Mikel Grenzner.com

I never skip past C-SPAN 2 when this guy has the floor. I’d miss anything from rants on the barbarism of dog fighting to odes to other senators on their birthdays done in the style of Dr. Seuss.

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From the staff writers at WaPo:

“Baiting is putting an object out there that we know they will use, with the intention of destroying the enemy,” Capt. Matthew P. Didier, the leader of an elite sniper scout platoon attached to the 1st Battalion of the 501st Infantry Regiment, said in a sworn statement. “Basically, we would […]

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From Boston.com:
An MIT student wearing a device on her chest that included lights and wires was arrested at gunpoint at Logan International Airport this morning after authorities thought the contraption was a bomb strapped to her body.
Star Simpson, 19, was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and approached an airport employee in Terminal C at […]

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From The Post and Courier:
Charleston novelist James Oliver Rigney Jr., 58, known to millions of readers by the pen name Robert Jordan, the best-selling author of “The Wheel of Time” fantasy series, died Sunday after a fight with the rare blood disease amyloidosis, a progressive disorder first diagnosed in December 2005 at the Medical […]

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If this hits the larger media groups out there, this will be bound to cause a good bit of controversy.
From Human Rights Watch:
“Human Rights Watch shares the public’s goal of protecting children from sex abuse,” said Jamie Fellner, director of the US program at Human Rights Watch. “But current laws are ill-conceived and poorly crafted. […]

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One can watch the Iraq War Report right now on CNN, MSNBC and C-SPAN 3, available online for streaming.
I’m not expecting any huge surprises, but I’m hoping for a good grilling.

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This lovely tidbit comes from Forbes.com.

For daring to report illegal arms sales, Navy veteran Donald Vance says he was imprisoned by the American military in a security compound outside Baghdad and subjected to harsh interrogation methods.

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“It was a Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ) for guns,” he says. “It was all illegal and everyone knew it.”

So Vance says he blew the whistle, supplying photos and documents and other intelligence to an FBI agent in his hometown of Chicago because he didn’t know whom to trust in Iraq.

For his trouble, he says, he got 97 days in Camp Cropper, an American military prison outside Baghdad that once held Saddam Hussein, and he was classified a security detainee.

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I was hoping for a nicer story to re-christen this blog with, but I guess not. What have we come to when we start torturing our own soldiers for upholding the law?

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