The New York Times reports that prosecutors have had it with U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. They’re not happy with his leadership and “complained that the dismissals had undermined morale.”
About a half-dozen United States attorneys voiced their concerns at a private meeting with Mr. Gonzales in Chicago.| MORE ›
Michael D. Shear wrote an interesting article about Fred Thompson who confirmed earlier this week that he is “considering a bid for the White House.”
His interest, confirmed in a brief interview this week, is generating buzz in Washington. He was third among Republican-leaning voters in a recent Gallup-USA Today survey, behind Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) and former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and ahead of former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.| MORE ›
Hot Air has a video up of a couple of Muslim extremists – “the godfather of British jihad”, Omar Bakri Mohammed, Bahraini Shiite scholar Dhiyaa Al-Musawi and Egyptian scholar Gamal Al-Bana – talking about terrorism, and Jihad more in general. Some nice quotes / excerpts(you have to watch the video for yourself though):
- “They [the 9/11 terrorists] were magnificent, even though they were terrorists.| MORE ›
Her blonde hair covered with a black headscarf and puffing on a cigarette, Faye Turney enunciated each word carefully to her unseen interviewer.
Her patrol boat had “obviously” trespassed into Iranian waters, she said. But she and her fellow servicemen were being treated well by their “friendly, hospitable, thoughtful and nice” captors.| MORE ›
Militias seem to have taken over Baghdadthe slums of Rio de Janeiro.
A decorated police officer was sitting behind the wheel of his Toyota pickup truck here last month when a group of men surrounded the vehicle and pumped more than 40 bullets into him.
Such execution-style killings are not unusual in a city where police and gang members routinely battle for turf in the shantytowns, but this one sent ripples through Rio.| MORE ›
Yes, well, at least according to MetroActive:
SEN. Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee.| MORE ›
The New York Times has bad news for MC Rove: newly released documents show that Rove was involved in the firing of the 8 U.S. attorneys.
In the months before the United States attorneys in New Mexico and Washington State were ousted, Mr. Rove joined a chorus of complaints from state Republicans that the federal prosecutors had failed to press charges in Democratic voter fraud cases.| MORE ›
Ai, if this is true (or / and perhaps even when it’s not), it could hurt Senator John McCain: Democratic lawmakers say that John McCain was ready to leave the GOP in 2001 “weeks before then-Sen. Jim Jeffords (Vt.) famously announced his decision to become an Independent”.
Former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and ex-Rep. Tom Downey (D-N.Y.) told The Hill that they were involved in the discussions with McCain about this matter.
It all started when Downey was having lunch with McCain’s top strategist Weaver.| MORE ›
Holly posted some good links related to my post yesterday about Cathy Seipp’s nemesis and a t-shirt making fun of Tony Snow’s cancer: bloggers, and commenters, behaving like a bunch of savages… and worse.
Does the anonymity of the Internet make people act our easier? Does the anonymity of the Internet make people forget that they’re talking about people?
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