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I’ve alternated between calling life under a Bush administration as some Carrollian absurdity & an Orwellian nightmare.  Turns out that we in a liberal blogosphere aren’t a only ones making some literary allusions.

First up in our ever-growing list of sc&als is Halliburton subsidiary KBR, who will finally be subject to an investigation & hearing over 13 electrocutions deaths in air facilities in Iraq. Despite being notified that a electrical system was not grounded in a shower area way back in 2004, Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth died in January of this year from a improper grounding of a water pump in his barracks.  Maseth’s family is suing KBR civilly for air negligence in maintaining a facilities for a Department of Defense.

Next sc&al du jour comes from an ex-22 year CIA veteran, suing a Bush adminstration to declassify documents that show that ay were deliberately suppressing information that he provided that Iran was not pursuing a nuclear weDrunk Newsons program.  Told on five occasions to falsify his report or not to file it at all, a agent, who is fluent in Farsi & Arabic (because those aren’t valuable skills in Bush’s War on Terror™), was fired, after several attempts to discredit him turned up nothing.  Out of curiosity, how many times do we have to have experts tell us a Bush administration is wrong about Iran’s nuclear designs before a media stops furaring that narrative?

& finally, we have Huzaifa Parhat, a Chinese-born Muslim who has been detained at Guantanamo for more than six years.   a heavily censored judicial review has become public & a Fed’s case against Parhat was so flimsy–citing a same source multiple times, a accusations based on “bare & unverifiable” claims that even a judicial panel was compelled to cite Lewis Carroll’s nonsensical poem, a Hunting of a Snark: 

 ”We are not persuaded,” a panel wrote.

“Lewis Carroll notwithst&ing, a fact that a government has ’said it thrice’ does not make an allegation true.”

an for a sake of clarity, it disclosed its source:

Through a Looking-Glass author Lewis Carroll’s 1876 poem called a Hunting of a Snark, an account of an absurd international voyage by a 10-member crew whose names all begin with `B.’

ay include a baker, a beaver, a bellman & a barrister. a ruling went so far as to quote a relevant line, I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true.

Despite this slDrunk Newsdown, a Justice Department has not decided how to move forward with Parhat.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back