Entries by emptywheel

I Hate to Say I Told You So…

The Bush Administration has known well how to avoid punishment for Hatch Act violations: simply to have those who commit those violations to quit. Therefore, it should be no surprise that Mukasey has announced Goodling and her friends will avoid any charges for their violations.

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Bush’s Cover-Up

Murray Waas predicts that, after the two pending IG reports on politicization of DOJ come out, it’ll increasingly appear that Bush is invoking executive privilege to cover up the White House involvement in that politicization. That may be right–but I doubt that’s going to create the legislative firestorm that Murray predicts.

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Habbush’s Freedom Fries Forgeries

Ron Suskind writes about a letter created with the help of Tahir Jalil Habbush Al-Tikriti in The Way of the World. He doesn’t mention, though, that the US seems to have planted two more letters from him.

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Google Maps Says Maybe, Maybe Not

The WaPo reveals that Bruce Ivins’ supposed window in which he could have mailed the anthrax from Princeton was just barely long enough for him to have done so. That revelation offers more questions than it answers.

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