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The American Civil Liberties Union has announced that it is commencing a suit against Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., a subsidiary of Boeing, on the grounds that it provided “substantial support” to…

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True, he may be bent on destroying the world. But “even Wolfie needs love,” in the words of the new hit single brought to you by The Project for the…

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Today’s New York Times features a story on the Intelligence Science Board’s study on the efficacy of the Bush Administration’s enhanced interrogation techniques, but it also picked up some discussion…

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One of the telltale signs of the somnolent mainstream media is its inattention to the nation’s fiscal situation. Throughout the Clinton years, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page would raise…

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Yet another senior aide to Karl Rove has resigned in the face of a Congressional subpoena. Sarah M. Taylor, a presidential assistant who works directly under Karl Rove and is…

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The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Goldberg has a fascinating portrait of Tom DeLay in its current issue in an article entitled “Party Unfaithful.” For those grappling with the current meltdown in…

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“Enhanced interrogation techniques,” Andrew Sullivan points out today, are derived from a program developed by the Gestapo during World War II – and, indeed, even the name that Bush uses…

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One of the mysteries surrounding the testimony last week of Monica Goodling has now been resolved, thanks to the reporting of the Legal Times. Emma Schwartz and Jason McLure take…

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It’s often said that diplomacy is the art of lying for one’s country, and that a skillful diplomat is one capable of fabricating credible lies. But lying has its limits,…

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At the outset of World War II, President Roosevelt said that a good citizen, seeing his neighbor’s house on fire, runs for the fire brigade and brings a bucket himself.…

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Professor Martin Scheinin has been examining United States practices in the war on terror, has issued a preliminary report. The Associated Press reports: Martin Scheinin, of Finland, also said several…

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Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has offered his sentencing recommendation for Scooter Libby, and yet again, the document is drawing attention more for what it has to say about Libby’s boss…

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Stephen Soldz has taken a look at the Department of Defense Inspector General’s report on internal investigations into detainee mistreatment. The Inspector General, of course, concluded that the investigations “were…

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The Times’s (London) hyper-Tory columnist William Rees-Mogg thinks that it is, particularly when one considers the layer of stain applied by Fredo: Americans are well aware of the horrid faults…

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One of the truly disturbing aspects of the Bush Administration’s program of “enhanced interrogation techniques” is that there’s nothing new about them. Each of the techniques is well known; each…

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“Interest is contagious,” says Nietzsche. Which may explain why the American media is consumed with developments in the Middle East these days. We have a war raging in Iraq. A…

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Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower, which received a Pulitzer Prize in the general non-fiction category this year, is without a doubt the outstanding work of many which have attempted an…

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As the New York Times’s David Carr notes, the Pentagon seems to be taking a page from Joseph Heller’s Catch-22. It has just issued paragraph 11(a) of IAW Change 3,…

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The Washington Post reports that Iranian authorities are now accusing three respected Iranian-American academics of anti-Iranian espionage. Jamshidi said the same charges also had been lodged against Kian Tajbakhsh, an…

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The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart started his piece on the South Carolina GOP presidential debate by noting that it was co-sponsored by “Fox News and the Republican Party.” “Now wait…

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Those keeping track of the mounting corruption investigations have noted a fondness for the so-called “Blackberry defense.” The target claims that he was unaware of things said or done in…

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Over the last several years, the British Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith has been increasingly vocal in his criticism of Bush administration policies towards detainees stemming from the wars in…

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Are you a Republican officeholder suffering from sudden, catastrophic memory loss? Have you forgotten the U.S. attorneys you decided to fire for crass partisan reasons? The minority voters you decided…

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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates addressed the Naval Academy in Annapolis, exhorting the graduating midshipmen to “remember the importance of two pillars of our freedom under the Constitution: the Congress…

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Most Americans know that America has 160,000-plus soldiers in Iraq today; fewer know that this number is cruising upwards and will top 200,000 before the summer ends. And very few…

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Four days in Italy and one thing was apparent to me from media coverage. In Europe, global warming is an enormous, worrisome issue. The threat of terrorism is faced by…

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What do you do when it turns out you waged a war predicated on a series of lies, and the war’s going badly to boot? Well, to paraphrase the worst…

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Claudio Monteverdi, Vespro della Beata Vergine (The Vespers of 1610) Friday afternoon, I went with a couple of friends to the monastery of San Marco in Florence, a magical site…

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