Unqualified Offerings

Thomas L. Knapp offers some anarcholiberal love for The Lion in Winter.

Radley Balko is doing some genuinely important investigative work, looking into the case of a man sentenced to death for shooting armed intruders in his apartment in the middle of the night. The intruders were cops, of course, kicking in doors “looking for drugs” they never found.
This kind of thing predates the abuses of the [...]

Iraq finds a few more bad apples among its own rulers:
BAGHDAD, Dec. 11 — An Iraqi government search of a detention center in Baghdad operated by Interior Ministry special commandos found 13 prisoners who had suffered abuse serious enough to require medical treatment, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Sunday night.
An Iraqi official with firsthand knowledge [...]

Secret laws and secret regulations.
He told me that there is a whole U.S. Code section that is simply blank for this reason.
And remember, “Ignorance of the law is no excuse.”
I won’t pretend that I knew about the existense of the Esoteric Code before today, but I get the impression it’s a lot harder for Kevin [...]

So French intelligence tried to warn the American government off the bogus Niger story. In the course of the article the authors remind us once again that German intelligence deprecated another of the Administration’s fantasy’s, the defector known as “Curveball,” well before the war.
The French story further erodes the Administration myth that “everybody” got it [...]

Gene Healy remembers two great Americans, former Senator Eugene McCarthy and longtime Liberty editor RW Bradford.