Things are never simple, it seems. Reader dc [who knows all things] points out that the Judge that threw out Valerie Wilson’s suit wasn’t just any old Judge. John D. Bates served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1980 to 1997, and was Chief of the Civil Division of […]
Valerie Plame’s Lawsuit Dismissed A federal judge dismissed former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s lawsuit against members of the Bush administration Thursday, eliminating one of the last courtroom remnants of the leak scandal. Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, had accused Vice President Dick Cheney and others of conspiring to leak her identity in […]
This one is a brain twister only for the brave of heart. Yesterday, emptywheel was onto the legal opinion from the DoJ that Harriet Miers didn’t have to testify: The "PDAG" Who Approved Harriet’s Immunity Had No Authority to Do So There are two big tidbits in the questions Leahy sent to AGAG to […]
Please note the dates of these articles about the infamous Abu Omar al-Baghdadi: Blackout of the Press By NIBRAS KAZIMI February 8, 2007 Abu Omar al-Baghdadi made his grand entrance onto the jihadist stage on October 12, 2006, and since then he’s delivered two very important speeches — the more recent one came out last […]
Jason Leopold has one hell of a story posted at t·r·u·t·h·o·u·t. He’s a good investigative reporter [though he doesn’t bat 1000%]. The story is about Cheney and his Energy Task Force right after his 2001 inauguration. It’s too complex to summarize quickly, but it’s about suppression of an investigation of the California Energy Crisis in […]
We do the same things over and over – we human beings. In fact, our repetitions essentially define us as individuals. If you know a person well, you can predict with sometimes astonishing accuracy just how that person will respond in a given situation. Independent of how one explains this remarkable phenomenon – whether by […]
Harriet Miers’s Contempt of Congress: Are Conservatives About To Neuter Congress, While Claiming Full Legal Justification for this Separation-of-Powers Violation? … if Miers is found in contempt, the House itself can take action against her at the bar of the House. (The Senate can similarly hold such proceedings.) Congress has the power to prosecute contumacious […]
Tom DeLay tells College Republicans that abortion, illegal immigration are linked Former Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay told a gathering of College Republicans that a link exists between legal abortion and illegal immigration in America. The remarks were included in a video produced by writer Max Blumenthal and posted at The Huffington Post. "I contend […]
Powell tried to talk Bush out of war THE former American secretary of state Colin Powell has revealed that he spent 2½ hours vainly trying to persuade President George W Bush not to invade Iraq and believes today’s conflict cannot be resolved by US forces. “I tried to avoid this war,” Powell said at the […]