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With U.S. policymakers distracted by the situation in Honduras, Nicaragua continues to move toward authoritarianism. On October 19, a Nicaraguan Supreme Court panel overturned a constitutional provision limiting presidents to two non-consecutive terms in office. The ruling will allow incumbent Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega--the Sandinista party leader, former Soviet client, vociferous critic of the United States, and current Hugo Chávez acolyte--to run for another term in 2011. If there were any doubts that Nicaraguan democracy is slowly being extinguished, this latest development should remove them. The Nicaraguan Supreme Court is composed of 16 members. Thanks to a political deal made...

SNIPPET - quote: Dissemination *_is_* collection I always get a kick out of people who tell me I give away intelligence for free. What I do is watch how information moves. Keep in mind that the subject covered on this site are pretty darn esoteric by most standards. What kind of people, for example, even know who Oussama Salhab is? Answers include: Oussama Salhab, his family, friends, associates in and out of Hizballah, people he does business with, spies of various nations, etc. Yep. The barn is free, and so is the food.

9/11 COMMISSION Jaime Gorelick has some explaining to do April 24, 2004, 12:45AM Houston Chronicle No matter how long conservatives protest, Jaime Gorelick is unlikely to resign from her position on the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Against the United States. Despite her distinctly partisan approach, her place on the 10-member, supposedly nonpartisan 9/11 commission is defended by such Republican heavyweights as Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah and former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean, the commission's chairman. The problem is that Gorelick, deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration, wrote a key Justice Department memo in 1995 raising the "wall"...