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Most Americans, even those who follow politics closely, have probably never heard of Addington. But current and former Administration officials say that he has played a central role in shaping the Administration’s legal strategy for the war on terror. Known as the New Paradigm, this strategy rests on a reading of the Constitution that few legal scholars share—namely, that the President, as Commander-in-Chief, has the authority to disregard virtually all previously known legal boundaries, if national security demands it. Under this framework, statutes prohibiting torture, secret detention, and warrantless surveillance have been set aside. A former high-ranking Administration lawyer who worked extensively on national-security issues said that the Administration’s legal positions were, to a remarkable degree, “all Addington.” Another lawyer, Richard L. Shiffrin, who until 2003 was the Pentagon’s deputy general counsel for intelligence, said that Addington was “an unopposable force.”
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The Bush Administration's Legal Strategy
In “The Hidden Power; The Legal Mind Behind the White House's War on Terror,” New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer examines David S. Addington--the man many believe is behind the Bush Administration’s post-9/11 legal strategy. (w/ leonard lopate wnyc)
Most Americans, even those who follow politics closely, have probably never heard of Addington. But current and former Administration officials say that he has played a central role in shaping the Administration’s legal strategy for the war on terror. Known as the New Paradigm, this strategy rests on a reading of the Constitution that few legal scholars share—namely, that the President, as Commander-in-Chief, has the authority to disregard virtually all previously known legal boundaries, if national security demands it. Under this framework, statutes prohibiting torture, secret detention, and warrantless surveillance have been set aside. A former high-ranking Administration lawyer who worked extensively on national-security issues said that the Administration’s legal positions were, to a remarkable degree, “all Addington.” Another lawyer, Richard L. Shiffrin, who until 2003 was the Pentagon’s deputy general counsel for intelligence, said that Addington was “an unopposable force.”
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The Bush Administration's Legal Strategy
In “The Hidden Power; The Legal Mind Behind the White House's War on Terror,” New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer examines David S. Addington--the man many believe is behind the Bush Administration’s post-9/11 legal strategy. (w/ leonard lopate wnyc)
New Name Alert: According to Rummy's testimony before the Senate on Thursday it's now the "struggle against violent extremists who are determinded to keep free people from exercising their rights as free people" or SAVEWADTKFPFETRAFP, pronouced sa-ve-wad-tkfpfet-rapf.
But I still prefer the Global Clusterfuck on Terror.
But I still prefer the Global Clusterfuck on Terror.
picoChip partners with KT for WiBro/WiMAX femtocells -- picoChip is one of many small companies developing chips with a huge number of processor cores -- in their case 200 DSPs on a single chip. This approach has the potential to provide very high performance at low cost while maintaining programmability. Multimedia and communications are two key targets for the various vendors of centicore chips. ("Kilocore" is already taken as the name of a company. It looks like "Centicore" was used at some point as the name of a product. "Centicore" is also the name of a mythical beast and a Swedish metal band.)
For basketball fans: poor quality but otherwise mind boggling Dwayne Wade highlight clip compilation.
I must be missing something, but given that we have zero military units ready to deploy, why wouldn't China invade Taiwan right now?
Am I misunderstand their desire to get Taiwan back? Or am I missing some leverage that we hold over them? Or are they just being rather reasonable and peaceful?
Am I misunderstand their desire to get Taiwan back? Or am I missing some leverage that we hold over them? Or are they just being rather reasonable and peaceful?
NYC temperature and vegetation maps highlight the obvious correlations.
Good news if this is for real:
Dan Kaminsky, DNS hacker and rootkit infection sleuth, has devised a test for checking to see if your Internet connection is "neutral" -- that is, whether your connection is being filtered, throttled, slowed down, or monkeyed with secretly by your ISP:If it's easy for people to figure out (and publicize for others) which ISPs are neutral, and which are trying to sell limited access to the internet, it should help market forces to push things towards the neutral side.Kaminsky calls his technique "TCP-based active probing for faults." He says that the software he's developing will be similar to the Traceroute Internet utility that is used to track what path Internet traffic takes as it hops between two machines on different ends of the network.
But unlike Traceroute, Kaminsky's software will be able to make traffic appear as if it is coming from a particular carrier or is being used for a certain type of application, like VoIP. It will also be able to identify where the traffic is being dropped and could ultimately be used to finger service providers that are treating some network traffic as second-class.
another NOLA blog
AT&T launches Homezone -- DISH Network satellite service (from Echostar) coupled with DSL (from AT&T). The DSL service is used as transport for long tail (and mainstream) video services from Akimbo. Not to be confused with U-verse, which is a pure DSL play based on very high speed DSL.
Mixing media
Giant cable companies are duking it out with the nation's telcos to see who can provide the most comprehensive phone, broadband, video and mobile services to tech-savvy consumers
Giant cable companies are duking it out with the nation's telcos to see who can provide the most comprehensive phone, broadband, video and mobile services to tech-savvy consumers
Sarita’s Macaroni & Cheese, or S’MAC, serves 10 different versions of Mac & Cheese. And that's all. 345 E. 12th St. (betw. 1st & 2nd Aves.)
How to open a Master combination lock.
Linda has a new page. Hope this is okay to announce. You can subscribe here. Click 'add to homepage' to add it to your homepage.
CA has its own foreign policy now?
Governor, Blair sign warming accord
UNUSUAL STATE-NATION PACT PUTS DISTANCE BETWEEN LEADERS, BUSH
Governor, Blair sign warming accord
UNUSUAL STATE-NATION PACT PUTS DISTANCE BETWEEN LEADERS, BUSH
Front page coverage of a new media art show coming to SJ next week ...
ZeroOne website
``This will transform San Jose into the North American epicenter for the intersection of art and digital culture,'' said Dietz, former curator of new media at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.Epicenter, baby! Okay, we get a little excited out here in the provinces.
ZeroOne website
Guy who works on Boston's Big Dig project is appalled at the wasted materials. So he collects stuff that looks good, hauls it away himself, and uses it all to build this house.
Via boing-boing:
In 1968, Otto Preminger made 23 Skidoo, a psychedelic film starring Jackie Gleason as a mobster, Groucho Marx as the kingpin, and Mickey Rooney as a snitch. Throw in some LSD and you've got the makings of a very strange cinematic trip. The trailer for 23 Skidoo is now on YouTube and it's a gas.
apple i talk
High-definition video add-on coming to iPod
"The initial players will be able to handle MPEG 4, Divx, HD.264 and other video formats."
Interesting piggy-back strategy. Rather than doing the whole thing from scratch, they hitch a ride off Apple's base technology and extend it.
"The initial players will be able to handle MPEG 4, Divx, HD.264 and other video formats."
Interesting piggy-back strategy. Rather than doing the whole thing from scratch, they hitch a ride off Apple's base technology and extend it.
Online Videos & Playing Into Apple’s Hands
This is reminiscent of the digital music market, which is chockfull of players with marginal market share. Apple’s iPod/iTunes dominates the market because it provides a stress free (some call it integrated) experience for the end user.
