Watchdog Won't See Nuclear Sites in Iran
LONDON -- Iran said on Tuesday that a team of United Nations nuclear officials visiting the country for the second time in three weeks would not inspect nuclear sites.

Then, in the text of the article, we read:

On Monday, The A.P. said, Iranian radio said the inspectors had asked to visit a military complex outside Tehran that is a suspected secret weapons-making location. It was not clear whether the Iranian authorities had specifically turned down the reported request. I.A.E.A. officials did not immediately return calls seeking clarification.

And, near the bottom of the two page article, this appears:

Last week, in a letter to the European Union, Iran called for new talks "at the earliest possibility" with the group of six powers that have negotiated with Iran in the past on the nuclear issue: the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany.

Interesting defense strategy?

Strauss-Kahn's name surfaced in the investigation last fall and his lawyer has asked that Strauss-Kahn be allowed to tell his side of the story. One of Strauss-Kahn's lawyers has said that the former French presidential hopeful never knew that the women at orgies he attended were prostitutes.

"He could easily not have known, because as you can imagine, at these kinds of parties you're not always dressed, and I challenge you to distinguish a naked prostitute from any other naked woman," Henri Leclerc told French radio Europe 1 in December.

This was a Miranda case - it involved a prisoner serving time on a disorderly conduct conviction, who was taken from his cell and interrogated for between 5 and 7 hours, and never given any kind of Miranda warning.

The Court held that Miranda did not apply to this prisoner.

The dissenting opinion was written by Justice Ginsburg, and its concluding paragraphs state:

Miranda instructed that such a person "must be clearly informed that he has the right to consult with a lawyer and to have the lawyer with him during interrogation." Ibid. Those warnings, along with "warnings of the right to remain silent and that anything stated can be used inevidence against [the speaker]," Miranda explained, are necessary "prerequisite[s] to [an] interrogation" compatible with the Fifth Amendment. Ibid. Today, for people already in prison, the Court finds it adequate for the police to say: "You are free to terminate this interrogation and return to your cell." Such a statement is no substitute for one ensuring that an individual is aware of his rights.

For the reasons stated, I would hold that the "incommunicado interrogation [of Fields] in a police-dominatedatmosphere," id., at 445, without informing him of his rights, dishonored the Fifth Amendment privilege Miranda was designed to safeguard.

Joining Justice Ginsburg were Justices Breyer and Sotomayor.

Justice Kagan voted with the majority.

Kagan siding with the likes of Alito, Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy and Thomas is not reassuring.

Nothing in there that Jeralyn hasn't already schooled us on...but it's a nice unhappy recap of the first term so far.  

Colvin, 57, had worked as a foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times for the past two decades. She was instantly recognizable for an eye patch she wore after being injured by shrapnel while covering conflicts in Sri Lanka in 2001.

Colvin said she would not "hang up my flak jacket" even after the eye injury.

"So, was I stupid? Stupid I would feel writing a column about the dinner party I went to last night," she wrote in the Sunday Times after the attack. "Equally, I'd rather be in that middle ground between a desk job and getting shot, no offense to desk jobs.

Can Obama's volunteer army win him a second term?

In a cramped campaign office a couple of blocks from a sprawling General Motors assembly plant, Linda KOCH rings the bell used to signal that a new volunteer has signed up for the fight to reelect President Barack Obama.

Post's aim is to invent an efficient way to produce skeletal muscle tissue in a laboratory that exactly mimics meat, and eventually replace the entire meat-animal industry.

The ingredients for his first burger are "still in a laboratory phase," he said, but by fall "we have committed ourselves to make a couple of thousand of small tissues, and then assemble them into a hamburger."

"Some Republicans whispering about Plan B"

Turns out they meant another candidate, not the morning after pill.  I just assumed they were coming after us again.

I have a few questions about this case, the first being - how does she know that race is why she was denied admission?  It's not like they tell you.  As a legal question, does it even matter if that was the reason or not for the case to proceed?

Just wanted to throw that out there so that people don't present it as a surprise when it happens and I talk about it.