Brilliant. Osama bin Laden flew to London in 1986 to help negotiate the purchase of Russian-made surface-to-air missiles to be used by Arab fighters then... [More]
April 1, 2008
The Idiocy of the "Emboldening" Argument
If I hadn't already posted two quotes of the day, this one from Matt Y would certainly merit consideration: ...Max Boot offers a slightly different... [More]
Good For Her!
McClatchy: An American college professor whose Kenyan husband was killed in the 1998 al Qaida suicide bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania said Tuesday... [More]
April 2, 2008
War Crimes
Bit by bit, the truth comes out. Today's bit, however, is a big one. Washington Post has the details: The Justice Department sent a legal... [More]
Quote of the Day
First, the setup from TPMm: It won't surprise anyone that the least sympathetic portrayal in Phillipe Sands' Vanity Fair piece is of former Undersecretary of... [More]
Torture Memos II
Marty Lederman has just completed the first in what he promises will be a long series of posts on the John Yoo torture memo, and... [More]
Torture Memos III
More analysis, this time from Wired's security blog Threat Level Citing cases that prevented companies from suing the U.S. government for losses they sustained overseas... [More]
April 4, 2008
Listen To Our Enemies
We ignored bin Laden's explicit statements that he wanted to create a quagmire for us in Iraq, so I'm not holding my breath that we'll... [More]
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) Is A Jackass
WaPo: During a joint hearing on Tuesday by two House Judiciary subcommittees considering legislation to extend benefits, Issa described the Sept. 11 attacks as "a... [More]
April 5, 2008
Quote of the Day II
Via Patrick over at Andrew's place, a great one from George F. Kennan's 1954 book The Illusion of Security: There is something about this quest... [More]
April 8, 2008
Simple Questions, Simple Answers
Dana Goldstein: It seems almost too easy to beat Crocker up about this, but he just said, "Osama bin Laden has called Iraq 'a perfect... [More]
April 9, 2008
Save the Date
May 6: That's the date House Judiciary Committee Chair John Conyers has asked John "torture memos" Yoo to appear before his committee.... [More]
April 11, 2008
War Crimes
I've desparately wanted to blog about this, but its 1am and I wont be able to get to it tonight. So in case you haven't... [More]
Plausible Deniability
In his testimony before Congress during investigations into what is now called the Iran-Contra Affair, Vice Admiral John Poindexter stated: "I made a deliberate decision... [More]
McCain On Torture
Following on to my previous post.... will someone please get Sen. McCain on the record about this. Now. Please?!?... [More]
April 12, 2008
Berkeley Defends John Yoo With Nonsense
Via Marty Lederman, I see that Christopher Edley, Jr., the Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, has decided to step up and defend... [More]
Berkeley, John Yoo, Part II
Following up on my post from late last night, take a look at what Scott Horton has to say over at Balkanization. Scott has done... [More]
April 16, 2008
Perspective
These are the two best paragraphs I've read on al Qaeda in a long, long time. Via Kevin Drum, Judah Grunstein: The Military Review article... [More]
April 18, 2008
GAO: The United States Lacks a Comprehensive Plan to Destroy the Terrorist Threat and Close the Safe Haven in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas
I mean this in all seriousness. This new report from the GAO is terrifying: No comprehensive plan for meeting U.S. national security goals in the... [More]
Modern Conservatism, In Two Sentences Or Less
If I were to make a short-list of the names of people who had the largest influence on the conservative movement after 1980, Newt Gingrich... [More]
April 19, 2008
You Want Elitism? I'll Show You Elitism
NYT: Some other analysts do not object to Mr. McCain's portraying the insurgency (or multiple insurgencies) in Iraq as that of Al Qaeda. They say... [More]
April 20, 2008
NYT: The Pentagon's Hidden Hand
When President Eisenhower warned the nation about the growing power of the Military-Industrial Complex, this is what he was talking about. I'm going to include... [More]
April 23, 2008
DKos: "John Ashcroft Yelled at Me Tonight"
I don't often link to diaries at Daily Kos, but this one is an absolute must read. Highlights: Earlier today, I promised you Kossacks an... [More]
They Hate Us For Our Policies, Not Our Freedom
At least that's what they say when you actually ask them. Data? Who needs data when we have our own surely held beliefs?... [More]
April 24, 2008
Pouring vs. Forcing
Over at Balkanization, Marty Lederman has a great follow-up to yesterday's story about John Ashcroft and the establishment of an official torture regime here in... [More]
Waterboarding
Pouring, not forcing, right Mr. Ashcroft?... [More]
April 26, 2008
The Summer of 2001, Redux
Spencer Ackernam reports: Avoiding a repeat of 9/11, they say, requires a realignment in Pakistan policy that the Bush administration appears to have no appetite... [More]
April 30, 2008
WaPo: From Chief Prosecutor To Critic at Guantanamo
Bush and Cheney wanted their kangaroo courts, and it looks like they almost got them. Were it not for a few brave men and women... [More]
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