Torture document dump

Michael Froomkin and Billmon both have good posts up about yesterday's White House and Pentagon document dump. Froomkin concentrates on the order signed by Bush on Feb. 7, 2002, which contains what Froomkin refers to as the " Royalist theory of Presidential power," in...

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Viceroy’s vendetta hurt anti-terror efforts?

According to a Washington-based intelligence newsletter Defense and Foreign Affairs, Bosnia's viceroy "Paddy" Ashdown's eagerness to support his late friend Alija Izetbegovic resulted in a major blow to anti-terrorism intelligence efforts on the eve of the Athens...

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New Blogrollee

Be sure to check out Gene Callahan's blog. I'm a little hesitant to promote a blog so narrowly fixated on "philosophy, religion, theology, economics, sociology, history, physics, mathematics, politics, current events, computers, sports, art, culture, programming...

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“Chickenhawk” Is More Than Mere Ad Hominem

Gene Healy finds this long lost glimpse into the sick mind of Fred Barnes:In an essay in the Feb. 24 [1997] Weekly Standard, Barnes laments the current "ennui" in Washington and confesses his longings for the glory days of old -- you know, the Golden Age commonly...

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Erez to close. Minds to open?

The Erez Industrial Zone in Gaza is notorious as a borderline industrial slave labor camp (on occupied land), though of course its creation has long been touted as a supreme act of benevolence by Israel, which of course wishes only to show how much it wants friendship...

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Hitchens Rant

Christopher Hitchens apparently ran out of booze and got mad, launching a vicious 4298 word attack on Michael Moore, and his new flick Fahrenheit 9/11 – and a defence of the Iraq war. Hitchens believes that, if not for the good ol’ USA, Hussein would have...

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Stuck in Iraqi sewage

Billmon says this picture is the perfect metaphor: A crowd of Iraqis gather to watch as a U.S. armored vehicle is stuck in sewage after is slipped into a ditch during a patrol in Baghdad, Iraq Monday June 21, 2004. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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An Appeal From South Korea

From a representative of People's Action Against the Dispatch of Korean Combat Troops to Iraq:An Appeal by 365 Korean Organizations to the Iraqi Group Holding a Korean National We appeal for the release of the Korean national Kim Seon Il. Today the Korean people were...

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