Congressional Research Service Director Daniel Mulhollan has his key expert on separation of powers and Congress’s legislative prerogatives vis-a-vis the Executive and Judicial Branches, Louis Fisher, in his cross-hairs. He needs to stand down.
I am a bit sick to my stomach right now, taking the train from New York to D.C. and just got off the phone with a retired general and just prior to that one of the more senior military strategists in the country who happens to have deep Southern roots.
British author Philippe Sands has a fascinating and important new book out, Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules — From FDR’s Atlantic Charter to George W. Bush’s Illegal War. Interestingly, the book jumped from 15,052 on Amazon’s sales rank to 3,471 today.
TWN has posted a number of items about the depiction of John McCain in the Sundance Festival award-winning film by Eugene Jarecki, Why We Fight.
Great day in New York today, but very cold. Thanks to the TWN readers I met in Soho. Tonight. . .8:34 p.m., on the dot. Air America Radio Majority Report‘s Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder and I are going to ‘catch up’ in their studio.
I’m off to New York this morning, writing this from the Metro-liner train, scanning the news. I’m going to post a series of links today of things people should either know or just be very angry about.
The ousted, indicted, but not-yet-out-of-the-action-by-a-longshot Tom DeLay has just secured Duke Cunningham’s seat on the House Appropriations Committee.
Senator John McCain comes off as a major political star in Eugene Jarecki’s Why We Fight which is opening soon in Washington, but his chief of staff, Mark Salter, has blown a gasket over a cute clip in the film in which Vice President Cheney calls him during that interview.
(photo credit: Max Blumenthal) TWN has heard that former Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Per Ahlmark would like to borrow this sign from Southern New Mexico. Sweden’s Liberal Party Leader has just nominated John Bolton and Kenneth Timmerman for the Nobel Peace Prize. More here at Bolton Watch. Fun, fun, fun — it just doesn’t stop….
There are roughly 25 million people in Iraq. Yesterday, the cost for invading and occupying Iraq raced past the $300 billion mark. Per capita costs in Iraq from America’s efforts $12,000.00. This doesn’t include wounded and dead Americans, wounded and dead Iraqis, shattered families, ill will, and future “blowback”.
