“You can play that game when it doesn’t matter.”
Here’s a look at the proposed response to the credit crisis in the Senate; it’ll give you a sense of what Republicans think they can, and can’t, afford.
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Here’s a look at the proposed response to the credit crisis in the Senate; it’ll give you a sense of what Republicans think they can, and can’t, afford.
Play along at home! Because lawyering about torture is such a fun game!
The Pentagon is “closing” (which probably means “burying under a different name”) CIFA, it’s contractor-friendly domestic spying program. In a remarkable coincidence, it just had to turn over to ACLU a bunch of documents showing that CIFA had abused the National Security Letters program. What a remarkable coincidence.
Daniel Dell’Orto, in his first weeks as Acting General Counsel of DOD, just exposed how John Yoo, in the first day after Jay Bybee head of OLC, authorized torture in the military.
Jane Harman explained her response to the warrantless wiretap program over at TPMCafe. I’m interested in it not so much to determine whether Eric Licthblau or she is right about whether she “switched her view” on the program (I think Harman is actually too sensitive to the charge; as she tells it, she did drastically change her view, but not because of the publicity of Lichtblau’s reporting, but because of the
Siobhan Gorman reports that the White House now admits that its fear-mongering no longer works.
The DNI wants to make nice with Democrats. But that doesn’t stop him from making baseless accusations against them.
Western Union, Radio Shack, and Trumpt Mobile are teaming up to facilitate using cell phones to transfer remittances.
Barnett Rubin explains why the Taliban has been blowing up cell phone towers in Afghanistan. It’s a good old-fashioned protection racket.
The press is agog that Hillary and Richard Mellon Scaife made nice last week. But that peace-making follows five months after an earlier one between Bill Clinton and Richard Mellon Scaife. I’m not sure what that means, as far as Scaife’s motives (I presume the Clintons would just like his support, or, barring that, would like him to avoid funding a bunch of wingnut bloodhounds to sniff their panties and boxers). But it does suggest the thaw is much more than a one-off thing.