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SAN FRANCISCO — In a closely watched case involving rendition and torture, a lawyer for the Obama administration apparently surprised a panel of federal appeals judges Monday by pressing ahead with an argument for preserving state secrets originally developed by the Bush administration. In the case, Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian native, and four other detainees filed suit against a subsidiary of Boeing for arranging flights for the Bush administration’s “extraordinary rendition” program, in which terrorism suspects were taken secretly to other countries and tortured. The Bush administration argued that the case should be dismissed because even discussing it in court...

Governor Dean strikes again! He’s the picture of grim determination, if only he can be quite sure what exactly to be determined about. This week has been hard on the poor Governor. He can’t quite figure out what to think about Saddam Hussein’s capture. Is it good? Is it bad? Will Hussein be eligible to vote in 2004? All these are burning questions. Dean was forced to revamp a foreign policy speech on Monday, since the main focus of his speech was to have been how incompetent the Bush administration is at foreign policy. Now, not only does Dean have...