We’ve been treated to some fine drama in Congressional Hearings of late – people like Harry Markopolos, the Madoff whistleblower; James Comey, and his story of the hospital standoff; Valerie Plame’s unaffected glamor and competence. But none have been so captivating [pun intended] as Ali Soufan – the FBI interrogator. Here are some highpoints reformatted […]
Jose A. Rodriguez is a career C.I.A. employee who succeeded Stephen Kappes on November 16, 2004 to become the Deputy Director for Operations [later Director of the National Clandestine Service], retiring on September 30, 2007. We know very little about how the order to actually destroy the tapes was formulated other than the final […]
But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain; The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft agley, And lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain For promised joy! Robert Burns 1785 When Abu Zubaydah was captured in a fire fight in Pakistan on March 28, 2002, there was […]
Investor Who Made Billions Not Targeted in Goldman Suit New York Times By GRETCHEN MORGENSON and LOUISE STORY April 16, 2010 … Eager to increase his bets against subprime mortgages, the investor, John A. Paulson, canvassed firm after firm, looking for new ways to profit from home loans that he was sure would go sour. […]
Rush Lies Again: ‘There Were Union Workers’ At Non-Union Mine Explosion ThinkProgress By Brad April 16, 2010 Last Friday, Rush Limbaugh demanded to know why a coal miner union didn’t protect the 29 miners who were killed in one of Massey CEO Don Blankenship’s mines. After ThinkProgress reported that there was no union at the […]
SEC charges Goldman Sachs with civil fraud in subprime deal McClatchy Newspapers By Greg Gordon April 16, 2010 WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission Friday charged Goldman Sachs & Co. and one of its executives with fraud in a risky offshore deal backed by subprime mortgages that cost investors more than $1 billion. The […]
Ex-Blackwater President, 4 Others Indicted On Conspiracy, Weapons Charges ACLU FOIA: The CIA Torture Tape Destruction EMails dump U.S. Accuses Goldman Sachs of Fraud in Mortgage Deal Obama Says He’ll Veto Financial Reform Without Derivatives Controls
Obama Says He’ll Veto Financial Reform Without Derivatives ControlsTPM by Rachel SlajdaApril 16, 2010 Before meeting with his economic advisers today, President Obama told reporters he’d veto any financial regulatory reform bill that doesn’t "bring the derivatives market under control." "We can’t allow history to repeat itself," he said before meeting with the President’s Economic […]
2005 destruction of interrogation tapes caused concern at CIA, e-mails show Washington Post By Peter Finn and Julie Tate April 16, 2010 The 2005 destruction of 92 videotapes documenting the harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects at secret CIA prisons immediately prompted concern at agency headquarters that the decision was not adequately cleared and may have […]
Government could read alleged NSA leaker’s encrypted e-mailsWashington Postby Jeff SteinApril 15, 2010 One has to wonder whether Thomas A. Drake, the former National Security Agency executive charged with leaking classified information to a reporter, reads Wired, the bible of the internet age. If he does, he might have learned in November 2007 that the […]