Here's Your Dang March on Peyton's Colts Trash Already!!!
The people have issued their demands. And--belatedly--we're responding.
Here's your damned Trash.
I tried to talk bmaz into doing it, but he's so torqued up about the hope of getting Peyton and the belief the Broncos will get him, I don't…
Eric Holder Suggests Scary Iran Plot Was Legal
I'm sure that Eric Holder didn't mean to suggest that the assassination plots purportedly planned by Iran's Quds Force and Manssor Arbabsiar with the assistance of a DEA informant targeting the Saudi Ambassador to the US, Adel al-Jubeir, as…
Ed Rendell Defends Material Support of the "Right" Terrorists
When I first read that Treasury is investigating Ed Rendell for his paid speeches supporting the MEK, I was gratified that the government might finally be showing some balance in its pursuit of terrorists.
Mr. Rendell, who asserts that he has…
Panjwai Rogue Night Raider: Probably Not a Malingerer
In yet another "isolated event" in Afghanistan that is guaranteed to incite a number of other "isolated events", at least one US soldier in the Panjwai district of Kandahar Province killed sixteen Afghan civilians early Sunday morning. Most…
The NYPD's Surveillance of Muslims and Occupy Wall Street Converges
I started my morning reading with this AP Q&A on the significance of their series on the NYPD's spying on Muslims. There are several things missing: why does the NYPD profile only businesses they believe to be owned by Muslims, and not the…
They Hate Us for Our Freedoms
Or, more likely, they hate us because stuff like this happens:
About midnight, 11 people, including three women; four children whose ages ranged from 6 to 9; and four men were executed inside the home of a village elder.
“They entered…
Time to Start Profiling All the Dunkin' Donuts
With the exception of the time CBS borrowed my post on the Iranian Jewish butchers profiled by the NYPD, the NY news outlets cheering the NYPD apparently haven't actually looked closely at what the AP was reporting. The NY Post, the NYDN, they…
Leak Prosecutions: Enforcing Secrecy Asymmetry Does Not Equate to Rule of Law
Matt Miller has a piece in the Daily Beast defending the Obama Administration's prosecutions of leakers. Now, as Josh Gerstein notes, Miller makes his work easier by cherry-picking which cases to discuss; he doesn't mention Thomas Drake, who…
NYPD Makes Work But Not Knowledge
When I read the Judy Miller/Richard Clarke op-ed defending Ray Kelly (this is Judy's second go-around defending Kelly, btw), I realized something about the NYPD CIA-on-the-Hudson program. They write,
Yet NYPD efforts to engage with and selectively…
Uniforms and WikiLeaks in the Discussion of the Anwar al-Awlaki Killing
This panel discussion between former State Department spokesperson PJ Crowley, former Gitmo Chief Prosecutor Colonel Morris Davis, and ACLU's Jameel Jaffer is one of the more nuanced, interesting discussions on the Anwar al-Awlaki killing.…
Agreement in Principle Signed on Handover of Afghan Prisons, Night Raid Agreement to be Separate
Creating conditions dangerously close to those under which we have been warned that Lindsey Graham's head will explode, the US and Afghanistan have signed an agreement in principle on the handover of prisons to Afghan control. The negotiations…
Is Our War-Mongering on Iran Making Syria Go Dark?
Greg Miller has a story describing how little decent intelligence we've got on Syria. Now, Jeff Stein suggests that denials in the story of any CIA covert actions in the story are just an effort to knock down fairly widespread allegations that…
The Senate Judiciary Committee Hasn't Seen the Targeted Killing Memo Either
I guess it should be no surprise that Pat Leahy, the Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, hasn't seen the memo authorizing the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki. After all, if the full Senate Intelligence Committee--which is supposed to exercise…
The Answer, Robert Mueller, Is "Yes, DOJ Does Believe It Could Kill a Citizen in the US"
FBI Director Robert Mueller tried to avoid answering whether or not we can target US citizens in the United States.
FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday said he would have to go back and check with the Department of Justice whether Attorney…
RickyLeaks
In a post at the Document Exploitation blog, Douglas Cox reminds us of how Crazy Pete Hoekstra and Rick Santorum pressured the government to make all of Saddam's documents--including a plan for a nuke--available on the InterToobz.
The drive…
Opponent Claims FBI Recorded Phone Calls Investigating Stearns Bribery Allegations, Prohibited Recording Boehner
There is a convoluted series of allegations and counterclaims between Representative Cliff Stearns (R-FL) and Clay County Clerk of Court James Jett, his Republican opponent in the Third Congressional District in Northern Florida created…
Why Doesn't the FBI Follow SAC Michael Ward's "Specific Articulable Basis" Standard?
The Special Agent in Charge of the Newark FBI, Michael Ward, laid into the NYPD's CIA-on-the-Hudson program for its spying on New Jersey's Muslims. He raised several legitimate gripes: that the NYPD was picking and choosing the information…
Dianne Feinstein Assures Us Her Review of Targeted Killing Is Adequate
Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein just sent out a release assuring us all that her committee keeps close watch over counterterrorism programs, including targeted killing. In her statement, she asserted that "our counterterrorism…
So It Was the FBI Threatening to Take Down the Internet, Then?
As soon as the news came out today that Sabu, the head of LulzSec, offered an FBI computer to facilitate the publication of Stratfor (no doubt set up a LulzSec-assisted indictment of Julian Assange in the future)...
Hector Xavier Monsegur,…
MI's 3rd CD: "West Michigan Values" of Exclusion, or American Values of Equality and Justice for All?
I was disappointed with Steve Pestka's announcement to run for the 3rd CD. While he promised jobs, he also repeated the "West Michigan Values" phrase a top Kent County Dem used when telling me and others to shut up. And he suggested he was running…
