Bush, Cheney squander "Reagan legacy" in Baltics

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Saturday May 19, 2007 · 4:33 PM PDT

2007/05/19 · 16:33

Estonia's first stab at independence lasted all of 22 years, from 1918 to 1940. I fear the second attempt will not last quite as long. History will judge the Bush-Cheney regime harshly for this.

An alarming front-page investigation in The Washington Post shows just how powerful and sophisticated Russia has become in the art of unconventional warfare. When Estonia moved a monument depicting a Red Army hero in the fight against Naziism to a less prominent but more dignified setting, amateur Russian hackers targeted Estonian government websites with denial-of-service attacks. A few weeks later, however, the cyberattacks took on a much more sinister character.

I'm surprised that a diary on this hasn't popped up already in this tech-savvy community. Granted, Estonia is small and far away. But I think this story has implications for us all — not just because hostile foreign powers can meddle with our communications and freedom of expression, but also because of what might happen if the wrong hands in Washington seek control of cyberspace.

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Tuesday October 17, 2006 · 9:05 PM PDT

2006/10/17 · 21:05

Former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay's family likely will keep $44 million in ill-gotten wealth, according to Wednesday's Washington Post. That's because the Republican-led Congress ignored an urgent request from Federal prosecutors to change the law to facilitate the seizure of loot from the estates of convicted criminals like Lay.

The Feds had hoped to seize this loot and use it to build a special fund to compensate Enron's defrauded employees and shareholders. Lay's recent death prompted the prosecutors' appeal to Congress, because they anticipated Tuesday's erasure of Lay's criminal conviction in accordance with the long-established precedent of "abatement" -- the legal tradition that the dead cannot be punished.

As we all know, the Repugs in Congress had other priorities more important than helping the victims of their long-time patrons who ran Enron into the ground. Is it not too late to tie this story in with the theme of "Do Nothing Congress" and corporate cronyism? Is there someone out there who can distill this into a 30-second ad for use against GOP leaders like Hastert and company?

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Bush, Cheney squander "Reagan legacy" in Baltics

Do-nothing Congress lets Lay heirs keep loot