Posted in constitution, criminal law, dissent, ethics, free speech, hypocrisy, impeachment, politics, tagged cia, Hayden, Higazy, mukasey, torture on October 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
When he was asked about Mukasey’s refusal to condemn waterboarding as torture, CIA director Michael Hayden said that he would need to understand “the totality of the circumstances” before he could give an answer. So, how about these circumstances for you, Mike?
Waterboarding is torture.
When you torture someone, the victim will tell you anything you [...]
Posted in advertising, copyright, dissent, economics, fair use, first sale doctrine, free (or not) software, internet, technology, tagged discovery, evidence, groklaw, riaa on October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Expert testimony is expensive. Putting a post up on a website is cheap. When your opponents have insufficient evidence and their experts are a bunch of charlatains, it can be very helpful to have an active community of highly intelligent people who share a personal interest in seeing you win your case.
If you were representing [...]
Posted in constitution, criminal law, education, ethics, hypocrisy, impeachment, politics, tagged mukasey, torture, Waterboarding on October 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
And since it is torture, all of those in the Administration who knew of or facilitated its use are guilty of war crimes. Still unsure? Perhaps you should read this:
Waterboarding is a controlled drowning that, in the American model, occurs under the watch of a doctor, a psychologist, an interrogator and a trained strap-in/strap-out team. [...]
Posted in economics, politics, tagged Oil, OPEC on October 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If OPEC moves off the dollar standard, October 1987 is going to look like a walk in the park.
Posted in constitution, criminal law, ethics, hypocrisy, impeachment, internet, politics on October 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Is right here at the next hurrah. And EW makes it very clear that the telecoms who cooperated with the wiretapping program broke the law, and that they must have known at the time that they were breaking the law. Instead of forgiving them, we should demand that they suffer the consequences.
Posted in constitution, criminal law, dissent, economics, ethics, hypocrisy, impeachment, politics, privacy, tagged Dollar, gonzales, Oil, US Attorney Scandal on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A whole bunch of stuff came out last night that I don’t have time to write about this morning, so I’m going to post a linkfest.
Gonzales resigned because more lies wouldn’t keep him out of jail, by Dahlia Litwick at Slate.
The House of Reps has enough votes to hold Harriet Miers in criminal contempt of [...]
Posted in constitution, criminal law, dissent, education, ethics, free speech, hypocrisy, politics, tagged Cheney, treason on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
And about time too. Sure would be nice if someone with the power to launch an impeachment was paying attention. Raw Story has the video.
Matthews asked Plame how, if she believed the Bush administration had covered up a “false case for war,” that she didn’t also anticipate that the White House would strike back at [...]
