Lindsay: right on.

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Harry Reid on the Bush authoritarianism bill:
I strongly believe this legislation is unconstitutional. It will almost certainly be struck down by the Supreme Court. And when that happens, we’ll be back here several years from now debating how to bring terrorists to justice.
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History will judge our actions here today. I am convinced […]

The New York Times editorial board provides a summary of what the antiterrorism bill passed by the House and under debate in the Senate allows for. This isn’t just torture or habeas corpus. Emphasis in the original.
These are some of the bill’s biggest flaws:
Enemy Combatants: A dangerously broad definition of “illegal enemy combatant” in the […]

Bush administration officials have a long standing tradition of leaving me scratching my head at the obtuseness of their comments. Cheney’s undying commitment to the falsehood that Iraq and Al Qaeda had ties before the US invaded, Rumsfeld’s “stuff happens” attitude towards war planning, and Gonzalez’s quaint-ification of the Geneva Conventions have all left me […]

Updated below with specific language.
Yesterday I objected to the proposed changes to the War Crimes Act on the grounds that by specifying certain acts as illegal Congress risked condoning unspecified acts. That is, by pre-interpreting what interrogation techniques violate the Geneva Conventions (which set the standards of the War Crimes Act) Congress drastically limits […]

Updated below.
“There’s agreement on the goal, that is, that we continue to comply with our international treaty obligations and all of our domestic laws, but at the same time not tie the hands of our intelligence officials.” - Senator John Cornyn
Shorter Cornyn: we have to change the law to obey the law.
The negotiations between the […]

If you believe Peter King (R-NY), bedwetting is a political virtue.
Representative Peter T. King, Republican of New York and chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said: “I just think John McCain is wrong on this. If we capture bin Laden tomorrow and we have to hold his head under water to find out when the […]

Shorter Bob Geiger: The Bush administration’s handling of the war on terror has produced a swinging dickfest of carnage.
The statistics on terrorist attacks, suicide bombings, and Al Qaeda’s size all are indictments of the Bush administration’s failure to make headway in their so-called war on terror. Contra Bush’s assertions that “Today, we are safer, but […]

I didn’t write about 9/11 on September 11th last year, though I don’t recall what emotional and mental barrier prevented me from doing so. I grew up in Manhattan and now live about five blocks from Ground Zero, though I was in school in Baltimore on 9/11/01. I walk past the scar of the Twin […]

The Roots Project podcast project has been collecting people’s thoughts about 9/11. The show will be published this afternoon, but in the meantime feel free to stop by and share.
Courage is not freedom from fear; it is being afraid and going on.

-Unknown

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