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Transcripts of today’s Senate Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on warrantless wiretaps

Posted by: ST on February 6, 2006 at 8:46 pm » 27 Comments

I’ve not had a chance to read them all the way through and wanted to post links for others who, like me, couldn’t watch the hearings today. Click here for the first transcript and here for the second. Here’s part three. Anyone here get a chance to watch any of this today?

 

Another media double standard re: cartoons

Posted by: ST on February 6, 2006 at 8:37 pm » 4 Comments

Earlier today I blogged about the blatant media double standard at play with the eagerness of most major US newspapers to publish the photos from the Abu Ghraib scandal versus their unwillingness to reprint the ‘offensive’ Mohammed cartoons. Sadly, that is not the only double standard going on here in terms of how the media [...]

 

The Syria/Iraq WMD connection

Posted by: ST on February 6, 2006 at 12:41 pm » 70 Comments

Jack Kelly, in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, wrote an opinion piece this weekend discussing the speculation on the connection between Syria and Iraq – specifically zeroing in on the possibility that Iraq, in an agreement with Syria, moved some of its WMDS to Syria prior to the war in Iraq. He mentions deputy chief of [...]

 

US media will print Abu Ghraib photos but not controversial cartoons

Posted by: ST on February 6, 2006 at 9:38 am » 29 Comments

Aussie blogger Tim Blair makes a great point in response to the lack of publication by most newspapers here of the controversial cartoons that have sparked such a furor overseas. He writes: [The American media] won’t publish cartoons, but they will run anything they can get out of Abu Ghraib. Both sets of images provoke [...]