Another not-so-sunny round-up...
somewhere the sun is shining...
it seems that the bush/cheney/rove axis of evil is going to the mat for bolton...
the latest is that, via negroponte, the ex-contra and "friend of ollie," cheney has scotched the release of the nsa intercepts that had been requested by the senate foreign relations committee... steve clemons isn't happy and we shouldn't be either...
"The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will not get the much-wanted National Security Agency intercepts in which John Bolton expressed so much interest. [...] Under Secretaries with questionable intentions can get the transcripts -- but Senators with Constitutional oversight responsibilities seemingly cannot. [...] Dick Cheney and John Bolton's protectors are ever more committed to an imperial presidency -- unchallenged by other institutions of the U.S. government.
bush is in latvia on the first day of his "european vacation..." so far, it isn't going well...
with russia still to come on the agenda, putin ain't happy with the boy emperor's big mouth... in an interview released last night, bush repeated what he had told vladimir in february... "I said, 'do you understand, friend, that you've got problems in the Baltics'?"
no condescension there...
but, as a former kgb man, putin gives better than he gets...
in an interview with 60 minutes to air tomorrow, putin says that America should not be lecturing him about rollbacks on democracy when "four years ago your presidential election was decided by the court."
nice one, vladimir...!
commenting on evolution on trial in kansas, federal judges under attack from fundamentalist christians, and the arrogance of trying to convert the world to democarcy, maureen dowd closes with this... "
[A] spine-tingling he-monster with the power to drag us back into the pre-Darwinian dark ages is slouching around Washington. It's a fire-breathing creature with the head of W., the body of Bill Frist and the serpent tail of Tom DeLay."
and, finally, in a master-stroke of hypocrisy and in-your-face denial...
"The Bush administration reaffirmed its commitment to prohibiting torture in a report Friday to the U.N..."
but read a little more closely...
"[T]he 95-page report, which focused primarily on police abuses within the United States, avoided any discussion of the CIA's role in transferring secret "ghost detainees" to foreign countries for interrogation. It also sidestepped the question of whether U.S. authorities are obligated to bar the mistreatment of detainees held outside the United States."
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it seems that the bush/cheney/rove axis of evil is going to the mat for bolton...
the latest is that, via negroponte, the ex-contra and "friend of ollie," cheney has scotched the release of the nsa intercepts that had been requested by the senate foreign relations committee... steve clemons isn't happy and we shouldn't be either...
"The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will not get the much-wanted National Security Agency intercepts in which John Bolton expressed so much interest. [...] Under Secretaries with questionable intentions can get the transcripts -- but Senators with Constitutional oversight responsibilities seemingly cannot. [...] Dick Cheney and John Bolton's protectors are ever more committed to an imperial presidency -- unchallenged by other institutions of the U.S. government.
bush is in latvia on the first day of his "european vacation..." so far, it isn't going well...
with russia still to come on the agenda, putin ain't happy with the boy emperor's big mouth... in an interview released last night, bush repeated what he had told vladimir in february... "I said, 'do you understand, friend, that you've got problems in the Baltics'?"
no condescension there...
but, as a former kgb man, putin gives better than he gets...
in an interview with 60 minutes to air tomorrow, putin says that America should not be lecturing him about rollbacks on democracy when "four years ago your presidential election was decided by the court."
nice one, vladimir...!
commenting on evolution on trial in kansas, federal judges under attack from fundamentalist christians, and the arrogance of trying to convert the world to democarcy, maureen dowd closes with this... "
[A] spine-tingling he-monster with the power to drag us back into the pre-Darwinian dark ages is slouching around Washington. It's a fire-breathing creature with the head of W., the body of Bill Frist and the serpent tail of Tom DeLay."
and, finally, in a master-stroke of hypocrisy and in-your-face denial...
"The Bush administration reaffirmed its commitment to prohibiting torture in a report Friday to the U.N..."
but read a little more closely...
"[T]he 95-page report, which focused primarily on police abuses within the United States, avoided any discussion of the CIA's role in transferring secret "ghost detainees" to foreign countries for interrogation. It also sidestepped the question of whether U.S. authorities are obligated to bar the mistreatment of detainees held outside the United States."
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posted by profmarcus at
5/07/2005
