It was a long day spent with the Judiciary Committee, but the end result was that at almost 5:00 p.m. -- the Committee convened at 10:00 this morning -- the newest effort of the Senate Judiciary Committee to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 did manage to pass out of Committee.

Many amendments were offered over the course of the day, several of them reduplicative amendments proposed by Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), and almost all of them to Title I of the bill, designated the "least problematic" title in the legislation. Needless to say, most of the amendments ...   more »

Fifth in series of posts on the chronology leading to Iraq from the beginning of the Bush administration:

 

February – March 2001.       THREE WEEKS INTO OFFICE, the new administration conducts military strikes against Iraq. Further personnel appointments strengthen the impression that government is being reorganized to rearrange information around policy, and policy around politics.

The appointments also further consolidate echelons of neoconservatives and the ‘Project for the New American Century’ and allied think-tank networks in sensitive government positions, in foreign affairs and security.

Feb 1 – Feb 15, 2001:

 

Feb. 1, 2001 – Principals including ...   more »