Because even with the Facebook and the Twitter, there's still no other place to put this ( Read more... )

1. The CIA demanded an invesitgation from the Justice Department. Presumably the CIA would know which of its operatives were covert, right? If Valerie Plame Wilson was no longer covert as of 2003, would the CIA have cared if her identity was leaked?

2. The Whitewater investigation (which grew to Paula Jones and eventually Monica Lewinsky and ( Read more... )

Yoinked from firedoglake...

"Perhaps in the warped Orwellian minds of this administration or in the dark halls of the Department of Homeland Security, the concept of justice is flipped so it revolves around violations of the U.S. Constitution and intrinsic human rights?"

-- Miles W. Swanson, Esq., an attorney doing pro bono work in post-Katrina New Orleans, in a letter to ( Read more... )

Wanted to take this opportuntiy to remind folks that Rep. Thaddeus McCotter was among the many recipients of ARMPAC's -- and therefore, Tom DeLay's -- largesse over the years.

That is all...now the news:

From The New York Times, July 21, 2006
DeLay PAC Draws a Fine and Agrees to Shut Down

By PHILIP SHENON

WASHINGTON, July 20 - The political ( Read more... )

Death is too good for Kenneth Lay, 64, founder and former CEO of Enron Corporation before being convicted in May.

"Kenny Boy" didn't suffer nearly enough to make up for all the pain he inflicted on consumers, stockholders and Enron's employees.

No one gets that big and that powerful in Texas without scratching a lot of back and providing pro quos to ( Read more... )

Please please please let this be the end of Mr. Reed, a particularly odious political hack who has cynically exploited evangelical Christians for decades, from his beginnings as the Rev. Pat Robertson's assistant to founding the so-called "Christian Coalition" (whose political machinations were anything but Christ-like) to his current campaign to ( Read more... )

Safavian = White House appointee = convicted felon = Jack Abramoff...
Where Did Safavian Work Again?

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com

You wouldn't know it from the coverage of David H. Safavian's conviction yesterday for lying and obstructing justice, but some of his criminal activity actually took place while he was working at the ( Read more... )

Just wanted to crosslink this...it's almost numbing how many scandals there've been in the past five years.

How Bush Sold the War on Terror

If there is any one statement that best characterizes the current Administration, it is that one.

Even in the smallest things, like the near-fatal hunting accident Saturday in which Vice President Dick Cheney pumped anywhere from 6 to 200 small birdshot pellets into a 78-year-old man, this Administration reveals its true colors. They feel they are ( Read more... )