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January 23, 2009

He's the prez now
By Jeff Inglis

A brief summary of my thoughts since Inauguration Day:
-Closing Gitmo is great. Even spending a night in one of those cells was pretty bad - much less being waterboarded, starved, and otherwise tortured.
-Putting back the Geneva Conventions and the Army interrogation manual is also really a good sign for human rights around the world, as well as to restore America's standing among nations.

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January 07, 2009

Bizarre signs of concern, and a bright spot or two
By Jeff Inglis

First up, what about this whole Leon Panetta as CIA director thing? On the good side, he's a civilian with long experience navigating the halls of power in DC. On the bad side, the CIA is badly screwed up and Panetta has no real prior knowledge of running an intel operation (sure, he handled some intel stuff as Clinton's chief of staff, but that's pretty different).

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December 22, 2008

Perhaps some promise
By Jeff Inglis

President-elect Obama's commitment to restore honesty to the core of federal science policy (and science-related policies) is definitely encouraging. The biggest potential pitfall is that the Bush administration also claimed to base its decisions on science - even when it censored science to serve political ends.

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He's the prez now
Published 1/23/2009 by Jeff Inglis
A brief summary of my thoughts since Inauguration Day:-Closing Gitmo is great. Even spending a night...

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Bizarre signs of concern, and a bright spot or two
Published 1/7/2009 by Jeff Inglis
First up, what about this whole Leon Panetta as CIA director thing? On the good side, he's a civilia...

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