Via Atrios, Dick Cheney’s former top aide can look forward to 30 months in prison and a $250,000 fine, followed by two years’ probation. Patrick Fitzgerald considered the Cheney-led effort to spread around Plame’s name to be a crime but he lacked the evidence to convict because of false and contradictory statements by the key …
Archives for June 2007
Mocking The Letters
Unless you live under a rock, you are probably aware that Scooter Libby is being sentenced today. Prior to the sentencing, friends of Libby submitted letters on his behalf and supprting leniency, and those letters have been made publicly available. I am not devoid of a sense of humor, so I recognize that letters from …
A Journey Into the Mind of a Nanny Statist
In the aftermath of a ruling against the FCC, the FCC chairman tells us what really scares the hell out of him: In a major victory for TV networks, a U.S. appeals court on Monday overruled federal regulators who decided that expletives uttered on broadcast television violated decency standards. The U.S. Court of Appeals for …
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“Sahel” Long
And thanks for all the fish: PERHAPS no fact is more revealing about Iraq’s history than this: The Iraqis have a word that means to utterly defeat and humiliate someone by dragging his corpse through the streets. The word is “sahel,” and it helps explain much of what I have seen in three and a …
Buh-Bye
The teevee says that Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) will be indicted this afternoon. Why the delay? Who knows, maybe the paperwork got forgotten behind some kielbasa in the freezer.
America Does Not Torture
Tony Lagouranis, an interrogation specialist for the Army in Iraq, earned his discharge in 2005 and came home. Then the anxiety began. Struggling with the memory of what he did, Lagouranis eventually wrote a book. In Mosul, he took detainees outside the prison gate to a metal shipping container they called “the disco,” with blaring …
Another One Down
Mark Levin makes a courageous break from the President: take from Mark Steyn and Jonah Goldberg’s comments that conservatives have been tolerant of President Bush for a long time, given his embrace of big-government from the start. And they have. But I don’t think the issue is that conservatives are generally surprised that the president …