It is good enough for us: The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement. The secret facility is part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA nearly four …
Archives for November 2005
Tone It Down or Don’t Let the Door Hit You in the Ass
Alright folks- time to tone it down in the comments or I am going to start knocking heads. I don’t care if you disagree with me- I disagree with many of you a good bit of the time, and I do my best to be fair. That is allowed, and I expect people to disagree …
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At Least They Are Having The Debate
This seems like a positive development: The Bush administration is embroiled in a sharp internal debate over whether a new set of Defense Department standards for handling terror suspects should adopt language from the Geneva Conventions prohibiting “cruel,” “humiliating” and “degrading” treatment, administration officials say. Advocates of that approach, who include some Defense and State …
Closed Session
Call this blog fashionably late for the party. It appears that Harry Reid has invoked Rule 21, which closes the Senate to the news media, in order to chat about that “phase two” of the Senate Select Committee on Inteligence. You’ll recall that Pat Roberts (R – Kan) promised to follow up the report on …
Bird Flu Update
President Bush today unveiled his plan to combat Bird Flu: President Bush today unveiled a strategy to combat the threat of an avian flu pandemic, calling for $7.1 billion in emergency spending to stockpile reserves of medicines and to press ahead with the development of a new vaccine. While no cases of the H5N1 avian …
That Other Story Going On Right Now
First assistant vice-blogger Tim F bravely links to someone else’s story.
Alito by the Issues
Still a little tired from the late night last night, as I always feel drained after a Steelers Monday Night Football appearance. If we wing, I am so keyed up I can’t go to sleep, and if we lose I am so upset I can’t go to sleep. At any rate, I still didn’t fall …