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Wednesday 29th August 2007
The “Terrorist” Batting Average
11:53 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Justice Department | Rule of Law | Surveillance | Terrorism | Comments: 5
The Future of Freedom Foundation today posted online my article from the June 2007 Freedom Daily on the Bush administration’s endlessly inaccurate terrorist accusations. The title of the piece is about as close to baseball as I have gotten in the last decade or so.
The “Terrorist” Batting Average
by James Bovard
For almost six years, the Bush administration [...]
Tuesday 28th August 2007
Hooray! The Federal Government is Clean Again!
8:59 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Justice Department | Rule of Law | Comments: 10
Or at least that’s the message I’m picking up from reading some commentators on Alberto Gonzales’s exit.
Shizam, some of these people seem to think that the Justice Department will henceforth be in the justice business.
And some seem to think that Gonzo’s resignation proves that ”the system works.”
What a crock.
It has been over 15 years since the [...]
Thursday 19th April 2007
Waco, R.I.P.
12:55 pm | Bovard | Congress | Justice Department | Comments: 18
Today is the 14th anniversary of the FBI’s finale at Waco.
This was the day that 80 civilians died as a result of a tank-and-toxic gas assault. I thought Waco might be the most important public education lesson of the 1990s, but it seems to have had scant impact.
Most Americans forgot or never undertstood Waco, paving the way [...]
Tuesday 3rd October 2006
The 1995 Playboy article on Ruby Ridge
11:40 am | Bovard | Congress | Justice Department | Rule of Law | dictatorship | Comments: 9
Here’s the piece on Ruby Ridge mentioned in the prior post.
The article had magnificent artwork. Unfortunately, I’m not adept at scanning and inserting the images into a blog.
The article closes with the following questions: “If Congress is not willing to look into such misconduct, who will protect the Constitution? Will Congress let the Justice Department [...]
Sunday 12th March 2006
A Liberal Reviews Bush Betrayal
5:45 pm | Bovard | Bush Betrayal | Justice Department | dictatorship | Comments: 3
The Aging Hipster recently read Bush Betrayal. I’m happy he made it through the book and took the time to put his thoughts on his blog. He gave me permission to repost it - so here it is. The Aging Hipster is a self-described “Georgia Mountain Man” and Pittsburgh Steelers fan. Both those factors mean that, unlike some white-gloved [...]
Friday 10th March 2006
The Regime Crimes Office
9:09 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Justice Department | lese majeste | Comments: 7
As part of my penance for Lent, I was reading a recent budget briefing for the State Department, tottering on the edge of my chair with each gust of hot air. I came across an intriguing comment by Ambassador James Jeffrey, “the Senior Advisor to the Secretary and Coordinator for Iraq.” He chirped about the Bush [...]
Wednesday 8th February 2006
L.A. Times: Are You a Suspected Terrorist?
9:13 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Elective Dictatorship | Justice Department | Lying | Rule of Law | Wiretapping | dictatorship | Comments: 1
The Los Angeles Times ran my op-ed today on the array of wacko definitions of suspected terrorists that the Bush administration has devised since 9/11. Here are some outtakes of the piece:
PRESIDENT BUSH and Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales insist that the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping of American citizens is a necessary “terrorist surveillance program.” [...]
Sunday 5th February 2006
Bush Now Entitled to Kill at Home?
7:58 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Elective Dictatorship | Justice Department | Rule of Law | Torture | dictatorship | Comments: 2
The February 13 issue of Newsweek reveals that President Bush is entitled to order killings here in the United States, the same as he has been doing around the globe for the last few years. Newsweek notes that, “Steven Bradbury, acting head of the Justice department’s Office of Legal Counsel [the office which in 2002 [...]
Monday 16th January 2006
Fear & Servitude
4:15 pm | Justice Department | Mohammed Yousry | Rule of Law | Uncategorized | dictatorship | Comments: 1
The Washington Post has an excellent front page story on the boarhawging of Mohammed Yousry, the court-appointed translator for lawyer Lynne Stewart. Federal prosecutors spent three years wiretapping his phone and reading all the files on his computer, thanks to a FISA warrant. Even a federal prosecutor conceded: “Yousry is not a practicing Muslim. He [...]
Wednesday 4th January 2006
Orange Suits Soon All the Rage on Capitol Hill
7:35 pm | Abramoff | Congress | Elective Dictatorship | Justice Department | Rule of Law | Comments: 0
The Wall Street Journal reported today that superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, who copped a guilty plea yesterday, “says he has information that could implicate 60 lawmakers.”
This is the best news that the moribund prison building industry has had in years. If 60 lawmakers go down in the Abramoff scandal, this could mean that the U.S. [...]
Thursday 29th December 2005
Elective Dictatorship & Lese Majeste
11:02 am | Bovard | Bush | Justice Department | dictatorship | lese majeste | padilla | Comments: 2
The Bush administration is throwing a snit fit because a formerly submissive federal appeals court is not allowing it to change the rules of the game one more time on the Jose Padilla case. Bush’s Justice Department angrily protested to a federal appeals court this week that “there is no basis for questioning the good [...]