Comments on: Ground Game

By: Gerald

Gerald — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:23:37 +0000

Thank you ma’am.

By: skdadl

skdadl — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:04:55 +0000

Thank you, EW. I had a fuzzy memory (most of my memories are fuzzy) that someone didn’t publish internal reviews.

Horton, btw, says something about a scenario that he expects to “appear before the end of this summer,” but I’m not sure whether he means just the report or the beginnings of HJC hearings as well.

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:36:59 +0000

I think the last estimate would put the report still a few weeks out. It’s unclear whether the report will be public. OPR normally does not publish its results, OIG does. The Senate has been pushing for a public report, though, so I suspect we’ll get something.

By: jackie

jackie — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:58:06 +0000

That just lit up my day.. Thank-you

By: BayStateLibrul

BayStateLibrul — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:33:27 +0000

Thanks for the article.
Mukasey knows that this investigation will be a blockbuster
and will delay as much as possible. (obstruction)
My gripe with the Judiciary Committee is that they never ask
the question WHEN will the report be completed?
Delays, ad nauseam..

By: klynn

klynn — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:26:23 +0000

bmaz-

”All hail the NY Giants!”

On a telecom/cable cut note…Here’s an article which seems to bring some perspective:

http://blog.wired.com/27bstrok.....c-cab.html

”In December 2006, 4 major fiber optic lines were severely damaged following a major earthquake in Taiwan. Subsequent underwater mudslides damaged 9 cables laid in the Luzon Strait south of Taiwan. The cuts basically erased all eastward data routes from Southeast Asia. It took 49 days for crews on 11 giant cable-laying ships to fix all of the 21 damage points, according to the International Cable Protection Committee.

In response, telecoms shifted business away from North America-based backbone providers like AT&T, Level 3 and Savvis and towards European carriers, according to Underwood.

But this go round, the North American carriers might gain from this outage, Underwood suggests.”

By: phred

phred — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:25:55 +0000

Welcome Gerald! Congrats to your Giants. Now that you’ve signed up, hope to see you around the threads…

By: skdadl

skdadl — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:13:53 +0000

Request for information: when the DoJ IG/OPR produce a report on their inquiry into the firing of the prosecutors, will that report be made public? To whom does it go?

I ask because I’ve been reading Scott Horton’s terrific column on impeachment from yesterday.

By: BayStateLibrul

BayStateLibrul — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:35:34 +0000

Since comments are closed at bmaz’s/wheel’s tailgate.

Congrats to the Giants.
Great 4th Quarter party.
They deserved the victory.
Did Tyree have a magnet in his helmet?
Best catch I’ve never seen.
Fitting end…
Yesterday was the 49th anniversary of the “day the music died”
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/crash.htm

By: prostratedragon

prostratedragon — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:11:18 +0000

Great game it was (though I’d've preferred the other outcome)!

Want to put budget or stimulus numbers into perspective on the fly? Here’s a tool from CEPR (the firm Dean Baker’s with). Enter a dollar amount and time horizon, and it tells either the per cap level or the percent of total revenue or spending, and shows a comparison to defense spending as projected in Aug. 2006 (soon to be updated, I’ll bet).

//www.cepr.net/calculators/calc_budget.html

Example: Bush’s budget proposal includes $97b in Medicaid and other health premium cuts over six years. That works out to a reduction of $51.16 per cap or 0.5% of the unified budget, compared to $1934.11 per cap or 18.6% of 2006-projected defense budget over the same horizon. The visual comparison is even more laughable.

Handy, eh?

(Is there a links problem? I can’t get there from here. Anyway, that’s the place up there.)