Sick of Weinergate?

[amborin]

Reality Check


"......To that end, you may want to thank David Sirota at Salon for his “10 Stories More Important Than Weinergate.”
Sirota delivers a Lettermanesque list (minus the funny) of outrage-making stories on, among other things:

---questionable bank regulation moves by President Obama,

----a potential attempt in Louisiana to overturn Roe v. Wade,

----the government’s campaign against a corporate whistle-blower,

----Obama’s unwillingness to have Congress authorize operations in Libya,

----America’s failed drug war and

----the highest reported greenhouse gas levels in history."

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One contributor, Pardiss Kebriaei, a lawyer for the Center for Constitutional Rights, wrote:

Oe contributor, wrote:

The aspect of the United States’ targeted killing policy that is of greatest concern is that
which permits deliberate, preemptive strikes outside zones in which the United States is
engaged in active combat such as in Afghanistan. In such zones, the intensity of fighting
between organized armed groups creates a certain exigency that permits killing outside the
usual confines of the law, which would otherwise require due process or excuse the use of
lethal force only in narrow circumstances of self-defense. It is that exigency — of war —
that triggers the application of a different set of rules — the laws of war — and permits
uses of force that would otherwise be unlawful and unacceptable.

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more at the link

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/10/reality-check/

[JAnthony]

1. Great, yeah, real news... but

I was expecting more than one link... maybe like 5 or 10?

If this is real news, is no one else on the planet covering it?

[Poll_Blind]

2. I'd seen some of these stories posted to DU in the last couple of days.

To the credit of DU.

PB