The Rev. Pat Robertson said Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is being punished by God for dividing the Land of Israel. Robertson, speaking on the “700 Club” on Thursday, suggested Sharon, who is currently in an induced coma, and former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by an Israeli extremist in 1995, were being treated […]
Geoffrey R. Stone has a very helpful series of articles on The Huffington Post concerning the constitutionality [or lack thereof] of the president’s evasion of judicial review in his N.S.A. surveillance of American citizens King George’s Constitution Bush’s Spy Program and the Fourth Amendment Bush’s Spy Program and FISA Like the extensive review of the […]
Cheney Says Eavesdropping Program Might Have Prevented 9/11, which might be true. Who in the hell is arguing with that? Our argument is with the National Security Agency wiretapping private Americans without judicial review, not with the need to have surveillance of Terrorists. This kind of response is getting very old. They’re explaining why they’re […]
Eriposte’s remarkable dissection of the ins and outs of the Niger Uranium Yellowcake forgeries and how they came to be used by the Bush Administration. It’s a hard read, but an essential guide for anyone interested in what really happened. His personal analyses and links are supplemented with extensive cross references to other sources – […]
Character is a word with many everyday meanings: a character in a story; a person’s moral constitution; the collection of traits that defines a person’s uniqueness. They all revolve around the same thing – that there is a remarkable structure to the human personality. We do the same things over and over in the same […]
There’s a good article in the Christian Science Monitor about the number of coming investigations of Administration goings-on. They mention the lost Phase II of the congressional investigation of the prewar Iraq Intelligence – the one about the Administration’s distortion of the facts. This is a remarkable piece of sleight of hand. Senator Pat Roberts […]
1992 was a difficult year for the Neoconservatives who thought that whatever Reagan was doing would last for eternity. At the end of a single term, George H.W. Bush, Reagan’s successor, got beaten by Bill Clinton. They never got over it, still haven’t. I’m not sure what it was about Reagan that was so compelling […]
Who are all these people? How are they related? How are they different? How did it get so damn messy under Mr. Bush? I guess we’re going to have to sort them out now to understand the current scandal. At this moment, the N.S.A. Internet site is down, kaput [for hours]. I guess they’re cleaning […]
Article. II. Section. 1. The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows: … In Case of the Removal of the President from […]
Bush Defends Spying Program As ‘Necessary’ to Protect U.S. But President Acknowledges Civil Liberties Concerns "President Bush today mounted his third defense in two weeks of his secret domestic spying program, calling his order authorizing warrantless eavesdropping on U.S. citizens a limited, legal program that Americans understand is protecting their security." I don’t understand, therefore […]