julie myers

* "The Bush administration's top federal procurement official resigned Friday and was arrested yesterday... The complaint, filed by the FBI, alleges that David H. Safavian, 38..." (link)
He's 38!

* blinky just nominated julie myers to head up the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. its part of dhs. it has a $4bn budget and 20000 employees.. she is 36 years old. her uncle is Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Richard B. Myers. her new husband is chertoff's chief of staff. pat buchanan wants to impeach blinky for his performance on immigration. potential terrorists might come across the borders. (link)

* "(Israel) will allocate $1 million to defend senior army officers charged abroad with war crimes, if a bill proposed by Justice Minister Tzipi Livni is passed...
Livni has appointed a legal team whose mission is to persuade Great Britain and other European countries to change their laws so that foreign nationals cannot be prosecuted." (link)

* "In the midst of administering chest compressions to a dying woman several days after Hurricane Katrina struck, Dr. Mark N. Perlmutter was ordered to stop by a federal official because he wasn't registered with the Federal Emergency Management Agency." (link)

* "On the day of the storm, or perhaps the day after, FEMA turned down (blanco's) suggestion to use school buses because they are not air conditioned" (link)

* " Based on the comments of the Algerian ambassador and an unnamed European ambassador, the NYTimes runs a “Bolton isn’t so bad” story. That’s two out of nearly two hundred diplomats, and one didn’t go on the record. But that was enough for Judy Kneepads to get Bill Keller to run this piece of crap today." (link)

* more fsm coverage

* conyers: "STOP JAMES BAKER, III FROM DOING IT AGAIN" (link)