UPDATE: Judy, Judy, Judy, looking for hits already! Here's Judy Miller's "Farewell Letter" and embedded within it is a link to her website, all stocked and ready to go with rebuttals to everyone who's been mean to her lately. Judith Miller retires from New...

From TalkLeft: Breaking: Senator Lindsay Graham is introducing an Amendment to the defense appropriations bill pending in the Senate (S. 1092) that would strip those designated by the Administration as enemy combatants of the ability to seek habeas review in federal...

By a strong 60-40 margin San Francisco voters approved Proposition I, which bans military recruiters from public schools. The measure also asks the city government to consider funding scholarships for education and training that could provide an alternative to...

They're not much exercised about prewar lies, but exposing US gulags – well, they're not having any of that:Congress's top Republican leaders yesterday demanded an immediate joint House and Senate investigation into the disclosure of classified information to The...

Writing in 1968, Will Durant, in his The Lessons of History, says that "in the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war." And then this gem: "When the states of Europe freed themselves from papal overlordship and protection, each state encouraged...

Josh Marshall posts:Someone was willing to say it: Chalabi deserves a subpoena, not photo-ops with administration bigwigs. See Rep. Miller's (D-CA) speech on the floor of the House just yesterday.Yeah, well, I said it first.

An interesting torture story developing today. From publius:According to Drudge (always a shaky way to start), Frist and Hastert are going to announce an investigation not into our mini-gulag in Eastern Europe, but into the leak of the black sites to the Post. This is...

Michael Ledeen is whining about reports that supposedly accuse him of forging the fake Niger documents. There's just one problem, though: no one that I have read on the subject is making any such accusation. The La Repubblica series by Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe...

We do not torture...George W. Bush We don’t do torture....Porter Goss I guess it depends on the meaning of "we." A DEADLY INTERROGATION by JANE MAYER Can the C.I.A. legally kill a prisoner?

Wonder what the heck is going on in Paris, with all the rioting? Skip the bigots and read lenin. Micah Holmquist sends us linkage for the NYT bogus intelligence story: "You can read the actual document provided to the New York Times via Carl Levin's webpage." Micah on...