Entries by emptywheel

Caretaker for the Regime

Thus far, Michael Mukasey has served as an effective caretaker for Bush’s regime of secrets and scandals. But all that may change, as Mukasey gets himself deeper and deeper into the cover-ups.

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Meet the Bloggers Tomorrow at 1ET

Brave New Foundation–the folks who put together all those videos on why Fox News sucks–is launching a cool new show tomorrow: Meet the Bloggers. The goal is to grow the show into something that will rival Meet the Press and the other Sunday shows, but feature bloggers.

And tomorrow, it will include me!

We’re going to be discussing Kontemptuous Karl–and ways to make sure Congress actually does something this time after

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Waxman’s Investigation

Unlike HJC, Oversight does not publicly release subpoenas when they serve them. So Mukasey’s cowardly letter begging Bush to invoke executive privilege so he doesn’t have to go to jail for shielding Dick Cheney’s role in outing Valerie Plame is one of the first hints of the scope of what Waxman was after.

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