Opinion LA
From the LA Times, comes this excellent blog-like “Daily roundup of opinion journalism from and about Southern California, with an initial beta emphasis on immigration policy and politics.”

Senate deal on immigration falters
No bill is better than a bad bill, so I’m content to watch this one die.

Saturday, April 15, 10 am
Mass Student March for Immigrant Rights
Olympic & Broadway, Los Angeles
March to City Hall
More on ANSWER LA

There’s several other immigration rights demos and events coming in LA, I’ll post info when I have the complete details.

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President Bush authorized White House official I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby to disclose highly sensitive intelligence information to the news media in an attempt to discredit a CIA adviser whose views undermined the rationale for the invasion of Iraq, according to a federal prosecutor’s account of Libby’s testimony to a grand jury.

The White House did not challenge the prosecutor’s account of Bush’s and Cheney’s role in orchestrating the effort to discredit Wilson yesterday

Experts: Tactic would be legal but unusual

Legal experts say that President Bush had the unquestionable authority to approve the disclosure of secret CIA information to reporters, but they add that the leak was highly unusual and amounted to using sensitive intelligence data for political gain.

More to the point, did Bush or Cheney lie about this while giving testimony or being questioned. If so, then that’s perjury.

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In the interview, she, a 26 year old computer specialist who lived abroad for a while and writes in flawless, impassioned English, blogs at the now famous Baghdad Burning.

Some of your detractors online have said you are unabashedly biased and anti-American and that you lament the ousting of the previous government. Is that true?

Unabashedly biased towards what? Iraq? One thing that bothers me is that many people equate being anti-occupation with anti-American.

I am not anti-American - I know many wonderful Americans and correspond and communicate with them regularly. I am, however, anti-occupation.

I don’t wish for the “days of Saddam”, if that’s what you’re asking. I am, however, completely against the presence of foreign troops in Iraq.

Hat tip, Lefti on theNews

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