From his statement, just released: Today, the Department of Defense will be seeking additional continuances in several pending military commission proceedings. We will seek more time to allow us time to reform the military commission process. The Secretary of Defense will notify the Congress of several changes to the rules governing the commissions. The rule [...]
This is hands down the week’s most fascinating story. A lawyer is assasinated in Guatemala. He posthumously releases a video online, which spreads widely, accusing the nation’s president with orchestrating his murder. In response, protests are organized around the country, many via Facebook and Twitter. The unrest threatens to topple the president.
The humor of this clip may only be fully appreciated by adults of a certain age, who will never, no matter what happens, forget the voice of Mister Rogers. For the rest, take a few minutes to enjoy perhaps the only time that reading a poem in sworn testimony led a Senator to declare, “Looks [...]
Way back on A18 of the NYT, veteran reporter Robert Pear tells us this: WASHINGTON — Hospitals and insurance companies said Thursday that President Obama had substantially overstated their promise earlier this week to reduce the growth of health spending. Mr. Obama invited health industry leaders to the White House on Monday to trumpet their [...]
TIME’s own Tuned In maestro James Poniewozik does what literary theorists like to call a “close reading” of the Wall Street Journal’s policy on employee Twitter use. I’d bet my lunch money that no TIME editor reviewed his logic before he posted it, just as no one reviewed this repost. Or this tweet. (The horror! [...]
There’s more today from Lawrence Wilkerson, who was Colin Powell’s former chief of staff, via TPM: one purpose of the torture regime was to extract the (non-existent) links between Iraq and Al Qaeda from detainees. There’s also a report that Cheney’s office ordered the torture of an Iraqi detainee. These are important, obscene things to know. [...]
. . . for $1.99 and you can read my latest story about the Democratic obstacles that Obama faces as he tries to get his legislative agenda through Congress. The nut: Despite Obama’s early legislative victories — including passage of the largest stimulus bill in history — the new President has learned how limited his [...]
As my family learned the hard way when my brother developed kidney disease, you may not know until you really need that coverage. And all too often, the answer is — not enough. The fact is, it’s hard to be an informed consumer when you are buying a product as complicated as health insurance. As [...]
A picture is worth more than a thousand words to an illiterate. The literacy rate in the non-urban areas of Afghanistan and North West Pakistan is less than 10%. Thousands of American troops will be pouring into southern Afghanistan this summer. They will have their hands full with the Taliban. As it is, they have [...]
