Plame Suit Dismissed - by a FISA Court Judge!

The judge who just dismissed the Valerie Plame lawsuit serves as a judge on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, aka the FISA court.

God Bless AmeriKKKa.

Deconstructiong potential political partisanship

[vague_ascetic]

John D. Bates [fjc.gov]

• Born 1946 in Elizabeth, NJ
• Federal Judicial Service: Judge, U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia - Nominated by George W. Bush on September 4, 2001, to a seat vacated by Stanley S. Harris; Confirmed by the Senate on December 11, 2001, and received commission on December 14, 2001.
• Education: Wesleyan University, B.A., 1968 - (recognised non-sectarian liberal arts school in Indiana)
• University of Maryland School of Law, J.D., 1976
• Professional Career:
  • First lieutenant, U.S. Ar

No biggie

[HomelessInLaJolla]

Apparently, now that I won't engage with the trolls, the Slashdot system administrators have taken to dismissing user's preferences for their journal entries.

The default preference for my JE's is "no foes and no friend's foes". This journal [slashdot.org], though, has somehow been magically converted to plain old "comments enabled", and the user posting in it thinks they're quite clever [slashdot.org] about it.

EVE Online, anyone? Owning the website gives the owners the blanket right to conduct themselves, aid, and abet in the perpetra