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"See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented."
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"A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee."
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"You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions."
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"The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law."
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"In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em."
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"There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality."
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"It is only in our decisions that we are important."
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"Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents."
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"Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered."
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"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."
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"American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure."
Politics
"We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war."
War
"Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating."
Benefit
"In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war."
War
"A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages."
Decision-Making
"Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation."
Politics
"If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the use of information."
Politics
"Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks."
Future
"President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied."
Politics
"This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law."
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