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A Greenpeace magazine says that they heard from an inside source that the anthrax attacks were probably perpetrated by someone inside the US biological warfare program in order to increase the budget for biowar research.

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I’ve created a short report on the performance of Congress in handling judicial nominations, in response to Mike’s criticism. The report is entitled Assessing Judicial Vacancies. Now, let’s look at Mike’s criticism:

Wouldn’t that mean, that at least in this instance, that Rush is right and you are flat-out wrong?

Well, let’s look at what [...]

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The great thing about book reviews in the NYRB is that they’re gold mines of information in and of themselves. For example, Matthew Meselson’s article in the current NYRB is ostensibly a review of Germs: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War, by Judith Miller, Steven Engelberg, and William Broad. However, in reality it’s so [...]

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The human rights community is quite astir about the deaths of the Taliban prisoners at Mazar-i-Sharif. It’s an accepted fact that the Taliban prisoners smuggled grenades into their prison, attacked their captors, siezed weapons, and fought for three days — after they had supposedly surrendered. Despite that, human rights groups are concerned that [...]

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“Note that the number of required characters changes from 17,145 to 18,770 with the installation of SP1.” Here’s the full story.

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There seem to be growing reports that Osama bin Laden is hiding in a cave complex southwest of Jalalabad called Tora Bora. Supposedly, Arabs holed up there are sending Afghans who work for them down to Jalalabad for supplies periodically. If we can confirm that bin Laden is really hiding out in a [...]

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A response to Rush Limbaugh … Guess who has an op-ed piece in today’s Washington Post defending the use of military tribunals in criminal cases? None other than Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh is a lazy thinker or a liar and card cheat, decide for yourself which one you think he is.

The crux of Limbaugh’s piece [...]

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Everybody already knew that John Ashcroft was a fascist — as it turns out, some former FBI agents believe he’s incompetent as well. Not only are the pinkos opposed to Ashcroft’s jackbooted approach to fighting terrorism, but so are several big name former FBI agents. The WaPo has an interview with 8 ex-FBI [...]

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Another blip on the radar screen: the new anti-terrorism laws grant the US the right to prosecute computer criminals if their packets travel though computers in the US, regardless of where they and the systems they crack reside.

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Declan McCullagh has a Wired News story on Network Associates’ denial that they’re collaborating with the government to include back doors for FBI spyware in their security products.

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