memeorandum: War Crimes and the White House (Washington Post)

2:45 PM ET, July 26, 2007

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A STATEMENT FROM SCOTT THOMAS BEAUCHAMP: — As we've noted in this space, some have questioned details that appeared in the Diarist "Shock Troops," published under the pseudonym Scott Thomas. According to Major Kirk Luedeke, a public affairs officer at Forward Operating Base Falcon …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, TalkLeft, National Review, Brian Beutler, Weekly Standard, Gateway Pundit, CBS News, Argghhh!, FP Passport, QandO, Sister Toldjah and mediabistro.com

Michelle Malkin:

"Scott Thomas" steps out of the shadows Update: The blog of "Sir Real Scott Thomas" Update: His MySpace page — Here he is... Update: A bit of the revealing poetry of Scott Thomas Beauchamp... Cassandra at Villanous Company has a must-read on the consequences of Beauchamp's words in TNR and TNR's expediency:

Discussion: The Corner, protein wisdom, Townhall.com and Taylor Marsh

Bryan / Hot Air:

Scott Thomas revealed; Update: So is his blog — He's Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp, a member of Alpha Company, 1/18 Infantry, Second Brigade Combat Team, First Infantry Division. He's also calling most of his critics chickenhawks, even though most of his critics a) served in the military and/or b) have been to Iraq or c) both.

Discussion: The Jawa Report, IMAO, Little Green Footballs, Winds of Change.NET and Solomonia

Pundit Review Radio / BLACKFIVE:
PRIVATE BEAUCHAMP- REQUIEM FOR A DUNG BEETLE

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Dean Barnett / Townhall.com:
This War's John Kerry?

Discussion: INSTAPUTZ and Sister Toldjah

Jonah Goldberg / The Corner: What's that Now? — "Scott Thomas" now known as Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp writes:

The Big Trunk / Power Line:
SCOTT THOMAS SPEAKS

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, BLACKFIVE, Op For, Townhall.com and Outside the Wire

Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
Reacting To Scott Thomas Beauchamp

Discussion: The Atlantic Online and INSTAPUTZ

Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:

Today's Must Read — Was it or wasn't it a briefing on the Terrorist Surveillance Program? The answer may determine Alberto Gonzales's fate. — As the world knows, Gonzales testified on Tuesday that James Comey, the former deputy attorney general, may have had legal objections to …

Discussion: Booman Tribune, The American Mind, Salon, Macsmind and Beliefnet

Faiz / Think Progress:

Senators Call For Appointment Of Special Counsel To Investigate Gonzales For Perjury — At a news conference this afternoon, four members of the Senate Judiciary Committee called for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Alberto Gonzales on perjury charges.

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CNN:

Senators ask for special counsel on Gonzales — A group of Senate Democrats, including Sen. Chuck Schumer, on Thursday will call for a special counsel to investigate whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales perjured himself during Capitol Hill testimony.

Discussion: The Heretik, USA Today and Comments From Left Field

Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:

BREAKING: Senate Committee Issues Subpoenas to Rove and Deputy — Finally, the big one. — The Senate Judiciary Committee issued two more subpoenas as part of the U.S. attorney firings investigation today: one for Karl Rove and the other for his deputy, Scott Jennings.

Discussion: Think Progress, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, Talking Points Memo, The Carpetbagger Report and Shakespeare's Sister

Paul Kane / Associated Press:

Senate Democrats Call for Perjury Probe of Gonzales — Four Senate Democrats today formally asked the Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales lied to Congress in his testimony about a domestic surveillance program for terrorists.

Discussion: Watching Those We Chose

Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
BREAKING: A Call For Action On Gonzales

Discussion: The Next Hurrah, Think Progress and litbrit

Jackie Calmes / Wall Street Journal:

McCain's Media Team Resigns, Futher Shaking Up Campaign — WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain's well-known media team has resigned, an indication that his campaign shake-up is continuing to backfire and imperiling the Arizona Republican's presidential candidacy.

Discussion: Comments From Left Field, CNN, Shakespeare's Sister, TIME, MSNBC, Wonkette and The Democratic Daily

Boston Globe: After making 'adjustments,' McCain takes message to N.H.

Max Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:

Rapture Ready: The Unauthorized Christians United for Israel Tour — On July 16, I attended Christians United for Israel's annual Washington-Israel Summit. Founded by San Antonio-based megachurch pastor John Hagee, CUFI has added the grassroots muscle of the Christian right to the already potent Israel lobby.

Discussion: DefCon Blog

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The mainstream, sane, serious Joe Lieberman

Discussion: TalkLeft and Norwegianity

Washington Post:

War Crimes and the White House — The Dishonor in a Tortured New 'Interpretation' of the Geneva Conventions — One of us was appointed commandant of the Marine Corps by President Ronald Reagan; the other served as a lawyer in the Reagan White House and has vigorously defended the constitutionality …

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Jean Edward Smith / New York Times:

Stacking the Court — WHEN a majority of Supreme Court justices adopt a manifestly ideological agenda, it plunges the court into the vortex of American politics. If the Roberts court has entered voluntarily what Justice Felix Frankfurter once called the "political thicket," it may require a political solution to set it straight.

Discussion: Althouse, NewsBusters.org, Chronicle of the Conspiracy, Brendan Nyhan, The Volokh Conspiracy and rubber hose

John Solomon / Washington Post:

No Easy Verdict on Thompson The Lawyer — Cases Indicate Willingness to Defy GOP Orthodoxy — Before he was elected as a tough-on-crime U.S. senator from Tennessee or played a New York prosecutor on TV's "Law and Order," Fred Dalton Thompson worked as a lawyer who argued …

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Taylor Dinerman / Opinion Journal:

Robert A. Heinlein's Legacy — As they say on the moon, "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch!" — Science fiction at one time was despised as vulgar and "populist" by university English departments. Today, it is just another cultural artifact to be deconstructed, along with cartoons and People magazine articles.

Harry Reid / Washington Post:

The Senate on Iraq: No 'Phony Debate' — On reading the July 21 editorial "The Phony Debate," it became clear why The Post's editorial writers have been such eager cheerleaders for the Bush administration's flawed Iraq policies — the two share the same disregard for the facts en route to drawing dubious conclusions.

Discussion: Think Progress