Category: long story short

Many of us saw this news item last week: Ex-C.I.A. Aides Say Iraq Leader Helped Agency in 90’s Attacks, NYT, 6/9/04, article “Iyad Allawi, now the designated prime minister of Iraq, ran an exile organization…that sent agents into Baghdad in the early 1990’s to plant bombs and sabotage government facilities under the direction of the…

There’s no ink on the contract yet but odds are looking very good that starting in July I’ll be joining a consulting firm as chief mumbledymumbledy officer and work with some clients on projects that combine a lot of my interests today: netroots activism, taking back congress, weblogs and webfeeds and wikis oh my, promoting…

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: June 13, 2004 – June 19, 2004 Archives: I and several colleagues have been working on a story that, if and when it comes to fruition – and I’m confident it shall – should shuffle the tectonic plates under that capital city where I normally hang my hat.…

Guantanamo interrogators use tea and ‘mental chess’ -Reuters, 6/14/04. (article) “Building rapport can mean sharing a Big Mac meal from the base McDonald’s…”

Contractor Immunity a Divisive Issue Washington Post, 6/13/04. (Article) In an early test of its imminent sovereignty, Iraq’s new government has been resisting a U.S. demand that thousands of foreign contractors here be granted immunity from Iraqi law…. Extraterritoriality The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001. (Entry) …. privilege of immunity from local law enforcement enjoyed…

Guantanamo Cell Tapes Turned Over to U.S. Officials, Reuters 6/13/04 “The tapes were turned over to the military’s Southern Command in Miami, which has jurisdiction over Guantanamo.” OK, then. The Southern Command in Miami has jurisdiction over Guantanamo. And United States’ law has jurisdication over the Southern Command. Yet United States’ law does not have…