from the grapevine--
Credit Due?
House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey thinks the troop surge and the accompanying counterinsurgency operations in Iraq have had little to do with the decline in violence. The Wisconsin Democrat took a question during an appearance at the National Press Club about whether the surge was working ? and said the issue has never been military ? but political ? in getting Iraqis to work together.
And he added ?"One of the reasons that we've had incidents of sectarian violence go down is because they are running out of people to kill. They've killed so many in so many areas, that there are fewer opportunity targets, if you want to put it that way, for each side."
Information Please
The Clintons' ability to withhold information from the public extends not just to Clinton Presidential Library, but also to the University of Arkansas library as well. Four enormous binders of data about the Clinton presidency ? and Hillary Clinton's role in it ? apparently will not be released to the public by the university library before next year's election.
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Meet the Panel ABC News reports the information was compiled by Clinton friend Diane Blair for a book ? but Blair never wrote it and passed away in 2000. The Clintons have one copy of the papers. The other is at the university.
Last month the library said the papers would not be made public until 2009 because they were not yet processed. But the library's annual report for 2005-2006 says the processing is "nearing completion." And one year later the library newsletter said the Blair papers were "previously processed."
The Hillary Clinton campaign says it has not had any contact with the University of Arkansas about delaying the release of the papers.
Village Vandalism
Police, the FBI and local security at George Washington University have spent the last couple of weeks trying to learn who has been painting swastikas around the Washington D.C. campus. Several of the symbols were reported by Jewish freshman student Sarah Marshak ? and the incidents were investigated as possible hate crimes.
Now media reports say hidden camera video has implicated Marshak. After initially denying it ? she later admitted drawing at least three of six swastikas on her door.
Marshak says she did that ? in order to highlight what she characterized as the school's inaction over her original complaint. She could face federal and local charges as well as discipline from the school.
Credit Due?
House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey thinks the troop surge and the accompanying counterinsurgency operations in Iraq have had little to do with the decline in violence. The Wisconsin Democrat took a question during an appearance at the National Press Club about whether the surge was working ? and said the issue has never been military ? but political ? in getting Iraqis to work together.
And he added ?"One of the reasons that we've had incidents of sectarian violence go down is because they are running out of people to kill. They've killed so many in so many areas, that there are fewer opportunity targets, if you want to put it that way, for each side."
Information Please
The Clintons' ability to withhold information from the public extends not just to Clinton Presidential Library, but also to the University of Arkansas library as well. Four enormous binders of data about the Clinton presidency ? and Hillary Clinton's role in it ? apparently will not be released to the public by the university library before next year's election.
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Meet the Panel ABC News reports the information was compiled by Clinton friend Diane Blair for a book ? but Blair never wrote it and passed away in 2000. The Clintons have one copy of the papers. The other is at the university.
Last month the library said the papers would not be made public until 2009 because they were not yet processed. But the library's annual report for 2005-2006 says the processing is "nearing completion." And one year later the library newsletter said the Blair papers were "previously processed."
The Hillary Clinton campaign says it has not had any contact with the University of Arkansas about delaying the release of the papers.
Village Vandalism
Police, the FBI and local security at George Washington University have spent the last couple of weeks trying to learn who has been painting swastikas around the Washington D.C. campus. Several of the symbols were reported by Jewish freshman student Sarah Marshak ? and the incidents were investigated as possible hate crimes.
Now media reports say hidden camera video has implicated Marshak. After initially denying it ? she later admitted drawing at least three of six swastikas on her door.
Marshak says she did that ? in order to highlight what she characterized as the school's inaction over her original complaint. She could face federal and local charges as well as discipline from the school.
