Independent: "After staking his authority on the police's request for greater detention powers - which came after the London bombings in July - Mr Blair sat grim-faced and shaking his head in the Commons as it was announced that the 90-day detention plan had been rejected by 322 votes to 291. A total of 49 Labour backbenchers joined the Tories and Liberal Democrats to reject the proposal."
it is time for Blair to resign.
11:34:25 AM
NYReviewOfBooks: "It is disappointing to learn that the Central Intelligence Agency filed motions in federal court in May 2005 to block disclosure of records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy forty-one years ago.
In response to the journalist Jefferson Morley's lawsuit brought under the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA is seek-ing to prevent release of records about a deceased CIA operations officer named George E. Joannides.
Joannides's story is clearly of substantial historical interest. CIA records show that the New Orleans chapter of a Cuban exile group that Joannides guided and monitored in Miami had a series of encounters with the accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald three months before Kennedy was murdered. Fifteen years later, Joannides also served as the agency's liaison to the House Select Committee on Assassinations. He did not disclose his role in the events of 1963 to Congress. The public record of the assassination and its confused investigatory aftermath will not be complete without his story."
This suggests the CIA was indeed involved in the murder of JFK and probably set up Lee Harvey Oswald. The Zapruder film clearly shows that more than one shot was fired and that one came from behind, another - the fatal one - from the front.
11:29:03 AM
This image made my day. Muhammad Ali made the 'You're mad' sign when Bush tried to engage him in a mock fight during the award ceremony of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Watch the video.
George is desperately trying to boost his standing by giving awards and doing the honours.
11:04:50 AM
