FISA Compromise Update- June 18, 2008 FISA COMPROMISE UPDATE....Negotiators in the House and Senate are apparently close to announcing a compromise FISA bill that they hope to pass by early July. Over at The Caucus, Carl Hulse wonders how the compromise is going to fly with...http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_06/013929.php McCain and Abortion- June 17, 2008 McCAIN AND ABORTION....John McCain's reputation for cross-party moderation has been so ingrained for so long that a lot of people simply assume he holds positions he doesn't. In particular, an awful lot of centrist voters assume that McCain has fairly...http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_06/013928.php Politics as Usual- June 17, 2008 POLITICS AS USUAL....So Barack Obama tells Jake Tapper that we can fight terrorists and follow the constitution at the same time ("for example, the first attack against the World Trade Center, we were able to arrest those responsible, put them...http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_06/013926.php Torture Update- June 17, 2008 TORTURE UPDATE....Here's the latest on the torture front from an ongoing Senate investigation:Memos and other evidence obtained during the inquiry show that officials in the office of then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld started to research the use of waterboarding, stress...http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_06/013925.php VA Testing- June 17, 2008 VA TESTING....From the Washington Times:The government is testing drugs with severe side effects like psychosis and suicidal behavior on hundreds of military veterans, using small cash payments to attract patients into medical experiments that often target distressed soldiers returning from...http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_06/013924.php |