2) al-Haramain has very good reason to believe (ie, they’ve seen the wiretap log) that they were wiretapped on March 11, 2004–when we know Bush didn’t even have cover from DOJ.

Lots of popcorn.

I like a dash of salt and lots of butter, how ’bout you!

Once Walker reviews that document on Monday, it’s hard to put the genie back in the bottle–not for state secrets reasons (Walker’s not going to tell the content of the document). But bc Walker will likely affirm that Bush broke the law.

i thought the ninth was the most – maybe the only – liberal* appeals court left in the u.s. of a.

*opposing abusive,intimidating, or coercive use of government power against individual citizens.

Readers of my blog (http://www.meforum.org/blog/obama-mideast-monitor/) know that I have been on the whole quite positive about Obama’s Mideast team, as I was in a Jerusalem post op-ed (http://www.meforum.org/2064/assessing-the-obama-mideast-team). But Freeman is a very different kind of appointment. If the issue with Freeman was just doing business in the Arab world, that would not be an issue at all. But he took $1 million from Saudi Arabia for what he, not I, called public relations activity in the United States. That is not an academic or ordinary business activity. And his writings on Israel are full of vitriol, completely unbalanced. He is anything but “even-handed.” Freman is an ideologue where Israel is concerned, not an analyst.

He has a couple of links to this thread, so Marcy’s hard work will get more exposure as well.

Marcy, your 2nd point is why I’m waiting so eagerly for Judge Walker’s ruling.