Shorter Blagojevich:
I’m going to start a running tally of the ways that Obama’s stupid treatment of his report on contacts with Blago will backfire. Consider this count number one.
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I’m going to start a running tally of the ways that Obama’s stupid treatment of his report on contacts with Blago will backfire. Consider this count number one.
George Bush has said that he gave the auto companies loan money so as not to dump the problem into Obama’s lap.
But that’s a lie.
Murray Waas proves that Dick Cheney knew he might out Plame when he encouraged journalists to look into who purportedly sent Joe Wilson to Niger.
Cheney says he did not order Libby to order Plame’s identity. I guess his insinuations that he may have were a CYA invented later to respond to Fitzgerald’s investigation, notably Fitz getting Judy Miller’s testimony.
The dates reported in the Blagojevich report, along with dates from the complaint.
The Obama team report on contacts with Blagojevich show–as expected–that there were no substantive discussions about the Senate seat. But Obama’s team appears not to have asked whether there were discussions about Rahm’s seat–and Greg Craig seem incurious about that entirely.
Apparently, no one knows what the fuck is the role of Cerberus in Chrysler’s $4 billion loan.
Over the weekend Cheney repeated a claim Alberto Gonzales has made before–which is largely assumed to have constituted a lie to Congress. But we’ve recently learned that Gonzales made notes which–presumably–back up his version of the story. Is Cheney relying on those notes, too?
I have stated before that the case against Ted Stevens should have been dismissed for prosecutorial misconduct before it ever reached the contaminated and bizarre jury process that led to the guilty verdict.Late today we received yet more evidence of just how true that is. A five-year FBI agent assigned to the Alaska corruption investigation is the whistleblower who brought a complaint with explosive allegations of misconduct against other agents and at least one prosecutor involved in the trial.
The panel of jurors deliberating the Fort Dix Five terrorism trial has found all five defendants guilty of plotting to attack the military base and kill soldiers. The foreign-born Muslims from Cherry Hill Pennsylvania, were charged with conspiracy to kill military personnel, attempted murder and weapons charges.