Remember - I'm a well-known squish.
Meh.
First up:
Down with the drug war. Far more corrupting of liberty and the rule of law than just dealing with the idiots who insist on being disfunctional users.
In fact, down with the whole "War" metaphor for domestic issues.
REPORT: DEA Special Operations Division Covers Up Surveillance Used To Investigate Americans.
Although these cases rarely involve national security issues, documents reviewed by Reuters show that law enforcement agents have been directed to conceal how such investigations truly begin - not only from defense lawyers but also sometimes from prosecutors and judges.
The undated documents show that federal agents are trained to "recreate" the investigative trail to effectively cover up where the information originated, a practice that some experts say violates a defendant's Constitutional right to a fair trial. If defendants don't know how an investigation began, they cannot know to ask to review potential sources of exculpatory evidence - information that could reveal entrapment, mistakes or biased witnesses.
Moving on to Number Two:
Newt Gingrich Rethinks Stance On U.S. Military Interventions.
“I am a neoconservative. But at some point, even if you are a neoconservative, you need to take deep breath to ask if our strategies in Middle East have succeeded,” Gingrich said. “It may be that our capacity to export democracy is a lot more limited than we thought."
Gingrich told the Washington Times that he no longer believes interventionist policies are effective.
Welcome to my world, Newt. Of course, I thought this, and said so, publicly, back in 2003.
Read the complete post at http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2013/08/a_twofer.html
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Aug 05 2013, 10:50 AM
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Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys..