The Democrats' "Diversity Problem"
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There was a bit of a stink after Chuck Todd suggested the Democrats wish they had the diversity the GOP showed at the RNC this week. Josh Marshall said it was, "one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard…
Laborious Trash Talk
It is Labor Day weekend. Shockingly, my dictation program, Nuance Dictate for Mac, has gone beyond its normal complete worthlessness and now exists in the temporal-intellectual worthlessness of time and space. Seriously, for an application that…
DOD to Give Penguin the WikiLeaks Treatment?
As a number of outlets have reported, DOD has written a threatening letter to Matt Bissonnette, the Navy SEAL whose memoir comes out next week.
But I think they're misunderstanding part of the nature of the threat (though Mark Zaid, a lawyer…
Did Clint Get Cold Feet?
There was a moment in Clint Eastwood's rant last night that struck me then and strikes me even more now, when he explained that there are people of all ideologies in Hollywood.
I know what you are thinking. You are thinking, what’s a movie…
The Quarter Billionaire's $9 Jobs
Fairly early in Mitt's speech last night he said this:
But today, four years from the excitement of the last election, for the first time, the majority of Americans now doubt that our children will have a better future.
It is not what we…
Fear-Mongering Over New IAEA Iran Report Falls Flat
Try as they might, those who are pushing hard for a military attack on Iran under the guise of preventing Iran obtaining nuclear weapons are finding it impossible to whip up enough fear to overcome the media frenzy surrounding the home stretch…
After Making Bank Fraud Legal, Eric Holder's DOJ Makes Torture Legal
DOJ has announced that the two ongoing investigations it had into torture have been closed for lack of admissible evidence.
The Attorney General announced today the closure of the criminal investigations into the death of two individuals while…
Walt Kowalski to Speak at the RNC?
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Remember this ad? It played during the Super Bowl, Chrysler's second great Super Bowl ad in a row. When it played, Republicans immediately accused Chrysler of running the ad as a sop to Obama for bailing the…
They Should Have Just Called It a Poll Tax
I'm grateful that a 3-judge panel just unanimously held that Texas' Voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act. (See Ari Berman for background and Rick Hasen for analysis.)
But given this language of the decision (as cited by Berman), couldn't…
One Truth the GOP Did Tell: They Want You To Work For Yourself
Amid a flood of lies being uttered at the Republican National Convention this week, there is one truth the GOP has told.
They want you to work for yourself.
The Republican obsession with working for yourself stems from a campaign strategy--to…
Increased Rate of Green on Blue Deaths Not Due to Increased Afghan Force Size
Now that Ramadan is over, General John Allen and the rest of NATO will have to come up with additional explanations for why the rate of green on blue deaths is accelerating so rapidly. Besides the recent discussion of Taliban infiltration and…
Appeals Court Grants Zimmerman Judge Disqualification Motion
I have long maintained the George Zimmerman criminal case ongoing in Florida, and the nature of Florida law and procedure, is far different than most in the media and blogosphere understand. The initial investigation was not particularly "botched"…
Did the CIA Agents in Mexico Shoot at Their Pursuers?
The NYT's story on the CIA officers shot at in Mexico--and possibly the WaPo one as well--appear to be partly a response to the publication of the CIA connection in Mexico's lefty La Jornada, which published a series of stories on the event…
Matt Bissonnette's Information Operation Against a Broken System of Secrecy
“We all knew the deal. We were tools in the toolbox, and when things go well they promote it. They inflate their roles.” --Mark Bissonnette
HuffPo and AP/CBS have an initial description of how Matt Bissonnette's story of the Osama bin Laden…
Did Karzai Fire NDS Head Nabil for Confirming ISI Shared Intelligence on Badruddin Haqqani's Killing?
Afghan President Hamid Karzai today fired the head of Afghanistan's intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security. This move comes as a great surprise, as the NDS was credited with thwarting a recent Haqqani network attack on Kabul…
Dear CIA: Maybe It's Time to Spring for New PO Boxes?
I've suggested since the "names" of the two "trainers" ambushed in Mexico last Friday were released they were likely covers.
Not only are they apparently covers, but one of them was tied to a PO Box whose prior user had already been publicly…
If by "Fact Check" You Mean "Spy on MoDo"
A funny thing happened when Judicial Watch tried to catch the White House buttering up Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal for the Zero Dark Thirty film. It caught CIA doing so.
More embarrassing still, it caught the CIA asking NYT's spook reporter,…
Publisher's Shock and Awe
As I mentioned yesterday, the Pentagon has now gotten a copy of Osama bin Laden kill team member Matt Bissonnette's book, No Easy Day. They're reviewing it for classified information.
So today, the publisher announced that it has almost doubled…
The Paul Ryan Surge, MI's Anti-Obama Blacks, Mitt's Bankrupt Birth, and Other Republican Myths
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On August 11, Mitt Romney announced his pick of Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate. A few days later, CrazyPete…
The Diplomacy of Ambushes
The reporting on the ambush of 2 American trainers in Mexico on Friday reminds me of the reporting on Ray Davis' antics in Pakistan last year. Then, there was a squeamishness about mentioning that he was a CIA contractor, even after that had…
