Marty Lederman on the DOJ counsel appointed to investigate war crimes authorized by the president. Paul Kiel has his resume. Encouraging background from the WaPo:
Durham is well known in New England legal circles as a tough, publicity-averse prosecutor who has specialized in organized crime cases.
Organized crime is good background for this, isn’t it?
Disco Stu in Bollywood:
Liberals are reading them:
I guess part of it is that I’m a glutton for punishment, but also find that my own beliefs – and my arguments to defend them – are strengthened when I understand where my opponents are coming from. Also, as you put it, I find their "internal battles" right now extremely engaging. My favorite is Malkin’s blog. I’m a registered commenter there, and there is nothing more thrilling than dropping a perfectly sane, reasoned comment from a liberal perspective into a chicken little-esque thread and either 1) watching the thread come to a standstill, or 2) watching their heads explode.
The trouble with Kos’s "just-win-and-beat-the-right" philosophy is that it gets intellectually dull after a while. I’ve found Kos much less readable recently than it used to be. Bitter never sells. And Malkin is always entertaining in a hathetic kind of way.
A good new ad against the Plastic One. Ambers notes:
Mitt Romney’s attempts to dial back expectations aren’t too convincing.
"If 50 percent of the turnout is evangelical Christians, it would be very difficult for us to finish first in that kind of situation," Doug Gross, [the chairman of Mitt Romney’s campaign in Iowa], said. "In that instance, I’d feel very good about a nice, strong second-place finish."
She’s a plagiarist as well.
"Thanks to McCain and Graham, our intelligence services have lost the ability to use interrogation techniques such as waterboarding that have a proven record of securing vital information from hardened terrorists. Our government instead must now rely on techniques that have a record of failing to secure such information," – Paul Mirengoff, Powerline. A record of failing?
"No, I don’t think about that. I just don’t want her near me. That’s all I think about," – Richard Mellon Scaife, former bankroller of the 1990s jihad against Bill Clinton’s marital woes, on his former wife.
Quite a coup. But he’s a Ron Paul kinda guy.
"If our nominee is either not conservative and is pandering to the left trying to get some of their votes, or if our nominee is so afraid of his record that he’s relying on identity politics to get votes or if our nominee decides that the only way he can win is to go out and pick off some libs in the northeast and out in the west, it’s going to be a bloodbath," – Rush Limbaugh, bemoaning Giuliani, Huckabee and McCain.
Katelyn Hughes wears stickers in support of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) as she stops for a campaign event at the Sheraton Ballroom January 1, 2008 in Iowa City, Iowa. By Joe Raedle/Getty Images.
