Monday politics: June 4, 2007

"As if you didn't need another reason not to vote for him" department: President John McCain would have Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in his cabinet

"...the 70 year old presidential hopeful also said that he would ask Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to serve on his cabinet to deal with technology issues if elected." -- Arlen Parsa's Daily Background

(McCain is also clueless about net neutrality.) [Via Slashdot]

Document thief Sandy Berger gave up his law license, short-circuiting an investigation of his couduct by the D.C. Bar. Ronald Cass wonders what's so damaging that someone would give up his occupation to hide it.  And why no one but bloggers seems to be interested.

Is The Smartest Woman In The World sorry she didn't bother to read the intelligence report? From the CNN transcript:

WOLF: Senator Clinton, do you regret voting [to] authorize the president to use force against Saddam Hussein in Iraq without actually reading the national intelligence estimate, the classified document laying out the best U.S. intelligence at that time?

CLINTON: Wolf, I was thoroughly briefed. I knew all the arguments. I knew all of what the Defense Department, the CIA, the State Department were all saying. And I sought dissenting opinions, as well as talking to people in previous administrations and outside experts...

WOLF: So let me just be precise, because the question was: Do you regret not reading the national intelligence estimate?

CLINTON: I feel like I was totally briefed. I knew all of the arguments that were being made by everyone from all directions. National intelligence estimates have a consensus position and then they have argumentation as to those people who don’t agree with it...

Translation: "No, and the dog ate my homework."
[Via Don Surber, who calls it a "crash and burn" performance, but notes that you'd never know it from the press accounts.]

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