The Pentagon continues its efforts to backtrack from releasing an obviously edited video with audio that sounds like it was taped by Borat in a studio. The debate just gets more and more laughable.
The FBI doesn’t want one of its top counter-terrorism agents to tell librarians that the FBI’s counter-terrorism efforts are ineffective.
This is something I’ve been meaning to raise, what with all the discussion of the Tweety effect. One of the reasons Tweety is being such a blowhard this campaign season (aside from the fact that it prominently features someone named Clinton), one of the reasons he’s saying such godforsakenly stupid things is that he’s absolutely infuriated that Olbermann, not Tweety, is the anchor of the network’s election coverage.
There are several things that concern me about the news that Bank of America has agreed to buy a big chunk of the shitpile. It allows BoA to take on a risky proportion of all the deposits in this country. And–people speculate–that its risk in this deal will be back by the Federal Government.
Are we just consolidating the risk of the Shitpile?
The Minerals Management Service has been one of the most corrupt parts of the very corrupt Bush Administration, repeatedly finding ways to give taxpayer oil to Dick and Bush’s friends for free (or cut rates). It looks like they’re at it again; a recent Department of Energy IG audit found that 28% of the oil that the MMS was supposed to deliver into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve never made it into the Reserve.
Maybe MI isn’t as much of a clusterfuck as I thought. If nothing else, Huckabee looks poised to knock Mitt from the race, which will turn the GOP nomination into a contest between McCain and Huckabee. Which might make it very interesting indeed.
The dispute over whether the tape released by the Pentagon showing the confrontation between five Iranian motorboats and three US ships gets even more absurd.
The Judge in Dan Rather’s suit against CBS just granted him discovery.
I’d advise popcorn. Lots of it.
Surprise surprise. Bob Bennett is advising his client, Jose Rodriguez, not to tell Congress about how and why and when he destroyed the torture tapes unless they give him immunity. And Judge Kennedy has decided that he’s not all that worried about the government destroying torture tapes in spite of orders not to do such things.
We’re not going to find out more details about the torture tapes anytime soon.
I’m not the only one calling MI’s primary next week a clusterfuck–one of the state’s top Dem consultants, Mark Grebner, thinks so too, though he doesn’t use the word clusterfuck:
Of course, we may get lucky, but that’s not really “a plan”. With Clinton bouncing back tonight in NH, it’s plausible that she and Obama will go round after round, with neither scoring a knockout.
