I heard him with my own ears in the spring of 2004 defend the torture at Abu Ghraib in the first hour of his show. The hour broadcast to our troops overseas over Armed Forces Radio.

As far as I know, Armed Forces Radio (under its current name) continues to broadcast that first hour.

If they ever come for me, and deny me the right to buy an NFL team, I can't say I will be bothered one little bit.

when a constitutional amendment was needed to prohibit alcohol at the federal level?

Even if it was doubtful beforehand whether drugs could be prohibited by mere Act of Congress, doesn't the very existence of the 18th and 21st Amendments constitute a strong argument that a constitutional amendment is needed to do this?

Former GOP operative Victor Gold describes in his book "Invasion of the Party Snatchers" exactly how far that cowardice extends:

For instance, Gold points to Vice President Richard Cheney, backed by 70 agents when attending a reception at a private home in a D.C. reception. Says Gold: “Clearly, what we’ve had in Dick Cheney is a high-maintenance vice president with an exaggerated sense of al-Qaeda’s outreach and/or his own importance.” This is “all of a pattern, of course, a bizarre manifestation of the full-moon paranoia we first witnessed on 9/11, the day the vice president gave orders that Air Force One, instead of heading directly back to Washington, route the president to a military bunker in heartland Nebraska.”

http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:NmmhRwMq77MJ:www.antiwar.com/bandow/%3Farticleid%3D10907+victor+gold+cheney+agents&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

I took in law school. Since it's the only bill of attainder opinion I've ever read, I've been puzzled to see anybody say that the ACORN bills are not bills of attainder.

that gives him a chance to spread his talking points over the op ed page of the Washington Post.

Of course Bibi doesn't think the U.S. committed war crimes, any more than he believes Israel did. When we (or they) do it, it's not a war crime, ipso facto. That's why he trying to get the rules of war changed, so that anything goes against "terrorism".

for seeing to it that Al Libi did not survive to tell the tale?

I see: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gFAqElYU2lr_Blwz93OnE63yNbSgD9BFJH400

UK lawyer says Lockerbie bomber still alive

(AP) – 2 days ago

LONDON — The British lawyer for Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi said Wednesday that his client was alive, contradicting a Sky News report that said he was dead.

Sky News television reported that the former Libyan intelligence agent, who is critically ill, had died, but attorney Tony Kelly said the report was untrue.

"He is alive, he is breathing," Kelly said, criticizing the Sky report.

"I hope they would publish an apology. I can't believe they would publish a report like that without putting it through the basic fact check."

Mist in Haufen.

should be publicized (and the administration has the power to do that).

That has such potential for undermining support by the American public for Israel, that I think they and Lieberman could quickly be made to back off.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/01/rendition-flight-birmingham-airport-cia

An American plane named in an inquiry by the European parliament into alleged CIA torture flights landed at Birmingham airport last month and was met by British special forces helicopters.

Plane spotters said the Gulfstream jet touched down from an undisclosed location on 2 October and was met by two army air corps Dauphin 2 helicopters used by the SAS at Hereford.

The 22-seat plane is registered to L-3 Integrated Systems, a Montana-based subsidiary of a US defence corporation. It made numerous flights between Ireland and Egypt in 2003 and was involved in an accident at Bucharest airport in Romania in 2004 after a flight from Bagram airbase in Afghanistan.

The European parliament reported that seven passengers disappeared after the accident and deplored the CIA's use of Romania as a stopover for extraordinary renditions of terror suspects including the British national Binyam Mohammed.

of the guerrilla war, according to Mao's theory.

How soon will the cities start falling? And what about air bases like Bagram?

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1125577.html

Settlers force Palestinians out of East Jerusalem home

Rioting settlers forced a Palestinian family from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah out of their home on Tuesday, after the district court denied the residents' appeal to remain on the premises.

...

"They can go to Syria, Iraq, Jordan. We are six million and they are billions," said Yehya Gureish, an Arabic-speaking Yemen-born Jew who said his family owned the land and had Ottoman Empire documentation to prove it.

"This land is Israel. We are in Israel. God gave this land to the Jews. The Torah tells us so. You want war? Declare war on God, not on us," he said.

Instead of running interference for Israel in blocking the report and getting nothing in return, we could at least have gotten some concession as a price for our running interference.

We didn't. Why?

I think the House is currently voting on that resolution denouncing the Goldstone Report. I assume AIPAC will get its traditional lopsided vote in favor.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/middleeast/04iran.html

Iran’s Leader Faults U.S. ‘Arrogance’ in Nuclear Talks

By ROBERT F. WORTH

Published: November 3, 2009

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, lashed out at the United States in a speech on Tuesday, criticizing what he called an arrogant American attitude toward nuclear talks and saying the Obama administration had not followed through on its promises of change.