PMMJ (cheetahmaster) wrote,
PMMJ
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"Through passivity or, more often, active opposition, President Bush has repeatedly stifled efforts to strengthen domestic safeguards against further terrorist attacks. As a consequence, homeland security remains perilously deficient."

and

"Just when you thought the United States' worldwide unpopularity couldn't plunge to greater depths, a story in Sunday's London Observer reported that in preparation for another possible United Nations vote on military intervention against Iraq, the U.S. government was engaging in 'dirty tricks' by conducting surveillance on members of the U.N. Security Council," reports Salon's Jake Tapper.

(from yesterday's column by Howard Kurtz. Which also has great stuff on the peace protests and other hot topics.)
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