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2007.08.08 Long War // Dhimm Perfidy Roundup
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Arms of August
Bryan Preston
Like many Americans, I was perplexed when I first heard that the Bush administration had approved a $20 billion arms sale to the Saudis with related sales approved to the Gulf States. I wasn’t outraged, and I certainly didn’t go looking for someone to exchange any high-fives with. I was perplexed. Ambivalent. Not really sure what I thought. ...
Why Hasn’t This Made Headlines?
Ed Morrissey
Imagine, if you will, that two young Muslim men got arrested for carrying explosives in their car. Imagine that they got arrested within a few miles of a military base where terrorism detainees are being held. Imagine that their neighbors told reporters about deliveries of oxygen bottles with an unusual level of comings and goings for a couple of single men on their own.
Now imagine why this hasn’t made more headlines: ...
See also: Update: More Curious Details Emerge In SC Case
FISA: Don’t Mend It, End It
The Left’s deafening silence won’t obscure that judges shouldn’t be managing our national security.
By Andrew C. McCarthy
We should all breathe a sigh of relief that sanity prevailed when Congress enacted emergency legislation over the weekend to address a national-security crisis: the hamstringing of our intelligence community’s ability to eavesdrop on agents of foreign powers situated overseas and bent on killing Americans.
I would keep the cork on the champagne bottle, though — and not just because this eleventh-hour fix of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) will lapse in six months, nor because it is absurd that we should ever have been arguing over anything so silly in the first place.
We should be horrified by this crisis because of what caused it: FISA and judges. ...
Winter Soldier Syndrome
Michelle Malkin
The tale of Army Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp, the discredited “Baghdad Diarist” for the discredited New Republic magazine, is an old tale:
Self-aggrandizing soldier recounts war atrocities. Media outlets disseminate soldier’s tales uncritically. Military folks smell a rat and poke holes in tales too good (or rather, bad) to be true. Soldier’s ideological sponsors blame the messengers for exposing anti-war fraud.
Beauchamp belongs in the same ward as John F. Kerry, the original infectious agent of the toxic American disease known as Winter Soldier Syndrome. The ward is filling up. ...
*** Army Concludes Baghdad Diarist Accounts Untrue
By Howard Kurtz
Army investigators have concluded that the private whose dispatches for the New Republic accused his fellow soldiers of petty cruelties in Iraq was not telling the truth.
The finding, disclosed yesterday, came days after the Washington-based magazine announced that it had corroborated the claims of the private, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, except for one significant error.
"An investigation has been completed and the allegations made by Pvt. Beauchamp were found to be false," an Army statement said. "His platoon and company were interviewed and no one could substantiate the claims."
See also:
The political patrons of Your Black Muslim Bakery;
Update: Chauncey Bailey Memorial Fund info
Michelle Malkin
The SFChron’s Matier and Ross report on the political backers of Your Black Muslim Bakery. You’ll be thrilled to know that millions in federal tax dollars have been forked over to this thug enterprise (at least $1.2 million in federal redevelopment funds) and you won’t be surprised that the patrons include some usual far Left suspects–including Democrat Reps. Ron Dellums and Barbara Lee: ...
Revealed: DoJ Dumps Dragon Skin body armor
Bryan Preston
Announced on Aug 3, the US Department of Justice has decided to decertify Pinnacle Inc’s Dragon Skin personal body armor.
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This is a severe blow to Pinnacle’s campaign to have Dragon Skin fielded by the US Army and put into service in combat. Pinnacle had previously used NIJ certification as evidence that Dragon Skin is of sufficient quality to be used in combat. That line of argument is now taken away. For the record, NIJ certification standards and Army certification standards are not identical, so that line of argument was always a bit of a red herring. ...
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