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Sunday Talking Heads: February 6, 2011

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 6th, 2011 5:45 am by HL

Sunday Talking Heads: February 6, 2011
A lot of good Egypt interviews scheduled, and Chris Wallace does Dallas.

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A lot of good Egypt interviews scheduled, and Chris Wallace does Dallas.

Washington Journal.

ABC’s This Week: From Cairo. Egypt’s Ambassador to the United States, Sameh Shoukry. What is the current state of the Mubarak regime amidst protesters’ demands that he step down?  Then, the alleged intimidation of journalists by pro-Mubarak supporters. Roundtable: veteran Egyptian journalists Lamia Radi and Nadia abou el-Magd, BBC’s John Simpson, Tony Shadid of the New York Times, and ABC’s David Muir. And more.

CBS’ Face The Nation: Egypt. Martin Indyk, Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution. Thomas Pickering, Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Israel and Jordan. Dr. Abderrahim Foukara, Al Jazeera, Washington and New York Bureau Chief. Plus, the latest from Cairo from CBS News correspondents.

Chris Matthews: Did the U.S. Miss Signs That Egypt Could Become a Hostile Islamic State? Donald Rumsfeld’s Rewrite of the Iraq War.

CNN’s State of the Union: Egypt. Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Then, former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Edward S. Walker, and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Negroponte. Plus, live reports from CNN’s team of reporters on the ground.  Finally, co-chair of the White House Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, Alan Simpson. “The former senator from Wyoming outlined the commission’s plan for tackling the ever-growing national debt.”

Fareed Zakaria – GPS: Egypt. Egyptian opposition figure Mohammed ElBaradei. And, Fareed’s interview with British Prime Minister David Cameron. Will his austerity measures save England?

Fox News Sunday: Super Bowl, Live from Cowboys Stadium.   NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. “Then, football “Fair and Balanced”, as we’re joined by two Super Bowl heroes from each team’s storied history.” Lynn Swann, Former Steelers Wide Receiver and Jerry Kramer, Former Packers Offensive Lineman. Power Player of the Week: Joe Buck takes us into the broadcast booth, as he preps for the big game.

NBC’s Meet The Press: Egypt. Egyptian opposition figure Mohammed ElBaradei.   Also, what is the current state of Egypt’s government? Egypt’s Ambassador to the United States, Sameh Shoukry. Then the focus turns to the U.S. response and what about role the U.S. will play. The Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA). And Richard Engel from Cairo.

Newsmakers: Shortly after announcing an overhaul of the nation’s homeland security measures, Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), joins C-SPAN’s Newsmakers to expound on the new approach to prevent terrorist attacks on U.S. soil…

Q & A: “Our subect is a documentary of Hubert Humphrey. Producer Mick Caouette tells the story of Humphrey’s life with emphasis on his leadership role in the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The documentary also features video from Humphrey’s political years running for the Senate, vice-president, and President. The program will feature clips from the documentary…”

Religions & Ethics.

60 Minutes: Gotti – John Gotti, Jr. talks to Steve Kroft in his first extended TV interview about growing up with the infamous father whom he strove to please by living a life of crime but whom he eventually betrayed by leaving that life.

To The Contrary: Topics: 1- Single men flip the script on women and now want kids more than women do; 2- Young female conservatives come out for gay marriage; 3- Rep. Terri Sewell, the first black woman from Alabama elected to US House. Panelists: Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC); The Heritage Foundation’s Genevieve Wood; Political Science Professer Dr. Lara Brown; Conservative Commentator Tara Setmayer.

Univision’s Al Punto: Jose Fernandez, United States Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs; Jorge Castañeda, Former Mexican Foreign Secretary; Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, Former Haitian Dictator; and Choc Quib Town, Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop Group.

Virtually Speaking: No show on Super Bowl Sunday, but on Monday Susie Madrak will talk with Juan Cole.

C-SPAN’s Book TV. This month’s 3 hour live interview, In Depth, features R. Emmett Tyrell.

FDL Book Salon: The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman’s Fight for Justice. “At great risk to her personal safety, she [the author] began to unravel the ugly truth about officers involved in human trafficking and forced prostitution and their connections to private mercenary contractors, the UN, and the U.S. State Department. After bringing this evidence to light, Bolkovac was demoted, felt threatened with bodily harm, was fired, and ultimately forced to flee the country under cover of darkness—bringing the incriminating documents with her.” Chat with author Kathryn Bolkovac, hosted by RJ Hillhouse.  5pm ET.

FDL Movie Night Monday: Crips and Bloods – Made in America.  Join Gus Roxburgh,Stacy Peralta and Lisa Derrick for the discussion, 8pm ET.


Bush Cancels Trip Over Fear of Arrest

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 6th, 2011 5:44 am by HL

Bush Cancels Trip Over Fear of Arrest
Former President George W. Bush canceled a planned trip to Switzerland over fear of legal action there as pressure mounted on the Swiss government to arrest him and open a criminal probe into allegations of torture if he visits the country. —JCL Reuters: Former President George W. Bush has canceled a visit to Switzerland, where he was to address a Jewish charity gala, due to the risk of legal action against him for alleged torture, rights groups said on Saturday. Bush was to be the keynote speaker at Keren Hayesod’s annual dinner on February 12 in Geneva. But pressure has been building on the Swiss government to arrest him and open a criminal investigation if he enters the Alpine country. Criminal complaints against Bush alleging torture have been lodged in Geneva, court officials say. Read more

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Former President George W. Bush canceled a planned trip to Switzerland over fear of legal action there as pressure mounted on the Swiss government to arrest him and open a criminal probe into allegations of torture if he visits the country. —JCL

Reuters:

Former President George W. Bush has canceled a visit to Switzerland, where he was to address a Jewish charity gala, due to the risk of legal action against him for alleged torture, rights groups said on Saturday.

Bush was to be the keynote speaker at Keren Hayesod’s annual dinner on February 12 in Geneva. But pressure has been building on the Swiss government to arrest him and open a criminal investigation if he enters the Alpine country.

Criminal complaints against Bush alleging torture have been lodged in Geneva, court officials say.

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‘Left, Right & Center’: All Eyes on Egypt
Reports about a rapidly transforming Egypt have dominated the week’s news, so it’s fitting that “Left, Right & Center” all-stars Arianna Huffington, Robert Scheer, Tony Blankley and Matt Miller make the subject their sole focus of this episode.

Left, Right & Center

Reports about a rapidly transforming Egypt have dominated the week’s news, so it’s fitting that “Left, Right & Center” all-stars Arianna Huffington, Robert Scheer, Tony Blankley and Matt Miller make the subject their sole focus of this episode.

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Palin: America Is Out Of Step With Reagan’s Values

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 6th, 2011 5:43 am by HL

Palin: America Is Out Of Step With Reagan’s Values
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Cheney: Mubarak ‘A Good Friend’
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday called Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak a good friend and U.S. ally, and he urged…


Kristol Calls Out Colleagues In Right-Wing Media For “Sid[ing] With The Dictator” Mubarak

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 6th, 2011 5:42 am by HL

Kristol Calls Out Colleagues In Right-Wing Media For “Sid[ing] With The Dictator” Mubarak

In a recent column, Weekly Standard editor William Kristol criticized “talk radio hosts” and conservatives for “sid[ing] with the dictator” Hosni Mubarak. Indeed, numerous conservatives, including Rush Limbaugh and Dick Morris, have argued that the United States should be supporting Mubarak.

Kristol Criticizes Conservative Support For Mubarak

Kristol: Conservative Support For Mubarak Is “A Sign Of Fearfulness…Short-Sightedness” And “Excuse Making.” From Kristol’s column:

[I]t’s a sign of health that a political and intellectual movement does not respond to a complicated set of developments with one voice.

But hysteria is not a sign of health. When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left, he brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society. He’s marginalizing himself, just as his predecessors did back in the early 1960s.

Nor is it a sign of health when other American conservatives are so fearful of a popular awakening that they side with the dictator against the democrats. Rather, it’s a sign of fearfulness unworthy of Americans, of short-sightedness uncharacteristic of conservatives, of excuse-making for thuggery unworthy of the American conservative tradition.

It was not so long ago, after all, when conservatives understood that Middle Eastern dictatorships such as Mubarak’s help spawn global terrorism. We needn’t remind our readers that the most famous of the 9/11 hijackers, Mohammed Atta, was an Egyptian, as is al Qaeda’s number two, Ayman al Zawahiri. The idea that democracy produces radical Islam is false: Whether in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian territories, or Egypt, it is the dictatorships that have promoted and abetted Islamic radicalism. (Hamas, lest we forget, established its tyranny in Gaza through nondemocratic means.) Nor is it in any way “realist” to suggest that backing Mubarak during this crisis would promote “stability.” To the contrary: The situation is growing more unstable because of Mubarak’s unwillingness to abdicate. Helping him cling to power now would only pour fuel on the revolutionary fire, and push the Egyptian people in a more anti-American direction.

Let’s hope that as talk radio hosts find time for reflection, and commentators step back to take a deep breath, they will recall that one of the most hopeful aspects of the current conservative revival is its reclamation of the American constitutionalist tradition. That tradition is anchored even beyond the Constitution, of course, in the Declaration of Independence. And that document, let’s not forget, proclaims that, “Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it.” [Weekly Standard, 2/14]

Numerous Conservatives Have Argued That The U.S. Should Support Mubarak

Limbaugh: “If You Are Concerned About U.S. National Interests, Mubarak Seems To Be Who To Root For.” On the February 4 edition of his syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh responded to a caller’s question regarding which side of the Egyptian protests he should support by stating:

LIMBAUGH: Nobody knows who to root for right now. But I’m going to tell you something. I have, I have taken the counsel of people wiser than I who, scholars who have paid attention to this part of the world. And have studied our relationship with allies who are dictators. Allies who maybe not pass the moral smell test, but balanced out, and – I tell you, there are a lot of people who would think on this we need to be rooting for Mubarak.

CALLER:  And I’m inclined to agree with you —

LIMBAUGH: We need to be rooting for —

(CROSS-TALK)

LIMBAUGH: If you are concerned about U.S. national interests, Mubarak seems to be who to root for. And that’s, I think that’s why that you see so many people dumping on Mubarak. Both in the U.S. media. There’s so many people. This is a — portraying this is a big democracy movement, that’s why we, the U.S., we stand for democracy. You know, we gotta behind — the Muslim Brotherhood does not equal democracy to me, I’m sorry, I don’t, it just, I don’t get there. They want an Islamic state. Muslim Brotherhood wants an Islamic State. I don’t — Iran, half of Iran? I don’t know. This is all aimed at Israel. Everybody’s got their ammo aimed at Israel over there, that’s what this is all about. [Premiere Radio Networks, The Rush Limbaugh Show, 2/4/11]

Morris: Mubarak, Obama Should Be “Aggressively Confronting” Egyptian Protesters. During Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor, Fox News contributor Dick Morris stated:

MORRIS: I think it’s an illusion to say that there’s a secular liberal democratic faction that can be dominant in Egypt. I think that’s a mirage and a camouflage being used — a front man being used by the Muslim Brotherhood so that they can take power and essentially create an Egyptian-Iranian alliance that will control 45 percent of the population of North Africa and the Middle East in those two countries.

And I think that what Mubarak should be doing and what the Obama administration should be doing is aggressively confronting the demonstrators. I think that if we encourage the military to stand down, if we encourage the Mubarak supporters to refrain from controversy or even from violence, we really are opening the door to Islamic fundamentalist domination.

If Obama’s so concerned about this, where was he when they were doing the same stuff in Iran? In Iran, he didn’t lift a finger, and there were these massive street demonstrations. What, does he only oppose America’s allies and not our enemies? [Fox News, The O’Reilly Factor, 2/2/11]

Morris & McGann: “Obama should be backing Mubarak.” In their February 3 column, Morris and Eileen McGann wrote:

By failing to back Mubarak, Obama is committing the same sin that Eisenhower did in Cuba and Carter did in Iran. He needs to understand that the radical Islamists mean us ill, and any effort to appease them is bound to fail.

[…]

If Egypt falls, Obama will have permanently damaged America’s vital interests. Look at what Carter’s abandonment of the shah has already cost the world and is likely to cost it in the future. We now face the possibility that a radicalized Egypt could be Obama’s gift to the globe.

[…]

Remember that Iran has a population of 79 million and Egypt has 75 million. Together, their 154 million almost equal the combined population of all the other nations in North Africa and the Middle East. If Egypt and Iran were to work in tandem, they could control the region.

By failing to back Mubarak and telling the Egyptian military to pull its punches and let the demonstrators take over the streets, the Obama administration has come to own responsibility for the outcome of the Egyptian revolution. If it goes south and leads to a disastrous outcome, it will be his foreign policy that will rightly shoulder the blame.

Obama should be backing Mubarak. Remember that Egypt was the first Arab nation to sign a peace deal with Israel and the only one to work with the Jewish state. It was in pursuit of peace that Anwar Sadat, Mubarak’s predecessor, gave his life. [Newsmax.com, 2/3/11]

Geller: “Mubarak Has Been A US Ally For Decades…Knowing Obama, He Will Throw Another Ally Under The Bus.” From a January 28 post on Atlas Shrugs by conservative blogger Pamela Geller:

Mubarak has been a US ally for decades. We send three billion dollars a year to Egypt. And Egypt made a peace deal with Israel. But knowing Obama, he will throw another ally under the bus. Yes, Mubarak needs to institute democratic reform. I pray Mubarak doesn’t brutally respond to the uprising like Iran did — they slaughtered their people and crushed the Iranian revolution.

I am all for political freedom. Will Islamic jihad allow for anything but the sharia? Never. As bad as Mubarak was ……… Islamic law is far worse. May free men prevail. The battle is between the secularists and Islamic supremacists; they are united only in their hate for Israel, as mandated by the qur’an (sic):

And as we now see, all of its possible secular and Islamist successors either reject outright Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel or will owe their political power to the support of those who reject the peace with the Jewish state. (Caroline Glick)

The cries of allahu akbar in the streets do not instill confidence in the outcome. All that military aid in the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood would change everything. [Atlas Shrugs, 1/28/11]

Wash Times’ Blankley:Support Mr. Mubarak. Down with the revolution. Up With Orderly Progress.” In a January 31 column, Washington Times columnist Tony Blankley wrote:

Whatever may happen in the hours after I write this column, two things are certain: The next chapter in the magnificent and ancient civilization of the Nile is yet to be known. The role that America plays in Egypt’s great, unfolding story also remains in doubt.

[…]

Once in a while – as in our Revolution – the cry of the street slogans becomes the principle of the government that follows – but usually not.

If the revolution in Egypt results in the fall of the existing governmental order, what are the chances that the people will be governed subsequently by a more just system? And what are the chances that America’s interests will be advanced by that result?

Will the Suez Canal no longer be open and safe for its vast commerce?

Will the Middle East tilt further in the evil direction of radical Islamist forces? Will our ally Israel be further isolated from its neighbors and its right to exist?

If the Suez Canal is threatened by an anti-Western regime, is it likely that we will find ourselves forced to occupy and protect the canal for world commerce?

[…]

Providing public and private support of President Hosni Mubarak and helping to keep some semblance of the status quo (perhaps in the form of an army-led regime) is likely to serve both our immediate geopolitical interests and our ability to shape that regime in the interest of the Egyptian people.

Mr. Obama had a chance in 2009 to respond with strong support for Iran’s Green Revolution – but his near silence crushed the hope of many young Iranians and surely aided (inadvertently) the hated enemy Iranian regime.

Now the president risks getting it wrong in the other direction: undercutting a friendly regime by sincere but ill-considered support for a revolution that is more likely to result in a government adverse to our – and the Egyptian people’s – interests

[…]

As Ari Shavit wrote in Israel‘s leading liberal paper, Haaretz, the failure to support Mr. Mubarak “symbolizes the betrayal of every strategic ally in the Third World. Throughout Asia, Africa and South America, leaders are now looking at what is going on between Washington and Cairo.”

“Everyone grasps the message: America’s word is worthless; an alliance with America is unreliable; American has lost it. A result of this understanding will be a turn toward China, Russia and regional powers such as Iran, Turkey and Brazil. The second result of this insight will be a series of international conflagrations that will result from the loss of America’s deterrent power.”

So, for both our reputation and our interests in the Middle East and beyond: Support Mr. Mubarak. Down with the revolution. Up with orderly progress. [The Washington Times, Tony Blankley, 1/31/11]

WND’s Klayman: Obama “Regrettably” Supported The Protesters. From a February 5 column, headlined, “Oppose Obama’s grand Islamic plan,” by WorldNetDaily columnist Larry Klayman:

So, regrettably if not tragically, it came as no surprise when the “mullah in chief” wasted no time supporting the protesters in Egypt by literally throwing President Hosni Mubarak, a 30-year ally of the United States and Israel, under the proverbial bus. In the mold of former President Jimmy Carter’s days of undermining the shah of Iran in the late 1970s, Obama and his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, attacked Mubarak for his attempts to allow for a smooth transition of power over the next months, branding attempts to deal with violence in Cairo “outrageous and deplorable.” And, to top it all off, the administration not only demanded that Mubarak get out of “Dodge” immediately, but then effectively endorsed a new government with “non-secular” parties – meaning that the granddaddy of terrorist groups, the Muslim Brotherhood, which includes al-Qaida as a subsidiary, should be included. For cover, Obama and company pushed European leaders – to use the term loosely – to heed his call; a feat which it does not take much to achieve, given their pacifist if now cowardly tendencies. [WorldNetDaily, 2/5/11]

Hoft: “Obama & Muslim Brotherhood Agree: Mubarak Must Begin To Transition Power Now.” In a February 1 post, headlined, “Obama & Muslim Brotherhood Agree: Mubarak Must Begin To Transition Power Now,” Jim Hoft equated the Obama administration’s stance towards Mubarak with that of the Muslim Brotherhood.  From the post:

Remember: The difference between a Democrat president and a Republican president is that when a Republican president is in charge, anti-American regimes are overthrown. When a Democrat president is in charge, pro-American regimes are overthrown….and anti-American regimes thrive.

The Muslim Brotherhood today announced that protests would continue until Mubarak has left office.

[…]

Barack Obama agreed.

The transition of power in Egypt must begin immediately.
The Atlantic reported:

We have spoken out on the need for change. After his speech tonight, I spoke directly to president Mubarak. He recognizes that the status quo is not sustainable and that a change must take place. Indeed all of us who are privileged to serve in political positions of power do so at the will of our people. Through thousands of years Egypt has known many moments of transformation. The voices of the Egyptian people tell us this is one of those moments; this is one of those times.

Now, it is not the role of any other country to determine Egypt’s leaders, only the Egyptian people can do that. What is clear and what I indicated tonight to President Mubarak is my belief that an orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful, and it must begin now.

Coincidence? [Gateway Pundit, 2/1/11]


Luxembourg Ambassador Demoralized Embassy; Had Staff House Hunt, Splurged On Mattress

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 6th, 2011 5:41 am by HL

Luxembourg Ambassador Demoralized Embassy; Had Staff House Hunt, Splurged On Mattress
The now-former U.S Ambassador to Luxembourg, Cynthia Stroum, had members of the small staff of the embassy spend the majority of their time on the important task of finding her a temporary residence that met her high standards; made refurbishing the bathroom at the ambassador’s residence a top personal priority; told them that she could snoop on their e-mails; and left her office so demoralized that some top staffers volunteered to serve in two war zone embassies rather than continue to work under her leadership.

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Not again?

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 6th, 2011 5:39 am by HL

Not again?
[Note: for this one column, the writer will forego the pose of being “the World’s Laziest Journalist” and use traditional debating form to address a possible explanation of the events in Egypt, which has seemed to stymie both liberal and conservative pundits.] In 1980, the Republicans conspired with radical Muslims to use the Iranian hostages as […]


Senate Truce Holding So Far

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 6th, 2011 5:38 am by HL

Senate Truce Holding So Far
Last month Senate leadership struck an unofficial, handshake deal on the chamber’s rules in which Republicans agreed to allow bills to come to the floor without a filibuster in exchange for being able to introduce whatever amendments they wanted. Now, the New York Times reports that the rules truce appears to be working, at least for the time being, with very encouraging results.

“Lawmakers said that the way the Senate is operating in its early weeks bodes well for the future, when more difficult subjects like deficit reduction await.”


Thank AIPAC For Placing USA On Wrong Side In Egypt

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 6th, 2011 5:37 am by HL

Thank AIPAC For Placing USA On Wrong Side In Egypt
If one needs additional proof that the “pro-Israel” lobby and the policies it dictates to US policymakers are bad for both the U.S. and Israel, look no further than what is happening in Egypt. The regime that the Israeli government…


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Bigotry As Comfort
To find out more about Michael Orion Powell and his work, check out his blog, Deschamps. I like Michael’s description of Beck as “rationalizing” bigotry. There’s a video of Beck discussing the infamous Father Charles Coughlin and dismissing comparisons between…


Washington Post ‘Conservative’ Blogger Aligned With the Pro-Israel Far Right

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 6th, 2011 5:36 am by HL

Washington Post ‘Conservative’ Blogger Aligned With the Pro-Israel Far Right

Our guest blogger is Eli Clifton, a New York-based journalist who blogs daily on U.S.-Iran relations at LobeLog.com.

Jennifer Rubin, who authors The Washington Post’s “Right Turn” blog, claims that her blog offers coverage of “politics and policy” for “conservative readers.” But you’d be excused for thinking that her foremost interest is Israel’s conservative politics and policy.

Rubin, a prolific blogger, has published 415 posts since she started at The Washington Post at the end of November. Her blog categorizes her posts by topic and shows that: 29 were about “Israel;” 11 were about “American Jews,” and 16 were about “Iran.” In just the past few weeks, she attacked the signatories of a letter calling for the Obama administration to support a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlement construction in the Occupied Territory. Rubin also attacked HSBC for an advertisement which the bank was running to call attention to the high number of female filmmakers in Iran.

Now, her hard work on behalf of the Israel right has earned her a free trip. “In the interest of full disclosure,” she revealed yesterday, her trip to Israel’s Herzliya Conference, an Israeli strategic confab, will be paid for by the Bill Kristol front group, The Emergency Committee For Israel (ECI).

The ECI first came to attention in July 2010 when it began running attack ads against politicians who it deemed insufficiently tough on terrorism or who had dared to criticize Israel. The group is directed by neoconservative upstart Noah Pollak and board members include: Kristol, Rachel Abrams, and Gary Bauer. Former Bush White House official Margaret Hoover has registered the ECI’s domain name. ECI was briefly housed at Orion Strategies, a consultancy which has advised Sarah Palin and served as the home of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, a group which played a key role in pushing for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and promoting Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress.

The Washington Post’s claim that she is representative of the conservative movement is deeply misleading. Her close relationship with ECI, her gleeful promotion of the “military option” against Iran’s nuclear facilities, and her proclivity towards smearing her opponents as “Israel-bashing” show that Rubin represents the interests and ideology of the hawkish, pro-Israel right-wing. While the Post claims that her blog is representative of conservative politics and policy, her posts have shown a very different focus.

Kucinich Requests To See Bradley Manning, Soldier In Solitary Confinement For Alleged Leaks

Last May, the military arrested Private First Class Bradley Manning, a military intelligence officer who had served overseas in Iraq, over charges that he was involved in leaking numerous classified documents and videos to the Wikileaks whistleblowing group, including a video of a U.S. attack helicopter killing numerous unarmed journalists.

Since his arrests, numerous civil liberties groups and investigative journalists have protested the conditions under which Manning is being held, noting that he has been kept in solitary confinement and is denied even access to a pillow or bed sheets. This is particularly shocking in light of new information revealed that Manning was suspected of having poor mental health before he was deployed to Iraq, with some superiors even requesting that he not be given firearms. Yet despite this press coverage of Manning’s treatment, the military has offered very limited access to him and has refused to address the concerns of human rights and civil liberties advocates.

Now, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has sent a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates inquiring about Manning’s condition, protesting the Army’s treatment of him and requesting a visit with the imprisoned solider. In the letter, Kucinich writes that, if Manning is need of mental health treatment, the “Army must end the extreme conditions of” his confinement or at the “very least…explain the justification” for taking such extreme measures during his imprisonment:

Now, reports indicate that the Army has taken Pfc. Manning, a soldier with documented mental health problems, and confined him under conditions that are almost guaranteed to exacerbate his mental health problems. If true, the Army’s treatment would obviously constitute “cruel and unusual punishment” in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

If these reports are true, the Army must end the extreme conditions of Private Manning’s confinement, and provide him with the mental health treatment that the Army recognized he needed even before his deployment to Iraq. At the very least, the Army must explain the justification for confining someone with mental health problems under conditions that are virtually certain to exacerbate those problems and explain the danger he now presents that only these extreme conditions of confinement can avoid.

While Manning’s treatment has made waves in the media, it is important to remember that solitary confinement is a practice that is common in America’s prison system. A 1999 report by the Department of Justice found that some states locked up as many as 20 percent of their prisoners into penal systems that placed them under solitary confinement for 23 hours a day.

Last month, leading human rights groups Amnesty International and the Physicians for Human Rights both sent letters to the Department of Defense protesting Manning’s treatment; they noted that solitary confinement is widely used across the United States, it is almost unheard of for it to be used against a prisoner like Manning who has yet to even be convicted of a crime.


Palin: America out of step with Reagan’s values

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 6th, 2011 5:35 am by HL

Palin: America out of step with Reagan’s values
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — America is on a “road to ruin” because of misguided policies in Washington and needs to get back in step with the values of Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin said at an event honoring the former president’s legacy.

Obama visit to Chamber of Commerce could mark thaw with business leaders
The White House’s campaign to rebuild ties with corporate America gets the ultimate photo opportunity Monday when President Obama crosses Lafayette Park and steps into the imposing headquarters of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Reagan at 100 casts shadow over Republican Party
On the 100th anniversary of his birth, Ronald Reagan is remembered as a transformative president, the creator of the contemporary Republican Party and the very definition of conservatism. He might also be as misunderstood by some of his followers as he is underappreciated by his detractors.

A young Wisconsin trio could shape the direction of the GOP
The Green Bay Packers aren’t the only Wisconsin team having an impact these days. A trio of young Wisconsin politicians are now positioned to have a substantial influence on the future direction and success of the Republican Party.