Unqualified Offerings

BTW, the hot rumor is that Sheik Rishawi has vamoosed, Chalabi style, with $75 million in American funds intended for the Anbar Salvation Council. I haven’t seen this reported from multiple sources, though, so I’m not sure I believe it yet. I never believed that Baby Sadr fled to Iran over the winter either, but [...]

More on the Higazy case, the storm-petrel of everything since.
Joanne Mariner on Findlaw. The article dates from August 2002. At that point the judge told the FBI to stop dragging out its internal investigation and report results by Halloween of that year. Your nut graph:
Higazy claimed that the FBI agent conducting the interrogation threatened him. [...]

It’s a sin of pride, but rereading that 2002 item I have to ask:
WHY DIDN’T YOU PEOPLE LISTEN TO ME?????????????

LizardBreath finds an officer willing to call bullshit before he’s safely out of the service. Way back in January 2002, I wrote
The right question is not, Are terrorists ordinary criminals? They question is, Are terrorist suspects terrorists? Clearly, the answer will be Yes sometimes and No some other times. Note that this is exactly congruent [...]

Sullivan: “But what marks conservatism is extreme prudence in initiating conflict, a principle I foolishly rushed past in the wake of 9/11.”
I’ve said many times I wasn’t going to make a fetish of mea culpas. This one is entirely sufficient for my purposes. If I were a real liberal I’d probably still be personally cheesed [...]

By Thoreau
In my continuing series on what the scientific community and its processes are like from the inside, I present an account of a task that I just completed:  I was asked to review a paper for an optics journal.  The paper was a series of theoretical calculations (based on well-established equations for the propagation [...]

By Thoreau
The movers came last week to examine my belongings and work up price quotes.  The best quotes are from Atlas Van Lines and Allied (well, the emails say Ace Worldwide but the price quote says Atlas, and it seems that the companies are affiliated).  Does anybody have experiences with either company?  I don’t want [...]

Jason Kuznicki asks the most important question facing us, “What Now?”
The rule of law has been fundamentally compromised in the United States. What do we do now, particularly if we personally still care about the rule of law and don’t want it to be any further violated by whatever steps we might take in response? [...]