Maybe it’s always been this way or perhaps the trends are well known to just about everybody, but on some level, the tabloidization of serious news seems to me to be getting worse. – Steve Clemons I started to write something about the danger of what Clemons astutely calls tabloidization. I guess we ought to […]
Why Bush Is So Desperate to Get Bradbury Approved … But no one seems to get the reason why Bush has forced this stand-off with the Senate. As I pointed out several weeks ago, the re-appointment of Bradbury–whether or not he is confirmed – serves as a control on Mukasey from now until the end […]
Evangelical Leader James Dobson to Endorse Mike Huckabee for GOP Presidential Nod James Dobson, one of the nation’s most prominent evangelical Christian leaders, is about to endorse former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, The Associated Press has learned. Dobson, founder of Colorado Springs, Colo.-based Focus on the Family, talked to the GOP presidential hopeful Thursday and […]
Cheney Defends Use of Harsh Interrogations Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday vigorously defended the use of harsh interrogation techniques on a few suspected terrorists, saying that the methods made up “a tougher program, for tougher customers” and might have averted another attack on the United States. “A small number of terrorists, high-value targets, held […]
from emptywheel liveblogging Representative Wexler: Failure to reply to Congressional subpoenas. Refusal of Bolten and Miers to even appear. Have you been instructed by POTUS to enforce or not to enforce subpoenas. Attorney General Mukasey: I can’t say. Representative Wexler: Can you tell me the individual that Clinton instructed not to appear? Attorney General Mukasey: […]
Mukasey Rejects Criminal Probe Into Waterboarding Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey said this morning that waterboarding was deemed legal by the Justice Department at the time it was used by the CIA on three al-Qaeda captives, and as a result the Justice Department "cannot possibly" investigate whether a crime occurred. In testimony before the House […]
New Life cuts last ties with Haggard The relationship between Ted Haggard the Colorado Springs mega-church he founded is over, according to a statement from New Life Church this evening. Haggard was fired from the church in November 2006 after he admitted to "sexual immorality," presumably the allegations made by a gay Denver escort who […]
White House Insists on Confirmation of Torture Memo Author It’s starting to seem all of a piece. Yesterday, administration officials publicly acknowledged that CIA agents, with Justice Department authorization, had waterboarded three detainees. And the administration is eager to prevent that authorization from being threatened. According to Senate Dems, the White House has refused to […]
AP confirms secret camp inside Gitmo Somewhere amid the cactus-studded hills on this sprawling Navy base, separate from the cells where hundreds of men suspected of links to al-Qaida and the Taliban have been locked up for years, is a place even more closely guarded — a jailhouse so protected that its very location is […]
White House Defends Interrogation Method Bush personally authorized Hayden’s testimony, White House deputy spokesman Tony Fratto said. "There’s been a lot written out there — newspaper, magazine articles, some of it misinformation," Fratto said. "And so the consensus was that on this one particular technique that these officials would have the opportunity to address them […]