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Monday, February 18, 2008

Bush Administration Flying All Over This Week

"In this time of war", said Governor Romney, in dropping his bid for the nomination.

BUSH TO BENIN

"In this time of war", you'd think that George Bush might want to leave office having built the finest caliber Homeland Security Department possible with two hands. Instead, he's figuring out seven years too late that diplomacy matters, perhaps even more than his first-year priority of stem-cell research ...

Something like 1-10% of all cybercrime is successfully prosecuted, ensuring that it will grow exponentially ...
Bush will stop in Benin. No doubt to collect on one of those Nigerian cyberspace lottery "winnings" that have migrated to Benin, now that everyone is suspicious of Nigeria. Bush might think of leaving a law-enforcement brigade or coming home with a special treaty for prosecution of cyber criminals. Something like 1-10% of all cybercrime is successfully prosecuted, ensuring that it will grow exponentially ...

MUKASEY TO IRAQ

Whatever the heck the U.S. Attorney General is doing in Iraq is beyond my insight (except maybe to get a feel for the "local standards" for torture?).

One can guess, however, that he's not going to come back and announce a new solution to the nettlesome problem of prosecuting American crime "in country", but with some more additional, inefficacious statements about the importance of rule-of-law in Iraq.

RICE TO KENYA

She's leaving to put her imprimatur on another electoral mess, although, in fairness, this one was not of Bush origin, that I know.