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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (302334)	4/22/2009 9:41:39 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	of 793927

I don't understand what this means: The president, who has said he wants to focus on the future rather than litigate the past, also opened himself to distraction and attack by retracting the earlier assurance by top officials that they had no plans to prosecute lawyers for former President George W. Bush who approved the “enhanced interrogation” program. A Democratic strategist close to the White House said: “The president looked resolute, and like he had threaded the needle perfectly on the substance: The heat from the right was preposterous, and the heat from the left was manageable. But now they look like the scarecrow, pointing in both directions. They got the policy right, but they look confused and beaten down by critics." Does the Democratic strategist think that they got the policy right before Tuesday or after Tuesday? If, as it seems, he's referring to the new post-Tuesday policy, how can the pre-Tuesday 'resolute needle-threading' have been good? Does he mean it looked good through it had the policy wrong? What good is that?

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