From the New York Times:The F.B.I. is investigating a Pentagon official on suspicion of passing secrets to Israel, government officials said on Friday. The espionage investigation has focused on an official who works in the office of Douglas Feith, the under secretary...
Reuters:- The FBI believes Israel has a spy at the very highest level of the Pentagon who may have sought to influence U.S. policy on Iran and Iraq, CBS News reported on Friday. The Israeli embassy immediately denied the report. "The FBI has a full-fledged espionage...
I hadn't even originally planned on doing a blog entry this week, but I can't pass up a chance like this: Timeline on Jonathan "call me Jack" Idema: July 7: Three Americans and four Afghans arrested for operating private prison July 8:One of these men is identified as...
THE UNPOLITICAL ANIMAL: How political science understands voters The most widely known fact about George H. W. Bush in the 1992 election was that he hated broccoli. Eighty-six per cent of likely voters in that election knew that the Bushes’ dog’s name was Millie; only...
NPR's All Things Considered recently completed a six-part series on the relationship between the West and Middle East. On top of being a good historical overview, the series essentially demonstrates the ill-effects of "blowback." The last part of the series concludes...
When I put up my last post, I was worried that the punchline – a reference to Rush Limbaugh's comparison of Abu Ghraib torture to fraternity pranks – might be a little overplayed. Thank God for torture prober James Schlesinger, who again invoked this...
Eric Garris, Webmaster of Antiwar.com, was interviewed on Saturday by radio host Scott Horton, aka Philip Dru: Administrator , for his new show. Eric took a few calls, and had spirited debates with a Vietnam vet, and someone who thinks that the U.N. wasn't tough...
How does an occupying force amuse itself in a country where booze, dope, and hookers are hard to come by? From today's Washington Post:An Army investigation into the Abu Ghraib prison scandal has found that military police dogs were used to frighten detained Iraqi...
Jeffrey Tucker, of the Mises Institute, blogging on LewRockwell.com, takes me to task for "adoring" Patrick J. Buchanan’s new book, Where the Right Went Wrong:I'm happy that Justin adores Pat's new book, and it may be as good as he says. But just last week, I happen...
I'm not sure what it's called to blog for two sites, but I'll be guesting over at Liberty & Power for awhile. If you're not reading L&P already, get with it.
