Publicizing Pixie Dust
One of my early posts on Pixie Dust is nominated for one of the most important under-reported stories from last year. I guess that’s just emblematic of the kind of attention Pixie Dust attracts.
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Bloch: Making Some Sense
After reading the longer document on OSC’s investigations, it appears there is SOME logic to Scott Bloch’s investigations. But that doesn’t mean he’s a good manager.
Bloch: Stop Making Sense
I am still catching up on events of the last week and so I don’t have a really good sense of WTF is going on with the FBI raid of Scott Bloch’s house and–according to NPR, via Sara–body cavities. But I wanted to point you to this analysis of a document drafted by a bunch of Office of Special Counsel investigators, listing their complaints about Bloch’s intervention into their investigations.
The Commission on Warrantless Wiretapping and FISA Compromise
What would it take to make a commission–included as part of a compromise on FISA–really meaningful?
Does McCain Support the Poisoning of MI’s Voters?
What does John McCain think about the fact that the Administration fired the EPA’s regional administrator rather than let her force Dow Chemical to clean up its Dioxin waste? Does he support the poisoning of voters he’s counting on for a victory in November?
EFF Bags A Big Win On NSLs
Our good friends at EFF have a big announcement. They have bagged a big win against the Bush Government on the improper use of National Security Letters.
The Flying Fur At OSC
Many of you have been asking many different questions about the OSC kerfluffle. I am fairly deep into this now and hope to have a serious piece ready by tonight. This is just a short post to run by all of you my current thoughts and ask you to post in comments any links to new and probative information you have run across (for other topics too if they are really noteworthy).
A Big Day for BIFFO?
Will May 7 be as big a day for America’s most prominent “BIFFO” as it will be for Ireland’s?
Bloching Justice Or Obstructing Justice?
As you may have seen by now, the FBI has executed a full blown raid on the office and home of Scott Bloch, the DOJ head of the Office of Special Counsel. The questions regarding this raid are just beginning, and the web of conflicts raised is endless.
Burma Shave – Bush Busts Out A Compassion Beard
The first blow to land for the week did not fly in like a furious wind, it was a furious wind. Specifically a typhoon that blew a path of waste and destruction through the already destitute and oppressed tinderbox that is currently known as Myanmar, and was formerly known as Burma.
