Frank Jannuzi

Oh boy here we go…

During the deposition of Epstein accountant Richard Kahn, his attorney claimed that Jane Doe 4, who accused Trump & Epstein of abuse, never received a settlement from the estate. He now says he can no longer confirm or deny this.

Statement by Ranking Member @robertgarcia.house.gov & Rep. Ro Khanna

Ossoff is good on this stuff

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Page 3 of the judge's opinion: "Although IBP’s website did not mention DEI, it contained references to 'diversity' amongst bird species."

(That wasn't the main reason why the government lost, but it's evidence that we're governed by idiots.)

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I think Miller is being a little too tough on USA in this analysis. Iran’s dominance over Trump in the war is not entirely lopsided. Iran has also paid a high price. But USA will pay the higher one: regime change in November, a shattered economy, frayed alliances, and depleted military strength.

Does Ron Vara agree?

Bessent is many things...a military expert is not one of them.
He really ought not speak on issues for which he has no qualifications...and if he must do so, he should get briefed in advance so that he does not say something stupid.

same with his obsession with "asylum" -- because he genuinely doesn't understand that someone seeking aslyum in the United States is NOT someone who has been released from an insane asylum overseas...

That number is large in human terms -- roughly equal to the total U.S. war dead in Vietnam -- but of course would have been even worse had Johnson ordered bombing of Hanoi city.

I studied LBJ's Rolling Thunder campaign in grad school under a Pentagon grant, and found that the 300,000 sorties and nearly 1 million tons of high explosives we dropped from 65-68 accomplished little in destroying infrastructure, but did claim in excess of 50,000 civilian lives.

Similarly, napalming of villages and strikes along VC supply lines through highlands of Vietnam resulted in thousands of civilian deaths. So while I agree your underlying point (we didn't carpet bomb Hanoi the way we did Dresden or Tokyo), we inflicted horrific civilian casualties on Vietnam.

we dropped more tons of explosive on Cambodia than in all of WWII, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki, without having any meaningful military targets. We were trying to interdict the VC supply lines, but just littered the country with bombs from B-52s. We did avoid massive raids on Hanoi...

I pray this war ends soon and that a diplomatic solution can be found to underlying issues that have brought the Iranian and American people into conflict. If anyone needs a reminder of why we must invest as heavily in tools of peace and diplomacy as we do in weapons of war, let them study Minab.

While investigation is not yet complete, it appears that AI may have in some way contributed to this horrible tragedy. If so, it is a clear warning that when targeting is automated, humans must still double check everything and be held accountable for the results. "Claude" is not to blame here...

...is not a luxury. It is a necessity. Mistakes are more likely when decisions are rushed.
4) When we make a mistake -- and this will NOT be the last -- we must try to learn from it. To do that, we must first acknowledge that WE MADE A MISTAKE. Denial...only ensures more failures ahead.

But there are some important lessons that should be learned here:
1) An attitude at the top that dehumanizes the enemy, is never appropriate.
2) An posture that denigrates "rules of engagement" as somehow extraneous to warfare, rather than integral to it, is never appropriate.
3) Careful planning...

...those who contributed to the errors that added up to the U.S. launching a Tomahawk missile at a school -- a school that a decade earlier had been part of a military facility -- did not do so out of malice. We owe them our compassion, just as we owe our apology and compassion to the victims.

But in war, mistakes happen. I know hundreds of men and women in uniform. I have worked in military intelligence. I have been in the field with officers and enlisted trying to perform very difficult tasks, sometimes in war zones. I know their professionalism. So I can say with confidence that...

I would argue few countries are as careful, few as CAPABLE of precision in war, as is the United States. Indeed, until the 21st century, the ABILITY to target with great precision was largely absent from the battlefield. Today, the "circular error probable (CEP)" has shrunk from miles to meters.

While that term itself is offensive to me, spirit behind it is honorable. U.S. recognizes that just because war is inherently awful and inhumane, it MATTERS how we go about that ugly business, for many reasons:
Our own honor and integrity;
Military effectiveness;
Norm setting; and
International law.

Second, the United States has a long (imperfect) history of minimizing civilian casualties in war. Having deliberately targeted civilians in Germany/Japan (WWII) and in Southeast Asia (Vietnam/Cambodia), U.S. in recent decades embraced a doctrine and hardware to reduce "collateral damage."

In regard to tragic finding that U.S. was responsible for a missile strike on Iranian girls school, let me share a few thoughts:
First, as an American, I express my deepest condolences to families of those killed. There are always innocent victims in war. We must never lose sight of their humanity.

“Not derived…”

Ahem.
We need to talk about control over our nuclear weapons.
POTUS is unable to articulate our war aims, increasingly desperate, demanding “unconditional surrender” (a movie he saw?), and out of touch with reality.
Now would be an appropriate time for Congress to step up to its responsibilities.

To state the obvious:
Avoiding civilian casualites in war is not just the morally correct stance, it enhances lethality and achieves military objectives more swiftly. Those Iranian girls posed no threat to our forces and the tomahawk missile that took their lives was wasted.

It’s not just that his views are bigoted…it’s that he is profoundly ignorant. Thank goodness SFRC held hearings and a GOP Senator voted his conscience.

Does he not realize the contributions of native Americans to the battles won during the revolutionary war, or to the political theory undergirding our entire federal system?
Does he not realize that 10% of the soldiers in the Continental Army under Washington were Black?

Does Carl think that “little Italy” is proper American “white culture” to be celebrated, but “China town” is unAmerican because its it derived from European cultural roots?

Does he realize that North America was multicultural from the moment humans arrived on the continent?

Still trying to understand what he thinks happened in 1965 that turned America from “White Culture” to something different….
The laws that come to mind — civil rights act and voting rights act — simply advanced the Constitutional aspiration for equal protection under law.