Author: smintheus

Michael Moss and David Rohde publish a devastating assessment of the Bush administration’s neglect, nay indifference, toward the need to train and support a new police force in Iraq: Misjudgments Marred U.S. Plans for...

Since at least 2002 we’ve heard myriad reports about the aggressive treatment meted out by the White House to intelligence officials who reported unwelcome news about Iraq, or who would not produce the goods per the...

The Baltimore Sun’s Siobhan Gorman has a major story about NSA data mining programs. This really deserves more attention than it has received. One aspect to this story stands out, the very thing that has gone virtually...

The Observer tomorrow reports some encouraging news. The British Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, is set to give a speech this week in which he will urge that the infamous prison at Guantanamo be shut down. The decision by the...

For more than a year I’ve been keeping a close eye on British politics, mainly in the hope that Tony Blair would come crashing down like some giant poplar tree, taking with him half of George Bush’s canopy and...