Over at Teekay’s

The Times reports,

A decision by the Central Intelligence Agency to fly Sudan’s intelligence chief to Washington in a C.I.A. jet in April set off a dispute inside the Bush administration, with some officials arguing that such recognition for a government accused of genocide and ties to terrorism sent a regrettable signal, administration officials said on Friday.

Shows us how serious the U.S. is about isolating the genocidal Islamo-Fascists in Khartoum. But then this amusing aside:

[The Sudanese official’s] trip was first reported April 29 in The Los Angeles Times, which reported on the controversy within the administration in an additional article on Thursday.

Translation: fuck, we dropped the ball on this one!

Olli Rehn, the EU’s enlargement commissioner, has an op-ed in yesterday’s Paris edition of the Times.

The piece begins by decsribing the doom and gloom that’s enveloped the Brussels club after the Franco-Dutch slap of a few weeks ago, and this week’s failed summit.

It then dives into the matter by stating,

Certainly we need to pace ourselves after last year, when 10 new members joined the Union.

The rest is very much along those rather surprising lines. The tenor is one of sauve-qui-peut enlargement — we’ll take a big leap (RO, BG, maybe HR) so we can retreat better (TR, the rest of the Balkans). We’ll be proactive now so we can slack later.

Read the rest on East Ethnia.

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