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John Robb comments on the telecommunications outages in the Middle East.
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John Robb comments on the telecommunications outages in the Middle East.
Russ Feingold made a pretty good argument today. We need to add protections for American privacy to the FISA bill to protect them from John Bolton’s “intellectual curiosity.”
You all are chatty and I’m tired, so I’m going to leave you here with this great YouTube that Selise made.
Reid is on the floor talking about what votes we’ll have tomorrow:ImmunitySubstitutionExclusivityArgh. This means we won’t have 60 there for exclusivity.
You’ve got just under an hour to convince your Senator to vote the right way on FISA.
In his rush to find a problem with the manly men Democrats have been electing of late, Ryan Lizza seems to have forgotten a number of long-serving Congressmen.
Walter Pincus finds a troubling appropriation in the Defense Appropriation this year: $75 million dollars for what sounds like early Special Forces intervention in Pakistan’s tribal lands.
This is a thread for speculating wildly why Egypt and Pakistan have lost much of their connectivity.
The story still missing from almost all coverage of the election is the ground game.
Because Isikoff is not part of that corrupt and dishonest culture at all!!