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“I think it’s an intelligence failure from all over the world,” -Pakistan’s Prime Minister Gilani, responding to charge that Pakistan secretly knew bin Laden was in Abbottabad. Thomas Ricks quips, But — it happened in your backyard, dude. Or maybe … Continue reading
During the arraignment hearings, this comment was drowned out by white noise when the court security officer thought classified information might be mentioned. However, upon review, The Pentagon office in charge of the military commission tribunals decided nothing compromising was revealed and released a transcript on Wednesday.
Schwartz’ “big boy pants” was a snide reference to Jose Rodriguez (who proudly linked it onto his book’s Facebook wall) and his 60 Minutes interview with Lesley Stahl in which Rodriguez said,
Former NYTimes executive editor (from July 2003 until September 2011) Bill Keller regarding FOX News in an op-ed over the weekend:
It is the most reliable profit center, expected to net a billion dollars this fiscal year. It is untainted so far by the metastasizing scandals. It is a source of political influence more durable than Murdoch’s serial romances with British prime ministers. This year the Fox News Primary probably did more to nominate Mitt Romney than New Hampshire or Michigan.
And yet I would argue that — at least for Americans — Fox News is Murdoch’s most toxic legacy.
Ouch.
Put down the coffee and make sure you have none of it in your mouth when you read this next part:
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Maybe Elizabeth Warren can get 1/32 of it (Yeah, I know- Cherokee, not Sioux) and Ward Churchill…well…nevermind:
The reason for the over-the-top headline blurb is due to an FB friend who posted “Another win for Obama & his Military Intelligence Chief!” as a comment-response to my linking to the Long War Journal reportage of Quso’s recent vaporization.
No, I don’t see President Obama “spiking the football” on this; nor on the foiled Diaper Bomb Upgrade 2.0 plot (something he’s been accused of doing in regards to the one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death). But this certainly did
Good question: Why is President Obama still “evolving” on gay marriage?
I guess the addiction to decisively voting “present” is still a tough option to let go…
While arguments are being made regarding the value of kills over capture…there’s also something satisfying about “swifter” forms of justice that do not drag out for years and years at taxpayers’ expense, along with making a mockery of our justice system.
After almost 12 years since the bombing of the USS Cole, Fahd al Quso has finally breathed his last:
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“A new campaign video by Barack Obama implies that Mitt Romney would not have killed Osama bin Laden if he had been president. Today Romney shot back. He said not only would he have killed bin Laden, he would have strapped him to the roof of his car and taken him on vacation with him as well.” –Jay Leno
“President Obama has revealed his new re-election slogan – ‘Forward.’ That’s a good message for Obama. He’s telling voters, ‘Whatever you do, don’t look back at all those campaign promises I made.’” –Jay Leno
Jose Padilla’s case against John Yoo (one of the authors of the OLC “How not to torture” memos) was dismissed by a federal appeals court today:
The ruling “confirms that this litigation has been baseless from the outset,” said Miguel Estrada, Yoo’s attorney. “For several years, Padilla and his attorneys have been harassing the government officials he believes to have been responsible for his detention, and ultimately, conviction, as a terrorist. He has now lost before two separate courts of appeals, and will need to find a new hobby for his remaining time in prison.”
If you think May Day is a spring festival for dancing around some pole while throwing flowers and hoping to see a fantastic creature like a unicorn, you’re in the wrong century and probably the wrong dimension.
I dunno…some of these protests look like they came straight out of “the wrong dimension…and even involve unicorns:
