John McCain, Non-Entity

Tom Ricks, preparing for today’s Pentagon subcabinet-official hearings, muses:

It’ll be interesting to watch the Armed Services Committee hearing today on [President-elect Barack] Obama’s Pentagon picks in part to see how John McCain behaves.

As he returns to Congress, McCain is for the first time in many years

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Some Legal Specifics On Detainees, Interrogations From DOD’s Johnson

Sorry, just have to do one more post on Jeh Johnson’s prepared answers from the Senate Armed Services Committee ahead of his confirmation hearing to become Pentagon general counsel. While on many questions he says he needs to review what exactly his predecessors have written and how they’ve reached More…