A former State Department lawyer tells The Associated Press that the Bush administration panicked after 9/11 and tortured prisoners.
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Sarah (Vogue?) Palin's NRA-atty genl
by Mark Silva
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has tapped an Anchorage lawyer and National Rifle Association director as the state's new attorney general. That is true.
Sarah Palin is not appearing on the cover of Vogue"the governor issue.'' That is false.
The governor today did name Wayne Anthony Ross, who twice sought the Republican Party's nomination for governor, as attorney general. He is a former NRA vice president and current director.
He succeeds Talis Colberg, who resigned amid what Palin called a "harsh political climate." Colberg was a central figure in "Troopergate," the Alaska Legislature's investigation into whether Palin or aides had pressured her public safety commissioner to fire a state trooper involved in a contentious divorce and custody battle with Palin's sister. Colberg filed a lawsuit on behalf of seven state workers challenging legislative subpoenas. A judge rejected the lawsuit and the employees later testified.
The Palin Vogue cover, which has been making the rounds of the Internet lately, appears to be the work of Kodiak Konfidential, a Website in Alaska which is none too friendly to the governor.
It stems from a time, back in 2007, when Vogue did spend some time at the Wasilla home of the governor, former mayor of tiny Wasilla and former television sports broadcastershe gave up any thought of a career with ESPN when she learned it was based in Bristol., Conn., but she did name a daughter Bristol, and Bristol did have a baby and then broke up with the father, but....
"At first they had me in a bunch of furs," Palin told the of the Vogue photo shoot back in 2007. "Yeah, I have furs on my wall, but I don't wear furs. I had to show them my bunny boots and my North Face clothing."
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