"Do you know how to make God laugh? You tell him your plans." Hari Sheldon – Foudation's Fear
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 21st, 2009
The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.” Obama, Bush And The Rule Of Law | The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan. Sully accurately makes the point that neither Bush nor Obama have the authority to torture, that Congress alone as the authority to make rules regarding captures. Laws and [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 20th, 2009
The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.” Major scandal erupts involving Rep. Jane Harman, Alberto Gonzales and AIPAC – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com. Greenwald reports that the ranking democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee (an oxymoron if there ever was one) and Bush wiretapping enabler, Rep. Jane Harman D-Ca [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 3rd, 2009
The Bush DOJ’s take on the Constitution: “Constitution? We don’t need no stinking Constitution”: via George W. Bush’s Disposable Constitution—By Scott Horton Harper’s Magazine. Here’s Neil Lewis’s summary in the New York Times: “The law has recognized that force (including deadly force) may be legitimately used in self-defense,” Mr. Yoo and Mr. Delahunty wrote to [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 9th, 2009
Its’ sad to see that Obama is going to use the same state secrets argument to prevent the American public from seeing the disgusting depths the Bush administration stooped to: Administration Invokes State Secret Argument – NYTimes.com. “This is not change,” he said in a statement. “This is definitely more of the same. Candidate Obama [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 30th, 2008
The obvious truth about text messaging: you’re getting ripped off – Engadget Mobile. I saw the NY Times article that the Engadget Mobile post talks about. The shorter version is: Wireless Carriers, in an absence of regulations, have decided it’s profitable to, as a group, triple texting rates to force more revenue per subscriber. Now, [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 9th, 2008
then this should really piss you off. Read the whole thing. It’s a view of the lawlessness that the Bush administration has dragged this nation to. These are not the principles that America was founded on. It shames and demeans us as a people. These people are guilty of numerous crimes and should, but probably [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 1st, 2008
As Jefferson Ruling Stands, Prosecutors Feel Stymied – washingtonpost.com The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will not review a lower court’s decision that an FBI raid on Rep. William J. Jefferson’s congressional office violated the Constitution, a ruling that federal prosecutors had said could make lawmakers’ offices a “sanctuary for crime.” And how is [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 30th, 2008
TPMmuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Mukasey Tongue-Tied on Administration Law Breaking MUKASEY: Torture, as you know, is now unlawful under American law. I can’t contemplate any situation in which this president would assert Article II authority to do something that the law forbids. SPECTER: Well, he did just that in violating the Foreign Intelligence [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 30th, 2008
Can’t he just say something like, “It’s wrong, illegal and diametrically opposed to American values” and be done with it? Mukasey Demurs on Waterboarding – New York Times “Given that waterboarding is not part of the current program and may never be added to the current program, I don’t think it would be appropriate for [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 16th, 2007
White House hints, but won’t say, that waterboarding is legal – The Carpetbagger Report A CIA employee says they used waterboarding on a prisoner. The US uses only legal methods of interrogation. Therefore waterboarding is legal. Seems pretty straight forward, but the White House spokesperson Dana Perino refuses to say if it’s legal or not. [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 12th, 2007
CIA still peddling the lie that low-level crazy man proves waterboarding is a good thing – AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth So we tortured the al-Qaeda village idiot, then claimed a great victory against a high level operative. Despite being briefed about the real value of the poor fool by the CIA, Bush [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 15th, 2007
Reid may hold pro forma Senate sessions to block Bush recess appointments – AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth From Roll Call by way of Americablog, senate majority leader Harry Reid is going to block Bush recess appointments by not going into recess. He also calls into question the Chuck Schumer’s contention that he [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 5th, 2007
Keith on the significance of the Daniel Levin story. It was revealed that Levin, an Assistant Attorney General had himself water boarded to determine that it was ethically, legally and morally torture: The presidency of George W. Bush is a criminal conspiracy to cover the ass of George W. Bush. Levin was fired for daring [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 4th, 2007
ABC News: White House Blocked Waterboarding Critic A senior Justice Department official, charged with reworking the administration’s legal position on torture in 2004 became so concerned about the controversial interrogation technique of waterboarding that he decided to experience it firsthand, sources told ABC News. Daniel Levin, then acting assistant attorney general, went to a military [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Oct 31st, 2007
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 10/30/2007 | Mukasey calls waterboarding repugnant but declines to say it’s illegal Looks like another pol selected for their ability to agree.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 19th, 2007
Senators Clash With Nominee About Torture – New York Times From what I read it looks like Mukasey is far too willing to support torture and an expansive view of Presidential authority to wiretap without warrants. His only saving grace is relative independance from the political interference in DOJ activities. Is that enough to make [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 18th, 2007
The Daily Dish-Chenney vs Mukasey OK, we all oppose torture, Dubya and Chenney included. The rub is exactly how does the AG nominee define torture? Does he have an expansive view that encompassing the same methods used by the Nazi’s during WWII and the KGB during the Cold War?
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 31st, 2007
Gonzales Faces Inquiry Into Veracity of His Testimony – New York Times About damned time. All roads lead to the White House…
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 28th, 2007
Here’s a round-up of local and national editorials about the unlamented exit of Gonzo. The Washington Times is the only one I saw that talked about his “accomplishments” and believes that he was unfairly treated by Congressional Democrats. Par for the course for big fans of warrantless wire tapping, eliminating habeus corpus and torture. More [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 27th, 2007
I’m watching the CNN coverage of the Prez’s comment regarding the AG’s resignation. Poor Gonzo’s name was dragged through the mud for purely partisan reasons. Paul Clement will the interum political hack AG. Bush named the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act and pursuit of political corruption has bearing the mark of Gonzo. I find [...]
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