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Have a good one. Enjoy your shared B-day with Carlos May.

Here's a link to a page at NPR with an audio file of yesterday's Weekend Edition interview of Seymor Hersh by Liane Hanson: http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?pr...y-2004&prgId=10 The audio link is titled "Pentagon: No Link Between Rumsfeld, Iraq Abuses" Here's the link to the Pentasgon's official statement on the report by Lawrence Di Tita: http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2004/n...40515-0793.html Here's the link to the page with the audio file of yesterday's Libby Lewis'a nd Linda Wortheimer's All Things Considered story on the Senators' urging further investigation of the new charges: http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/...re_1898596.html The link to the file is titled "All Things Considered Audio", Too bad all of this broke on a Sunday, but I'm sure the tory has legs enough to be followed up all week.

Very good post, Tex - right on the money. Better get your copy of today's New Yorker before they all disappear and the Cambone/Rummy story gets swept back under the carpet.

Yeah, I lake that too. My kids and I devoured a sacrificial box of Twinkies during the game today to try to reverse our fortunes. Don't know if it was us or the helmet stompers but something worked. Maybe I'll go and get some Indians down at the reservation drunk before the series at the Jake...

That's the old guy before the wires were added to the Tron suit, and someone Photoshpped (badly) a different head on him. Mut that disturbing male cameltoe is burned into my brain, it's the same guy.

Yes it does, I have been trying to wrap my brain around it and then gave up. We don't need a meteorologial reason for it, the Sox are just not a cold weather team.

They'll need it, seeing as we are heading into Cleveland while they're really clicking.

This is all breaking wide open. Here's a link to a newly posted ABCnews story suggesting, from several sources, that Pentagon political appointees have for months to years been ignoring the JAG uniformed military lawyers who have been cautioning about thr potential for prisiner abuse. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/US/JAG_...s_040515-1.html The JAG voice was sestematicly stifled, the objectors marginalized, and there was little uniformed military lawyer presence allowed bear Abu Ghraib. Identified as central to ignoring the warnings were Douglas Feith, undersecretary of defense for policy, and William Haynes II, the Pentagon's general counsel, whom President Bush has nominated for a Court of Appeals judgeship. Feith is another of the really frightening Neo-Cons in a position of incredible power in this administration. Having come out of background of the Cold War where everything was painted in the clear duality of good (the US) and evil (the Soviets), he has pretty much just applied that black and white worldview to the Arab world. He is on record as believing the US and Israel have "moral superiority" over the Arabs. Another potentially big piece of the puzzle, relating directly back to SS2k4's question as to whether this can be traced all teh way up to Bush, is in this story: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040516_765.html The report suggests that Bush was informed shortly after 9-11 that there may be a leagal means of getting around those pesky Geneva restrictions on treatment of prisoners of war, that he and his advisors went for it, and now here we are. Here's the lead in to that story: Should be an interesting upcoming week as more of the pieces fall into place.

Very cool, cw, though a good tailgate with fellow White Sox die-hards is always a hard thing to pass up. Did you bring home a doggie bag for lunch today?

Because that is all they can 'cleanly' get away with of course. Those not 'read into the heart of darkness' have to be hung out to dry, and from the outset of the breaking scandal, the Administration has characterized the abuse as a handful of kids that got out of hand.

It doesn't sound like it, although he was aware of the initial SAP in effect in Afghanistan. I didn't catch whether he was aware of or had approved its expansion to the Iraq prisons. Amazing that this is the first covert "black operation" to have gone sour sinnce the cold war. The statement from Ken Roth of Human Rights Watch at the end of the Hersh piece really hits it on the head as far as American denial of the right to humane treatment of those we deem as "illegal combatants," including iraqi citizens plucked off the streets without cause:

Yep. It looks like it was mostly Undersecretary Steven Cambone's screwup (imagine, a PNAC study group member involved in Geneva-skirting abuse of foreign prisioners to gather intel). But Cambone is Rummy's stoogie and is equally despised by the Pentagon old guard and the CIA. Here's the bottom line on culpability from an unidentified Pentagon associate:

Link to Seymor Hersh's New Yorker piece, print issue to hit stands tomorrow: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040524fa_fact Link to ABCnews' Report on the Pentagon's denial of Rummy's involvement: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040516_331.html That's two very detailed New Yorker pieces in the last two weeks. The Pentagon spokesman dismisses the latest report as "outlandish, conspiratorial, and filled with error and anonymous conjecture." But until Hersh or the New Yorker are hit with a libel suit that will likely never come, I tend to take the reports at face value.

Yeah, IMDB says Man IN the Moom is the 1991 Sam Waterson tale of fist love and heartbreak and, yada yada.... Didn't see that one either.

Man on the Moon is another I have yet too see. A fundamental incompatability between the wife and I is that I think Andy Kaufman was brilliant and Jim Carey has his moments, whereas my wife hates them both. It's a good thing she likes decent beer or it wouldn't have lasted...

For shame indeed as, alas, I have not seen the flick.

He was a good vamp in Lost Boys.

I concur. Jacque is a perrenial Sox Killer and care not for him. :fyou

Hey, when you had your run-in at the park the other day, you weren't by any chance wearing a Tron suit, were ya?

Needed to take this first game. Damn.

Was the peg at 2b on a bounce? Damn.

f***!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Willie's got a good at bat here - lat's make it mean something.

Willie making him work.

C'mon Sandy...