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Archive: Jun 2007

Bush’s Lamentable Summitry Skills

The G8 conference at the Baltic resort of Heiligendamm has just commenced, and President George W. Bush is busily enhancing his reputation – for nonstop bungling. With tensions between the…

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Cheney and the Corruption of the Justice Department

Former Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey’s responses to the written questions of the Senate Judiciary Committee have now been submitted, and they contain a number of further bombshells. In…

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The African Front

A number of little noticed and remarked upon developments over the last six weeks point to the opening of a new front in the Bush Administration’s war on terror. The…

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Roger Ailes Speaks the Truth

Kudos to Fox News President Roger Ailes, who has the courage to speak truth even when it hurts. In remarks delivered during the Eric Breindel awards for opinion writing in…

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Retired Army General Critiques Bush’s Handling of Iraq

Yes, it happens so frequently. But today the retired general is George Washington. The Onion breaks the story: Breaking a 211-year media silence, retired Army Gen. George Washington appeared on…

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One Lump or Two? Uzbek dictator’s daughter wipes out competing tea firm with “brain” and “muscle”

I reported last month on how Washington insiders at a firm called GlobalOptions were working on behalf of Gulnara Karimova, daughter of Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov and subject of an…

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Now we Know

“Now we know,” said Jon Stewart, “what it takes for the federal government to pay some attention to a black man from New Orleans.” More details on the story from…

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Zalmay Khalilzad—Man of the Hour at the U.N.

Even in its current state of radioactivity, the Bush Administration does manage to command the loyalty of some solid, even outstanding figures. The best of them is Zalmay Khalilzad, who…

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Casting for the Brad Schlozman Story

Today Brad Schlozman, former interim U.S. Attorney in Kansas City, former senior political appointee in the Civil Rights Division, and currently a senior functionary in the Executive Office of U.S.…

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The Gavel of Liberty Falls Again

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man. But I cannot conceive…

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The Fall of “Dollar” Bill Jefferson

For those looking for a good summer read I highly recommend yesterday’s indictment of Congressman William Jefferson of Louisiana. It’s a genre-busting saga with something for everyone: mystery lovers will…

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The Soulmates

Back at the memorable joint press conference that President Bush gave with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Brdo Castle, Slovenia on June 16, 2001, Bush uttered these immortal words in…

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A Blow for Justice at Gitmo

Over the last two years I’ve had a good number of meetings with JAG lawyers involved in the Guantánamo process in various capacities – advising the convening authority, handling prosecution…

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U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Kansas City

Today, former Kansas City U.S. Attorney Brad Schlozman is set to make his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee (he had bowed out of the date originally proposed by the…

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U.S. Attorneys Scandal—San Diego

The San Diego Union-Tribune has secured a thirteen-page document in which former U.S. Attorney Carol Lam answers follow up questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee. Lam lost her job after…

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U.S. Attorney’s Scandal—Birmingham and Montgomery

The evidence of corruption and misconduct in the U.S. Attorney’s offices in Montgomery and Birmingham related to the prosecution of former Governor Don Siegelman continues to mount. Now Time Magazine…

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Weekly Review

“Into the palace parlor they stepped; her hand in his paw the old bruin kept,” 1875 Thirty-seven American soldiers were killed in Iraq, ending the deadliest month for U.S. forces…

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Another Cold Wave on the Way

The Cold War is not back with us. Not yet. But there’s more than enough to be concerned about in relations between the G7 and new new kid on the…

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The American Media and Global Warming

In Arthur Conan Doyle’s story “Silver Blaze” (found in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, 1894), literature’s greatest detective solves the mystery surrounding the disappearance of a celebrated racehorse. The key…

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The Martyr of Manchester

Rosa Parks. Martin Luther King. Nelson Mandela. Now it’s time to add another name to the pantheon of civil rights heroes: liberal columnist Eric Alterman, who was arrested in New…

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Coping With the Consequences of Blind Fear

“Where there is no vision, the people perish,” says Scripture (Proverbs 29:18). For six years, America has been in the hands of a team of fear-mongers, who claim to have…

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Summer Target Practice

Summer reading? How old hat. It’s time for summer warfare. Back from a paternity-linked blogging hiatus, Greg Djerejian offers us a sort of tour d’horizon of the violence the summer…

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Mr. Tulkinghorn on the Bench

In reviewing Bleak House on Sunday, I noted that the Tulkinghorns walk among us today – referring to the solicitor in whom Dickens embodied all the worst human failings of…

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A Vice President Above the Law

The hallmark of the Bush Administration is impunity. The last leader of the English-speaking world to openly hold himself above the law wound up having his head separated from his…

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Rice v. Cheney

At the end of the week, Condoleezza Rice was busy attempting to put down suggestions in the press of a growing rift between her and Vice President Cheney. She didn’t…

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Mr. Beria, Let Me Introduce Your Friend, Mr. Cheney

Last year, I gave two speeches in which I reviewed the palette of eleven interrogation techniques which were – according to published accounts in Newsweek and ABC News – being…

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Department of Headless Chickens

This weekend brings word of a significant terrorist plot which targeted the delivery of aviation fuel to JFK. It was hyped in a completely shameless fashion by media airheads (Josh…

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Why Dickens Matters

Charles Dickens, Bleak House, Harper’s Magazine, April 1852 – October 1853 Harper’s Magazine was launched with many literary aspirants, but with one fully recognized literary giant, whose works it published…

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