Here’s a post I did on David Addington’s testimony at the Libby trial.
Here is John Yoo’s prepared testimony.
Note this hearing is a Subcommittee Hearing–so it’s Jerrold Nadler’s baby, not Conyers’. That means a subset of HJC’s better questioners will appear today: Nadler, Davis, Wasserman Schultz, Ellison, Conyers, Scott, Watt, and Cohen, with Franks, Pence, Issa, King, and Jordan for the bad guys.
Nadler:
Feingold refutes the notion that somehow the telecoms got fooled into cooperating with Bush’s illegal wiretapping program.
I’ve got a call into John Ensign’s Communications Director for confirmation now, but it sounds like John Ensign is the one Senator referenced in Harry Reid’s statement last night and Dodd’s statement a few minutes ago on the Senate floor. That is, because John Ensign has refused to a unanimous consent agreement on the housing bill, he is holding up everything the Senate is doing right now.
That means Ensign is preventing
As someone who badly wants a win or a delay in the FISA stampede, I caution against getting too excited by Harry Reid’s suggestion that the FISA bill might be delayed until after the July 4 recess.
The FISA bill is so bad, it treats Alberto Gonzales’ assertion of legality as something worthwhile!
John McCain’s chief domestic policy, it seems, is to fool Americans with a bunch of “psychological” boosts that do diddly to help the economy.
An open thread
What do you call corporations that Congress and the President have decided should escape all consequences for their law-breaking?
Which would you rather be served? Bad beer from Cindy McCain? Or homemade pasty from one of MI’s future congressmen?
The Ghorbanifar meetings appear to coincide with periods of debate within the US about whether or not to establish closer relations with Iran. As such, they look like attempts–on the part of OVP–to undercut attempts to establish such relations.
