The Poor Man Institute (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Phil Carter misunderstands objections to telecom immunity. The point of lawsuits against the telecommunications industry is not to punish them for the misdeeds of the government, it is to compel them to testify against the government, something which they are not otherwise going to be especially eager to do. Legal analysis outsourced to Marty Lederman [...]
SWJ Blog (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Insha'Allah By Phil Carter Cross posted here with permission of Phil Carter, Intel Dump. In 2005, President Bush articulated a national strategy for Iraq that hinged on successfully advising Iraqi security forces. "As Iraqis stand up, we will stand down," he said. The critical piece of this strategy was the adviser capability itself. Although the military's special operations...
Classical Values (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
... personnel occupying Iraq. That is a start. Perhaps we can find out more.The wiki suggests this Phil Carter article . It was written in Nov. of 2007 when things were still looking grim in Iraq. The situation was improving but there was no certainty that a corner had been turned. So lets have a look. Political reconciliation efforts have produced qualified successes in Anbar, Baghdad,...
Patterico's Pontifications (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
... of Illinois, the presumptive Democratic nominee, has not agreed to participate. Obama advisor Phil Carter says that Obama “unfortunately had a previously scheduled commitment on the date proposed.” That is unfortunate!! Except, the organizer of the event says she has always been flexible on dates: “We made it very clear to them that if they would commit to the event, we would work...
ProfessorBainbridge.com ® (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Phil Carter is upset that David Addington and John Yoo didn’t sufficiently cower before Congress the other day: “Democracy dies behind closed doors,” Judge Damon Keith wrote in an opinion for the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals regarding media and public access to terrorism cases. Our theory of government also dies in hearings like this one, featuring David Addington and John... [continued...
Winds of Change.NET (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Overall good guy Phil Carter has a piece up on John McCain's War College thesis . I'd meant to blog the NYT story, but Carter makes the argument I want to challenge so well that I'd rather talk about his post than directly about McCain's paper. Here's McCain : "The biggest factor in a man's ability to perform credibly as a prisoner of war is a strong belief in the correctness...
Histori-blogography (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
'cause i already know the compass is a liar Phil Carter posts about the U.S. Army's distribution of C.S.A. talking points to its troops. Which is worth noticing, sure, and I've written before about the use of government platforms to inflict dimwitted propaganda on people in the military. But whatever -- my own view is that we should have long since started identifying most senior military...
Headline Junky (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
I'm not sure about Phil Carter's take on the Madeleine Albright NYTimes op-ed that's generating a good deal of discussion. Here's the key passage from Albright's piece: . . .And despite recent efforts to enshrine the doctrine of a responsibility to protect in international law, the concept of humanitarian intervention has lost momentum. The global conscience is not asleep, but after...
Headline Junky (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
I always feel a sense of satisfaction when the mainstream press catches up to a story that WPR has been out ahead of , like the scaling back of AFRICOM ( here from a few weeks back in the CSM, and here from today in the WaPo and over at Phil Carter's Intel Dump ). It's a fascinating story that combines a novel vision of an interagency military command with some highminded operational...
