Palace Revolt

Newsweek ^ | Feb. 6, 2006 issue | Daniel Klaidman, Stuart Taylor Jr. and Evan Thomas

[Anthem]

Oh, and lest you think that population control is old hat:

Bush Administration Asked to End Decades Old US Foreign-Targeted Population Control Policy [2004]

[ChildOfThe60s]

It is so very much a distinction with a difference. But I am not ashamed that the US is a successful and powerful country. To be decisive and proactive includes making mistakes and poor policies. Doing nothing does not avoid mistakes, it is a mistake.

As far as Bush 1 and Henry K are concerned, never have I considered either one a conservative. Had Bush been a conservative, he would have had a second term.

Just out of curiousity, do you remember what you were doing when the peace loving arabs started the Seven Day War? I do.

AFA the "palestinians" are concerned, the arab world wants nothing to do with improving their lot.

[Little Ray]

There ain't enough "abuses" at Gitmo. We should torture 'em, find out what they know. When we've heard enough, give 'em a bullet in the head and a watery grave.

That's better than what they deserve or what they'd do to us.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

just ask yourself what we would have done during the forties. And how long we would have tolerated men like these in positions of wartime responsibility.

Very interesting info about the flip flop of the NYT:

One of the most pertinent precedents is a newspaper story that appeared in the Chicago Tribune on June 7, 1942, immediately following the American victory in the battle of Midway in World War II. In a front-page article under the headline, “Navy Had Word of Jap Plan to Strike at Sea,” the Tribune disclosed that the strength and disposition of the Japanese fleet had been “well known in American naval circles several days before the battle began.” The paper then presented an exact description of the imperial armada, complete with the names of specific Japanese ships and the larger assemblies of vessels to which they were deployed. All of this information was attributed to “reliable sources in . . . naval intelligence.”

The inescapable conclusion to be drawn from the Tribune article was that the United States had broken Japanese naval codes and was reading the enemy’s encrypted communications. Indeed, cracking JN-25, as it was called, had been one of the major Allied triumphs of the Pacific war, laying bare the operational plans of the Japanese Navy almost in real time and bearing fruit not only at Midway—a great turning point of the war—but in immediately previous confrontations, and promising significant advantages in the terrible struggles that still lay ahead. Its exposure, a devastating breach of security, thus threatened to extend the war indefinitely and cost the lives of thousands of American servicemen.

I really was under the illusion that FDR had the lid on pretty tight. After all, he was able to keep the lid on the fact that the German U-boats sank 500 merchant vessels off the American coast in the first six months of the war, without losing a single U-boat!

Has the New York Times Violated the Espionage Act?
Commentary Magazine ^ | March 2006 | Gabriel Schoenfeld

Very interesting info about the flip flop of the NYT:

One of the most pertinent precedents is a newspaper story that appeared in the Chicago Tribune on June 7, 1942, immediately following the American victory in the battle of Midway in World War II. In a front-page article under the headline, “Navy Had Word of Jap Plan to Strike at Sea,” the Tribune disclosed that the strength and disposition of the Japanese fleet had been “well known in American naval circles several days before the battle began.” The paper then presented an exact description of the imperial armada, complete with the names of specific Japanese ships and the larger assemblies of vessels to which they were deployed. All of this information was attributed to “reliable sources in . . . naval intelligence.”

The inescapable conclusion to be drawn from the Tribune article was that the United States had broken Japanese naval codes and was reading the enemy’s encrypted communications. Indeed, cracking JN-25, as it was called, had been one of the major Allied triumphs of the Pacific war, laying bare the operational plans of the Japanese Navy almost in real time and bearing fruit not only at Midway—a great turning point of the war—but in immediately previous confrontations, and promising significant advantages in the terrible struggles that still lay ahead. Its exposure, a devastating breach of security, thus threatened to extend the war indefinitely and cost the lives of thousands of American servicemen.

I really was under the illusion that FDR had the lid on pretty tight. After all, he was able to keep the lid on the fact that the German U-boats sank 500 merchant vessels off the American coast in the first six months of the war, without losing a single U-boat!

Has the New York Times Violated the Espionage Act?
Commentary Magazine ^ | March 2006 | Gabriel Schoenfeld

[marron]

Wow. Good post.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I highly recommend the link to the original Commentary article.

[piasa]

Your ‘hero’ here, Jack Goldsmith , has since gone on to praise the communist Chinese’ control and censorship of free speech.

[piasa]

He’s a weird one, a communist and a Catholic who fancies himself to be like the Reformed Pastor Niebuhr of the radical left Union Seminary. No surprise that Niebuhr was also an advocate of recognizing communist China.