Pine Belt Progressive

John Quiggin has some technical questions about prosecuting Bush administration officials for war crimes. I don’t have much legal training, but I’ll gladly offer some opinions. I think his analysis is about right, if he’s talking about cabinet officers and higher officials being prosecuted by another state. If prosecutions outside the U.S. happen at all, I think it’s going to be in an international court, and it’s going to be a deputy-assisstant-something or other. And that’s an outside chance.

Since prosecutions don’t seem to be likely, it wouldn’t hurt to file a grievance against John Yoo with the PA or D.C. bar.

Blue Girl has a must-read about the IDF killing a children in Gaza.

It’s alleged that Karl Rove tried to get Patrick Fitzgerald fired during the Plame affair, and guess whose trial this information emerged from?

John Kerry has a long list of questions for the GAO about the Pentagon propaganda pundits.

Hard-Boiled Dreams of the World has video of a former DEA chief admitting on 60 minutes that the CIA imported cocaine into the country. AND a link to a Rolling Stone article from last year about E. Howard Hunt admitting involvement in the Kennedy assassination.