I’ve been reading the transcript of John H. Richardson’s interview with John Yoo in Esquire. It’s long, and frankly pretty confusing. I wrote a long post about Yoo that I just erased. What I concluded was that the biggest force in Yoo’s opinions was his being the son of immigrants from Korea who hated Communism […]
May 8, 2008 The Honorable George W. Bush President of the United States 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President: We are writing to register our strong opposition to possible unilateral, preemptive military action against other nations by the Executive Branch without Congressional authorization. As you know, Article I, Section 8 of […]
If you didn’t see Jon Stewart interview Douglas Fieth, watch it here. If you did see Jon Stewart interview Douglas Faith, watch it here [it includes parts that didn’t air]. The interview speaks for itself, but there’s one point I’d like to make about the interview. Douglas Feith was trying to explain to Jon Stewart […]
I knew that India was once floating in the ocean and slowly slid into Asia creating the Himilayas, but I had no idea that there was still this much seismic activity in inland Asia [bottom figure]. Earthquakes in China, Cyclones in Burma, Volcanos in Chile, Tornados in Georgia. The gods must be angry…
Sometimes the truth can be said very simply. Suin at FDL has a blog post [Caught in the Middle] with a quote from the Christian Science Monitor that’s in that category: One Sadrist member of the Iraqi parliament summed up conditions in Iraq: "The Sadrists say their principle objective remains a sovereign Iraq that is […]
The Divine Right of Kings: There were, essentially, two responses to the political chaos of the seventeenth century, as many of the aspects of the Reformation began to be translated into political terms. On the one hand, a group of thinkers led initially by Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), believed that natural laws governed states and their […]
Neo-Con Dreams by Mary We’ve always known that when George W. Bush launched his preemptive war against Iraq, the public reasons and excuses for war were a mere cover for the actual reasons the neo-cons wanted war. In 2003, the American Public thought that the war was for: 1) Saddam was seeking to create weapons […]
A U.S. judge ordered the Central Intelligence Agency on Thursday to submit to the court a 2002 memo said to specify harsh interrogation methods used on suspected terrorists held abroad. The American Civil Liberties Union said the memo was written by the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel and sent to the CIA in […]
the left coaster‘s paradox has a post up today about what it will be like with a President Obama and a Democratic Congress. I’m not so brave as he is. I’m anxious about the election. But it’s a real possibility – what’s right. One point he makes is one I’ve been thinking about. The blogosphere […]
I Don’t Think “Exclusivity” Means What John Yoo Thinks It Does … Sheldon Whitehouse revealed he has been trying to get one more opinion declassified–one relating to exclusivity: "… There is a sentence that describes whether or not the FISA statute’s exclusivity provision is really exclusive enough for the OLC and that is, we’re still […]