"I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler." – Jon Stewart
Posted in Blog Post on May 2nd, 2011
Osama bin Laden Was the Most Wanted Face of Terrorism – NYTimes.com. Apparently being a terrorist leader gets you 6 pages of obituary on the NYTimes.com web site. All you ever (or never) wanted to know about the life and times of OBL.
Posted in Blog Post on May 1st, 2011
NY Times StoryI’m not sure this makes much difference now. This is years too late, his ideas and methods have spread too far. Update:The President will make a statement soon. CNN is waxing eloquent about what important blow this is. I disagree. OBL was killed in a mansion near Islamabad. There are some spontaneous cheers [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 12th, 2010
Conservatives Ignore GWB Record on Terrorist Trials | Crooks and Liars. Effective push back against Liz Cheney and others of her ilk by Jason Sigger at Crooks & Liars. Turns out the Bushies made frequent and effective use of civilian courts to try people on terrorism charges. Much more effective than the military tribunal train [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 7th, 2010
Glenn Greenwald points out that the massive increase in government surveillance has made us less safe, not more safe. This fearful response to isolated acts of sabotage provokes stupid reactions that clogs our intelligence system with useless, unrelated stuff that prevents us from finding what we really need. We give up our freedom for this? [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 29th, 2008
Re-Thinking The Terror War – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan File this one under “no shit?” The great unanswered question of the last six and a half years is: why haven’t we been attacked again? There are logically two – not necessarily exclusive – possibilities: our defense has been getting much better; their [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 13th, 2008
EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect I strongly agree with Ezra’s post. Job one: Close Guantanamo. No dallying around thinking about it. Scrap the military tribunal kangaroo court. Put them in a Federal maximum security facility and start civilian trials. The issue will be that evidence gained through torture won’t be admissible, and it shouldn’t [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 6th, 2008
George McGovern lays out a powerful argument for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney: Why I Believe Bush Must Go – washingtonpost.com Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses. They have repeatedly violated the Constitution. They have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American people time after time. [...]
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 16th, 2007
Apparently all are “quaint” notions. Has widely reported all over the place: Wider Spying Fuels Aid Plan for Telecom Industry – New York Times But the battle is really about something much bigger. At stake is the federal government’s extensive but uneasy partnership with industry to conduct a wide range of secret surveillance operations in [...]
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 13th, 2007
‘Hidden Costs’ Double Price Of Two Wars, Democrats Say – washingtonpost.com Did $1.5 trillion get us more secure? Buy an awe-inspiring display of American military might? Cheaper oil? A sound dollar? Exactly what did we purchase for so high a price? A generation of hatred? Worldwide disdain? A near total loss of moral authority on [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 12th, 2007
Intelligence deputy to America: Rethink privacy – CNN.com Anyone who would trust the government on this is a deluded fool
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 Uncategorized on Nov 5th, 2007
Rice Says U.S. Will Review Aid To Pakistan – washingtonpost.com Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday that the United States would review its $150 million-a-month assistance program to Pakistan in response to the declaration of emergency rule by the president, Gen. Pervez Mushar. Pakistan has long been a safe harbor for terrorists in the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 20th, 2007
Blast at Mall Kills 8 in Philippines – New York Times Eight people were killed and as many as 130 others wounded Friday when a powerful explosion ripped through a shopping mall in Makati City, the Philippine capital’s financial district. Wow, that’s frightening. My wife and I have been to that mall many times. It [...]
Date: 04/19/2008