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"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." April 29 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: As Intricate As A Pattern In Their Rugs - Byzantine Politics And Afghan-Pakistani Relations [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128Kbps MP3 8:05 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Razer Raygun Says: ♥ Sharing IS Caring! ♥ |
"Since members of the American espionage agencies, government officials of the Puppet Administration and enemies of the Afghan people and Jihad have ensconced themselves in the so-called Peace Council and are trying to pave the way for the prolongation of the American occupation by cashing in on the name of Jihad, religion and tribal chieftainship,; wants to prevent Mujahideen from waging Jihad against the invaders and are urging the Afghan Mujahid people to accept American slavery and surrender, therefore, members of the Council can be target of the Mujahideen attacks during the operations as, in view of their role, they are considered official members of the ranks of the enemy. "In OTHER Afghanistan news, the Washington Post reports Afghan officials are considering the institution of a military draft, replacing the current volunteer system. "The idea is still in the "discussion," rather than "implementation," stage. The move would relieve "worry about the ability of the United States and its NATO allies to foot the massive costs of the security forces for many years into the future".
FP Flashpoints: Was Libya a Mistake?» Just like a fairy tale... but not - In London Prince William has married Catherine 'the commoner' amidst massive pomp, circumstance, ceremony, and over-arching police state presence. Expect your weekend MSM news reading to be filled with details about that, which by rote will cause nothing to be reported about the following (Courtesy of Foreign Policy magazine):
Think Again: LibyaMore than a month after the first bombs fell on Muammar al-Qaddafi's forces, the assumptions that led the United States into the war have mostly been proven wrong -- and a strategy to end it is still nowhere in sight.BY MICAH ZENKO | APRIL 28, 2011
"Allies Will Pick Up the Slack."
Don't bet on it. When the United States and its allies went to war in Libya five and a half weeks ago, it wasn't supposed to be much of a war at all. U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to intervene was based on the assumption that nearby states more directly impacted by the state of affairs in Libya, such as Britain and France, would lead the charge. The United States, according to Obama, would lead with "days, not weeks" of military action, thus "shaping the conditions for the international community to act together." Many in Washington, though aware that the United States has unique capabilities essential to early stages of no-fly zone implementation, assumed it would be easy to pass the buck. As vocal intervention proponent Sen. Lindsay Graham would later concede, "When we call[ed] for a no-fly zone, we didn't mean our planes."
Much of this assumption had to do with the Arab League. On March 12, the regional organization threw its weight behind the Libyan revolution, denouncing "the fatal violations and serious crimes at the hands of Libyan authorities" and calling on the U.N. Security Council to impose a no-fly zone over the country. "The main priority right now is to stop the deadly situation," Secretary-General Amr Moussa said at the time. U.S. officials highlighted the league's March 12 resolution as an endorsement of action from the region; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton referred to "a sense of urgency that was precipitated by the Arab League's courageous stand."
But when the bombs actually started to fall on Libya -- as they invariably do when enforcing a no-fly zone -- the league hastily pulled back, and Moussa harangued allied forces for allegedly causing "the deaths and injuries of many Libyan civilians... [In Full @ Foreign Policy]
» Israeli Foreign Minister Lieberman says the world should not recognize the new Palestinian government and legitimize a government that includes Hamas.
» At least four Palestinians, including two children, are injured as an Israeli tank 'pops off a few rounds' in central Gaza.
» Yemeni President Saleh threatens to quit transition deal, accusing Qatar of 'conspiracy.'
» There has been a bombing in a popular Moroccan tourist spot, killing 16 people. The attack is being blamed on "al Qaeda".
» Protesters stage a rally in southern parts of Oman for the second Friday in a row.
Haiti's Reconstruction: Who Benefits?
By Daniel Moss, April 27, 2011
Georges Marie is a proud and angry Haitian lawyer who lost her husband in the earthquake. As she mourned, the humanitarian industry exploded.
She watched with concern as Port au Prince's narrow streets became clogged with white Land Rovers, each stamped with an aid agency logo on the driver's door. It still rankles her when the humanitarians dine and dance in a four-star restaurant overlooking the Place Boyer, a public square now strung with tarps, home to some of the million-plus people still displaced from the 2010 earthquake.
Some aid organizations, Georges Marie said, don't pay taxes required to operate in Haiti although to be fair it's quite possible that the under-resourced Haitian state has never asked. Others don't fulfill local hiring mandates, placing foreigners in positions that Haitians could fill although, to be fair, many development agencies try hard to hire locally but are thwarted by a fierce brain drain. Quebec, said Georges Marie, offers Cuban-trained Haitian doctors a license to practice and a plane ticket. La industrie de misere, she called it our misery, their jobs... [In Full]
"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." April 28 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Robbed By 'Bandits' - Why The 'Petraeus Plan' Failed So Dramatically In Afghanistan [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128Kbps MP3 20:20 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Razer Raygun Says: ♥ Sharing IS Caring! ♥ |
AFP - A car bomb on Thursday killed five people in northern Iraq, including a senior police officer, while gunmen shot dead a general in Baghdad, the latest in a spate of assassinations of top officials.... MoreThe Christian Science Monitor has a feature on the former CIA director, now the Secretary of Defense-in-waiting:
How Leon Panetta could change Washington as next Defense secretary» The first time anyone's been inside the doors - The first press conference since the Federal Reserve's creation in 1913 specifically about the 'bank' and it's currently battered image was held yesterday by Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner with every financial journalist on the face of the planet in attendance.
Leon Panetta, currently CIA director, is a close ally of Vice President Biden. But political realities could prevent him from adopting Mr. Biden's stance on US troops in Afghanistan... [More]
"On June 20, 1967, Ali was convicted of draft evasion, sentenced to five years in prison, fined $10,000 and banned from boxing for three years. He stayed out of prison as his case was appealed and returned to the ring on October 26, 1970, knocking out Jerry Quarry in Atlanta in the third round. On March 8, 1971, Ali fought Joe Frazier in the “Fight of the Century” and lost after 15 rounds, the first loss of his professional boxing career. On June 28 of that same year, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned his conviction for evading the draft." More @ History.comPalestinian Issues At The Top Of Foreign Policy Magazine's Morning Brief:
Palestinian factions announce reconciliation dealOn the subject of the aforementioned 'Clusterfucking'... Did you ever feel like you stepped IN something but had actually stepped ON something yet it made no difference?
Fatah and Hamas, the two largest Palestinian parties, announced that they had reached a deal to create an interim unity government and hold elections within a year. The reconciliation agreement would bring an end to almost four years of estrangement between the factions, which began after Hamas's violent takeover of the Gaza Strip in 2007.
The agreement was announced in Cairo, and brokered by Egypt's caretaker military government. It represents one of the first signs that the turmoil across the Arab world is having an impact on Palestinian politics.
The Palestinian factions offered few details about the makeup of the planned unity government, though negotiators did announce that Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who is hated by Hamas, will not play a role. Fayyad's absence, and the broader implications of Hamas's involvement in a unity government, could imperil the hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance that the United States provides annually to the Palestinian Authority.
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Clusterfuck Nation
The Banana Peel of Destiny
By James Howard Kunstler
April 25, 2011
That was a cute move by President Obama last week, calling out the "oil speculators" with a memo to his Attorney General, Eric Holder.
The President proved a few weeks ago, in his energy speech to the nation, that he doesn't understand how these resources are produced and traded. Consequently, the people he addressed remain clueless, but ticked off nonetheless. And the logic of politics now compels Mr. Obama to call out the dogs on... people who make money trading paper claims on oil?
Funny, he didn't show any interest the past two-plus years in people who make money swindling taxpayers via booby-trapped Collateralized Debt Obligations and Credit Default Swaps. Maybe those things sound too abstruse to get excited about - but believe me, it was a heckuva lot more money.
In fact, a case could be mounted by God's attorney general - if he has one - that Mr. Obama abetted a gigantic conspiracy in fraudulent financial paper which makes the oil speculators look like shoplifters in a Kentucky WalMart...
For those of you interested in the reality side of things, here's the scoop: The price of oil is going to go way up, and way down, and way up again, and way down again until everyone is too broke to ask for any, and companies are too ruined to go get it for them, and governments are too broken to interfere in the process.
The oil speculators are normal characters in a stressed market doing what needs to be done on the margins of "price discovery." The trouble arises when price discovery occurs in turbulent times and places, for instance, when people in a part of the world called the Middle East & North Africa (MENA, for short), start rioting against their governments, which has been the case persistently for a couple of months now - a region that contains about half the world's oil reserves. So interested observers conclude there's a fair chance that oil production there might face impediments to normal operations.
And indeed that is already the case in Libya, where some of the world's lightest, creamiest, sweetest crude oil has stopped flowing into pipelines and tanker ships. With protesters being slaughtered by the score in Syria, and Yemen's president about to get a one-way ticket to Palookaville, and the Saud family cowering in their solid-gold senior housing facility, and affairs looking sketchy at best in other nations around that neighborhood, speculators at the margins have called for higher oil prices... [More @ Clusterfuck Nation]
"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." April 27 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: In Honor Of Islamic Naming Conventions - 'Barack Hussein Obama the American' [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128Kbps MP3 11:02 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Razer Raygun Says: ♥ Sharing IS Caring! ♥ |
"When Judge John Gallagher asked him (A prospective juror) if he could put his bias aside and render an unbiased decision he said "I'd just be sitting here, stewing, that I can't believe we are spending all these resources on this."
» Speaking of homelessness and poverty in America (With a note on yours truly's Juvenile Delinquent adolecence):
Homeless Rebellion In GentryLand
Jurors near revolt in Peace Camp Six Trial
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
by Becky Johnson
Santa Cruz, Ca. They swarmed the hallways, cluttered the benches, many clutching books in preparation for a long day. At least eighty public citizens who still believe in the purpose of jury trials ( or were afraid of facing criminal charges if they failed to respond to that letter in the mail) arrived at Judge John Gallagher's court to volunteer to serve to adjudicate whether the six defendants were guilty of "lodging" on the Courthouse steps last July and August as part of a peaceful protest against the Sleeping Ban in Santa Cruz.
Gallagher had the opportunity to throw the charges aside when Attorney and defendant, Ed Frey filed a motion to dismiss last January. Gallagher ruled that PC 647 (e) is NOT vague and overbroad and that the prosecutions could proceed. Judge Rebecca Connolly ruled essentially the same on March 4th in the case of Linda Lemaster. Lemaster will be tried later in May on the same charge, and, presumably, a different jury will be seated.
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As jurors learned they would not be serving on a jury to try a child molester, a rapist, a murderer, or an extortionist, but on whether a couple of homeless people "lodged" on the courthouse steps as part of a protest last summer, they rebelled.
A kindergarten teacher from Brooknoll Elementary School started the rebellion. "When I first came to Santa Cruz, I lived in my van for three years. During that time, I was hassled, arrested, and jailed. There is no way I could be impartial in this case considering the pain these people are suffering."
The next juror to object said "I grew up homeless and my dad was a veteran. I've been hassled and harassed, and I'm hostile. They make victims of people. They don't help them out. You can't take a homeless kid and give them a $225 ticket."
When DA Dabkowski asked " Do any of you believe this is a case that should not be brought to court," another juror raised his hand. "I have a strong respect for people's property rights, but I speculate that the people charged here had no other option. This is simply a case of right and wrong laws."
The next juror who objected said "I not only object, but I'm shocked really. I arrived not knowing anything about this case and now find you want to conduct a two week trial? And it's simply about a group of homeless people being where they're not supposed to be? What a waste of people's time. It's a travesty really, spending this much time and money on this here."
When Judge John Gallagher asked him if he could put his bias aside and render an unbiased decision he said "I'd just be sitting here, stewing, that I can't believe we are spending all these resources on this." [More including linkage @ OneWomanTalking]
The Last Chapter In a FORCED Relocation Of An African-American CommunityNOW... about Razer's mis-spent youth:
With lights, poems, teens say goodbye to Cabrini Green housing project"Cabrini, once home to about 15,000 people, was a concrete reminder of the nation's urban policy failures. It attracted a lot of attention, partly because of its proximity to Chicago's exclusive Gold Coast..."SHARON COHEN, AP National Writer – Sat Apr 23, 10:30 am ET
CHICAGO – Every day at sundown, the gutted shell of the last Cabrini Green public housing tower takes on a ghostly aura as lights start flickering sporadically from 15 floors of empty rooms.
It looks like a distress signal — but it's really a goodbye.
This is the final Cabrini high rise to meet the wrecker's ball, the end of an era in Chicago, where public housing has long been a symbol of every form of inner-city agony: crumbling bases for vicious street gangs, darkened stairways reeking of urine, gunfire echoing in the night.
Cabrini had more than its share of horror: A 7-year-old shot dead while walking to school, holding his mother's hand. A young girl raped, beaten and poisoned by insecticide. Two policemen gunned down by snipers while on foot patrol.
But Cabrini had its happy memories, too: Block parties in the July heat. Special Monday reunions for old-timers coming back to visit. Girls eating sticky grape Popsicles, jumping double-dutch.
To mark the end, a Prague-born artist and teacher enlisted a group of teens, many who lived in and around Cabrini, to write poems about the project, the demolition or the meaning of home and community. As they read their words, a computer program recorded their voices, generating patterns from LED lights that beamed from 134 vacant apartments. As the tower falls, there are fewer lights... [Read More]
"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." April 26 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: I'm Relieved! I Thought It Was Just Me Who Didn't Give A Damn About The "Royal Wedding" [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128Kbps MP3 27:37 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Razer Raygun Says: ♥ Sharing IS Caring! ♥ |
"Since the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Syria has registered 260,000 Iraqis - with this year's total just over 150,000. In reality, an estimated 1.5 million Iraqis have lived in Syria over the past seven years, the largest community outside Iraq... [In Full @ Inter Press Service]The US government continues to persecute the people of Iraqi, indirectly.
If the president doesn’t get serious about the need to address our fiscal nightmare, yeah, there’s a chance it could not happen,"John Boehner told Politico.» This is NOT A Drill! Please make your way calmly and quietly to the emergency exits and do NOT panic... Thank you.
"It," in this case, isn't a golf game, or a bipartisan potluck. It's a vote on the debt ceiling before the Treasury runs out of room to cover our debts. Properly understood, what Boehner actually said is "if the president doesn't get serious about the need to do what the Republican Party wants on fiscal policy" -- note that allowing the Bush tax cuts to elapse would cut the deficit substantially, but wouldn't calm Boehner -- "yeah, there's a chance I am prepared to trigger a fiscal nightmare." [More @ Wonkbook]
Dollar's Reign as World's Main Reserve Currency Is Near an End - WSJ.comThis would be an excellent time to read Ellen Brown's piece on our military targeting of CERTAIN countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and the general region, in pursuit of destabilizing plans to take the oil exchange currency off the dollar.
"The U.S. dollar will soon have to share the role of the world's currency, argues UC Berkeley economist Barry Eichengreen in The Wall Street Journal. He explains why the change is coming-and what it will mean for international markets and companies..." [Sitrep]
"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." April 25 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: 'Shocked' You Say? - America's 'Shock Doctrine' Comes To The Arab World [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128Kbps MP3 13:08 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Razer Raygun Says: ♥ Sharing IS Caring! ♥ |
"Since the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Syria has registered 260,000 Iraqis - with this year's total just over 150,000. In reality, an estimated 1.5 million Iraqis have lived in Syria over the past seven years, the largest community outside Iraq... [In Full @ Inter Press Service]No rest for Iraqi refugees
Dollar's Reign as World's Main Reserve Currency Is Near an End - WSJ.com"The U.S. dollar will soon have to share the role of the world's currency, argues UC Berkeley economist Barry Eichengreen in The Wall Street Journal. He explains why the change is coming—and what it will mean for international markets and companies..." [Sitrep]This would be an excellent time to read Ellen Brown's piece on our military targeting of CERTAIN countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and the general region, in pursuit of destabilizing plans to take the oil exchange currency off the dollar.
"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." April 22 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Addicted To Events - America's Cumulative Celebratory Instinct Begins To Overwhelm Us [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128Kbps MP3 27:37 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Razer Raygun Says: ♥ Sharing IS Caring! ♥ |
This morning President Obama met with 150 donors for his 2012 reelection campaign over breakfast at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, California.» John McCain is in Benghazi Libya where he called the CIA-led rebels "Heroes". The use of DroneWars has been approved by our president (another "War President") and there have been air strikes in the city of Tripoli, a large city where civilians are protecting government facilities by surrounding them. Some say they're being forced to be there but it's unknown.
However, the event turned interesting when nearly two dozen of his contributors pressed the president in song on the unjust confinement and tortuous treatment of alleged WikiLeaks whistle-blower US Army intelligence analyst PFC Bradley Manning.
As the President spoke of the creative organizing that won him the 2008 election, over 10% of the attendees held up “Free Bradley Manning” signs and launched into a song entitled “Where’s our change?”
...Secret Services agents attempted to grab the signs," [In Full @ Bradley Manning Support Network]
Morning Brief: U.S. authorizes use of drones in Libya; McCain arrives in Benghazi -- presented by International Monetary FundMeanwhile Simon Jenkins at the Guardian UK asks the question
[You know it's true!]
The Pentagon announced yesterday that the U.S. will begin deploying armed Predator drones against Muammar al-Qaddafi's forces in order to break the stalemate in Libya. The first drone mission had to be cut short due to bad weather. Defense Secretary Robert Gates described the addition of drones as a "modest contribution" and was adamant that it did not imply a deepening U.S. involvement in the conflict.
Following up on their capture of a post on the Tunisian border yesterday, rebel forces claim to be advancing in the besieged city of Misrata as well. The rebels claimed to have killed and captured dozens of pro-Qaddafi fighters in recent days.
In a surprise visit, U.S. Sen. Jon McCain, a strong proponent of U.S. involvement in Libya, arrived in Benghazi in order to "get an on the ground assessment of the situation". McCain described the rebel forces as "my heroes." [More]
19 April 2011» There MUST BE SOMEONE to blame! The Department of Justice has been ordered to investigate the oil industry for fraud and price manipulation as the price goes over $4.00 and it will most likely reach $5 by the 4th of July.
These humanitarians come to Libya with missiles, and an agenda
Rather than protecting Libyans Nato is prolonging the agony of civil war
Simon Jenkins
To creep or not to creep, that is the question. Britain's Libyan war is entering its most dangerous phase. The great lie has once again been rumbled, that air power can deliver any sort of victory. The humanitarian imperative is in full cry, swamping the media and blinding strategy with daily tales of horror from the front. The mission, confused from the start, is moving where such missions always move, towards ever deeper engagement. Why does no one see it?
The prime minister, David Cameron, faces daily accusations of halfheartedness and desertion from his new comrades in arms, the Libyan rebels. In reply he complains of UN "restrictions" on his freedom to "take all necessary measures … to stop Gaddafi murdering people in Misrata". His minister for mission creep, Andrew Mitchell, has been in New York waving the shrouds of dead Libyans before the security council and demanding changes in the rules of engagement. The foreign secretary, William Hague, offers the rebels "non-lethal assistance", which appears to mean flak jackets and 10 training officers to offer "logistics and intelligence", but not to fight.
This is war through the looking glass, glory sought from the blood of others. [Read more of Jenkin's harangue of the British government's warmongering policy in re Libya]
"Honorable representatives of the US government. The Saudis have been begging the United States to develop more refinery capacity for years. Don't think WE'RE going to invest OUR MONEY in capital projects like that! The oil is running out and we ARE NOT INTERESTED in developing more infrastructure in these times of diminishing resources to process... It would be infrastructure that WILL NEVER be paid off and we could not rationalize that to our investors.» Japan will spend $5 billion dollars relocating the people of Fukushima to a new area with new housing. No, not FEMA style toxic trailers, but newly constructed condominiums.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's not OUR fault your society is addicted to oil. After all we're just the providers of the substance your society so liberally abuses.
Develop YOUR OWN refineries if you want more.
Thank you.
» We're #1 -- Ten Depressing Ways America Is Exceptional» Finally, Dimitry Orlov on the REAL value of "Money" in the event of an American economic collapse:
America is exceptional in the advantages we’ve had over other nations, not what we’ve done with those advantages.
April 20, 2011
Recent research contradicts the fundamental tenet of American exceptionalism. A Brookings Institution report comparing economic mobility in the United States and other countries concludes, “…“Starting at the bottom of the earnings ladder is more of a handicap in the United States than it is in other countries.”
For Republican presidential candidates the phrase American Exceptionalism has taken on almost talismanic qualities. Newt Gingrich’s new book is titled, A Nation Like No Other: Why American Exceptionalism Matters. “American the Exceptional” is the title of a chapter in Sarah Palin’s book America by Heart.
And woe be to those who take issue with the phrase. 2008 Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee declares, “To deny American exceptionalism is in essence to deny the heart and soul of this nation.” 2012 Presidential candidate Mitt Romney insists, “The reorientation away from a celebration of American exceptionalism is misguided and bankrupt.”
What is this American exceptionalism Republicans so venerate? [Find Out @ Alternet]
"A particularly annoying question I am often asked and have come to hate is: “How do I invest my money for it to survive financial, political and commercial collapse?” The short answer is: “Nohow. Money will not survive collapse; not yours, not anyone else's.” But that answer is not acceptable, because accepting it would require a profound loss of faith—faith in money, a profound GötterdĂ€mmerung for a civilization based on the worship of money...
[Get your "GötterdÀmmerung" on @ ClubOrlov where Dmitry Orlov describes how "Financial Totalitarianism" works]
"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." April 21 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: How Representative! Donald Trump... An Intellectual Moral And Ethical Cipher For Republican Stalking Horse [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128Kbps MP3 13:22 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Razer Raygun Says: ♥ Sharing IS Caring! ♥ |
When P. J. Crowley, a State Department spokesman, called the Pentagon’s treatment of Manning “ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid,” he lost his job. There have also been inquiries from the United Nations and Amnesty International. Perhaps that is why Jeh Johnson, the Pentagon’s general counsel, in explaining why Manning was being transferred, said no one should see this as a criticism of Quantico; it was just that Fort Leavenworth was really, really great—wonderful.So... The Pentagon THINKS they can isolate and disenfranchise Brad Manning from his support and legal counsel by moving him to what is known to most of us as "Bumfuck" and attempt to ILLEGALLY INCARCERATE HIM INDEFINITELY... They are Sooooo wrong.
He used the word “appropriate” about the move five times in a few minutes. (By coincidence, I wrote about the Supreme Court’s use of that word in a case about GuantĂĄnamo yesterday.)
That prompted an obvious question:Q: Sir, you said that there could be criticism or that there could be interpretations that this—the pre-trial confinement was inappropriate, but that everything was followed by the letter of the law. At any point, do you think—in your judgment, do you think that Private Manning, there was bad judgment used in the way that he was treated at Quantico; despite the fact whether it was by the letter of the law, that people who were running the facility at Quantico used bad judgment in the way he was treated?An unnamed military official who spoke to NBC did second-guess them, though, saying, “The Marines blew it.”
JOHNSON: No, I do not believe that.
I also know that I am the lawyer for the Department of Defense. I am not a corrections expert, and so I hesitate to second guess any of the judgments made by the personnel there in dealing with this particular confinee.
Later, the Pentagon tweetedMany will be tempted to interpret today’s action as criticism of facility at Quantico. That is not the case says #DOD General CounselHe can say it all he wants; that is not a hard temptation to yield to, nor should it be... [Read It All]
Rally at Leavenworth for Bradley Manning!» They haven't been the same since they left Ebbetts Field Brooklyn - Major League Baseball INC has attempted to take control of the Los Angeles Dodgers from Frank McCourt after he failed to make payroll in April. McCourt took a loan from Fox Network, the company he purchased it from a while back, but it was insufficient. MLB INC will attempt to appoint a pro-tem 'owner' until the financial details settle down but it appears McCourt WILL fight back.
Rally to protest the indefinite detention and unconstitutional torture of Bradley Manning.
Saturday, June 4
11:30am – 2:30pm
Leavenworth, Kansas
Contact: jim at indomitus dot net [More @ Bradley Manning Support Network]
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