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Couldn’t Happen To A Nicer Guy

“Baghdad Jim” McDermott has been ordered by a federal court of appeals to finally, after a decade, pay up:

In a 2-1 opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that McDermott violated the rights of House Majority Leader John Boehner, who was heard on the 1996 call involving former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

The court ordered McDermott to pay Boehner more than $700,000 for leaking the taped conversation. The figure includes $60,000 in damages and more than $600,000 in legal costs.

It’s always nice to see a little justice come from all the Democrat dirty tricks of the nineties, even if much of the Clinton corruption and criminality went unhindered.

Couldn’t Happen To A Nicer Guy

“Baghdad Jim” McDermott has been ordered by a federal court of appeals to finally, after a decade, pay up:

In a 2-1 opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that McDermott violated the rights of House Majority Leader John Boehner, who was heard on the 1996 call involving former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

The court ordered McDermott to pay Boehner more than $700,000 for leaking the taped conversation. The figure includes $60,000 in damages and more than $600,000 in legal costs.

It’s always nice to see a little justice come from all the Democrat dirty tricks of the nineties, even if much of the Clinton corruption and criminality went unhindered.

Couldn’t Happen To A Nicer Guy

“Baghdad Jim” McDermott has been ordered by a federal court of appeals to finally, after a decade, pay up:

In a 2-1 opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that McDermott violated the rights of House Majority Leader John Boehner, who was heard on the 1996 call involving former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

The court ordered McDermott to pay Boehner more than $700,000 for leaking the taped conversation. The figure includes $60,000 in damages and more than $600,000 in legal costs.

It’s always nice to see a little justice come from all the Democrat dirty tricks of the nineties, even if much of the Clinton corruption and criminality went unhindered.

Good News For Free Speech

The FEC has decided that campaign finance “reform” doesn’t apply to the Internet.

Bloggers would be entitled to the same exemption from the campaign finance law that newspapers and other traditional forms of media receive.

“There will be no second class citizens among members of the media,” Toner said.

I fearlessly predict that McCain and Feingold, and some “members of the media,” who do in fact think of the unannointed as “second-class citizens,” and don’t want to give up their monopoly on political speech, will be up in arms to get new legislation to end this “loophole.”

“Moved To Syria”

This is an interesting pre-war Iraqi document, if the translation is accurate:

He mentioned that a meeting in Beijing in the beginning of this month was held between the Prime minister of China and the German Chancellor Schroeder in the occasion of the opening project for the fast train and the latter was asked about the information that was obtained by the Chinese intelligence and it says that Iraq has moved his mass of destruction weapon to Syria and the German Chancellor told him that the German intelligence did indicate this. And after two days the US state secretary went to Damascus to check on this with the Syrian government that in turn denied this news…

Well, the fact that they denied it provides no information as to whether or not it’s true.

[Update at 11:20 AM EST]

Colonel Gordon Cucullu writes about the tipping point of truth:

Reams of documents