Madoff Aide Reveals Details of Ponzi Scheme New York Times By JACK HEALY and DIANA B. HENRIQUES August 11, 2009 On Tuesday, Mr. DiPascali stood in a federal courtroom in Lower Manhattan and admitted that, for at least the last 20 years, he had helped Mr. Madoff carry out one of the biggest frauds in […]
State District Old New Arizona Paul K. Charlton Daniel G. Knauss [interim appointment] Arkansas Eastern H. E. (Bud) Cummins, III Tim Griffin [interim ippointment] California Central Deborah Wong Yang [resigned 11/2006] George S. Cardona [interim appointment] Northern Kevin V. Ryan Scott N. Schools [interim appointment] Southern Carol Lam Karen P. Hewitt [interim appointment] Colorado […]
The Rove Interview Materials, Working Thread By emptywheel August 11, 2009 The House Judiciary Committee has just released all its materials from the Rove and Miers interviews. They are linked below… Rove Interview Miers Interview White House Documents RNC Documents BTW, here’s what HJC sent out in the press release. Key new facts revealed in […]
This is a difficult time to keep up with the Torture Debate. It’s getting into the details and the connections and timelines become a blurry mass of memos and stories. At the end of this post, there’s a roster of the high value detainees for reference with capture dates and links to their biographies [see […]
Judge: CIA interrogations not relevant to 9/11 accused’s sanity Miami Herald BY CAROL ROSENBERG August 10,2009 U.S. military defense lawyers for accused 9/11 conspirator Ramzi bin al Shibh cannot learn what interrogation techniques CIA agents used on the Yemeni before he was moved to Guantánamo to be tried as a terrorist, an Army judge has […]
The counterculture of the 1960’s sits in our past waiting for an explanation, and it’s all over the Internet right now as we edge up on the 40th Anniversary of the Woodstock Concert. It’s odd to me. I don’t much relate to Woodstock as anything other than a large Rock Concert that came at the […]
As the economic indicators begin to improve, and the Stimulus package begins to be actually felt in our communities, we’ll be entering a new phase in our political and economic life. What we’ve seen in the aftermath of the Bush Administration is the emergence of a new kind of leadership for the large segment of […]
Averting the Worst New York Times By PAUL KRUGMAN August 9, 2009 So it seems that we aren’t going to have a second Great Depression after all. What saved us? The answer, basically, is Big Government. Just to be clear: the economic situation remains terrible, indeed worse than almost anyone thought possible not long ago. […]