

Chrysler CEO Robert Nardelli confirmed in a letter to employees today that he will likely be replaced as CEO of the automaker in the coming weeks as the company faces either an alliance with Italian automaker Fiat or a bankruptcy

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