FISA Debate Liveblog
Russ Feingold tries to save the Constitution.
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The Watchdog’s Watchdog
The CIA Director has conjured up a brilliant way to prevent the CIA’s Inspector General from actually effecting any good: requiring him to report to CIA officers the process and results of investigations.
Emptywheel’s Famous Football Trash Talk* Super Bowl XLII Edition
Show Time Baby! The big one is upon us. Whats up with Tom’s boot? That Giselle is kinda cute. Michael Strahan is a hoot. It is all happening right here in the Valley of the Sun; and currently Valley of the unusually cold. But the sun is shining, the stars are all here and everybody is working to the weekend. Beer thirty is going to start now and go until the fat lady is done singing. Crack open a cool one and start trashing up the joint.
AG Claims Clear Evidence of Legal Liability Does Not Constitute a Basis for Investigation
AG Mukasey claims that DOJ has never gotten any facts that would warrant an investigation. But that’s not true. We know DOJ received the results of the CIA IG’s report in 2004, showing that the interrogation techniques depicted on the torture tapes constituted cruel and inhuman treatment in violation of the International Convention against Torture.
Did Eric Edelman Lie to the Plame Grand Jury?
This filing I stumbled across in Prettyman courthouse suggests there were big contradictions between Eric Edelman (then Libby’s deputy, and currently the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy)’s testimony, and that of other witnesses in the case. If Edelman is lying, it might corroborate my theory that Dick learned of Plame’s identity from having been shown–via an illicity channel–the emails Valerie wrote relating to Joe’s trip.
SJC Mukasey Hearing, Part Three
Arlen Specter, Chuck Grassley, Chuck Schumer, John Cornyn, Pat Leahy, and Sheldon Whitehouse question Mukasey (beginning of second round).
SJC Mukasey Hearing, Part Two
Dianne Feinstein, Dick Durbin, Orrin Hatch, and Russ Feingold question Mukasey.
SJC Mukasey Hearing
Arlen Specter, Chuck Grassley, Herb Kohl, Jeff Sessions, Joe Biden, Pat Leahy, Sam Brownback, and Ted Kennedy question Mukasey.
Mukasey, Orwell, and Bradbury
Keith Olbermann notes, with great dismay, that Michael Mukasey chose to hang a portrait of George Orwell in his office (the other portrait is Chief Justice Robert Jackson, which makes me quite happy). I’m willing to take Mukasey’s word that he admires Orwell for his writing (and his thoughts on language). Yet I don’t know how to square that with Mukasey’s endorsement of the Bradbury renomination.
Anti-Immunity Porn
Feingold and Dodd are still working hard to defeat immunity for the telecoms.
