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Is This Why Rosenberg Recused?

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emptywheel
The AP reveals that prosecutors in the Alexandria US Attorney's Office--including the lead prosecutor in the Moussaoui case--did know of the torture tapes in early 2006, before Moussaoui was sentenced. The lead prosecutor in the terror case against Zacarias Moussaoui may have known the CIA destroyed tapes of its interrogations of an al-Qaida suspect more than a year before the government acknowledged it to the court, newly unsealed documents indicate. The documents, which
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Feingold Slaps Down Bond's, Mukasey's, and McConnell's "Tired Accusations"

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emptywheel
Senator Feingold noticed the same thing I noticed today: Republican opponents of his amendments are mischaracterizing his amendments. [Bond] referred to our concerns that somehow the rights and privacy could be affected by this bill as "tired accusations." I object to that characterization. I think that this is clearly the kind of thing we should be worried about and debating, but I'll tell you what is a "tired accusation"--the notion that somehow
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First Abu Ghraib, and Now Siegelman

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emptywheel
60 Minutes is attempting to spike their Don Siegelman story. Funny, this isn't the first story that is politically damaging to the White House that 60 Minutes has attempted to spike.
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FISA Debate Liveblog

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emptywheel
Russ Feingold tries to save the Constitution.
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McConnell and Mukasey Tell Half Truths

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emptywheel
One benefit of the process the Senate is using to develop a FISA bill is that, by rejecting the SJC bill then considering amendment after amendment that had been part of the SJC bill, we begin to learn what the government really plans to do with its wiretapping program, as distinct from what it has said it was doing. Recall.
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More FISA Debate

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emptywheel
More FISA debate, just trying to keep discrete threads.

FISA Debate Liveblog

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emptywheel
Three amendments up, no votes today. The first two Feingold amendments prohibit bulk collection and reverse targeting. The third, with Dodd, is immunity. Feingold on Reverse Targeting Director of Intelligence has testified that reverse targeting is violation of 4th amendment. Notes Senator from GA has said reverse targeting is possible. [Placing declassified documents in record] This confirms that when FBI has interest in American, up to FBI whether to seek a warrant.

Doesn't Hillary Have Anything Better to Do?

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emptywheel
In a matter of 22 hours, Hillary has had two campaign events that are only tangentially about the fact that almost half of all delegates will be awarded today. Yesterday, she once again very generously offered to unilaterally decide to reinterpret our Clusterfuck vote, all in the name of democracy. And today, smack dab in the middle of the biggest election day this side of November 4, Hillary has challenged Obama
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Jello Jay Advocates Illegal Spying on Americans

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emptywheel
In his opposition to a Feingold FISA amendment designed to remove any incentive the government has to abuse the new FISA program, Jello Jay sanctions the illegal collection of US person data.
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Russ Feingold: We Need to Protect Americans from John Bolton

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emptywheel
Russ Feingold made a pretty good argument today. We need to add protections for American privacy to the FISA bill to protect them from John Bolton's "intellectual curiosity."

FISA Liveblog

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emptywheel
Reid is on the floor talking about what votes we'll have tomorrow:ImmunitySubstitutionExclusivityArgh. This means we won't have 60 there for exclusivity.
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Dick's Big Stick and the Democratic Alpha Male

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emptywheel
In his rush to find a problem with the manly men Democrats have been electing of late, Ryan Lizza seems to have forgotten a number of long-serving Congressmen.
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The Next Mujahadeen?

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emptywheel
Walter Pincus finds a troubling appropriation in the Defense Appropriation this year: $75 million dollars for what sounds like early Special Forces intervention in Pakistan's tribal lands.
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Cable News

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emptywheel
This is a thread for speculating wildly why Egypt and Pakistan have lost much of their connectivity.

Ground Game

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emptywheel
The story still missing from almost all coverage of the election is the ground game.
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