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Tuesday, July 13, 2004 |
 Invisiblog, anonymous weblog publishing.
3:53:30 PM 
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Simson Garfinkel. A searchable OCRed text version of the scanned Senate Intelligence Committee report on Iraq and the CIA.
1:44:24 PM
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Interfax. Example of the ongoing effectiveness of Chechen jihadi guerrillas: Eighteen members of the Chechen presidential security service have been killed in a battle near the village of Avtury in the Shali district over the past 24 hours, Chechen First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov told Interfax on the phone. It's only a matter of time before Chechen guerrillas decide that Transneft's 40,000 km of pipelines are a better target.
1:24:18 PM
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IHT. Making the US safe from foreign journos. Signs of a broken system. Two months ago, I traveled from London to Los Angeles on assignment for a British paper, The Guardian, believing that as a British citizen I did not require a visa. I was wrong: as a journalist, even from a country that has a visa waiver agreement with the United States, I should have applied for a so-called I (for information) visa. Because I had not, I was interrogated for four hours, body-searched, fingerprinted, photographed, handcuffed and forced to spend the night in a cell in a detention facility in central Los Angeles, and another day as a detainee at the airport before flying back to London. My humiliating and physically very uncomfortable detention lasted 26 hours. This is part of a larger problem: ...American businesses, which have lost $30.7 billion in the last two years because of visa delays and denials for their foreign partners and employees, according to a survey sponsored by eight business organizations.
11:09:33 AM
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The DoD has built a rapid acquistion portal. This is an attempt to get powerful off-the-shelf technology into the government without going through the flawed acquisitions process. A sign of life in the government.
10:48:52 AM
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© Copyright 2004 John Robb.
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