ABC News has a story about The Secret Tapes -- Inside Saddam's Palace. Apparently, they have 12 hours of verified tapes of Saddam talking to his cronies about hiding WMD's and programs and terrorism. The tapes date from the mid-90's and at one point he says that terrorism is coming to America and Britain. I don't think this was a case of prescience, but rather, he knew enough of the players in the game to know that they all wanted to strike at the US and it would only be a matter of time before they were successful. Given the millions and millions of pages of documents found within the various Ministries I suspect the Pentagon knows far far more about this than they're letting on. Many in the blogosphere believe the US is going to use those documents to twist recalcitrant European and Russian arms to do our bidding in the future. Perhaps, but I've not seen any substantive changes that make that appear likely. It will be interesting to see how the Europeans deal with Iran.
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project . Thank God they're going after this guy. He's been so brazen with his porkbarreling and the whiff of corruption around him has been ripe enough to smell from here. I'd rather have a 100% democrat run Congress if they were ethical. Term limits. One term for Senate, two for the House, one for the President. Some fear that would increase the power of lobbyists. Simple, ban any former members from being lobbyists and limit lobbyists to terms as well. (I'm not sure how that would work. Just a thought.) The other answer is transparency. No earmarks without a floor vote. No spending of any kind without a floor vote. All spending committees (intelligence aside) open to the public and recorded and available on the web.
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