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[World Prout Assembly] Below the radar: Secret flights to torture and... : the aim now is to ensure that suspects are not brought to stand trial, but are handed over to foreign governments for interrogation - a process known in the USA as "extraordinary rendition" - or are kept in US custody on foreign sites. What was once an inter-agency operation was apparently turned largely over to the CIA under a still-classified directive signed by President Bush in September 2001.(12) The minority and majority leaders of both chambers of Congress were apparently notified of the CIA’s new powers, but were not consulted on or even shown the directive.

 [TurcoPundit] Foreign Press Review - April 07 2006: H16 President Bush specifically authorized Vice Presidential aide Scooter Libby to disclose information from a classified National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) to then-New York Times reporter Judith Miller in July 2003, effectively declassifying the information, according to a government filing (pdf) in the Libby prosecution yesterday.

 [Malc's Blog] A very thoughtful piece from NY Times with many... : Those whom Walter Russell Mead labels Jacksonian conservatives ”” red-state Americans whose sons and daughters are fighting and dying in the Middle East ”” supported the Iraq war because they believed that their children were fighting to defend the United States against nuclear terrorism, not to promote democracy. They don't want to abandon the president in the middle of a vicious war, but down the road the perceived failure of the Iraq intervention may push them to favor a more isolationist foreign policy, which is a more natural political position for them.

[Pandora’s jar of mixed nuts] Permanent Link to After Neoconservatism: Those whom Walter Russell Mead labels Jacksonian conservatives — red-state Americans whose sons and daughters are fighting and dying in the Middle East — supported the Iraq war because they believed that their children were fighting to defend the United States against nuclear terrorism, not to promote democracy. They don’t want to abandon the president in the middle of a vicious war, but down the road the perceived failure of the Iraq intervention may push them to favor a more isolationist foreign policy, which is a more natural political position for them.

 [Adam Ash] Deep Thoughts: 'End of History' Francis Fukuyama... : Those whom Walter Russell Mead labels Jacksonian conservatives ”” red-state Americans whose sons and daughters are fighting and dying in the Middle East ”” supported the Iraq war because they believed that their children were fighting to defend the United States against nuclear terrorism, not to promote democracy. They don't want to abandon the president in the middle of a vicious war, but down the road the perceived failure of the Iraq intervention may push them to favor a more isolationist foreign policy, which is a more natural political position for them.

[hypersync] 'After Neoconservatism' - a commentary: I just started reading this article, which I found this morning on Kendall Harmon's weblog, titusonenine. Thus far, a good critique of the Bush administration's foreign policy, our involvement in Iraq, and the consequences of both for the United States on the world stage and at home.

 [Lawofnations.blogspot.com] Opinio Juris: The EU, The French, and the New Europe: Romania has been embroiled in a dispute with the European Commission over the procedures for foreign adoptions for Romanian children. (See this BBC report and this Southeast European Times report.) Baroness Emma Nicholson, the EU’s Rapporteur for Romania, wrote a scathing report on the process of foreign adoptions in Romania that caused the European Commission to demand a ban of such adoptions until reforms were made, if Romania hoped to gain eventual entrance to the EU.

[Stromata.typepad.com] Stromata Blog: Eastern Europe: Romania is also willing and able to meet Iraq’s needs but has higher price tags. My friend asked whether this wasn’t a case of “procurement wise, strategy foolish”, given that Romania is an ally that supported liberating Iraq while Red China is a strategic competitor that did what it could to block the effort.

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