April 5, 2008
The week began with Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi leader, still making decisions on his own, something we have been waiting for him to do. He proved in less than a week that he isn’t capable. So, after he sent the Iraqi “army” into Basara to take on the al-Sadr Madhi militia and after a few hundred deaths, a [...]
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April 1, 2008
Today Mueller of the FBI testified before a Congressional hearing, primarily devoted to the FBI budget for the upcoming fiscal year. However, questions veered to other matter, such as wiretaps and surveillance. Mueller stated that when the FBI requests information by way of “security letters”, it was “relatively common” to get more information than requested. [...]
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