The State Secret Protection Act
A number of Congressmen have submitted the State Secret Protection Act, modeled on CIPA, in an attempt to rein in the use of State Secrets to avoid criminal prosecution.
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CEO’s Eating Their Own Toxic Products
The Peanut CEO’s response to being invited to eat his own toxic product was invoking his Fifth Amendment Rights. But the bank CEOs? No one has yet asked them to eat their own toxic products.
Maybe We’ve Got Each Other By the Nuts…
Is Geithner trying to recruit “private investors” in the form of Sovereign Wealth Funds by threatening to devalue their significant stash of dollars with inflation?
Senate Stimulus: Steal from the Poor to Give to the Affluent
ProPublica has done a comparison of the House and Senate stimulus packages which shows in stark fashion the degree to which the Senate bill steals from the poor to give to the affluent. The Senate bill gives more in tax cuts to the upper middle class–in the form of the AMT patch and the house flipping subsidy–than they give in all the programs targeted to the poor.
Foul Balls: The Legal Fixation On Athletes
The Washington DC juggernaut is at it again with the persecution/prosecution of athletes. Today it is announced that charges have been filed against Houston Astros, and former Baltimore Orioles and Oakland Athletics, shortstop Miguel Tejada. Funny that they have time for this rinky-dink stuff, but not to go after Alberto Gonzales and other serious malfeasants.
Leahy: Congress Will Do Truth Commission with or without POTUS
Patrick Leahy says Congress will do a Truth Commission with or without the Obama Administration.
The MI GOP: Leading Their National Party to Twit Failure
The Chair of the VA GOP just on-upped Crazy Pete Hoekstra in his Twitter idiocy: He botched an attempt to flip the Senate by tweeting about it first.
Don’t Drill Baby, Don’t Drill
Ken Salazar just reversed Bush’s plan to drill offshore.
Is Geithner Planning on a Public-Private Partnership with the Sovereign Wealth Funds?
Tim Geithner used the gimmick of a public-private partnership to avoid nationalizing the banks today. But that gimmick may well depend on the continued investment from Sovereign Wealth Funds–the investment arms of nations like China, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Kuwait, South Korea, and UAE. That seems to present many more potential problems down the road.
Mary Beth Buchanan’s Going Away Present: Jack Murtha?
Is Mary Beth Buchanan refusing to step down as US Attorney because she intends to take down Jack Murtha before she leaves?
