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Just Making It Up on Classification

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Bush's new classification, CUI, is worrisome. But just as worrisome is increasing evidence that Bush is just endorsing a system whereby his Administration does whatever it wants, regardless of classification.
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Politicizing Show Trials at the Same Time as Politicizing DOJ

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The entire opinion disqualifying General Thomas Hartmann in Salim Hamdan's show trial is worth reading. But I'm particularly struck by the coincidence of timing. The Bush Administration started focusing on show trials at precisely the same time as it was firing a bunch of US Attorneys for political reasons.
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I Don't Think "Exclusivity" Means What John Yoo Thinks It Does

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Sheldon Whitehouse reveals that the Administration used word games to get around the exclusivity provision in FISA.
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Publicizing Pixie Dust

One of my early posts on Pixie Dust is nominated for one of the most important under-reported stories from last year. I guess that's just emblematic of the kind of attention Pixie Dust attracts.

Bloch: Making Some Sense

After reading the longer document on OSC's investigations, it appears there is SOME logic to Scott Bloch's investigations. But that doesn't mean he's a good manager.

Bloch: Stop Making Sense

I am still catching up on events of the last week and so I don't have a really good sense of WTF is going on with the FBI raid of Scott Bloch's house and--according to NPR, via Sara--body cavities. But I wanted to point you to this analysis of a document drafted by a bunch of Office of Special Counsel investigators, listing their complaints about Bloch's intervention into their investigations.
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Does McCain Support the Poisoning of MI's Voters?

What does John McCain think about the fact that the Administration fired the EPA's regional administrator rather than let her force Dow Chemical to clean up its Dioxin waste? Does he support the poisoning of voters he's counting on for a victory in November?
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The Flying Fur At OSC

Many of you have been asking many different questions about the OSC kerfluffle. I am fairly deep into this now and hope to have a serious piece ready by tonight. This is just a short post to run by all of you my current thoughts and ask you to post in comments any links to new and probative information you have run across (for other topics too if they are really noteworthy).
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Bloching Justice Or Obstructing Justice?

As you may have seen by now, the FBI has executed a full blown raid on the office and home of Scott Bloch, the DOJ head of the Office of Special Counsel. The questions regarding this raid are just beginning, and the web of conflicts raised is endless.
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Burma Shave - Bush Busts Out A Compassion Beard

The first blow to land for the week did not fly in like a furious wind, it was a furious wind. Specifically a typhoon that blew a path of waste and destruction through the already destitute and oppressed tinderbox that is currently known as Myanmar, and was formerly known as Burma.
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Sunset Musings

It was a nice quiet weekend; thankfully somewhat thin as to bad and/or outrageous news. Other than all the pollen and other allergens that are currently thick as soup in the air, the weather here is perfect; 90 degrees and not a cloud in sight. Perfect day to get the backyard and pool ready for the summer.
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FISA: The Coming Battle

As I am minding the store while mom is away tilting kilts, I was party to a group discussion among several notable powers that be in the blogosphere early this afternoon, and the various blogs, all of which you are intimately familiar with, will be rolling out over the next few days somewhat of a battle plan on FISA/immunity.

The Uncounted Wiretaps

Did the number of wiretaps last year go up? Or simply the number of wiretaps the Administration had to reveal?
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Jello Jay And Hoyer Slither Back Into The FISA Limelight

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.

Two Days, Two Resignations

Why is Alice Fisher quitting?
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Reggie Steps To The Plate And Stirs The Drink

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Yesterday, Judge Reggie Walton stirred things up a bit by indicating that President Bush undermined the rule of law when he pardoned (commuted) the sentence of Scooter Libby. He is absolutely right.
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