Transcripts of today’s Senate Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on warrantless wiretaps
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.
Another media double standard re: cartoons
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.
The Syria/Iraq WMD connection
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 Saddam Hussein’s air force Georges Sadas recent claims, which I blogged about here, as well as some other interesting claims that are worth mentioning and discussing:
US media will print Abu Ghraib photos but not controversial cartoons
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:
Your predictions on the Bowl: Who’s gonna win it?
Here we are just a couple of hours away from the big game, which I believe will be a close one.
NSA ‘scandal’ fallout: convicted terrorist conspirators wanting cases thrown out
In yet another story to come out of the NSA ‘scandal’ that hasn’t received the attention it should, the AP is reporting that the information from the ‘whistleblowers’ that has come out regarding the NSA warrantless wiretaps scandals has spurred lawyers for some terrorist conspirators to ask for convictions for their clients to be overturned: