Two days back, I noted the odd choice made by the government to go easy on David Hicks, the Australian citizen who recently pled guilty... [More]
April 1, 2007
April 5, 2007
Cramming Never Works
I guess Alberto Gonzales never learned that lesson in college. WaPo: Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales has retreated from public view this week in an... [More]
April 9, 2007
Cramming Still Doesn't Work
I told you before, Alberto, cramming never works: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has virtually wiped his public schedule clean to bone up for his long-awaited... [More]
April 11, 2007
Anyone Want To Guess The Names?
You've really got to be kidding me. Really. The White House said Wednesday it had mishandled Republican Party-sponsored e-mail accounts used by nearly two dozen... [More]
April 12, 2007
Manufactuing Debate, Take Two
It looks like the NYT is going to follow this lead to the end. Yesterday they gave us a story about how Republican political operatives... [More]
More On the Missing Emails
Late last night we got word that the White House was claiming that many of the emails sent by White House staffers on non whitehouse.gov... [More]
FitzMas: The Day That Keeps On Giving, and Giving, and Giving...
This RNC email story seems to be rapidly picking up speed. TPMMuckraker has a big one just in. Back in 2004, thanks to Patrick Fitzgerald's... [More]
More on the Emails: A Few Questions For The Internet About Blackberrys
A series of questions for the Internet..... Hey Internet: Remind me about the Blackberry. Isn't it true that everything sent on a Blackberry goes through... [More]
Presidential Records Act Clarified
Tim Grieve answers a question that I was just about to ask: what does the PRA say about White House emails say about political and... [More]
April 13, 2007
NPR Advances the US Attorneys Story
Normally I use blogs to track breaking news, and for the US Attorney story the TPM Empire has been invaluable. Without Josh Marshall's work, this... [More]
The Smoking Gun - Gonzales Is History
8 little words are apparently all it will take: This is the chart that the AG requested. Gonzales lied. Under oath. No wonder he's been... [More]
April 15, 2007
Torture, Secrecy and the Bush Administration
After Harpers.org launched their wretched redesign, I had sworn off linking to their site. Then Andrew Sullivan linked to this blog post from Scott Horton's... [More]
April 16, 2007
Gonzales Hearings Tomorrow
Josh Marshall keeps asking the right questions: Let's take a look at one of the key lines of questioning that Alberto Gonzales is sure to... [More]
Abramoff Rolls On Rove?
Interesting report from CREW: Lawyers involved in the case said that beginning more than a year ago, federal prosecutors and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents... [More]
Gonzales Hearings Postponed Until Thursday
WaPo summarizes the problems for Gonzales: ...his prepared remarks conflict with some details already released by the Justice Department and former aides. They include: _Gonzales'... [More]
April 17, 2007
Immunity for Goodling
Today's news is likely to make Gonzales very nervous. Tomorrow morning, the House Judiciary Committee is going to vote on whether or not to grant... [More]
Cheney's Caller ID
This is pathetic. At the end of a long post about Gonzales' upcoming testimony, Salon's Joan Walsh draws an interesting parallel between Gonzale and Scooter... [More]
Decisions Without Knowledge
Eugene Robinson catches and critiques a bit of Gonzales recent op-ed that I sadly missed: Gonzales had an op-ed Sunday in The Post that included... [More]
April 18, 2007
White House To RNC: Don't Turn Over Those Emails
There is a very, very simple solution to this. Congress should issue subpoenas, and they should do so immediately. The use of outside email system... [More]
"Not Anything Related to the Congressman"
What a great line. The office of the wife of Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-CA), one of the congressmen most central to the Abramoff investigation,... [More]
April 19, 2007
McClatchy Takes On Vote Fraud
There's a reason I start my day reading the stories out of McClatchy's Washington bureau. Today's story: For six years, the Bush administration, aided by... [More]
Senate Hearings: Midday Update
Quick takeaways: + Sen. Arlen Specter, the key Republican on the committee, appears to be running out of patience with Gonzales. At this point, I... [More]
Senate Hearings: The Second Session
Some highlights from session two: + During Sen. Grassley's questioning, Gonzales admitted that he made false statements during his initial press conference because at the... [More]
"I Take Responsibility"
By the way, could somebody please do me a favor and explain precisely what the statement "I take responsibility" now means? I've always assumed that... [More]
Didn't I Just Get Finished Saying....
...that you should read Dahlia Lithwick? Here's yet another example of why. In two sentences, she captures and translates an entire day of testimony: To... [More]
April 21, 2007
Wolfowitz and the World Bank: It's Much Worse Than You Thought
I'm with Josh on this: the story is so convoluted and so corrupt, its hard to keep track of all of the issues and people... [More]
April 24, 2007
Quick Links
Time for blogging has been limited the past few days. Here are a few posts from other sites that you shouldn't miss: + Karl Rove... [More]
April 25, 2007
"The Keys to the Kingdom"
The House Judiciary Committee has voted 32-6 to subpoena Monica Goodling, the former White House liaison at the Dept. of Justice. The vote includes an... [More]
Not Many Scandals, But One
Rahm Emanuel delivered one hell of a speech before the Brookings Institution this morning. Greg Sragent has the full text over at TPM's Election Central.... [More]
Speaking of Scandals...
CarpetBagger has a great rundown on the various Republican scandals that have emerged over the past month. Of the seven, I have to agree, the... [More]
Jessica Lynch Rescue Delayed A Day For Camera Crew
The investigation into the cover-up of the circumstances behind Pat Tillman's death is receiving most of the attention today, but be sure not to overlook... [More]
Motivation
TPM Muckraker is reporting that the Abramoff investigation is ramping up, with a possible indictment of Tom DeLay's former chief of staff in the works.... [More]
April 27, 2007
3 Big Stories Tonight From McClatchy
If you're a news junkie and you haven't yet made McClatchy's Washington Bureau part of your daily fix, you really need to do something about... [More]
USAID Administrator and Director of Foreign Assistance Resigns (Updated Twice)
That list kept by that DC madam? It just took down a Bush political appointee. They are all - and I really do mean all... [More]
Clinton Did It!
I'm beginning to feel like a broken record on this, but here goes anyway... When your entire campaign to win the presidency was based on... [More]
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