In my Psychiatric and Psychoanalytic Training, I kept waiting for someone to talk about "insanity." It never happened except in talking about Forensic Evaluations. This is not a medical term. It’s a legal term, But there’s one definition that’s just part of our culture that’s really good: Insanity is doing the same thing over and […]
It appears that I am not the only person obsessed with the Wilson/Plame/Niger_Forgery story. eriposte is back, making an observation that is crucial, but a little hard to follow. In Uranium from Africa: How "Bought" Became "Sought" – Part 2-6: Was the SSCI Report’s first Niger conclusion correct?, he brings up the following point. The […]
While it’s still not a term on the lips of many Americans, the so-called Bush Doctrine is a major revolutionary foreign policy that dates back a decade and a half – to the the years of George H. W. Bush. In the aftermath of the fall of Communism and the first Gulf War, Paul Wolfowitz […]
FDL Book Salon: The Age of Fallibility, Part I On a rare occasion, someone writes something that so resonates with something already in your mind that it’s uncanny. I haven’t even read this book [ordered 5 minutes ago], but I know I’m going to love it. So here’s the story. Back in 2002, I was […]
I’m all for Lieberman’s unseating, but this representative for Lamont on local CT TV needs a lesson in public persona:
Various blogs have made attempts to explain the legal aspects of the Plame suit. I have read them over and here’s what I learned: Why I went to Medical School instead of Law School. I gather that the first step is getting the case into a court, and there are issues that must be resolved […]
For the last year, I’ve taken out my frustration with our government on a sort of daily basis by writing here. The abiding issue for me has been the leaking of undercover C.I.A. Agent Valerie Plame’s identity, and the reasons for doing it [namely the Niger Forgeries, the Administration’s holding on to them and using […]
Wilsons’ Suit against Karl Rove, Scooter Libby and Vice President Dick Cheney07-13-2006
Georgia Congressman John Lewis speaking about the Voting Rights Act on the floor of the House of Representatives, reminding us how and why he got there…
I’ve been reviewing the various versions of the C.I.A. Leak [Plamegate] on the Internet. Again, I’m not understanding why Patrick Fitzgerald isn’t indicting Cheney, Rove, and Libby for the crime specified in the Intelligence Identities Act. Remarks on Signing the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 President George H. W. Bush June 23, 1982 … […]