The Times has this description of one of yesterday’s suicide bombers in Iraq: The woman who blew herself up in Baghdad’s central Karada district on Thursday resembled most of the other women crowded outside a food distribution site that was catering mainly to those displaced by the war. She wore a black abaya and, like [...]
From TIME’s White House Photo Blog: Our Brooks Kraft catches Larry Summers in rare form.
In today’s installment, Rep. John R. Carter is so dad-gum mad at Janet Napolitano that he thinks President Obama should dad-gum fire that woman. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.c-spanarchives.org/flash/cspanPlayer.swf" fvars=" pid=285429-1 ; clipStart=35274.13 ; clipStop=35346.12 ; autoplay=0 " width="365" height="340" /] (H/T: C-SPAN Video Library)
BREAKING NEWS—FIRST DOG DISRUPTS FIRST FAMILY—BALL BARKING ROUSES BARACK AND MICHELLE—STILL CUTE—BREAKING NEWS Michelle Obama took questions today from a group of about 160 8- to 12-year-old children, who were visiting the White House as part of a bring-your-child-to-work day. The questions were, taken as a whole, pretty good. What will happen if something bad [...]
The New York Times has two pieces of interest on the Bush Administration’s torture policy today. The first is an authoritative op-ed column by Ali Soufan, who was one of the FBI officials who interrogated Abu Zubaydah and others. Soufan validates the philosophical split between the FBI and the CIA on interrogation procedures that Jane [...]
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When asked about Rep. Jane Harman’s alleged wire tapping on Tuesday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said this: As you know, this is a breaking story, so I don’t know the particulars but I do think that I don’t know that Congressman Harman was wiretapped, I mean somebody was wiretapped and there may have been a conversation. [...]
This is the sort of paragraph that can be printed on the tombstone of this entire chapter of U.S. history. From the Senate Armed Services Committee report that was released last night, page XXV: It is particularly troubling that senior officials approved the use of interrogation techniques that were originally designed to simulate abusive tactics [...]
I have no doubt that Israel is–legitimately–freaked out by Iran, although not so much by the prospect of an Iranian bomb as by Iran’s support for Hezbollah and Hamas. (The only plausible use of an Iranian bomb would be as a deterrent against Israel’s own nuclear weapons.) But it seems clear that the Netanyahu government’s [...]
