Late news flash, reports Embassy personnel being pulled out of Yemen –didn’t catch whose. State dept spox being defensive about lack of back-up plan if the govt falls. Caught by surprise, he says, and have no plans or contacts with rebels.

Eric Holder’s law firm> has Yemen contacts going back to the first Guantanamo inmates, as his firm has been the Gitmo Yemenis (iirc about 15 long termers) defense firm (btw, as well as the FARC banana death squads).

Sure seems like old Eric would have been able to ferret out a hint so his admin wouldn’t have had to be caught by surprise again. In addition to controlling the Red Sea / Gulf of Aden chokepoint, Yemen sits under Saudi Arabia like a toboggan going downhill left carrying a sack of sand, or gold, or future ICBM warheads.

Oh, i feel so had. Have ever since November 2006, with a doubledown two years later.