Category Overheard

Sam Husseini in Cairo, Following the Gaza Freedom March

I’ve been helping my friend Sam Husseini maintain an impromptu “liveblog” he set up to document his observation as he followed the Gaza Freedom March in Cairo, Egypt. Find all that material on that site: husseini.posterous.com. Some of my contributions in his aid were inadvertently syndicated here, with HTML not escaped properly, etc. I’ve removed [...]

FOIAing special police operations in DC

The Washington Post reports that Partnership for Civil Justice has filed a FOIA request on the Federally-backed “Safe Streets task force” that is operating in DC, and which is implicated in allegations of an unjust shooting of a suspect they were pursuing this past week. “The residents in the District have a right to know [...]

Powell admits complicity in torture, sort of; denies knowing its role with sources of claims he endorsed

…and, oh yeah, he’s still a Republican. Colin Powell was on Face The Nation today. Bob Schieffer lead the interview by asking him first about a recent volley of remarks that one might say started with Powell critizing conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh during Q&A at a cybersecurity conference, as reported by Chris Strohm of Congress [...]