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On May 13, in a Washington court filing, the Obama Justice Department eliminated the category of “unlawful enemy combatant,” which the Bush administration had built into the 2006 Military Commis... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Elliot D. Cohen/20 Sun, 24 May 2009 01:28:30 Submitted by BuzzFlash on Sat, 02/07/2009 - 9:25am.

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Dick Cheney’s recent warning of a future “9-11 type” terrorist attack on the U.S. homeland was quickly dismissed by some mainstream media pundits as just another benign and misguided attempt by the former Vice President to... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Elliot D. Cohen/19 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:19:56 The McCain/Palin campaign has gained ground on the Obama/Biden campaign not because it has proven to more Americans through rational argument that its proposals for addressing the nation’s domestic, foreign, and global problems are superior but because it has successfully used chicanery and fallacio... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Elliot D. Cohen/18 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:53:47 Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 12/17/2007 - 10:15am.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has yielded to the Bush Administration and telecom lobbyists by sending the Senate Intelligence Committee's version of the FISA Amendments Act of 2007 (S... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Elliot D. Cohen/17 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:29:53 Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 12/11/2007 - 10:22am. Guest Contribution

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Despite the fact that the recent National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran maintains a high level of assurance that Iran ceased its nuclear weapons program in 2003, President Bush and Vice President ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Elliot D. Cohen/16 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:10:05 Submitted by Chad on Mon, 11/12/2007 - 10:24am. Guest Contribution
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Amid public outcry, in 2003, Congress defunded the Bush Administration's Total Information Awareness (TIA) project, a massive Orwellian technology-driven surveillance and data m... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Elliot D. Cohen/15 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:53:21 Originally Published on Truthdig www.truthdig.com

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The Senate Intelligence Committee has recently agreed to give the Bush administration what it wants: full retroactive immunity for the telecom companies against civil suits for helping the government eavesdrop... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Elliot D. Cohen/14 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:43:19 Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 09/24/2007 - 10:56am. Guest Contribution
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To the vast majority of Americans, today may seem like just another day -- work, coffee, TV, and the family dog. But there is now something chillingly different about Ameri... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Elliot D. Cohen/13 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:42:44 Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 9:07am. Guest Contribution
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The recently passed "Protect America Act of 2007" (S. 1927), which expands presidential powers under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to spy on our o... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Elliot D. Cohen/12 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:38:43 Elliot D. Cohen
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There is presently a serious possibility that America will come under martial law before the 2008 presidential election and be irretrievably turned into a totalitarian state. I... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Elliot D. Cohen/11 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:39:33 Submitted by BuzzFlash on Thu, 07/12/2007 - 4:19pm. Interviews
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My belief is that the person in the street, the person who tunes in to TV, needs to be more critical, needs to ask questions, needs to demand answers, and should be willing to shut off Chris Matthews unless he st... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Elliot D. Cohen/10 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:20:41 Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 07/16/2007 - 10:26am. Guest Contribution
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The unfolding of events over the past 7 years and the recent emergence of certain key facts point to the prospect of an ominous conclusion: before the summer is up, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Elliot D. Cohen/9 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:22:38 Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 06/19/2007 - 12:04pm. Guest Contribution
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There is something morally repugnant about claiming to support a war that involves the destruction of thousands of human lives unless you are truly committed to the ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Elliot D. Cohen/7 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:31:01 Elliot D. Cohen: How Do You Spell “DICTATOR”?
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The majority of Americans are clearly against escalating the war in Iraq... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Elliot D. Cohen/6 Sat, 13 Jan 2007 15:03:19 Elliot D. Cohen: Bush's Global Mission: His Flawed Logic for Escalating the Iraq War
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Recently, in one of his special comments, Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC's Count... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Elliot D. Cohen/5 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:17:17 Elliot D. Cohen: Would A Dictator Graciously Relinquish Power?
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There is an aura of optimism in the air. Americans are looking forward to change in the aftermath of... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Elliot D. Cohen/4 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:29:25 Elliot D. Cohen: Bush's Chilling New Definition of "Unlawful Enemy Combatant"
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George W. Bush has repeatedly warned, "Either you're with us or you stand with the t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Elliot D. Cohen/3 Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:53:50 Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D.: Chavez Had a Right to Call Bush the Devil - And Pelosi, Rangel and other Dems Should Have Said So

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In his famous essay, "On Liberty," John ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Elliot D. Cohen/2 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:10:18 Why the Net is Poised to Become a Global Weapon of Mass Deception

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Hindsight is often touted as better than foresight, yet such a truism should not blind us to an imminent threat before it happens. Like someone who takes up with an abusive mate an... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Elliot D. Cohen/1 Thu, 04 May 2006 21:35:37