links for 2008-03-22

• Deaths in Iraq: A look at the American lives lost – USATODAY.com
  This list includes fatal U.S. government casualties — military and civilian — in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Its totals will usually be slightly less than those in media reports because they are based on Defense Department reports of each casualty’s name
  (tags: data iraq military soldiers visualization war)
• Rice apologizes to Obama for passport breach – International Herald Tribune
  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice apologized Friday to Senator Barack Obama for an incident in which three State Department contract workers unnecessarily reviewed the Democratic presidential candidate’s passport file.
  (tags: rice obama state+department wtf apology passport)
• kiwi_grrl: Right.
  What Obama has done is touch the third-rail. NOT the third rail of talking about race, even though the US could do with a hell of a lot more of that. No, the third-rail he touched was the biggest such rail in the US today; namely, reminding white people t
  (tags: racism white black obama speech sociology)
• The Obama passport snooping and the unchecked surveillance state – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com
  There are far too many unanswered questions to enable rational conclusions to be drawn regarding the parties responsible for the multiple breaches of Barack Obama’s passport file and/or what motivated those breaches.
  (tags: omaba clinton mccain bush surveillance spying passport)
• Montana Governor: DHS ‘Blinks’ on Real ID | Threat Level from Wired.com
  Chew it, Chertoff.
  (tags: DHS Montana real+id security+theater lol stupidity)

~ by SAP on 22 March 2008.