Following from my notes on this wiki article:

Makes me wonder if Brookings was ever liberal or if it was always a haven for junior fascists.

From 1921 to 1926 Paul Warburg was a member of the Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Board, as president 1924-1926. He was also a trustee of the Institute of Economics, founded 1922, when it merged into The Brookings Institute in 1927 and he became a trustee of it, serving until he died [01/24/1932].

Paul Warburg’s wife was Nina J. Loeb, daughter of Salomon Loeb, founder of the NY investment firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Nina J. (Loeb)Warburg’s sister married Jacob Schiff.

He became a director of The Council on Foreign Relations at its founding in 1921, remaining on its board until he died.

My study of the Federal Reserve Bank System and its iron grip and absolute control over our (and world’s) economy has led to my learning a lot about the banking families who founded it, why they founded it, and through intermarriage of those 7 families have maintained control over it to this day.

The wiki article about German Immigrants who became naturalized citizens will show you the origin of nearly all these banking families who intermarried to an almost incestuous degree – Goldman, Sachs, Lehman, Loeb, Jacob Schiff, Warburg, etc…

“”Civil liberties groups have encouraged the administration, that if a prolonged detention system were to be sought, to do it through executive order,” the official said. Such an order could be rescinded and would not block later efforts to write legislation”

What “civil liberties” groups worthy of the name would promote this idea?

No. Your point?

I think I must have overlapped with her when I was a grad student and she was an undergrad at Yale. I wish I’d known her then. She sounds like a mighty fine human being.

That just pisses me off beyond all ability to be reasonable, frankly. Dawn is an incredibly nice and decent human being, and she deserves far better than this. Above and beyond the rule of law and the fact that it’s the right thing to do for the country, it’s just the decent thing to do as a human being who gives a crap about good people serving their government.

This is a habeas corpus matter, pure and simple. The Shrub set up Star Chambers that imprisoned people without trial, and the Obama administration hasn’t worked to reverse it at all.

The fact is that they are playing right into the playbook of the wretched Wall Street Journal editorial board. Shame on them. Shame on them.

And while I’m at it, let me say that this is yet another reason why I am proud to be a Democrat: Unlike our friends across the aisle, we refuse to march in lockstep with the our ostensible “Betters” when we know in our hearts that they’re wrong.