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Archive for October 2nd, 2006

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

Tucking In

I started State of Denial today so blogging may be a bit light. There’s an awful lot of setup, and an awful lot about the Pentagon and some guy named Rumsfeld who is a big wheel there. Thing is, my instinct is that the real story of the Administration is Cheney, and my suspicion is [...]

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

Thought for the Day

There could conceivably be a “torture bill” that did not abrogate habeas corpus, but there could not be a bill abrogating habeas corpus that was not also, effectively, a torture bill. Because once they can lock you away without having to produce you or ever answer for it to an independent authority, they can treat [...]