The DOJ made their files against Bruce E. Ivins public today, and of course the question on everyone's mind is, is their case conclusive on the contention that Ivins acted alone? The answer, of course is, no, it's not. Evidently there will never be a trial in the Amerithrax case: instead we just have the Department of Justice bringing its prosecution straight to the general public, skipping all that trial by jury of one's peers and presumption of innocence stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMB-lOZo0PA

The accents are Napoletano. Aspetti! Fatti cazzi tuoi, eh!

This is your final reminder to go to the Nominations thread and nominate three new moderators. Nominations close tonight at midnight. We'll tally nominations & send them to HankP, who'll set up on a them nifty radio button vote thangs.

Do not post nominations on this thread.

Elections will take place over this weekend. Go. Destiny calls. Godspeed.

Oh and use this as an open thread.

Go nominate new leaders. Nominations close midnight Thurdsay.

As HankP pointed out just before folks went off to grill animals and explode things for the Fourth of July, we're a bit late on nominating & electing a new troika of hallowed hall monitors here at The Forvm.

Forvmites, this Thread's for you.

The Senate Select Committee's Report (pdf) on whether and how much Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, et aliud lied, distorted, omitted and exaggerated the threat of Iraqi WMDs in order to strongarm the US into war was released today. Its findings will come as no surprise to those of us who spent the last half decade arguing this stuff, and meanwhile those who denied it all along will keep on denying.

Because people keep hogging all the thread.

Hi, everyone. This is just me stopping and smelling the zeitgeist for a moment, making an effort to notice history in the making; something we all forget to do, I imagine. I know I do, anyhow. Subtracting the issues...easier said than done since the issues of war, economics, energy, food, and the place of America in the 21st century are every bit as historic as the personages running for election...but if you subtract the issues, this is truly an amazing time for the people of the United States.

The Pentagon has now put online all 8000+ pages of FOIA documents related to its possibly illegal covert domestic propaganda program, and as before, only Glenn Greenwald and a few other bloggers are bothering to cover the story. (Politico reported earlier this week on the deafening silence of the networks on this story.