Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying

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Read my op-ed about Congressman Jim McDermott's private bill.
Read the brief submitted by the Department of Justice to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals responding to Mohiuddin's petition for asylum. It is a damning document that lays out Mohiuddin's crimes.

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Nearly 32 years after he committed his crimes, convicted terrorist Mohiuddin AKM Ahmed’s days of [...]

The killing in Iraq continues.
We are told we are there to avoid further killing. We were led into war by a President who ignored warnings that he would create a mess in Iraq. Last week the same President, the "commander guy", dismissed those warnings by saying "we were warned about a lot of things, [...]

The Bush Administration is contributing significantly to the militarization of South Asia. In pursuit of its War on Terror, the Bush Administration has been subsidizing General Musharraf and his military as they continue to cling to power in Pakistan. Pakistan is most definitely not a poster child for Mr. Bush’s "Freedom Agenda". Yet it is [...]

"I know it was you Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!"
- Michael Corleane, The Godfather: Part II

Washington DC is all abuzz with the rumor that Alberto Gonzales will resign this evening. Normally I don’t do rumors but this one is too juicy to pass up. It does make a certain amount of [...]

UPDATE: There is a report in the Bangladesh paper New Nation that the letter from the senators is a forgery. However, I just got off the phone with Senator Joe Biden’s office. They confirmed for me that the letter was indeed sent and the content of the letter is as was widely reported. We should [...]

Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey testified yesterday about Mr. Gonzales’s late night visit to the hospital to convince an ailing attorney general John Ashcroft to sign off on Mr. Bush’s domestic wiretapping plan which the Justice Department had already deemed illegal. It was riveting testimony. There is not much I can add to Mr. [...]

Paul McNulty resigned:

The No. 2 official at the Justice Department, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, submitted his resignation to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the Justice Department announced Monday.
McNulty cited personal reasons for his resignation.
"The financial realities of college-age children and two decades of public service lead me to a long overdue transition in my [...]

This is truly disturbing. It is outrageous. A 91 year-old veteran of World War II was beaten mercilessly by a carjacker in a public parking lot in Detroit as people looked on and did nothing. The entire incident was caught on tape.
There is something horribly wrong when a carjacker feels the need to punch an [...]

In the wake of the detention by the Bangladesh military of journalist and blogger Tasneem Khalil, I was interviewed by BBC World Service Radio last night about blogging and the intimidation of bloggers by governments. In addition to talking about Tasneem’s case I cited the case of the Egyptian blogger Monem currently under detention for [...]

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>>> Contact the following Senators:Edward Kennedy, John Kerry, Charles Schumer, Hillary Clinton

>>> Contact the Congressional Bangladeshi Caucus Members:Gary Ackerman (NY-05), Michael Capuano (MA-08), Joseph Crowley (NY-07), William Delahunt (MA-10), Eliot Engel (NY-17), Chris Van Hollen (MD-08), Rick Larsen (WA-02), Sheila Jackson [...]