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Fri Jan 3 06:00:01 EST 2020
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Slept from eleven to six.
Woke a couple times in the night.
It's unusually dark this morning, even well after sunrise.
Mostly cloudy.
Chance of sprinkles in the morning.
Highs in the lower 40s.
Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
Work
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- Fix Voyager error for YES
Done.
- Review invoices
Done.
- Rent updates
Done.
Fifteen-minute walk at lunch.
Still a dim day.
Stepped on some broken cement, fell, and slightly sprained my ankle;
icing it now.
Home
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- Play with Tilecast
Done.
https://airmail.news/issues/2019-12-28/who-really-killed-jimmy-hoffa
> MORRIS: The book made me cry several times. It was a book about honor, a book about family, a book about guilt. The irony of the connection between the prosecution of Hoffa, by Bobby Kennedy, and Stellarwind—the domestic-surveillance program revealed in detail by Edward Snowden [and described in part by James Risen and Eric Lichtblau in a Pulitzer Prize–winning series of articles for The New York Times in December 2005], which came as a complete surprise. Who would have imagined such a connection?
> GOLDSMITH: The Hoffa decision was at the foundation of the doctrine that became part of the justification for Stellarwind. Amazing, really. Hoffa was convicted in 1964 of tampering with the jury in an earlier case. The government got him by putting an informant, Edward Partin, into his inner circle. Hoffa appealed. And the Supreme Court ruled over a very persuasive dissent by the chief justice, Earl Warren, that when you voluntarily tell someone information, you’re basically giving up your rights. That is a precedent for the modern doctrine that in giving up our metadata to phone companies and Internet-service providers, we basically forfeit our rights over that information. It was a precedent that I relied on in upholding parts of Stellarwind.
> Stellarwind was part of a domestic telephone and e-mail surveillance program authorized by John Ashcroft, George W. Bush’s attorney general, in 2001. My interest in Jack Goldsmith goes back to March 2004 and an intensive-care unit at George Washington University hospital.
> The cast of characters is extraordinary. The attorney general of the United States, John Ashcroft, lying under blankets, in horrible pain, suffering from acute pancreatitis. Also in the room: Mrs. Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales (White House counsel), James Comey (acting attorney general), Jack Goldsmith (head of the O.L.C.), and Andrew Card (White House chief of staff). Card and Gonzales urging Ashcroft to re-authorize the domestic-surveillance program. Ashcroft, Goldsmith, and Comey refusing. Robert Mueller (director of the F.B.I.) arrived slightly later, and Card and Gonzales left in defeat.
> I tried to make a movie about this in 2013. Comey couldn’t do it because he had just become head of the F.B.I. I still want to tell this story; Jack Goldsmith and I talked at length about it. I’ll share one detail from our conversation: When Card and Gonzales finally left Ashcroft’s hospital room without the signature they had come for (he refused to re-authorize what he considered an illegal program, deferring the decision to Acting Attorney General Comey), Mrs. Ashcroft stuck out her tongue at them.
Ordered some Elizabeth Warren t-shirts.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Pointer_events
Tired.
Servings: grains 1/6, fruit 3/4, vegetables 3/4, dairy 1/2, meat 1/3, nuts 0/0.5
Breakfast: coffee, waffle, egg, pineapple, cucumber, tomato
Brunch: orange, banana, coffee
Lunch: yogurt, carrots
Dinner: Chinese
130/79
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