Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
I got out my DVDs of season 2. For those who didn’t see it, the premise was that Middle Eastern terrorists tried to nuke LA, but Jack Bauer found the bomb and it was flown to the desert, to detonate safely in an uninhabited area. Evidence was conveniently found, linking the bomb [...]

By Thoreau
So, Jim has been doing good work in covering the dubious nature of the allegations concerning Iran. But let’s say, for the sake of argument, that the allegations are true. Let’s say that Iran is indeed supporting insurgents attacking US forces. What that means is that we’re in a proxy war.
Now, [...]

J Thomas reminisces in a comment at American Footprints:
Oh, the memories. Garner was arranging quick local elections, and I was thinking ‘we might pull this off after all’. And then he got taken out, and Bremer replaced the elected local officials because he didn’t like them and put in his own appointees, and I was [...]

More scoops from the Times, via Jonathan Scharz:
According to Jill Abramson, the paper’s Managing Editor, Gordon was purchased for $27.95 at a Radio Shack on West 43rd Street. Describing the situation as “a prank” that had “gotten slightly out of hand,” Abramson said the paper had decided to acknowledge Gordon’s identity because—after the tape recorder’s [...]

In a generally favorable response to the post on Congressional hearings below, James Joyner writes that
The War Powers Act acknowledges that the president has the Constitutional authority to use military force, absent Congressional authorization, in “a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces [emphasis mine].” [...]

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack responded to pesky requests the the Administration provide some evidence already as follows:
“We’re going to do this on our own timeline,” he said.
“There are always going to be doubters, critics, sceptics … That’s fine, we accept that.”
“It’s not going to influence us into hurrying through something that we don’t think [...]

In a little-noticed speech, President Bush himself explains how it all went wrong.

By Mona
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John Cole continues to feel the love from the authoritarian, war-mongering, “neo-libertarian” sites of which Protein Wisdom is one. Now a virtual moonbat is John, because “neo-libertarians” frequently conflate sensible right-libertarian perspectives like John’s with selling out to the treasonous enemy of All that Is True and Good. (His [...]

Greenwald is excellent on the matter:
Has Gordon reviewed any of those devices, seen any of the debris or the reports describing them, spoken to independent experts about the accuracy of the administration’s claims, or evaluated the credibility of the original sources for all of this alleged “intelligence”? If he has done any of that, he [...]

The Administration is making specific testable claims about Iranian arming of Iraqi militias. Congress needs to announce that, as part of its constitutional authority to declare, or not declare, war, it will audit those claims independently. The executive branch needs to turn over a complete database of all IED attacks and the associated forensic evidence [...]