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Jello Jay And Hoyer Slither Back Into The FISA Limelight

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Crikey, this is getting old. You may have seen by now that rumors of a new push on passage of FISA, and, of course, full retroactive immunity, are bubbling to the surface again. The bottom line is we know what the goal of the FISA push is (immunity), we know who wants it and why (the Bush/Cheneys because they have engaged in a mass criminal conspiracy), and we know the path the push will take (GOP assimilation of Blue Dogs). Really, the only part of this puzzle we do not yet know is what the precise nature of “the compromise” that will cravenly be peddled.

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Syriana

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If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the course of this Administration, it’s that if Dana Perino one day announces that the sky is blue, I will be forced to assume that an alien invasion has commenced with the total ionization of Earth’s upper atmosphere.With that in mind, there’s an awful lot of cognitive dissonance for me in analyzing the evidence on the purported Syrian nuclear reactor site.

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“It’s Not that Yoo Engaged in Really Bad Lawyering, Really It’s Not”

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David Rivkind and Lee Casey want you to believe that we’re all beating up John Yoo because we don’t agree with his interpretation of the proper role of international law. It’s a shiny object, of course, designed to distract the WSJ’s readers from the real reasons many are calling for Yoo to face consequences for his actions. My question is why they’re making such a case.

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