Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Your Morning News 2.12.08
Posted by Josh in Barack Obama, Dissapointing Robberies, Election 2008, Guantanamo Bay, hillary clinton, Iraq, Potomic, Starbucks, The Rule of Law, Worst Product Placement Ever
As we mentioned yesterday, the United States is bringing capital murder charges against 6 men allegedly linked to the Sept. 11 attacks. The new development in the story is that they are basing the charges on information gained from these men during coercive interrogation (totally not torture). The Washington Post has a story explaining that the testimony that will be used in the trials was gained by a special FBI “Clean Team” which used “time-tested rapport-building techniques” so that all the information they gained wouldn’t be tainted by allegations of torture or coercion. Sounds great, until you read that the “Clean Team’s” goal was to get the same information that the CIA had already “obtained from five of the six through duress at secret prisons.” Just let that roll around in your head awhile.
One sidenote from that Post story has to be the oddest product placement I have ever seen:
The admissions made by the men — who were given food whenever they were hungry as well as Starbucks coffee at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — played a key role in the government’s decision to proceed with the prosecutions, military and law enforcement officials said.
The Democratic Primary, Iraq, and Art Thieves after the jump.
Today the Democratic race for the Presidency takes its next shuddering step as Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia all turn out to vote in primaries. The grouping is being called the Potomac Primaries. Senator Obama has a big lead in all of the states and is carrying momentum with him from his victories this weekend. He is expected to win all three. Senator Clinton’s campaign is writing off these primaries and pinning her campaign’s hopes on big-state primaries in Texas and Ohio. If it comes up at the office, just say that that sounds an awful lot like Mayor Giuliani’s strategy but that you can never count out the Clintons. That should be vaguely insightful enough to get them to leave you alone so you can do the Sudoku on peace.
Two CBS news journalists have been reported missing in the Southern Iraqi city of Basra, which in recent years has been an increasingly dangerous place for journalists.
Three robbers made off with four paintings valued at at $163 million from a private Zurich museum. The men, armed and wearing ski masks, burst through the front door, grabbed the paintings they wanted and fled the scene in a van. Apparently they hadn’t hacked into the central security system, seduced the museum’s beautiful yet lonely curator, and there is no word yet as to whether one of them was impersonating an eccentric private collector. Guys, if you are going to steal priceless works of art, do it with some style.
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