07 November 2005

Quick hits...

Lotsa links, no time. Enjoy: FindLaw's Special Coverage: Iraq Aftermath An Able Danger update: DIA proceeds (rightly) with plans to revoke Shaffer's security clearance, and many are none-too-pleased. So let me get this straight: a ?-motivated insider spills the beans on the Pentagon's ongoing operations to collect uncollectable information on US persons, and when aforementioned insider loses his clearance, people are shocked?!?! [more at Captain's Quarters] This Day in History: That stupid GOP elephant was born. Cyber-terror geek Andrew Colarik wrote a book. Maine on Federal Sex-Education Funds: screw you! LATimes has this piece on Rove's security clearance, with this subtitle: Federal workers under suspicion of smaller lapses have had access to classified data yanked. Wargaming Venezuela? Inside U.S. War Plans, by William Arkin We're too sexy for... former UK ambassador, Christopher Meyer, claims Prime Minister Tony Blair was 'seduced by the glamour of US power'. Are you being spied on? Yesterday's Washington Post contains this piece: George W. Bush is 'the loneliest man in Washington'
With the neo-cons silenced, the pragmatists disillusioned, and his puppet masters preoccupied, the president will have to go it alone for the next three years. Who’s in more trouble? Him or us?
Sam Donaldson: "Cheney knew what Libby was doing"

Of course the vice president knew what Lewis Libby was doing with reporters. There's an old expression from the Watergate days: Whatever Haldeman knew, Nixon knew. Meaning “Strong chief of staff, strong principle.” To think that Dick Cheney had no idea what Lewis Libby was doing is just kind of absurd.

Robert Zoellick is heading back to Sudan. Lets hope for some progress this time. A quick reminder for Zoellick: the Janjaweed are bad people, not something you smoke. Another DHS'er jumps from the sinking ship. Harvard University study on global warming: press release here, website here

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