Category: long story short

For the first time in 39 days on Friday I wasn’t the bottleneck in the editorial and production flow of my book. Today I had a day off on a weekend for the first time in months. I almost wasn’t sure it was real: the feeling of being able to do nothing, lie in the…

Aide Says President Set Guidelines for Interrogations, Not Specific Techniques, Washington Post, June 9, 2004 McClellan called the memo a historic or scholarly review of laws and conventions concerning torture. “The memo was not prepared to provide advice on specific methods or techniques,” he said. “It was analytical.” OK. Let’s analyze. These are excerpts from…

“The March 6 document about torture provides tightly constructed definitions of torture. For example, if an interrogator ‘knows that severe pain will result from his actions, if causing such harm is not his objective, he lacks the requisite specific intent even though the defendant did not act in good faith,’ the report said. ‘Instead, a…

“Ashcroft said it was not the Justice Department’s policy to define torture. “But he did say the international rules governing treatment of detainees did not apply to groups like al Qaeda since only countries are signatories to the treaty.” (Article) And are they similarly not bound to avoid torturing Americans?

FliG blows the lid of Kerry’s next big scandal, here.

From AARP Bulletin. … Trent Lott of Mississippi, announced he would stop voting against allowing Americans to buy lower-cost prescription drugs from abroad. “I cannot explain to my mother any longer,” he said, “why she should pay twice or two-thirds more than what is paid in Canada or Mexico.” Hmm… .twice or two-thirds more? She…