WHERE IS 007 ?

Failing Grade For Powell's Sour@ 3:20PM

Colin Powell cited a "fine paper that the United Kingdom distributed... which describes in exquisite detail Iraqi deception activities" in his U.N. speech. Turns out this wonderful dossier is nothing better than a shoddy piece of plagiarism. It was culled from academic articles published years ago, including an article by Ibrahim al-Marashi which appeared in the Middle East Review of International Affairs last September.

Cambridge University academic Glen Rangwala notes, "Apart from passing this off as the work of its intelligence services, it indicates that the U.K. really does not have any independent sources of information on Iraq's internal policies. It just draws upon publicly available data." Well, at least they recycle!!

There's a debate about whether the libertarians will react. Oliver Willis has some links to right-wing posts, apparently.

I just read Part I and Part II. I am scared of this......my thoughts went back to McCarthyism, tribunal courts, loss of freedom. Scares me more than terrorism. Hell, I'd rather die free than try to exist with all of this spying and watching each other. Sounds like a card carrying communistic system to me. The Patriot Act is what we fought against as I was growing up. I am 60 years old. This is an outrage.

But the Right? Well, they are silent. Figures.

Um, perhaps the Right is intelligent enough to see this for the lead balloon that it is. Simply an internal memo leaked from the low depths of the Justice Department precisely because someone there found it obscenely unconstitutional - as I agree it would be, if it had a snowball's chance in San Antonio of really being instituted.

Take a chill pill...no, better make that a double dose. If you were as excited about the yellow Homeland rating, it would be a lot better use of your energy.

"the yellow Homeland rating"

Oops, ORANGE. Right?

I'm sure you guys would consider me to be on the Right. But, I oppose the Patriot Act and think it is a crock of Sh#t. Bush is heading way in the wrong direction with this. They know who the enemy is and do not need this junk at all. This is another example of Big Brother messing around with law-abiding citizen's life.