A member of the White House press corps told Jay Rosen last year that the press corps basically has to travel closely with the President to ensure that they’re there if something serious happens. But the back story of how the NYT learned of Hillary’s badly worded comment about RFK’s assassination on Friday certainly challenges that idea.
The confirmation that the BAE bribes to Bandar bin Sultan went to pay for covert ops sure makes you want to know what covert ops they paid for, doesn’t it?
Have you noticed that our government seems to have lost its respect for attorney-client privilege.
John McCain’s medial records report that he’s dizzy.
Go check out my post at the ACLU’s relaunched blog.
Since Karl Rove won’t come before House Judiciary Committee and say, under oath, what he has been blabbing all over the news, John Conyers has decided to force him (well, we’ll see) to do so via subpoena.
I’m not surprised that the RNC is hiring former insta-US Attorney and expert vote cager Tim Griffin. But I AM struck by the timing.
The DNC and the MDP appear to be breaking their own rules by ignoring a valid complaint from the citizens of Michigan about its invalid January 15 primary.
RJ Hillhouse gives us the real scoop on Dusty Foggo’s additional charges. Her story undercuts the spin coming out of the CIA–that Foggo’s additional indictment proves that the CIA is willing to investigate itself.
It’s bad enough the FBI is already looking to infiltrate groups that might protest the RNC Convention in September. It’s that they’re focusing those efforts on vegans.
