en-uk Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. custserv@timesonline.co.uk http://www.timesonline.co.uk Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:30:37 GMT Newspapers 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif Andrew Sullivan Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-10-17T06:20:41Z There is a strange quality to Barack Obama’s pragmatism. It can look like dilly-dallying, weakness, indecisiveness. But although he may seem weak at times, one of the words most applicable to him is something else entirely: ruthless. Beneath the crisp suit and easy smile there is a core of strategic steel. Andrew Sullivan Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-10-10T04:56:32Z There is no longer any doubt that torture was used against prisoners at Guantanamo Bay under George W Bush. The president’s own appointee who headed the military commissions, Susan Crawford, said so in January this year.