Remember how GW Bush promised to release all his military records? And then remember how that promise was inoperative the very next day? We still have not seen Bush's discharge papers. All it would take to put this to rest is a signed release by the ex-National Guardsman himself. But he hasn't done that…and people seem to have stopped demanding it. Why is that?
Lest we forget: Bush To Make Up Missed National Guard Service This Weekend
Call it schadenfreude if you must, but I was immensely cheered by Brian Leiter's recent post on the sloath and incompetence of the University of Texas academic bureaucracy. It is so, so nice to know that we are not the only place where this sort of thing happens all the time.
It looks as if it's been going a while, since July actually, but I only just discovered Abstract Appeal, which calls itself, undoubtedly correctly, “The First Weblog Devoted to Florida Law & the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals”.
Oh, it's a nice headline in the New York Times: 9/11 Panel Rejects White House Limits on Interviews. Sure sounds like the commission found its spine at last, and won't accept the absurd one-hour limit (and chairs only, no members present, please) that Bush-Cheney invented to neuter the commission's investigation.
But read past the headline and the truth emerges. First, no Republicans are quoted; as the commission is split 50/50, that means that there isn't yet a majority to do anything forceful.
Plus, on background, the Republicans as signalling that they plan to cave in:
Commission officials said that if the White House continued to insist on limitations on the interviews with Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, there might be little that the panel could do to force the issue and that the commission might have to accept the White House's terms.
And they said that despite internal conversation about the possibility of issuing a subpoena for Ms. Rice's public testimony, that move was unlikely.
Some spine, eh?
My day as an election judge is a very interesting first-person account of a day as an election judge baby sitting electronic voting machines—written by Avi Rubin, a leading critic of Diebold's Accuvote machines. (Spotted via Ed Felten blog.)
Attention Nietzsche scholars. America's Finest News Source™ discloses New Nietzschean Diet Lets You Eat Whatever You Fear Most. [Link updated thanks to Hugh Hyatt]
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