David Ogden Steps Down at DOJ

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More turmoil in the Obama Administration's legal team. Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden, the Justice Department's second in command, is stepping aside to return to private law practice in Washington after less than a year of service, according…

Bernanke Hearing Liveblog

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Ben Bernanke nomination hearing.

DHS Doesn't Want to Scan Shipping Containers

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DHS doesn't want to follow the law--recommended by the 9/11 Commission--that all US-bound shipping containers be scanned for nukes.

Steven Rattner: I, MOTU. I Save World. You, Ignorant.

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Steven Rattner says we need to make the Fed the systemic regulator because of its independence. But three of the excuses he makes for Fed mistakes in the meltdown all have to do with how susceptible to pressure it was.

Spy Versus Spy with Erik Prince

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Erik Prince makes a show of coming clean on what he was doing with the CIA. But he reveals only what he was doing with the CIA.

Ghailani's Speedy Trial Challenge

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Ahmed Ghailani's lawyers argue that, since he is being tried on an indictment that was pending through the entire period of his detention, he has been deprived of his right to a speedy trial.

Fritz Quits

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Fritz Henderson got pushed out as GM CEO last night.

Sprint's 50 Million Customers Have Been Geo-Tracked 8 Million Times--in the Last Year

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Sprint's geo-tracking feature has been used 8 million times in the last year.

Will We Learn of the "Many Dark Actors"?

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Anyone who has been following over the last eight years will not be surprised that Lord Goldsmith told Tony Blair that the Iraq War was illegal. On July 29, [2002, Lord Goldsmith] wrote to Mr Blair on a single side of A4 headed notepaper from…

The Burrower and the Gate-Crashers

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I'm not much interested in the gate-crashing Salahis. But I am interested in two data-points that suggest Republicans are preparing to use the gate-crashing episode like they did the travel office attack under the Clintons. First, there's this…

War on Fox Commissions

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I've been complaining of late that the LAT's stupid Republican blogger, Andrew Malcom, is so bad that he must get tons of links making the LAT think he's great for traffic. So I wanted to be sure to link to Fox legal analyst Andrew Napolitano's…
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The Irony of Tora Bora

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Understand that--for better or worse--the new report released by John Kerry on how Osama bin Laden escaped at Tora Bora is a designed to be a political document. It offers the following "irony" to the chattering classes the weekend before Obama…
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Trash Talk: I'm An Excellent Driver Edition

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Well I woke up this morning and got myself a beer The future's uncertain and the end is always near Let it roll, baby roll, let it roll all night long. These are strange days indeed we live in. One minute it is a quiet peaceful day after Thanksgiving,…

Torturing Binyam Mohamed--Before Bybee Two

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A recent ruling from the UK HIgh Court suggests that the US was using techniques approved in August 2002 for use with Abu Zubaydah on Binyam Mohamed in April and May 2002.

On Monday Thousands Lose Their Healthcare

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On Monday, the COBRA subsidy expires. That's going to lead to a lot of people giving up their health care.

The TWO Afghan Black Site Stories

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Why did both the NYT and WaPo decide to "break" the long-known facts about our black site at Bagram today?

Anthrax Attack Used to Justify the Iraq War

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Glenn Greenwald points to proof that the anthrax attacks contributed to the push for war on Iraq. All the more reason to review the FBI's investigation of the anthrax attack.

The Negroponte Warning

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One more tiny detail from the torture tape FOIA. Document 27, dated July 28, 2005, and titled, "DNI News" is described as "a one-page email with a CIA attorney's opinion, conveyed to his client, regarding the DNI's position [sic] the destruction…

Wasting 1400 Calories a Day

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Wow. In addition to the fact that many Americans eat far too many calories (even while others go hungry), we apparently also waste them, to the tune of 1400 calories a day. (h/t Stuffed and Starved) In a new paper published in the open-access,…
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