Emory Psychiatrist Cited in Conflicts of Interest WSJ By DAVID ARMSTRONG June 10, 2009 Emory University has disciplined a prominent psychiatrist who was being paid by an antidepressant maker at the same time he was conducting federal research about the use of such drugs in pregnant women. The university said its medical school dean issued […]
Incoming: More Torture Documents Despite the Obama administration’s best attempts to block the release of key documents and photographs – and otherwise stymie investigations into the Bush torture legacy – it looks like some more significant disclosures are coming down the pike. Scott Shane writes in the New York Times that: Mr. Obama cannot control […]
When faced with a superior intelligence, it is best to admit it, and only discuss what you understand, leaving the part that’s beyond you for other to grapple with on their own. That was my dilemma with the posts of eriposte in the early days of the unraveling of the Niger forgeries. Now, years later, […]
A Suspect’s Long History of Hate, and Signs of Strain James W. von Brunn was growing despondent. John de Nugent, an acquaintance who describes himself as a white separatist, noticed the change when they last spoke two weeks ago… "The responsible white separatist community condemns this," he said. "It makes us look bad." James W. […]
SENATOR SHELDON WHITEHOUSE [D-RI] short version whole speech from firedoglake.com Sheldon Whitehouse: “No Further Actionable Intelligence Was Obtained” from Abu Zubaydah by Waterboarding By: emptywheel June 10, 2009 Sheldon Whitehouse gave a barnburner of a speech last night, in which he described how egregious Dick Cheney’s lies about torture have been. The speech goes further […]
What’s more than I thought would be is, we’re hearing a lot of good rhetoric. A lot of this is wrapped in good rhetoric, but we’re not seeing those actions, and this many months into the new administration, quite disappointed, quite frustrated with not seeing those actions to rein in spending, slow down the growth […]
Goals Shift For Reform Of Financial Regulation Anticipating Resistance, Obama Changes Tack By David Cho, Binyamin Appelbaum and Zachary A. Goldfarb Washington Post June 10, 2009 The Obama administration is pulling back from some of its most ambitious ideas for overhauling the financial system, after determining that the consolidation of power under fewer federal agencies […]
Treasury Plays It Smart and Gets It Right Washington Post By Allan Sloan June 9, 2009 Sometimes the best investment is the one you didn’t make. That’s the case with one of the biggest investment pools in the country: the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program, which Congress authorized last October to help combat the […]
While the big guys like the A.C.L.U. and C.R.E.W. certainly deserve credit for finally prying the information out of the government, anyone obsessed with these things knows that the next Pulitzer should go to emptywheel, the person who has tirelessly kept up with the documentation, parsed it into digestable bytes, and given it to us […]
Now that the economy is recovering not collapsing stabilizing, it behooves us to check in on those fringy areas that we had never thought about before last September 15th – in this case, the Hedge Funds. and Mortgage-Backed Securities. Recall, the Hedge Funds are those private investment groups that "hedge" their investments with a variety […]