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2006–2007

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December 2007

  1. Poland’s Torture Palaces
  2. Lying to Congress before the Torture Tapes
  3. Mary McCarthy and the Terror Tapes
  4. The CIA Solidifies its Terror Tapes Story–or Tries To
  5. Okay Already, Here’s Your Damn Trash Talk Thread
  6. Why the Sudden Veto of Military Pay Raises?
  7. Bhutto
  8. The Terror–Or Maybe Something Else–Presidency
  9. The “Other” Provision Of The Records Act
  10. Torturous Logic
  11. Tommy K’s Everywhere
  12. Merry Christmas
  13. But the Tapes Weren’t IN Washington
  14. Immunity
  15. Secret Schmoozing
  16. Executive Privilege
  17. Recycling Torture Timelines
  18. Timing, Again
  19. What Is It about Lawyers Named Goldsmith?
  20. Emptywheel’s Famous Football Trash Talk Thread – Holiday Edition
  21. The Wheels Of Justice
  22. Dates
  23. Dick and Ed and the NH Phone-Jamming
  24. Dick Cheney’s Lawyer Spikes the Phone-Jamming Case
  25. 2004
  26. Why Is Dana So Touchy?
  27. “Trent Lott Called”
  28. In Which Country Were the Tapes Stored?
  29. Sub-Heading: White House Panics
  30. Lawyering the Torture Tapes
  31. DiFi’s Amendment
  32. Henry Gets Impatient
  33. Dick versus Scottish Haggis: The Grudge Match
  34. The Torture Debate
  35. Why Did Reid Pull the Bill?
  36. WHORM and WAVES
  37. Leadership
  38. Noel Hillman Gets a Subpoena
  39. Sheldon Whitehouse’s Speech
  40. Senator Dodd Tries to Save the Constitution
  41. Competence versus Populism
  42. Fieger Update
  43. Emptywheel’s Famous Football Trash Talk Thread
  44. Isikoff to Congress: Make Sure You Ask for the Negroponte Memo
  45. Did Nacchio Lie, or Just Misunderstand?
  46. Someone Doesn’t Want the Telecoms to Get Immunity
  47. Holiday Travel
  48. Not Three Branches, Not Two Branches, Just One Branch of Government
  49. Oversight or Politics?
  50. The Venezuela Bust
  51. Put Your Own–I Mean, Your Very Own–House in Order First
  52. “Aspirational Terrorism” Won’t Send You to Jail, But It’ll Lead the News
  53. Really Bad Gitmo Propaganda
  54. When All EOs Are Pixie Dust, It Means Dick Can Declassify Anything He Wants
  55. Bam!!! CIA Scores Direct Hit on the Unitary Executive!
  56. Intelligence Oversight and Partisanship
  57. All Your Data Belong to George
  58. Nacchio’s Hearing–before the Judges Who Gave Him Bail–Set for Next Week
  59. Phone Slip
  60. Did the D.O. Lawyer Even Know about Brinkema’s Request?
  61. We’re Not Getting the FISA Opinions … Which Leaves Just the Lawsuits
  62. Bush Turned His EO on Classified Information into Pixie Dust, Too
  63. When All Executive Orders Turn to Pixie Dust
  64. Scooter Libby, Still a Felon; the Unitary Executive, Still a Dubious Theory
  65. Seeing a Catfight Where There Is None
  66. Michael Mukasey, the Shortest Honeymoon Ever
  67. The Revolt of the Spooks
  68. Football Trash Talk Thread
  69. Nancy Pelosi: Congressional Leaders Do Expect the Spanish Inquisition
  70. Banana Split
  71. Breaking: Persians Still Better at Chess than Americans
  72. Congress and the Torture Tapes
  73. Bush’s Direct and Constant Knowledge of the NIE Intelligence
  74. Was Ramzi Bin al-Shibh the Second Al Qaeda Detainee?
  75. Coming after John Yoo
  76. What Do They Say About Cookies Crumbling?
  77. General Hayden Gets Mail
  78. Whitehouse Reveals Smoking Gun of White House Claiming Not to Be Bound by Any Law
  79. Hayden’s Letter
  80. Everything Leaks
  81. Torture and Taping Timeline
  82. Absence of Torture Tape Librarian a Feature, Not a Bug
  83. John Bolton Time Warp
  84. Dick Vetted the Intelligence Two Weeks Ago
  85. John Bolton and the IC’s New Sourcing Rules
  86. Hillary: Bashing the Youth Vote
  87. Scruggs Update: Balducci Did Flip
  88. NIE Timeline, Take Three
  89. The NIE and Israel
  90. I Dunno. It Looks Like a Banana Republic to Me.
  91. Scottish Haggis’ Latest “Compromise”
  92. Big Shitpile Data Point
  93. Why Would Orrin Hatch Need a Defense Fund?
  94. August 2007 PDB: Iran Not Determined to Get Nukes
  95. Intelligence Puts a Crimp in Dick’s War-Mongering
  96. Tommy K “In Custody”
  97. Fox Wants to See the Shredded Scraps of Our Constitution
  98. The Republican Notion of Oversight
  99. Waxman Still after Fitz’s FBI Files
  100. Lookie here! My own digs!
  101. Jeb Bush, Worse than Neil?
  102. Wolfie’s Back?
  103. The FISA Document Dump, An Inventory
  104. What Did the Blue Dogs Promise to DNI McConnell?
  105. Beer and Turkey Thirty

November 2007

  1. Lackey and Katrina Kash
  2. You Don’t Introduce New Products in August
  3. Wilkes Gets His Subpoenas
  4. Tommy K and the Shitpile
  5. Joe Klein, Do You Really Think Crazy Pete Is Credible?!?!?!
  6. Tommy K Apparently Violated His Plea Agreement
  7. Scruggs and Lott
  8. Then Again…
  9. Sure Looks Like It Was Trent’s Brother-in-Law
  10. Who Has Been Lobbying Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell?
  11. The Infintite Recursion of Asset Seizures
  12. “I Was Under Sedation”
  13. And Speaking of Missing Emails
  14. What Is It about those GOP Appointees and their Email Computer Files?
  15. That’s What I Like in a Financial Advisor
  16. Time Gives Up on the Truth
  17. More Intriguing than a Boy-for-Hire
  18. Enigmatic Terms
  19. Christian Forgiveness
  20. They’re Still Paying for Intell Pork
  21. Geragos’ Intentionally Non-Responsive Subpoena to Lisa Myers
  22. The Lisa Myers Subpoena
  23. The Monday before Tuesday
  24. Calea
  25. Trent and Mitch
  26. Does this Sound Familiar?
  27. It Takes Astute Observation, Not Mea Culpas
  28. Speaking of the Saudis
  29. Putin Captures Opponent’s Bishop
  30. The Saudis Have Been Busy
  31. Probable Cause
  32. Thanksgiving Football Trashtalk Thread
  33. Stop Making Scottie McC Rich!!
  34. Rove Is Rejected By Time
  35. Radioactive DHS
  36. GOP Offer Healthcare to All Those without Pre-Existing Conditions
  37. Hey Senators! What About Immunity for Former Qwest Officials
  38. Scottie
  39. Fieger Makes Allegations about Arkansas
  40. Will Luis Posada Face Justice?
  41. No, Pakistan Was the Last Big Test. And We Failed It.
  42. Paulose Resigns
  43. Kafka Would Be Proud
  44. Fran Townsend Resigns
  45. What Are Newspapers Best For?
  46. Oil Bucks
  47. Immunity May Be Dead Anyway
  48. Shall, Part Two?
  49. Boston: No News Is Bad News
  50. More on the FBI’s Own Falafel
  51. Firewall, The Sequel
  52. Should Executives that Suborn Perjury Get Special Favors?
  53. What Is It with GOPers and Their Email?, Episode 516,345
  54. Further Evidence They Threw AGAG Under the Bus
  55. They’re Not Telling
  56. The CIA’s Interrogation Tape Librarian
  57. They’re Monitoring Falafels but Not Their Own Agencies
  58. 4 Days on the Job and Already Mukasey Has Lapped Gonzales
  59. AGAG’s Clique Didn’t Even Know Tribal Crimes Were Part of the Job
  60. The FISA Amendment Will Legalize Data Mining, Part One
  61. Dick DeVos Is a Welfare Queen
  62. What Is It with GOPers and Their Email?
  63. Margaret Chiara and the Ongoing Problem of Justice on Reservations
  64. CIA Contractor Fired for Stating Waterboarding Is Torture
  65. Armitage, a Review
  66. “This problem will not be discussed in public”
  67. Richard Mellon Scaife, “With Michael Isikoff”?
  68. The Axis of False Intelligence Claims
  69. No News Is Bad News
  70. If Ever You Needed Proof that Pseudonymity Anonymity Hysteria Is Bunk
  71. Mukasey Confirmed
  72. Compartmentalization, Syrian Airstrike Style
  73. The Constitutional Right to a Press Pass
  74. Illegal Spying on Hackers
  75. Pakistan and the Serious People, One
  76. Falafel Foresight
  77. Terminate
  78. Where’s Duke?
  79. Did I Say Bear Hunting?
  80. Gone Bear Hunting–Light Posting
  81. Bush and Schumer
  82. Whitehouse Sniffing around Bush’s Executive Orders
  83. Who Vetted Mukasey?
  84. Diplomatic Renditions?
  85. Mukasey Will Not Commit to Restoring Election Law Manual
  86. Mukasey and Contempt

October 2007

  1. Shorter 4 Top Lawyers: To Hell with the Courts
  2. Jane Harman Responds
  3. State Loses Its Army
  4. Oh Madame Secretary…?
  5. Time for Another Primary Challenge for Jane Harman
  6. The Lead Rubber Ducky in Grover’s Bathtub
  7. Blackwater Guards Given Immunity from Prosecution
  8. Exxon Would Like to be Excused
  9. We’ve Seen This Before
  10. McConnell’s Earmarks
  11. Patrick Philbin
  12. Funny Money
  13. Update on Gaming Intelligence to Justify War
  14. The Dodge on Retroactive Immunity
  15. Minimization, the Whitehouse Way
  16. Why Do They Need to Spy on Americans Overseas without a Warrant?
  17. Shorter SSCI: The Immunity Is Really for Qwest
  18. They’re Using AUMF in Their Justification for Warrantless Wiretapping
  19. The FISA Report
  20. About that Need for a Whistleblower Law…
  21. The Wilkes Firestorm
  22. Hot and Cold Running Classification
  23. Razed
  24. Trying to Peel the Haggis
  25. Shorter GOP: It’s Okay if Maliki’s Govt Supports Insurgents, So Long as It’s Not OUR Money
  26. The Guards Have Left the Country
  27. The United States of AT&T Wants Satellites Now, Too
  28. Condi Must Be Preparing a Dog and a Pony
  29. What Riley Said about Rove
  30. Madame Secretary Finally Accepts an Invitation
  31. Dick’s Shooting Ranch: the Welfare Queen of the Farm Bill
  32. Update on the Government’s Response to Nacchio
  33. They’re Scared
  34. The Kiddie Porn Excuse
  35. The Prosecutors’ Response to Nacchio
  36. Protect Whistleblowers before Extending Reporter’s Privilege
  37. Henry Sez: Erik Prince, You Owe the Feds $48 Million
  38. Gonzales Refuses to Answer Questions
  39. What Remains Unsaid
  40. Jello Jay Rockefeller’s “Deal”
  41. The Public Pressure on Subpoenas
  42. The Show Trials
  43. Fieger’s Judge Gets Curious
  44. FISA Update
  45. Trojan First Amendment
  46. If You’re In Western Mass
  47. And Then There Were Three?
  48. Six Months
  49. The Murdoch Media Service Obliges GOP Lies
  50. Ensuring Quality
  51. A Brilliant Case Officer
  52. Lobbyist Logic
  53. Dick DeVos and KayBee Hutchison Go After Bloggers
  54. Did the NSA Ask for Data Mining Before or After 9/11?
  55. Some Context on Hayden’s Witchhunt of Helgerson
  56. Atttorney-Client “Crossed Lines”
  57. The NewOld USAs
  58. The Dread Dinners!
  59. What Nacchio Tells Us about the NSA
  60. Who Were the Other Two?
  61. Rove’s Free Lobbying Gig
  62. We Might Yet Crack MZM
  63. Help this NOLA Family
  64. Groundbreaker and the Secret Request
  65. Senate Minority Leader Fuels the Flames
  66. I Do Believe I Smell a PR Campaign
  67. Why State?
  68. Simpson Claims Rove Worked with Public Integrity on Siegelman Case
  69. Gonzales Seems to Expect More Trouble
  70. Roll Call on FISA in HJC
  71. Bartlett Targets Deadeye Dick
  72. Blogger in the Eye of the Beholder?
  73. The Latest Terrorism Leak
  74. Society of “Professional” “Journalists” Proves It Is Neither
  75. Watergate, the Farce
  76. “It’s Too Expensive to Reveal Our Role in Mine Disasters”
  77. Progress?
  78. Spying on Your Friends and Enemies
  79. Is This Just a Reference to Libby’s Harrassment?
  80. The Legislative Branch Shows Signs of Life
  81. Wherein emptywheel Disagrees with PatFitz
  82. Cathie Martin’s Working Media on One Side
  83. Oh, THAT’S Who We Get to Kick Around
  84. Waterboarding Is Fair Game
  85. Who Do We Have to Kick Around Anymore?
  86. About Those Emails? The Contractor Did It
  87. A Game of Telephone
  88. In Govt We Do Not Trust
  89. Abu Ghraib, Hamdi, and Rather
  90. How to Spend $57 Million on Cocktail Weenies
  91. Wilkes Is On His Own
  92. One Small Victory for Oversight
  93. What Secrets Is Wilkes Planning to Spring?
  94. One Texas Oilman Pleads Guilty
  95. The Cost of Doing Business
  96. AT&T’s Latest Censorship
  97. Counterproliferationinsurgency

September 2007

  1. Duke Conference: Judges Panel (Reggie Live)
  2. Duke Conference: Role of the Public
  3. Duke Conference Update
  4. Prosecutor Panel
  5. Defense Attorneys Panel
  6. Has Dick Cheney Outlasted Bill Leonard?
  7. Checking In
  8. Afri … um EuroAfriCom
  9. Travel Day
  10. $290 Million on Scrapped Surveillance Programs
  11. Is Larry Craig Sticking Around for Immunity from Subpoena?
  12. The Congressional Appropriations Process and How It Works
  13. Unreliable Sources
  14. The Price Tag for War
  15. UAW and Health Care
  16. Did Duke–or the 13 Congressmen–Make Wilkes Do It?
  17. Who Owns the UN’s Computer Systems?
  18. Historic Compartmentalization
  19. Chuck Grassley Agrees with the Netroots
  20. The Real Reason
  21. The Upcoming Resolution for War on Iran
  22. Dick Kicked Over Condi’s Soapbox
  23. Strike!
  24. Novak and Rove Un-Break Up
  25. NSA Takes Over Internet Security from DHS
  26. Clarence Thomas’ Most Important Contribution To Date
  27. No Shiite Sherlock
  28. The Israeli Bombing Run in Syria
  29. They Really DO Want Monica to Do FISA Applications!
  30. Two More Details on the Rather Complaint
  31. “Whenever It Is Convenient for You”
  32. And Now the Saudis
  33. The Lobbyist-In-Chief Invites His Friends Over
  34. $1.40
  35. The 1% Leadership Solution
  36. CBS Collaborates in Torture
  37. The Pre-Emptive Cave on Immunity
  38. No Input from DOJ
  39. House Rules
  40. Mr. Sulzberger, Tear Down That Wall
  41. Diplomatic Convoys
  42. Congressional Subpoenas Are the New Graymail
  43. Iraq Will Review All Contractors
  44. Banana Cream Pie
  45. The United States of AT&T
  46. Orange County GOP Narrowly Avoids Horrible Embarrassment
  47. The Five Star Hotel Was on the Taypayer’s Dime
  48. Why Keisler
  49. Clement Headfake
  50. Mukasey
  51. Security
  52. Too Late
  53. 12 People
  54. Domestic Spying
  55. Public Intellectual
  56. It’s All Zapruder’s Fault
  57. Novak’s Counter-Proliferation Problem
  58. More Inauspiciousness: Your Rent-a-Sheikh Gets Killed
  59. McConnell and Lieberman
  60. Oil Oops
  61. McConnell: I’m a Liar
  62. Aieieieie! The Dead Awake!!
  63. Jim Webb Channels emptywheel
  64. “The Math”
  65. If the UC Regents Are So Susceptible to Political Pressure…
  66. Free Press Asks for Details
  67. Banana Republic
  68. Tribute
  69. Our Blabby Director of National Intelligence
  70. Invite Admiral Fallon to Tell Us if We’re Safer
  71. Now Why Would They Want to Bury Plea Agreements?
  72. I’d Love to See Conyers and Pelosi in a Spat
  73. Is There Any Indication This Isn’t the Fault of OVP?
  74. Whose Credibility Is Declining Faster?
  75. The Warrantless Wiretap Program Was Illegal
  76. Holy Joe Bewails Free Speech
  77. War and Propaganda Council
  78. Medicare Giveaways!
  79. The Hunt for Oil
  80. Communities of Interest
  81. “The White House Needs to Hire an Archivist”
  82. What Indictments Did Schlozman Speak to Elston About?
  83. Why Would DOJ Oppose Net Neutrality … Now?
  84. They Won’t Put Their Lies in Writing
  85. Our Latest Rent-a-Thuggish-Sheikh in Iraq
  86. Get Your Satellite Out of My Backyard
  87. Were They Bypassing Gonzales, Too?
  88. Or Maybe O’Hanlon Is the New Judy Miller
  89. The ACLU Begins to Win Back Our Country
  90. General Petraeus Is the New Judy Miller
  91. Yet Another Whine about a Report Card
  92. The Purpose of Homeland Security
  93. No Senators Knew
  94. Somebody to Fire!!!!
  95. Republicans Back Sound Minimization Oversight
  96. The Decider on Iran
  97. Scottish Haggis and Wide Stance
  98. GAO Report: The Status of the Dispute
  99. Tommy K’s Greek Vacation
  100. Still Holding My Breath for DeYoung and Ricks
  101. The GAO Report Busts the Administration in Its Lies
  102. “One Bomb Away”
  103. emptywheel’s Continuing Obsession with Ed Gillespie
  104. Remember that Bankruptcy Bill We Passed…
  105. Goldsmith’s PR Campaign Begins
  106. War Council
  107. Arrest John Boehner
  108. How Long Has Gillespie Been Acting as White House Counselor?
  109. We’re Sorry for Spiking the News
  110. Condi, AIPAC, and the A1 Cut-Out
  111. Bush’s Cheney’s Legacy

August 2007

  1. Ding Dong the Wicked Witch Is … Publishing at NRO?
  2. Tommy K’s Cooperation
  3. How to Spike an Investigation
  4. August 24
  5. The Inspector General
  6. Good Enough for Our Children, But Not Bush’s Vanity War
  7. Seal-Fight in San Diego
  8. Speaking of Propaganda Reports
  9. Condi’s Jewels
  10. The Report Liberation Review Process
  11. Moral Relativists
  12. The Replacements
  13. The Iglesias Cover-Up, Again
  14. Schlozman’s Not Done
  15. The Political Rehabilitation of Ari Fleischer
  16. Wilkes’ Creditors Don’t Get to See His Financial Statements, Either
  17. Did Chertoff EVER Use the DHS privacy review process?
  18. Random Thoughts on AGAG’s Demise
  19. A Tale of Two Resignations
  20. I Should Go Away More Often
  21. Going Fishing!
  22. The End of the Month
  23. Minimization
  24. Don’t Bother Telling Those with Oversight Responsibilities
  25. The NIE: Iraq to Split in Three States
  26. Time to Fire the White House Webmaster
  27. DNI McConnell: Not Fighting Them Over There, So We Can Wiretap You Here
  28. McConnell Kills
  29. Quinn Gillespie’s New Client
  30. Stephen Hayes Tells the Truthiness: “There Wouldn’t Have Been an Investigation”
  31. Is Waxman Protecting Tom Davis in His Politicization Investigation?
  32. TALON, Guardian, Insert Your Name of the Week
  33. Stephen Hayes Tells the Truthiness: CIA Trip Report
  34. They Can’t Legislate $hit
  35. Wilkes Will Get an Enemy Combatant Lawyer for His Extraordinary Rendition-Related Trial
  36. What Stephen Hayes Doesn’t Want You to Know about Cheney’s Involvment in Outing Valerie Wilson
  37. Details on Cheney’s FISA Documents
  38. Schloz Shortened
  39. Documents from Dick, not Bush?!?!?
  40. Senate Friends
  41. House GOP Mutiny
  42. The ACLU Motion
  43. Fred’s Delays and FISA
  44. Rally Squads and Disappearing Demonstrators
  45. Why You Don’t Have the Guys that Are Part of the Story…
  46. The Democratic Cave
  47. Tom Davis, On the Record Source
  48. Why Rove Resigned? To Grant the Administration Immunity
  49. Electronic Surveillance
  50. It’s a Small World–Impugning a Witness Edition
  51. Or Maybe It’s the Hatch Act that Will Do Karl In
  52. Stephen Hayes on Keller on Dick
  53. Skubick’s Off the Record
  54. Domenici and Rove
  55. Activities and Yoo
  56. What AGAG Learned from the Newspapers
  57. Leahy’s Keeping Busy
  58. Mueller’s Chronology
  59. Security Clearances Two
  60. Banana Pudding
  61. Gillespie Squared
  62. “It’s entirely possible that everything they think they know is entirely false”
  63. About that May FISC Ruling
  64. It’s Going to Be One Heckova Political Year in Football
  65. TSP Timing, Again
  66. Behavior Detection
  67. Interesting Timing
  68. Ghost Writing
  69. Pearlstine’s Off the Record
  70. Privacy versus the Press
  71. Novak Mourns His BFF
  72. Beached Whale
  73. A Thousand Words
  74. Category Two Documents
  75. “At 56 years old says he is done with political consulting”
  76. My Guesses on Why Rove Resigned
  77. TSP and FISA
  78. Feingold’s Questions
  79. Warrantless Wiretapping and the IG Loophole
  80. What Happened to the FISC Appeal?
  81. Two Rulings?
  82. None of the Above
  83. A Reverse F.U.
  84. Hoekstra’s Leaks/Cheney’s Leaks
  85. Photographs
  86. Well, Of Course
  87. Republican Self-Hate
  88. This Is What Nancy Should Have Done on FISA
  89. This Time, We’ll Bail Out the S&Ls without a Congressional Debate
  90. The Leak Wars: Revisiting the Pre-Indictment Leaks
  91. The Leak Wars: Elston Accuses Lam
  92. McConnell and Dick
  93. Brief Lies
  94. What If the Media Reclaimed Their Role as Fourth Estate…
  95. Lurita Doan, Round 2043: Davis v. Bloch Edition
  96. The Latest Email Dump: Growing Evidence of an Iglesias Cover-Up
  97. My Guess on Kontogiannis
  98. Thoughts on FISA
  99. Security Clearances

July 2007

  1. We’re Still Waiting…
  2. YearlyKos Timing
  3. The Check’s In the Mail
  4. Why Does Lurita Doan Still Have a Job?
  5. Scottish Haggis’ 18 Hours
  6. Dick on Libby
  7. The Kiss of Death
  8. About that Data-Mining…
  9. When an Interview Is Definitely a Blow-Job
  10. Data-Mining Three
  11. TIA and TSP Timing
  12. They
  13. Data-Mining Two
  14. The Gray Lady Hides the Disagreement
  15. Data-Mining
  16. Presidential Parsing
  17. Ix-Nay on the Onstitution-Cay
  18. Novak, I’ll Blog You When You’re Gone
  19. The USA Purge, to Date
  20. The David Iglesias Cover-Up
  21. Have they done this sort of thing? Send an Amb to answer a question?, Part Two
  22. The Rove Subpoena
  23. The Call for a Special Counsel
  24. The Briefing Dates
  25. Turning Tides
  26. Have they done this sort of thing? Send an Amb to answer a question?, Part One
  27. No Longer Operative
  28. Did Harman Approve of the Illegal Domestic Wiretap Program?
  29. Cheney Got the Keys to DOJ … But Did Rove?
  30. Cunningham, CIFA, and Cheney, a New Chronology
  31. AGAG’s Just Given Cheney the Keys to the DOJ Kingdom
  32. Changing the Rules
  33. Time to Talk to the Gang of Eight
  34. Crappy Product, Crappy Marketing Company
  35. Judy Finally Gets Her Wingnut Welfare!!
  36. Globalization and Terror and More Obstruction at DOJ
  37. A Tale of Two NIEs
  38. Bush’s Cheney’s Signing Statement on the Geneva Convention
  39. Eric Edelman, Leaker Extraordinaire
  40. Did Eric Edelman Steal Robert Gates’ Mail?
  41. Let the Sunshine In
  42. The Jurisdiction of DOJ’s Inspector General
  43. Edelman Says: “Congressional Oversight Emboldens Our Enemies”
  44. With All Due Respect to the WaPo
  45. Dear Congress
  46. Oh, It Was Eric Edelman Lecturing Hillary??
  47. Senate Dems Corner Bush and Gonzales on Their Attempt to Game Appointments
  48. Propaganda Squared
  49. The IG Loophole
  50. The “PDAG” Who Approved Harriet’s Immunity Had No Authority to Do So
  51. Why Hide the Energy Task Force
  52. AGAG Says “Good Job”–but about What?
  53. The Resignation of CIFA’s Top Management
  54. MZM’s Republican AND DEMOCRATIC Congressmen
  55. Desperation at the DOJ
  56. Useful Details about Armitage Might Be In There
  57. Where is Mary McCarthy Now?
  58. The DOD/State Talking Point, Two
  59. What Fitzgerald Didn’t Know Yet
  60. The DOD/State Talking Point
  61. House Intelligence Committee Stonewalling
  62. A Field Position Game
  63. A Second Strategic Failure
  64. Is It Ken Starr’s Fault?
  65. No Oversight
  66. Why Harriet??
  67. Rove and Nixon and Anne Armstrong and the Work Yet to Be Done
  68. Sara Taylor Refuses to Agree Tim Griffin Had “Substantial” Experience
  69. The “Embarrassment Privilege”
  70. The False First Amendment of the Dow Jones and AP
  71. Fitzgerald: Not a Runaway Prosecutor, Explained Simply
  72. Reggie’s Going to Smile
  73. Why the Libby Lobby Story about Armitage Is False
  74. Executive Privilege, RNC Style
  75. No More $$ to Shred our Constitution
  76. “I Don’t Know Enough About It”
  77. Why Lefty Bloggers Should Always Get to Fly First Class
  78. IOB and Gonzales’s Latest Perjury
  79. Conyers Hearing on Libby Commutation
  80. Novak’s July 7 Meeting
  81. Just Scraps of Snark Remaining
  82. Fred and Paul Forget the Constitution–Time to Remind Them
  83. Isikoff’s Worst
  84. Cheney Plays Dumb
  85. The Guy Who Failed Points Fingers
  86. And While We’re Talking about Taylors at the Center of the USA Purge
  87. Sara’s Sob Story
  88. You Want a Motive? Libby’s Secret Mission
  89. Libby’s Going to Try to Get Out of Probation, Too
  90. Defense Lawyers Would Be Stupid
  91. Go Read Jeralyn
  92. Libby’s Timing
  93. The Woman Left the Commission
  94. Obstruction of Justice Merits More Punishment than Censure
  95. Two Rats Off of Bush’s Sinking Ship
  96. Considerable Means
  97. Is Senator Sesssions the Fred Thompson of the Bush Scandals?
  98. Bush Bypasses the Strictures Put in Place after Clinton
  99. Another Disappearing Republican Front Group
  100. Liberate Libby’s PSR
  101. Is this the Evidence that Libby Knew Plame Was Covert?
  102. The Off the Record Club Weighs In
  103. emptywheel Explains Again and Again and Again about Obstruction of Justice
  104. 75 out of 1131
  105. The Only Thing Clinton Hid was a Blow Job and a Soggy Cigar
  106. Some Questions Congress Might Ask
  107. Fitz Speaks
  108. George Bush Obstructs Justice
  109. More Funny Business with Record-Keeping?
  110. AQ Khan’s on the Loose
  111. The Report from Wilson’s Trip, Again
  112. Inmate 28301-016
  113. Did They Try to Replace Iglesias with Rogers?
  114. Replacing the Imperial Presidency in the Age of Global Warming
  115. Classification Is Not Declassification
  116. Taliban Taking Over Pakistan

June 2007

  1. The Silence Surrounding Novak’s Testimony
  2. Kontogiannis’ Seal
  3. Mind the Gap: the Libby-Novak Call
  4. Actually, TWO DOJ Employees Quit This Week
  5. The Two Redacted Pages
  6. This Is How It’s Done
  7. WSJ and the AP Finally Get Their Windmill!
  8. Fred Fielding Lied to the Press Yesterday
  9. Solicit
  10. Congress Has a Legislative Need to Understand Bush’s Intent
  11. Timing
  12. Back to the Eighteen Minute Gap
  13. TSA versus Booz Allen
  14. Fred’s Fuck You and Clement’s Conflict of Interest
  15. Grossly Beyond the Scope
  16. Shall
  17. Subpoenas
  18. The WaPo’s Schizophrenia
  19. It Depends on What the Definition of “Agency” Is
  20. Not Quite the Energy Task Force
  21. Judge Huvelle Was Not Amused
  22. Does Brit Hume Think NSA Spying Only Happens to Bad Guys?
  23. Henry Gets Impatient
  24. Does the “Royalty Management Subcommittee” Sound Like Something We’d Find in Cheney’s DOI?
  25. Some Questions
  26. Well Then, We’ll Take Away Executive Privilege for Everyone Else
  27. The Liz Cheney Presidency
  28. Loonies and BRICs
  29. Cheney’s “Policies”
  30. Cravenly Groveling
  31. It’s Called R-E-C-U-S-A-L
  32. More Classification Games
  33. Sources: Or, Tedious Kremlinology
  34. Addington’s Methods
  35. PFIAB and OVP
  36. Angler
  37. Pope Keeps Blair Out of Heaven because of Iraq
  38. Cheney’s Method
  39. And While We’re at It, Let’s Take Away Their Security Clearance
  40. Heffelfinger, NAIS, and the USA Purge
  41. The Next Four-Branch Presidency
  42. Shorter Bush: I Wrote It in Invisble Ink
  43. Sidney’s Imperial Presidency
  44. Mercer’s Non-Move
  45. Hold > Get Agency to Answer That, Part Two
  46. Shorter Fitz: Send Libby to Jail
  47. CIPA Fun, One
  48. Cohen Tries to Make Sense
  49. Sentelle, Henderson, Tatel
  50. Curbing the Imperial Presidency
  51. Oscar Meyer Continues to Have a Banner Decade
  52. Rummy’s Plausible Deniability
  53. More Details from the Interim EMail Report
  54. Dick Blows Pakistan
  55. Ralston’s Deposition
  56. Light Bloggging
  57. Griles’ Idea of Public Service
  58. Shorter Abu Gonzales: Throw Libby in Jail for at Least 30 Months
  59. Throwing Another Admin Official in Jail for Obstruction
  60. Finished with Doan, Bloch Turns to Rove
  61. The Foreign Lobby Industry
  62. The Last of the Clique Resigns
  63. Bill Moyers Says It Beautifully
  64. Shorter Schloz and the IG
  65. Under-Sealed
  66. Bandar and DOJ
  67. Another Example of ICE Subpoenaing Voter Rolls
  68. Gonzales May Be Next
  69. Cardona’s Appointment Extended Using PATRIOT
  70. Duncan Hunter Taught Duke Cunningham His Crooked Ways
  71. Reggie Sends Libby to Jail
  72. The President’s Counselor In-House Lobbyist
  73. Chertoff Building More of an Investigative Empire
  74. Team Libby Hires Mr. SCOTUS
  75. Go Read Digby and Jane
  76. emptywheel Reads those Cowardly Elephants Like a Book
  77. Lurita Doan’s Hortatory Subjunctive
  78. The Secrets They’re Still Protecting
  79. New Emails: Taylor, Griffin Gone, and McNulty Testifying Again
  80. Doan’s Lawyers Convince Bloch to Go Harsh
  81. Well, That Clarifies Everything
  82. Should Libby Go to Jail? Congress Says Yes
  83. The WSJ Cut-Out Approach to Discussing Pardons
  84. Musharraf on the Way Out?
  85. Profiles in Courage, GOP Edition
  86. Joe Chooses His New Friend, Karl Rove, Over the Rule of Law
  87. Alan Dershowitz “Would” Have Done the Same with Clinton’s Prosecutor
  88. Michael Horowitz Issues a Threat
  89. I Knew This Would Come Back to Riggs Bank
  90. The Funny Thing about Coburn’s No-Confidence Amendment
  91. Inventory of the Scooter Libby Letters
  92. On Fouad’s Fallen Soldier
  93. Some Schlozman Details
  94. A Few Interesting Details on Comey’s Answers
  95. Well, That Didn’t Take Long
  96. Did Cheney’s Personal Lawyer Release Dick’s Statement on Libby?
  97. Shorter Reggie: I Will Remember Your Interest in Public Service the Next Time Someone Really Needs It
  98. Welcome to My Personal Half of the Lefty Blogosphere
  99. Bork Tries to Fire Another Prosecutor
  100. Nadler Puts Cheney in His Sights
  101. On Those Letters
  102. Hold > Get Agency to Answer That …
  103. Libby’s Turnaround
  104. Timing and the Jefferson Indictment
  105. Court Tells FCC to Go Cheney Itself
  106. Novak Pitches for Doan
  107. June 9, 2003: The President Gets Involved
  108. Why Pick Gillespie to Replace Bartlett?
  109. Our Complicity in Genocide War Crimes
  110. Internecine Squabbles, Part 12,531
  111. What Will Mikey Do without His Best Source?
  112. The Neverending Saga of Lurita Doan
  113. Internecine Squabbles, Ten Months Later
  114. How’s that Search for a New SSCI Chair Going, John Ashcroft Testimony Edition
  115. Thompson’s Folly
  116. What If Dick and Bush Are Jeffress’ Pen Pals?
  117. Buh Bye Bartlett
  118. Senator Kyl, Battered Wife
  119. I Present to You: Saint Libby
  120. Cross-References and Circular Arguments

May 2007

  1. The Defense Makes Its Final Desperate PR Bid
  2. My Name Is emptywheel and I Am an Oversight Hearings Addict
  3. More Like This Please
  4. Heffelfinger: Targeted by a Who’s Who of Voter Suppression Stars
  5. Reggie’s Got Mail–But We’ll Have Mail, Too, on June 5
  6. Don’t Let the Door Hit You…
  7. Reggie’s Got Mail
  8. What Constitutes a Hatch Act Violation?
  9. Isikoff Forgets His Own Book
  10. Bonamici’s Books
  11. More on Immigration Judges
  12. The Wilson SSCI Part Three: Or, Cheney’s Black Hole
  13. The Wilson SSCI Part Two: Or, Kneecapping Waxman
  14. DHS Hasn’t Found Any Terrorists, Either
  15. The Wilson SSCI Part One: Or, Why I Want a New SSCI Chair
  16. The Latest from SSCI
  17. Details
  18. ICE and the Immigration Judges
  19. Did Scott Bloch Spike the Doan Investigation?
  20. Libby Doesn’t Want Bloggers to Know Who Is Shilling for Him
  21. Random Details from the Presentencing Memo
  22. Shorter Fitz Two: The Public Deserves to Know Who’s Shilling for Libby
  23. Shorter Fitz: No One Is Above the Law
  24. Harriet
  25. Heffelfinger, Native Americans, and Voting Rights
  26. Lurking Dick
  27. Lurita Doan: NOT Saved by Her Crackberry
  28. Monica’s Loyalties
  29. Did Sara Taylor Harriet Miers Appoint Tim Griffin USA on December 15, 2006?
  30. McClatchy Kicked Off the Plane AND Redacted Beyond Recognition
  31. How to Spike the Lewis Investigation
  32. Or Should I Have Said: Nice Try Tom Davis?
  33. Shorter Henry: Nice Try, Brad Berenson
  34. Did Orrin Hatch and Byron York Get Their Oppo Research from Monica?
  35. What’s Here Is Correct
  36. What's Here Is Correct
  37. Speaking of Back-Dating Signatures
  38. Questions for Monica
  39. Making the No Confidence Votes Count: Support Impeachment
  40. Throwing Nukes and Merging Offices
  41. Is this How to Sue the Telecoms?
  42. The New Details on Gonzales
  43. Does Specter Know Something Specific (for a Change)?
  44. David Sanger in the Aspen Grove
  45. Are They Using ICE to Go After “Voter Fraud”?
  46. “None of this Meant that Ashcroft Was a Closet Liberal”
  47. What a Week Gonzales Had
  48. And if Domenici Won’t Support No Confidence, Ask Him Who His First Choice Was…
  49. It Depends on What Your Definition of “Few” Is
  50. Colorado Turns Against Gonzales
  51. Celebrating the Successful Obstruction of Justice
  52. Hiatt’s Crumbling Soapbox
  53. Hiatt's Crumbling Soapbox
  54. Clinton, Dick, and Immunity
  55. Preliminary Thoughts on Votes against Gonzales
  56. Schumer’s Had Enough
  57. Schumer's Had Enough
  58. Stumped
  59. Which Illegal Domestic Spying Program?
  60. Hertling’s Third Strike
  61. Hertling's Third Strike
  62. Exit Strategies: of the Neocons, If Not by the Neocons
  63. Bush Is a Shiny Object
  64. Burns Unimpressed with Geragos’ Lawyering
  65. Burns Unimpressed with Geragos' Lawyering
  66. No Wonder No One Else Wanted the Job
  67. Addington and the “Turncoat” Patrick Philbin
  68. Addington and the "Turncoat" Patrick Philbin
  69. What Is It with these Potty-Mouthed Neocons
  70. DAG Double Play
  71. The Off the Record Club Strikes Again
  72. Those Vile Hate-Mongering Pseudonyms
  73. Wolfie under Pressure
  74. “Our Oversight Committees”
  75. "Our Oversight Committees"
  76. Pioneering Corruption, Part Three
  77. Why I Worry about Goodling’s Immunized Testimony
  78. Why I Worry about Goodling's Immunized Testimony
  79. The Superseding Indictments–What They Tell Us
  80. Is Kasey Warner the Second USA Comey Fired?
  81. No Web Journalists Allowed?
  82. About that DOJ Leak
  83. Matt Friedrich Busts Karl and Monica
  84. Swapping One Crook for Another
  85. Murray’s Scoop: It’s about Griffin
  86. Murray's Scoop: It's about Griffin
  87. Delahunt Hammers Gonzales on Posada
  88. AGAG Makes His Last Stand on Voting Fraud
  89. USA Timing
  90. Imagine Being Fitzgerald
  91. Their Own Reasons
  92. “Inferior Officers”
  93. "Inferior Officers"
  94. Don’t Say Blow Job
  95. Don't Say Blow Job
  96. Shorter George: Screw the GOP Senators
  97. No One Could Have Foreseen that the Premiums Would Go to Pay Saddam
  98. Another Key Resignation at Department of Interior
  99. Did Troy Eid Also Bypass the Vetting Process?
  100. Bypassing the Vetting Process
  101. The Foggo-Wilkes Leaks
  102. Dear George: Fire Wolfie, or Else
  103. Ben Stevens Not Is Named in VECO Charging Document
  104. Shorter Karen Hewitt: Foggo and Wilkes Are BFFs
  105. Chamber of Commerce Prepares for Waxman
  106. Buchanan’s Boy Indicts Republicans
  107. Buchanan's Boy Indicts Republicans
  108. About that Binder of Emails
  109. Simon Dodge
  110. Sampson Tries to Convert Yang, and then He Tries to Oust Her
  111. I Call Bull
  112. Why Did Comey Fire Thomas DeBiagio?
  113. DOJ Catches Up to Schumer and emptywheel
  114. Sara Taylor Sends Horse Heads to the USAs
  115. Opa
  116. Why Were the “Highest Levels of Government” Rushing Lam Out?
  117. Why Were the "Highest Levels of Government" Rushing Lam Out?
  118. Shorter Foggo’s Lawyer: Please Give Us the Politicized USA
  119. Shorter Foggo's Lawyer: Please Give Us the Politicized USA
  120. A Question of Timing
  121. Bring on Foley
  122. Did CO’s USA Hide His Abramoff-Related Lobbying?
  123. Did CO's USA Hide His Abramoff-Related Lobbying?
  124. So Much for Sampson’s “Aggregator” Myth
  125. So Much for Sampson's "Aggregator" Myth
  126. Changes in NAIS Membership

April 2007

  1. Rove Makes the NYT Lose Its Appetite
  2. Native Americans and the USA Purge, Part Two
  3. Native Americans and the USA Purge, Part One
  4. Is Tim Griffin Going to Leave?
  5. About that FBI Special Agent In Charge
  6. Fox, Henhouse, Bush’s DOJ
  7. Fox, Henhouse, Bush's DOJ
  8. Lam’s Bar Award
  9. Lam's Bar Award
  10. Frist: Saved by His Crackberry
  11. The Documents Not Turned Over
  12. McCain’s Poor Sense of Timing
  13. McCain's Poor Sense of Timing
  14. Condi Still Flipping Waxman the Bird
  15. “Informational Briefings about the Political Landscape”
  16. "Informational Briefings about the Political Landscape"
  17. The Other 13
  18. Explosion of Movement
  19. If One Conservative Says It, It’s Spin; If Two, It’s a Talking Point
  20. If One Conservative Says It, It's Spin; If Two, It's a Talking Point
  21. Emptywheel Vindication Day on Yang
  22. Scott Bloch Says … Nothing about Prosecutorial Politicization
  23. Rove Investigation: Shiny Object or Historical Novelty
  24. Mirror Mirror
  25. OVP 2 007
  26. Has Dick Cheney Been Flipping Off Bill Leonard with BOTH Fingers?
  27. Whom Did Gonzales Speak to about Lam?
  28. Sun Microsystems, Lurita Doan, and Tim Griffin Meet in Arkansas
  29. Rick Renzi’s $4 Million Alfalfa Field
  30. Rick Renzi's $4 Million Alfalfa Field
  31. Republican Felon Family Values
  32. Whitehouse Busts Gonzales for Trying to Bury DOJ’s Internal Investigation
  33. Whitehouse Busts Gonzales for Trying to Bury DOJ's Internal Investigation
  34. Did Miers Tell Yang to Go or Be Fired?
  35. Orrin Hatch’s Intelligence Question
  36. Orrin Hatch's Intelligence Question
  37. The Gonzales Strategy
  38. 7 out of 8 Investigating Public Corruption Cases
  39. Mr. Bush, Tear Down this Wall
  40. Search Terms
  41. Did Coleman Recommend Paulose?
  42. Biskupic’s Bi-Partisan Influence-Peddling Case?
  43. Biskupic's Bi-Partisan Influence-Peddling Case?
  44. What Is the Statute of Limitation for Obstruction?
  45. I Guess Monica Wasn’t the Only One Issuing Loyalty Oaths
  46. I Guess Monica Wasn't the Only One Issuing Loyalty Oaths
  47. Conyers Wants More Interviews
  48. Evidence of Tampering with an Ongoing Investigation
  49. The RNC Tries to Hide Its Hatch Act Violations
  50. Let’s Not Forget Abramoff
  51. Let's Not Forget Abramoff
  52. Brad Berenson
  53. “Specific”
  54. "Specific"
  55. Battle Lines
  56. A Chance to Unpack Novak’s Spin about Something Besides Plame!!
  57. A Chance to Unpack Novak's Spin about Something Besides Plame!!
  58. Questions for Abu Gonzales
  59. I Guess He’s STILL Not Up to a Sunday Show
  60. I Guess He's STILL Not Up to a Sunday Show
  61. The Green Zone at DOJ
  62. Cabinet Secretary Counsels
  63. Congressman Waxman: Interview Jenny Mayfield
  64. Rove’s Hadley Email
  65. Rove's Hadley Email
  66. The Case of Patrick Fitzgerald and the Missing Emails
  67. 95%
  68. Sampson’s Outstanding Questions
  69. Sampson's Outstanding Questions
  70. The Emails Aren’t the Only Thing the WH Is Stalling On
  71. The Emails Aren't the Only Thing the WH Is Stalling On
  72. Another Interesting Detail, Karl Rove Edition
  73. Meanwhile, from Propaganda Central
  74. Here’s an Interesting Detail, Abu Gonzales Edition
  75. Here's an Interesting Detail, Abu Gonzales Edition
  76. Well, I Guess GWB43.com Really Is the Smoking Gun
  77. The Lobbying for USA Jobs Begins
  78. A Failure of Management
  79. Here’s Why They Used a Discharge Petition to Approve Paulose
  80. Here's Why They Used a Discharge Petition to Approve Paulose
  81. bcc: Karl Rove
  82. I Smell a Subpoena Coming On
  83. Courtney Elwood Shreds the Constitution
  84. Monica Goodling’s Loyalty Oaths. Again.
  85. Monica Goodling's Loyalty Oaths. Again.
  86. David Iglesias: Nice Touch!
  87. Three Sentences
  88. No $$$ Until You Hand Over the Documents
  89. You Think Maybe Vern Knows Something We Don’t?
  90. You Think Maybe Vern Knows Something We Don't?
  91. Monica Goodling and Kenny Boy Lay
  92. Gonzales’ Hack Prep Coaches
  93. Gonzales' Hack Prep Coaches
  94. Judy Miller v. Norm Pearlstine
  95. Imagine if Joseph McCarthy Invoked the Fifth
  96. Henry Says: Give Us the Emails
  97. Reading Patrick
  98. Responding to Congressional Oversight, Part Two
  99. Did Abu Gonzales Lawyer Up?
  100. The WaPo’s A1 Snooze
  101. The WaPo's A1 Snooze
  102. Domestic Spying and Opposition Research
  103. White House Tries to Pre-Empt Evidence-Gathering
  104. Responding to Congressional Oversight, Part One

March 2007

  1. Richard Hertling Strikes Again
  2. Cheney Does NOT Have Authority to Declassify at Will
  3. Cheney Tries to Juggle Two Allies–and Drops One?
  4. Gonzales Knows a Shiny Object When He Sees One
  5. What If Monica Isn’t Shopping for Immunity?
  6. What If Monica Isn't Shopping for Immunity?
  7. Did I Say “Eating Their Own”?
  8. Did I Say "Eating Their Own"?
  9. Waxman Gets Busy
  10. What IF They Threw Libby under a Bus?
  11. Why Are We Surprised?
  12. Fall Guy IV
  13. Interesting Timing
  14. Covering Up
  15. Reading Novak II, Part One
  16. First
  17. Why Would the Head of the NM GOP Squeal on Turdblossom?
  18. Václav Havel’s “The Trial”
  19. Václav Havel's "The Trial"
  20. Circling Like Vultures
  21. Shorter Judge Walton: Let the Appeals Process Begin!
  22. Reasonable Doubt and that Shifty Matt Cooper

February 2007

  1. Libby’s Manic Scribblings
  2. Libby's Manic Scribblings
  3. Libby’s Missing Document
  4. Libby's Missing Document
  5. Madness! Madness! Madness!
  6. Indicting Dick, the Trial Edition
  7. Libby Trial: Hunting Vampires
  8. Evolving Defense Claims
  9. Ted Wells’ New Rule of Law
  10. Ted Wells' New Rule of Law
  11. The Witnesses Not Called
  12. The Defense Rests (Almost)
  13. Meet (and Greet) the Press
  14. The January 24 Document Had NOTHING to Do with the SOTU
  15. Random Notes on Libby’s Grand Jury Testimony
  16. Random Notes on Libby's Grand Jury Testimony
  17. On Bringing Me into the Feed
  18. Dick’s Talking Points
  19. Dick's Talking Points
  20. What Wasn’t In Tenet’s Statement: The January 24 Document
  21. What Wasn't In Tenet's Statement: The January 24 Document
  22. The Evolution of a Mea Culpa
  23. Libby’s Approximate Date
  24. Libby's Approximate Date
  25. Libby Trial: Collective Forgetting in the Office of the Vice President
  26. Fairly Prejudicial
  27. What’s Coming Up
  28. What's Coming Up

January 2007

  1. The Banality of the Unitary Executive
  2. What I Think Happened
  3. The Testimony Dance
  4. Beat All the Press
  5. Tom Cruise and National Security
  6. The CIA Got the Niger Documents!!!
  7. The Libby Trial 1
  8. Thoughts on Liveblogging Libby
  9. The Pending Marc Rich Attack
  10. Libby’s Team Says Psych!!
  11. Libby's Team Says Psych!!
  12. Parsing Libby
  13. A Really Good Reason to Call Dick, Part Two
  14. Two Troubled Institutions
  15. We’ve Got a Potential Witness (and Mention) List
  16. We've Got a Potential Witness (and Mention) List
  17. Cause and Effect?
  18. More Lies to Protect Cheney?
  19. The Scooter libby Trial: The Obstruction Charge
  20. The Scooter Libby Trial: The Russert Charges
  21. Charter 77 Turns 30
  22. Covering the New Secrecy
  23. Plamemania: The Evidence, the Cooper Charge
  24. Double Edged Classified Swords
  25. Leadership Hanging in the Balance
  26. Libby’s Jury Instructions
  27. Libby's Jury Instructions
  28. A Tale of Two Conspiracies
  29. Imagination
  30. Saddam and Our Changing Detainee Policy
  31. Plamemania Countdown: Reading Judy, Part IV
  32. Sacrifice
  33. Plamemania Countdown: 15 Days
  34. The Opportunity Cost of War, Part III

2006 404

December 2006

  1. How High Will the Upcoming Oil Scandals Go?
  2. Hanged
  3. Back Channels
  4. Anatomy of Deceit
  5. Woodward's Dead Scoops
  6. Pictures of Two Wars
  7. A Discussion of How Stupid the AP and WSJ Are
  8. No Libby Pardon under the Holiday Tree
  9. Walton's CIPA Ruling
  10. Aspen Trees and Novakula
  11. A Really Good Reason to Call Dick
  12. Dick Takes the Stand
  13. BushCo Plays Chicken and Loses
  14. Swearing Dick
  15. Flynt Leverett's 1000 Words–What the Administration Doesn't Want You to Read
  16. "Victory Increases the Morale of Soldiers and Officers"
  17. "We See No Need for Action"
  18. Googling Laptops of Death
  19. Opening our Fitzmas Presents
  20. The Iran-Contra Something Else
  21. The Pentagon Torture Papers
  22. First They Came After Journalists, Then They Came After the ACLU
  23. Space Aliens Attack!!!
  24. More Saudi Fun: A Chronology
  25. How to Make the State Department Look Like the Green Zone
  26. Sneaking Away In the Dark of the Night
  27. Googly Sanctions
  28. A Quiz for Lawmakers
  29. Straw Wise Men
  30. Death of the Middle Eastern Status Quo
  31. $40 Oil
  32. Funny Definitions of "Scoop"
  33. Therapy Session or Strategy Session?
  34. Gooper Scoopers Unite!
  35. CIPA Fun
  36. Payback's a Bitch

November 2006

  1. Heading the Sheriff Off at the Pass
  2. Any Bets on Judy's Source?
  3. I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours
  4. We Might Have Won the War–If We Hadn't Been Fighting with Triremes
  5. Judge to Libby: No, Jurors Are Not Dumb

October 2006

  1. Libby's Team Pulls a Fitzgerald
  2. What Libby Doesn't Want You to Know
  3. Shredding Dick
  4. The Former Propaganda Twins Speak
  5. Reporting Facts versus Reporting Conflict
  6. Some Questions about the Foley Scandal
  7. Fitzgerald Leaves Them Shaking Their Heads
  8. Woodward's State of Denial and Plame
  9. The Op-Ed Kagro X and I Meant to Write
  10. Libby Case–CIPA Update
  11. Why Are Pete Hoekstra's Knickers in a Twist?
  12. MI Finally Gets Some DCCC Love
  13. Never Count Rove Out … But
  14. Going Nuclear
  15. About that Pardon Article

September 2006

  1. Foley Preying on Parents' Inability to Monitor Internet Use
  2. GOP Foxes Guarding the Under-Aged Hen-House
  3. Karl Rove's Shit Storm
  4. Bush Says He Read the NIE–and More on Hezbollah
  5. What Kind of Sponsor of Terror Is Iran???
  6. Libby's PowerPoint Defense
  7. What Do Scooter Libby and Joe Lieberman Have in Common?
  8. CYA and Human Rights Win Out
  9. Playing the Clock
  10. Death Squads Negroponte Claims He'll Prevent Propaganda
  11. Some Confusion on the MBL Claims
  12. Poor Judgment, Republican Edition
  13. "You Could Write a Book on the Bad Journalism"
  14. Dafna Linzer, the Iran War's A17 Expert
  15. Novak Changes His Story–a Fourth Time
  16. Why Armitage Doesn't Exonerate Dick
  17. 16 Words
  18. Hubris Misses the Point of the NIE Lie
  19. Was Armitage Twice a Patsy?
  20. We Have Already Won This Election (No We Haven't)
  21. Lying Us into War
  22. Some Questions
  23. We Owe Karl Rove No Apology
  24. Announcing:FDL Books–and My Next Project
  25. The NYT Demands Answers
  26. Pot, Kettle
  27. Now THIS Is a Scoop
  28. Double-Sided Anonymity
  29. What Tipped the Balance?
  30. Stalin Would Be Proud
  31. Debunking the Runaway Prosecutor Claims
  32. I'm Not Surprised

August 2006

  1. Rove's Silence Amid the Din
  2. Why Are They Afraid of a Living Wage, Clean Air, and Free Speech?
  3. Primary Source
  4. Clearing the Air on Iran: Ledeen v. Cirincione
  5. One-by-Two-by-Timing
  6. The Armitage Bombshell that Isikoff Didn't Mention
  7. Who Decides If We Go to War?
  8. Jim Marcinkowski on the Latest Iran Propaganda
  9. Search and Replace: Q, N
  10. Why Didn't Judy Flog the Purported Iraq-Al Qaeda Connection?
  11. The Armitage "News"
  12. Chronological Jujitsu with the Bioweapons White Paper
  13. Predictable Failure Update
  14. I Wonder How Dick Annotated THIS Hersh Article?
  15. Yoo Misleads You
  16. Secrecy or Spin?
  17. A Guide to Domestic Surveillance
  18. Republican Foreign Policy: Make a Profit on Destruction, Make a Profit on Reconstruction
  19. Judy and Johnny
  20. First Wilkes and Now Mrs. Cunningham
  21. The Question They Didn't Ask and Bush's New Plan C
  22. How Was Rashid Rauf Arrested?
  23. Allen's Mob and Their Caca
  24. The Shrillification of the Moderates
  25. They're Not Robots
  26. NeoCon Joe, the Failed Lebanese Campaign, and Losing by Winning
  27. An Issue of Fairness
  28. The Plot Thickens
  29. The Gray Lady's Gray Area
  30. What a Difference a Year Makes
  31. How Many Terrorists Does One F-16 Get You?
  32. GOP Domestic Spying and "Trepidation"
  33. What Would Joe Do for $17,000?
  34. Marty Marty Marty
  35. Unsound Methods
  36. How to Lose
  37. Dot Dot Dot, Dash Dash Dash, Dot Dot Dot
  38. Pat Lang's Four Questions and Hezbollah
  39. Can You Hear Me NOW?
  40. More Fog about the Fog of War
  41. A Squabble between Roberts and His Masters?
  42. DeLay's Dilemma
  43. Lamont's "Single Issue" Voters
  44. Judy's Call Data Versus My Call Data
  45. Why Target Dingell?
  46. Pressure Politics
  47. Busted

July 2006

  1. The Pause That Is Not a Cease Fire
  2. The Birth Pangs of a New World
  3. The Skeleton of a Lie
  4. The Hubris of Astroturf
  5. Bush League
  6. Why Tice?
  7. Hagel Calls for Engagement
  8. Judy as the Subject of Spying
  9. Addington’s Defense of Torture Continues to Crumble
  10. Addington's Defense of Torture Continues to Crumble
  11. The Next War and Phase II
  12. From the Department of Colossally Bad Ideas
  13. Bi-Partisan Joe
  14. Pick Your Incompetent Cabinet Member
  15. Lying about Nukes
  16. Condi’s Loophole
  17. Condi's Loophole
  18. How Do They Self-Delude? Let Me Count the Ways
  19. Why Is Iran the Biggest Threat, Again?
  20. Who’s Driving this War?
  21. Who's Driving this War?
  22. Waterboarding Is Torture, We Are Not a Nation of Laws
  23. The Consequences of Politicizing Intelligence
  24. Heeee’s Baaack!!!
  25. Heeee's Baaack!!!
  26. New Orleans of the Middle East
  27. One Week
  28. Purge of the Gosslings
  29. He Hu Laughs Last, Laughs Loudest
  30. The First Fourth Generation World War
  31. What IF Iran Is Behind the Burgeoning Regional War?
  32. Novak Loses the Narrative (Again)
  33. Wilson’s Attempts to Inform the Administration
  34. Wilson's Attempts to Inform the Administration
  35. Putin’s Quid Pro No Go
  36. Putin's Quid Pro No Go
  37. Fun with JimmyJeff GannonGuckert
  38. Novak: Some Subpoenas Are More Equal than Other Subpoenas
  39. Thinking and Reading for Byron, So He Doesn’t Have To
  40. Thinking and Reading for Byron, So He Doesn't Have To
  41. The Greater Middle Eastern War
  42. Game On
  43. One More Novak Point
  44. Novak’s Interview
  45. Novak's Interview
  46. He Said, He Said, He Said
  47. Goddamnit Press Corps, Don’t You Know When You’re Being Spun?!?!?!?
  48. Goddamnit Press Corps, Don't You Know When You're Being Spun?!?!?!?
  49. Did Novak Get Away with It?
  50. Aluminum Tubes and the House Gravy Train
  51. Rummy’s Stubborn Incompetence
  52. Rummy's Stubborn Incompetence
  53. Rove Quotes Christy: Ongoing “Case”
  54. Rove Quotes Christy: Ongoing "Case"
  55. Hoekstra’s Threat
  56. Hoekstra's Threat
  57. Lichtblau’s Revenge
  58. Lichtblau's Revenge
  59. More Aspirational Terrorists
  60. Using Caller ID on the Third Rate Crank Phone Calls
  61. What Does “First” Mean Again?
  62. What Does "First" Mean Again?
  63. Joe’s Value Depends on a Republican Majority
  64. Joe's Value Depends on a Republican Majority
  65. A Window into the Last Stages of Rome
  66. Libby’s Contradictory NIE Leak Stories
  67. Libby's Contradictory NIE Leak Stories
  68. Joementum the “Democrat”
  69. Joementum the "Democrat"
  70. Protecting Dick and Bush?
  71. Bolten’s 5-Point Plan, 75 Days Later
  72. Bolten's 5-Point Plan, 75 Days Later
  73. Telecommunications Timewarp
  74. Does Libby Get Rove’s Testimony?
  75. Does Libby Get Rove's Testimony?
  76. Augusto Pinochet Would Be Proud

June 2006

  1. Stop the Torture
  2. Anatomy of a White House Smear, 3.7
  3. Show Me the Money
  4. Stand Up, Howie
  5. The Most Damning News that Won't Make Your Local News
  6. Speaking from Cancer
  7. Anatomy of a White House Smear, 3.6
  8. GWOT, an Assessment
  9. Did BushCo Do Something Smart?
  10. Brother Naz' Timing
  11. For Byron York, Competent Public Service = Partisan Democrat
  12. Some Thoughts on Hudson v. Michigan
  13. Rove's Not Yet Smoking Gun
  14. The National Security Threat of Resume Padding
  15. Cheney Awards DeFrank for Attacks on Bush?!?
  16. Anatomy of a White House Smear, 3.5
  17. Shooting the Taxpayers in the Face, Again
  18. Crying Wolf
  19. Our Ambassador Held Hostage (by Us!) in Baghdad
  20. The $3 Million Crank Phone Call Just Got More Expensive
  21. Dick Starts to Sweat
  22. Luskin's "Accountability" Moment
  23. Ledeen Loses Control of the Propaganda Apparatus
  24. We Went to War on the Hint of an Accord
  25. Anatomy of a White House Smear, 3.4
  26. What Byron Didn't Tell You
  27. Some Thoughts on Rove
  28. PNAC Packs Their Bags
  29. The Solution to the Iran "Problem" Is in Pakistan
  30. Mehlman Applauds Libby's Indictment
  31. Wankette's New New Journalism
  32. Comstock's New Gig
  33. Rove Will Not Be Charged
  34. Tim Russert Claims First Amendment Protection for Cocktail Weenies
  35. Harry Gave 'Em Hell
  36. Mark Warner’s Nukes
  37. Mark Warner’s Party
  38. Greetings from Yearly Kos

May 2006

  1. Anatomy of a White House Smear, 3.3
  2. What Libby Gets
  3. Anatomy of a White House Smear, 3.2
  4. Is Someone Protecting Denny?
  5. Did You Notice What Waas Didn't Say?
  6. And So It's Willful Blindness
  7. Libby Forgets Dick
  8. Why Settle the Wen Ho Lee Case?
  9. Anatomy of a White House Smear, 3.1
  10. Wired Calls Abu Gonzales' Bluff
  11. Propaganda Timing
  12. Richard Armitage and the Niger Forgeries
  13. Reading Novak
  14. A Third-Rate Crank Phone Call
  15. About those Armitage Rumors
  16. Pigs Fly and emptywheel Believes Judy
  17. Judy's Pre-Emptive Strike?
  18. They're Not Getting Data, They're Getting the Switches
  19. The WMD Porn Returns
  20. And So It Comes Down To Willful Blindness vs. Good Faith
  21. Hot and Cold Running Wilson Intelligence
  22. The Japanese Made Jet Fuel with Pine Roots
  23. Why ABC?
  24. The January 24 Document, the NIE, and the WSJ
  25. Are These Dots?
  26. Fitzgerald Collecting Cheney's Smoking Guns
  27. Dick Takes Notes
  28. The NIE Leak Gets Interesting (Again)
  29. Still Fighting the War about the War
  30. No Excuse for Secrecy
  31. Pardon Me. No, Pardon You.
  32. L. Patrick Gray
  33. Pioneering Corruption, Part Two
  34. The Opportunity Cost of War, Part II
  35. How to Beat Hillary … and Murdoch
  36. Why Does Hayden Want the Job?
  37. Rove's Timing
  38. Luskin's Latest
  39. New and Improved Outsourced Domestic Spying
  40. What If It Isn't the Hookers?
  41. A Question for Porter Goss
  42. What Does Sumner Think?
  43. Meet Jerry Doe
  44. Scooter Libby Reads the News
  45. Carnival Interruptus at the Correspondents' Dinner

April 2006

  1. Rove's Latest Press Offensive
  2. Why Fire Vivnovka?
  3. Fitzgerald's Headfake: It's Not Just about Rove and Cooper
  4. Five Times
  5. Weird Things about the AIPAC Case
  6. 10 Questions for Progressives on Foreign Policy
  7. Jobs and Containers
  8. Condi's Leaks
  9. Gag Disorder
  10. Dissing Hu
  11. Novak's Latest
  12. Berlusconi's Strategy of Tension
  13. Bigfooting Our Global Resources
  14. Is Rove Stepping Down to Save Mehlman's Arse?
  15. Carving Out a Defense
  16. The INR Memos Were Part of the Niger Forgery Cover-Up
  17. The (July 7) INR Memo
  18. Tenet's Correspondence
  19. Leak Timing
  20. The A1 Cut-Out Strikes Again
  21. Reading Judy, Part Three
  22. I Flew over Iran to Get to Gandhi's House
  23. The January 24 Document
  24. Hiding George and Stephen
  25. Keeping the Criminals in Line
  26. A Tale of Two Approaches to Diplomacy
  27. The First Abramoff Casualty
  28. Shooting the Taxpayers in the Face
  29. Illicit
  30. Harm and Pain, Two
  31. The pro-Israel–or pro-Any Foreign Country–Lobby

March 2006

  1. Bush Knew
  2. Month-Old Plame News
  3. Bush's False Good Faith
  4. Why Didn't Libby Alter His Notes
  5. Garance's History of the United States
  6. Why They Want to Regulate the Blogs
  7. BushCo Needs a New Vet
  8. Malign Indifference or Immoral Opportunist?
  9. What Would the World Be Like If There Had Never Been US Covert Ops?
  10. The Count of Monte Cristo, Napoleon, and V for Vendetta
  11. What Have You Done to Fight the WOT™ Lately?
  12. Libby's Lawyers Begin to Figure Out What Perjury Means
  13. How They're Using Terrorism as an Excuse to Dismantle the Nation-State
  14. We Agree to Boogie with Iran
  15. Back on the Subpoena Trail
  16. Judy's Vanity
  17. Iran Boogeyman: The Generals Beg to Differ
  18. Iran Bogeyman with a Latin Twist
  19. Senator Scottish Law Cedes All Honor
  20. My Armitage as Mr. X Scenario
  21. Libby's May Mystery and Other Timing Questions
  22. I've Been to the Mountaintop … and Then I Razed It
  23. Harm and Pain
  24. No Russ for the Weary
  25. The Eunuchs Strike Again
  26. Deadeye Dick Shoots an Old Persian in the Face?
  27. Churning the Iran Scoops
  28. The Attack on the Press
  29. My Ari as Mr. X Scenario
  30. About the Journalists
  31. Some Thoughts on Ari and Cathie

February 2006

  1. Theodore Draper, a Teacher for our Times
  2. The Incredible Story of Mahdi Obeidi, Conclusion
  3. Thank You For a Great First Year
  4. The Non-Witness Witness Statements
  5. Francis Fukuyama, You Got Duped by an Ignoble Lie
  6. Neo-Feudalists
  7. What Was Dick Really Hiding?
  8. Adjunct Vice Presidential Press Secretary Gets Testy
  9. Evidence Dick Didn't Declassify the NIE
  10. Dick Cheney, Hunting the Truth
  11. Why Did Comstock Blackball Eric Lichtblau?
  12. Libby's Nixon Lawyer Gets Punked
  13. Libby's Lawyers: "Just Joking!"
  14. What They Do with Your Money
  15. Orderly Leakage
  16. More Iran Boogeyman
  17. Dickerson's Subpoena
  18. How Many Times Did Libby Talk To Novak?
  19. Those Eight Pages
  20. One Scandal per Administration? No.
  21. Libby's Ocean of Motions, Part Two
  22. Libby's Motions
  23. The Incredible Story of Mahdi Obeidi, Part Six

January 2006

  1. Where Is Abu Zubaydah?
  2. Child Support Is a Pro-Life Issue
  3. Which Came First, Daou's Triangle, or the Egg?
  4. The Incredible Story of Mahdi Obeidi, Part Five
  5. The Incredible Story of Mahdi Obeidi, Part Four
  6. Is There Any Doubt Rove Wrote the OBL Talking Point?
  7. The First Amendment, WaPo, and Native Americans
  8. Risen's Delayed Scoop?
  9. Searching for Yahoos
  10. Risen Makes Editors Sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement
  11. The New Niger Document
  12. Why Did We Go to War against Iraq?
  13. Reading Comprehension Can Be Fun
  14. A Script for the Generals
  15. Walking on Water, I Mean Eggshells
  16. Susan Ralston Now Works for Arlen Specter
  17. The Opportunity Cost of War
  18. Put Me in Coach
  19. The Incredible Story of Mahdi Obeidi, Part Three
  20. Pat Robertson and God's Playground
  21. Bush Consults the Experts
  22. Doug Bandow, I'll Give You a Finger
  23. Another Iran Boogeyman Article
  24. Exhuming Atta
  25. Twelve Angry Men (and Women)

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