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Be careful following links from Eschaton today. From Atrios's page, you're two clicks away from some oh-so-very-not-work-safe sword play. Why do these things keep popping up in the Republican Party? Repress much, GOPers?
GUILTY! 4 of 5 counts
now go for cheney!!!!
Beyond all these huge tasks, Congress should halt the federal government’s race to classify documents to avoid public scrutiny — 15.6 million in 2005, nearly double the 2001 number. It should also reverse the grievous harm this administration has done to the Freedom of Information Act by encouraging agencies to reject requests for documents whenever possible. Congress should curtail F.B.I. spying on nonviolent antiwar groups and revisit parts of the Patriot Act that allow this practice.
The United States should apologize to a Canadian citizen and a German citizen, both innocent, who were kidnapped and tortured by American agents.
Oh yes, and it is time to close the Guantánamo camp. It is a despicable symbol of the abuses committed by this administration (with Congress’s complicity) in the name of fighting terrorism.
What followed was riveting theater, with Kerry coldly staring down a clearly-nervous Fox and Bush's nominee withstanding a barrage of questions from Kerry that the Massachusetts Senator nicely referred to as questions of Fox's "judgment" while many of us would have just flat-out called him a scumbag.
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. has died at the age of 89.
WTFBBQ?
The BBC really didn't have a reporter on the scene, so they had this woman superimposed over a slightly old feed from the scene, and now they are embarrassed to admit it? I mean, that's it, right?
Or I guess the video could be doctored.
The BBC's response is that of course there is no conspiracy, but unfortunately we've lost all our footage from that day so we can't say why we reported that WTC7 had fallen 20 minutes before it fell.
gravel for president?
You've probably seen it already, but: new Sy Hersh