This isn’t really politics, but I just feel the need to vent about this a bit. I have a class assignment – is this law Constitutional? kind of thing. Fairly standard, I already have the answer halfway fleshed out in my head, but the case law in the text book is already five years old. [...]
Archive for October 8th, 2002
Findlaw kinda sucks
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Tenet says Saddam not planning on using WMDs
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Via Atrios washingtonpost.com: Bush Iraq Plan Hits Snag in Senate That is right, despite what Bush says, The CIA does not believe that Saddam will attack the US with WMDs: Saddam Hussein’s apparent policy of not resorting to terrorist attacks against the United States could change if he concludes a U.S.-led attack against him was [...]
Bush to re-open ports
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Bush seeks to reopen Western ports I am not actually opposed to this kind of action in principle: President Bush will seek a court injunction to reopen West Coast ports for an 80-day cooling-off period, intervening in a bitter labor dispute that has cost the economy as much as $2 billion a day, administration officials [...]
Bush Admin Pressuring Intelligence Agencies to Tell it What it Wants to Hear
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HoustonChronicle.com – Some administration officials expressing misgivings on Iraq The Bush Administration is apparently pressing it’s intelligence service to produce the result it wants, regardless of the truth: They charge that the administration squelches dissenting views and that intelligence analysts are under intense pressure to produce reports supporting the White House’s argument that Saddam poses [...]
RFK on preemption
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Interesting quote from RFK via Hesoid “I supported McNamara’s position in favor of a blockade. This was not from a deep conviction that it would be a successful course of action, but a feeling that it had more flexibility and fewer liabilities than a military attack. Most importantly, like others, I could not accept the [...]
So, what does the administration believe?
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Bush Cites Iraqi Threat Posed to U.S. and Allies Last night, Bush said: President Bush declared tonight that Saddam Hussein could attack the United States or its allies “on any given day” with chemical or biological weapons. In a forceful argument for disarming Iraq or going to war with that country, he argued that “we [...]
Republican's corp builds voting machines
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Scoop: Republicans Make the US Elections Voting Machines You know, I don’t know that there is any fraud here, and I would really, really doubt it. But the appearance of fraud can be just as damaging. This should not be allowed: Election Systems & Software, the firm whose machines were involved in the 2002 flubbed [...]
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