Solai @ 79

OT-I’m getting pretty good at the abbreviations used but what is “*g*”?

“grin”

Mrs. K8: On behalf of many of us net neophytes Thank you.

RagingGurrl @ 76

Attack Iran? With what troops? With what money? Loose change found under the cushions in the Oval Office couch?

Just airplanes screaming off thoise decks, and tyhe big uys coming in from Diego Garcia, no boots on the ground, so meaningless, designbed just inflame the Iranians. The Goons just do not know how big Iran and how strong. The response wuill be that they in turn flatten the oil installations on the other side of the Gulf, from the top — kuwait, the Sa’udi fields, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Oman. Watch this economy collapse……

This just reminded me of the burning oil wells during Gulf War I and it made me think that maybe it wasn’t Saddam who burned them. After all, isn’t it the Bush policy to cut back on oil supply to keep the price up?

Visit the Schapira blog, What we know so far …

“… and tell ‘em Big Mitch sent ya!”

it is possible to physically damage computer hard-drives so that the data is unrecoverable … shouldn’t … Rep. Waxman’s committee also be interested in physically securing the servers …

Sure, but at this point, any losing the data is almost as bad as letting us see it. It’ll be really suspicious if all the servers are suddenly wiped and there’s no backups. Esp’ly after Waxman has asked about ‘em. I’d almost love to see them pull that. As good as admitting guilt. Esp’ly cause the files will then turn up somewhere else …

Why do all roads seem to lead back to Casino Jack?

Because Native American tribes are the only US entity that have no legal limit on the total amount of money they can donate to political campaigns. (They must still follow donation limits for individual candidates and campaigns, but they have no limits on the total amount over all individuals.)

portia.vz @
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What fighting back? If someone drops a bomb on you, you spend your time trying to overcome the shock, dealing with the survivors and putting your cities back into some serviceable order. Retaliation will consist of the mobilization of your religious brotherhood in every other country of the world taking revenge on your behalf.
Ok, this is what we know will be the result of any foolish move on Cheney’s part to bomb Iran. We will become instant targets of terrorism. Any time an american has to travel overseas, he/she will be an instant target for islamic terrorism. I have a business trip to France in June and I am not looking forward to being an walking bullseye.

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You believe no Iranians will fight back? Really?

It’s sort of like the run up to the Iraq war. Sure, they will eventually fight back. But it’s not like they are going to be able to invade us. The fighting will happen over there in Iraq-Iran. The terrorists, OTOH, will be all over the place and more motivated than ever. I think we should expect to see a lot of attacks in the US and whereever there are concentrations of Americans around the globe. We’ll be trapped in our own country.

Bastards.

Can Congress separate these duties down to smaller, issue-dedicated investigations that can EACH hold subpoena powers through Waxman’s committee?

Seems to me we need to re-instate the “Special Prosecutor” position, particularly when dealing with the DOJ.

Here’s something from to that effect from NYTimes Op-Ed Contributor NEAL KATYAL

“IN 1999, when the Independent Counsel Act (the law that gave Kenneth Starr and Lawrence Walsh their mandates) was expiring, I was given the job of writing the new Justice Department rules for the appointment of a special prosecutor since the department would once again be responsible for overseeing such investigations. There was one hypothetical to worry about once the Independent Counsel Act lapsed: a case in which the attorney general…(is)…suspected of possible misconduct. The rules were therefore written to vest the decision about whether to appoint a special prosecutor in the top Justice Department official not embroiled in the controversy. Today, the only way to get to the bottom of the United States attorney scandal — which involved the administration’s firing of nearly 10 percent of America’s top prosecutors — is to use these rules and appoint a special prosecutor.
The nightmare has now come true.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03…..atyal.html