2009

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December 2009

1. 31 DecAll Charges Against Blackwater Guards in Nisour Killings Dismissed
2. 31 DecBill Supporters Still Can’t Say “Affordable”
3. 31 DecObama Appoints Fox To Evaluate Terror Watchlist Henhouse
4. 30 DecThe New Robber Barons
5. 29 DecWhy Can’t Bill Supporters Say “Affordable”?
6. 29 DecNo More Mr. Perfect Guy; Colts Take A Dive
7. 27 Dec“Affordable” Health Care
8. 26 DecNYC DA Morgenthau Blasts Feds On Financial Investigations
9. 26 DecWhy Did Obama Kill The Dawn Johnsen Nomination?
10. 25 DecChristmas Nuts & Bolts
11. 24 Dec34 Obama Nominees Not Named Dawn Johnsen Confirmed
12. 24 DecPeace on Earth Air Strike in Yemen
13. 24 DecThe DOMA Decisions In The 9th Circuit
14. 22 DecObama’s Infirm Lump Of Coal Judicial Policy
15. 22 DecRoad Trip Open Thread
16. 21 DecEzra: The Senate Plan Is Just Like What Obama Campaigned On–Except for All the Ways It’s Not
17. 20 DecBrainstorming Future American Neo-Feudalism Today
18. 19 DecTrash Talk – Vaya Con Dios Uno Cinco
19. 18 DecThe Cadillac-turned-Chevy Wage Increase Myth
20. 17 DecDavid Plouffe Points to Events in November to Prove “Base” Is Happy in December
21. 17 DecColbert on the Spyvate Sector
22. 17 Dec21% of People in MA Still Forgo Necessary Medical Care
23. 17 DecTenet Refuses to Deny CIA Uses Journalism Cover–and Infiltrating American Groups
24. 17 DecThe MyBarackObamaTax
25. 16 DecHoliday Season Torture Document Dump Open Thread
26. 16 DecCaptive Consumers in Oligopolies Do Not Make Effective Markets
27. 16 DecCarl Levin Takes Ownership of Corrupt Deal with PhRMA
28. 16 DecHealth Care on the Road to Neo-Feudalism
29. 15 DecCrazy Pete Hoekstra Throws Hissy Fit, Chases Jobs from Michigan
30. 15 Dec“Taking Care” of Almost-Seniors
31. 14 DecRahm’s Making the White House Look Terrible
32. 14 DecEcuador Accuses US of Helping Colombia Assassinate FARC Leader
33. 14 DecWhite House to Restore Emails from Plame Cover-Up Period
34. 14 DecSCOTUS: Rummy Is Immune in Torture Suit
35. 14 DecOne of Few Things Growing as Fast as Health Care Costs Is Income of Richest 1%
36. 14 DecBlago Begins His Rahm Play
37. 13 DecCorrection: Bad Nelson and Holy Joe Think Up a New Excuse
38. 13 DecGrading the Economy
39. 13 DecWe’re All BCCI Now
40. 13 DecMaybe We’ll Learn How All the CIA Leak Cover-Up Emails Disappeared?
41. 12 DecTrash Talk: Patriots Have A Strange Kind Of Mascot
42. 12 DecTony Blair: We Invaded Iraq to Change the Region
43. 12 DecBaucus’ Girlfriend Helped Arrange His Separation
44. 12 DecThe Truth about Harry Reid’s Lifetime Cap Loophole
45. 11 DecABC Returns the Blackwater Focus to Pakistan
46. 11 DecWe’re Still Following Germ Boy’s Biodefense Strategy
47. 11 DecBlackwater, the Next Installment
48. 11 DecWhat the Government Claims Didn’t Get Videotaped
49. 11 DecBrandon Mayfield Gets Hosed By The 9th Circuit
50. 10 DecIn Honor of Obama’s Nobel “Peace Through War” Prize, Donate to the ACLU
51. 10 DecObama Administration Held in Contempt for Hiding Gitmo Testimony
52. 10 DecACLU: “No Prohibition against Monstrous Conduct” without Ajudication of Torture
53. 10 DecEric Schmidt: PATRIOT Means You Have No Privacy
54. 10 DecArpaio And Thomas: The Most Unethical Sheriff And Prosecutor In America Conspire To Abuse Power And Obstruct Justice
55. 9 DecSotomayor Refuses to Give Government Privilege for Me But Not for Thee
56. 9 DecSpringsteen on the State Level Politics that Matter
57. 9 DecDon’t Let the Americans Know They’re Killing the Globe
58. 9 DecConyers v. Obama: The “Demeaning Team”
59. 8 DecWhy We Can’t Fix Wall Street
60. 8 DecYoo to OPR: Law is “Largely Irrelevant”
61. 8 DecFBI Asks William Webster to Look Closer at Nidal Hasan Analysis
62. 8 DecJoe Lie Even Pissed Off the League of Women Voters
63. 7 DecAssymmetrical Self-Gagging
64. 7 DecThe Spying Industrial Complex
65. 7 Dec“Made in China, Where Contents and Labor Practices Don’t Matter”
66. 6 DecThe New SWIFT Agreement
67. 6 DecAll Yurp’s Data Belongs to US
68. 6 DecThings Republicans Think Merit Investigation More than Torture: ACORN
69. 6 DecLate Night: Max Tax Baucchanal Grabs The Dental Floss
70. 6 DecThe 7 Lies of Lieberman
71. 5 DecTrash Talk: Old Man River Showdown
72. 5 DecMax Baucus’ Indiscretions: Corporate Influence Worse than Sex
73. 4 DecScahill: Prince Is Conducting Graymail
74. 4 DecYoo, OPR, and the Ninth Circuit
75. 4 DecMedia Giants for Health Care
76. 4 DecWhy Not Send 30,000 Troops to Somalia?
77. 3 DecBernanke Confirmation Hearing, Two
78. 3 DecThe Press Corpse Needs a Mirror
79. 3 DecGM Brings Flint, MI to China
80. 3 DecDavid Ogden Steps Down at DOJ
81. 3 DecBernanke Hearing Liveblog
82. 3 DecDHS Doesn’t Want to Scan Shipping Containers
83. 3 DecSteven Rattner: I, MOTU. I Save World. You, Ignorant.
84. 3 DecSpy Versus Spy with Erik Prince
85. 2 DecGhailani’s Speedy Trial Challenge
86. 2 DecFritz Quits
87. 1 DecSprint’s 50 Million Customers Have Been Geo-Tracked 8 Million Times–in the Last Year
88. 1 DecPolitico’s VandeHei and Allen Join the “Judy Miller Club for Cheney Stenographers”
89. 1 DecWill We Learn of the “Many Dark Actors”?

November 2009

1. 30 NovThe Burrower and the Gate-Crashers
2. 30 NovWar on Fox Commissions
3. 29 NovThe Irony of Tora Bora
4. 29 NovTrash Talk: I’m An Excellent Driver Edition
5. 28 NovTorturing Binyam Mohamed–Before Bybee Two
6. 28 NovOn Monday Thousands Lose Their Healthcare
7. 28 NovThe TWO Afghan Black Site Stories
8. 27 NovAnthrax Attack Used to Justify the Iraq War
9. 27 NovThe Negroponte Warning
10. 27 NovWasting 1400 Calories a Day
11. 26 NovGiving Thanks for the Richness of Michigan
12. 26 NovTalkin Turkey Trash
13. 26 NovSee-Through Turkey
14. 26 NovLate Night: Punkin The White House
15. 25 NovThe Politico Villagers Go Deer Hunting!
16. 25 NovShare the Turkey
17. 25 NovTorture Tape Destruction, the OGC Review, and the IG Report
18. 25 NovPhil Carter Resigns
19. 25 NovHal Turner: Chris Christie Declined to Prosecute Me
20. 25 NovJohn Durham’s Thirteen Documents
21. 24 NovTorture Tapes and CIA Retirements
22. 24 NovCIA Met with White House about How to Respond to Jane Harman’s Torture Warnings
23. 24 NovThe CIA Asked to Destroy Torture Tapes on Same Day They Claimed They Didn’t Torture
24. 24 NovThe Danger of Losing Beat Reporters: The ACORN Hoax
25. 24 NovWhere Does Blackwater Play in the CIA-DNI Conflict?
26. 23 NovAri Fleischer to Pimp BCS
27. 23 NovWhat’s Missing from the EFF Document Dump: Whitehouse’s Declassification Requests
28. 23 NovObama Holding Off on Declassification Order Bush Made
29. 23 NovThe Iraq War Files
30. 23 NovNY Post Floats Dimon to Replace Geithner
31. 22 NovCourt Faults Army Corps In Katrina Levee Breaches
32. 22 NovLate Night Saturday: Village Of Our Damned
33. 21 NovHow Dick Cheney Cowed Obama
34. 21 NovTrash Talk: Even Al Qaida Is Pimping The Cheesers Over Favre
35. 20 NovEFF FOIA Working Thead, Three
36. 20 NovWhy Do Comey and Goldsmith Hate America Military Commissions?
37. 20 NovCrazy Pete Hoekstra’s NSA Dirty Work and Nidal Hasan
38. 19 NovStuds Terkel, Terrorist
39. 19 NovDana “Pig Missile” Perino to Help Oversee TV Marti
40. 19 NovRepublicans Refuse to Hear Holder’s Claims about Civilian Trials
41. 19 NovWhitehouse: Talk Shows Shouldn’t Make Prosecutorial Decisions
42. 19 NovLate Night: High Seas Hijinx – Pirates and Monkeys Attack!
43. 18 NovHolder: OPR Report Due Out this Month
44. 18 NovAG Holder Oversight Hearing, Two
45. 18 NovAG Holder Oversight Hearing
46. 17 NovDavid Frakt on Material Support Charges and Military Commissions
47. 17 NovCrazy Pete Hoekstra Writes a Letter (Again)
48. 17 NovParties for the Parrots!!
49. 17 NovHasan and War Crimes and Congressional Briefings
50. 17 NovUS Detention System “Essentially Lawless”
51. 17 NovEdwards and Easley Prosecutor Bitching about Obama’s Court Appointees
52. 17 NovIt’s Greg Craig’s Fault that Dawn Johnsen Hasn’t Been Confirmed
53. 16 NovClemons on the Leaks that Did Craig In
54. 16 NovAre They Trying the 9/11 Conspirators in NYC to Get Material Support Charges?
55. 16 NovThe Cyber-Surge
56. 16 NovA Trial Showing Torture Was Unnecessary
57. 16 NovAlso in that Room: Democratic Biotech-Paid Whores
58. 15 NovWhat a Roomful of Republican Biotech-Paid Whores Looks Like
59. 15 NovOh, That’s Where Eshoo and Barton Were in the NYT Story!
60. 15 NovBiotech Industry Needs 42 Representatives to Try to Refute Jane Hamsher
61. 15 NovGermany: US Data-Mining Violates European Human Rights
62. 14 NovTrash Talk: When NESCAC Offers the Best Game
63. 14 NovBob Bauer and Scooter Libby Justice
64. 14 NovFAA and NORAD Changed Records to Accord with Cheney Lies
65. 13 NovEric Holder on Greg Craig’s Departure
66. 13 NovMayor Mike: NYPD Can Handle the 9/11 Trial
67. 13 NovThe Bazaar for Deals at Gitmo
68. 13 NovNadler Responds to the Fear-Mongerers on NYC Trials
69. 13 NovDOJ/DOD Press Conference on the Gitmo Decisions
70. 13 NovDefense Lawyer Comments on Ramzi bin al-Shibh and Rahim al-Nashiri
71. 13 NovThe 9/11 Trials: The Torture Question
72. 13 NovHolder’s Press Conference on Gitmo
73. 13 NovEFF FOIA Working Thread, Two
74. 13 NovKSM to Be Tried in NYC, al-Nashiri to Be Tried in Military Commission, Abu Zubaydah to ?
75. 12 NovThe EFF FOIA Working Thread
76. 12 NovLiberate the OPR Report
77. 12 NovDOJ Circumvents Judge Walker; Attempts To Further Correct Previous Falsities
78. 11 NovPriming the Pump
79. 11 NovCrazy Pete Hoekstra Is a Big Fat* Demogoging Liar
80. 11 NovNidal Hasan’s Dots
81. 10 NovIt’s Not Yoo, It’s the History
82. 10 NovMika Brzezinski and her 7% Husband
83. 10 NovMueller ALREADY Reviewing Shortcomings of Hasan Investigation
84. 10 NovHolder Signals Approval (Preference?) for SJC Bill
85. 10 NovThe Average Clunker Traded in for C4C Was 15 Years Old
86. 9 NovIs Crazy Pete Hoekstra Lying and Demagoging Again?
87. 9 NovMukasey’s Hunting for a “Lone Wolf,” Too
88. 9 NovMaybe We Can Have Prayer Treatments Instead of Reproductive Care?
89. 9 NovLieberman’s Hunt for a Lone Wolf?
90. 9 NovDC’s Newest Reality Show
91. 8 NovThomas Fingar on the Politics of NIE/NIAs
92. 8 NovBart Stupak’s C-Street Sepsis
93. 7 NovTrashed: Formula One No Longer Made In Japan
94. 6 NovObama DOJ Continues To FlimFlam Judge Lamberth On State Secrets
95. 6 NovCheney Now Remembers CIA-Related Information!!
96. 6 NovDonate to First Draft So Athenae Can Continue to Call Out Bad Reporting
97. 5 NovState Secrets Bill Passes House Judiciary, 18-12
98. 5 NovPATRIOT and State Secrets Mark-Up, 2.1
99. 5 NovPATRIOT and State Secrets Mark-Up, Day Two
100. 4 NovCondi’s Response to Tenet’s Request for a Review of Torture
101. 4 NovPATRIOTs and Secrets Hearing, Day One Wrap Up
102. 4 NovPATRIOTS and State Secrets Mark-Up Two
103. 4 NovChristie Starts Paying Off His Campaign Debts
104. 4 NovKaplan Test Prep Still Brokering Meetings with Lobbyists
105. 4 NovPATRIOTs and State Secrets Live Blog
106. 4 NovBreak with the Bankers
107. 4 NovBuying Off Victims of Illegal Wiretapping at $3 Million a Pop…
108. 3 NovDoes Cheney’s CYA Document Include False Justifications for Torture?
109. 3 NovElection Day: The Dead, Dead Tree Ballot Proposal
110. 2 NovJustice Denied: Voices from Gitmo
111. 2 NovAli Soufan Claims He Had Success with Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, Too
112. 2 NovStill in the Rendition Business?
113. 2 NovWaPo, I Hate to Say I Told You So…
114. 2 NovIsikoff Doubles Down on His Anonymous Leak from Cheney’s Lawyer
115. 1 NovCheney’s Betrayal Made an IIPA Charge for Libby Possible
116. 1 NovFBI’s Robert Mueller Still Engaging in an Anthrax Cover-Up

October 2009

1. 31 OctIf It’s [Was] Friday, It Must Be State Secrets, Hiding Abuse of Power, in the 9th Circuit
2. 31 OctHung Out to Dry: One Former VP Chief of Staff
3. 31 OctTrash Talk: Big Dick Edition
4. 31 OctWhy Did Terry O’Donnell Tell Michael Isikoff What Cheney Refused to Tell Fitzgerald?
5. 31 OctThe Email Question
6. 31 OctBush’s July 7, 2003 Discussion about Wilson
7. 30 OctThe Taxpayers Paid Dick Cheney’s Personal Defense Attorney to Obstruct Any Inquiries Into His Crimes
8. 30 OctCheney Refused to Release the Journalists
9. 30 OctCheney Interview Materials
10. 30 OctTorture Tape Destruction Accountability: How It Is Done
11. 30 OctMetadata Goes Public
12. 29 OctRachel Needs to Start a “Hall of Afraid”
13. 29 OctLeo Gerard: I’m Tired of Hearing about Stimulus
14. 29 OctWhat about Those Other FBI Fishing Expeditions?
15. 29 OctThe CIA’s Fifth Lie?
16. 28 OctWhat Happened to Zazi’s Beauty Product Purchasing Associates?
17. 28 OctThe CIA’s Five Lies
18. 28 OctBuilding the New Economy Conference
19. 27 Oct9th Circuit Will Rehear Jeppesen Suit
20. 27 OctHey Reporters??? It Might Be Worth Pointing Out Lieberman Is Stupid or Lying…
21. 27 OctBlue Dog PAC Starves During Public Option Fight
22. 27 OctBiden To Announce Fisker Auto Plant In Wilmington Delaware
23. 26 OctDid Michele Brown Quit Over FOIAs Naming Her Personally?
24. 26 OctWhat If Trials Prove Torture Wasn’t Necessary?
25. 26 OctCall on Dems to Vote for the Fourth Amendment over Fishing Expeditions
26. 26 OctHJC Schedules Its “Get Democrats to Cave on PATRIOT” Hearing
27. 25 OctProsecutors Attack Innocence Project Journalism Students
28. 25 OctWhat Did Dick Give Judy to Go Pro-Torture?
29. 24 OctMcCain Rediscovers His Passion for Screwing Us with Bad Telecom Policy
30. 24 OctTrash – Jerkin Crocus Edition
31. 23 OctMark Sanford Goes Galt
32. 22 OctLittle Legal Recourse For Artists’ Rage Against Musical Torture
33. 22 OctMore Insane Rantings from the Crazy Man in the Attic
34. 22 OctRage Against Musical Torture
35. 22 OctRahm’s Greg Craig Campaign
36. 21 OctRattner’s Bailout
37. 21 OctDurham’s Investigation and the Non-Exempt IG Files
38. 21 OctEzra: Workers Don’t Understand So an Excise Tax Will Work
39. 20 OctMore Proposed Oversight from John Conyers
40. 20 OctHouse Judiciary Committee to Propose PATRIOT and FISA Reforms
41. 20 OctThe Generals Recommit to Closing Gitmo
42. 20 OctChristie’s Taxpayer-Funded Mets Games
43. 20 OctGet The Lead Out: Crime Reduction In America
44. 20 OctChristie’s Cookie Crumbles
45. 19 OctCNN Helps Mike Hayden Uncork A Fine Whine
46. 19 OctMore Broccoli Soup from the WaPo
47. 18 OctTreachery At The Red Rocks Sweat Lodge
48. 18 OctThe WaPo’s Broccoli Soup
49. 17 OctMovin Trash
50. 17 OctHear No Evil, See No Evil
51. 16 OctBrit High Court Slaps Down US And British Torture Coverup
52. 16 OctDOJ Set To Shuck And Jive Judge White In EFF FOIA Case
53. 16 OctStare Indecisis: Obama’s Inaction On Judicial Nominations
54. 15 OctAlan Grayson v. the Insurance Industry Hack
55. 14 OctMore NDCA Goodness: Judge Walker Denies Prop 8 Proponents’ Motion
56. 14 OctJudge White Thumps The DOJ On EFF FOIA Case
57. 14 OctChristie Living Large on Our Dime
58. 14 OctWexler Set To Extinguish Congressional Fire
59. 13 OctHarry Reid’s Price Of Failed Leadership
60. 13 OctOrder In The Court: Gnarly Orly Sanctions
61. 13 OctA Lack Of Party Discipline
62. 12 OctDems’ And Dole’s Flaccid Healthcare Advocacy
63. 12 OctFrom the Department of Ironic Reorganization
64. 12 OctWieners versus Coal Plants
65. 12 OctTwo Data Points on Section 215 and Bush’s Illegal Program
66. 11 OctTorture Memos
67. 10 OctWhite Supremacists with Hydrogen Peroxide
68. 10 OctObama’s Other Sessions Amendments
69. 10 OctObama’s Bipartisanship: Hiding Behind Jeff Sessions’ Skirts When Eliminating Privacy Protections
70. 10 OctTrash Talk – Angels In The Outfield Edition
71. 10 OctObama DOJ Declines To Support Legality Of Bush Surveillance Program
72. 9 OctThe Blob that Passed Telecom Immunity
73. 9 OctKarl Rove’s US Attorney Project, Mary Beth Buchanan Edition
74. 9 OctThe Not-Bush Prize
75. 8 OctFranken’s Fleeting Fourth Amendment
76. 8 OctCrazy Pete Hoekstra Remembers the Separation of Powers
77. 8 OctFeingold: We’re Not the Prosecutors’ Committee, We’re the Judiciary Committee
78. 8 OctYes, They Are Tracking Hydrogen Peroxide and Acetone
79. 8 OctPATRIOT Hearing Liveblog
80. 8 OctCell Phone Serials
81. 7 OctIs John Rizzo Stalling?
82. 7 OctSunsets Give Way to Dawn on Section 215
83. 7 OctBush’s Illegal Domestic Surveillance Program and Section 215
84. 6 OctMore Zazi Justifications for PATRIOT
85. 6 OctProof the WaPo’s Twit Policy Has Restored Its Credibility
86. 6 OctObama’s Statement to the National Counterterrorism Center
87. 6 OctAnnouncing National Use Zazi to Gain New Surveillance Powers Day!
88. 5 OctConyers to Holder: Give Us the 215 Info
89. 5 OctHow Republicans (and a Few Democrats) Avoided Limits on Section 215
90. 5 OctSurprise! More Suppressed Torture Tapes
91. 4 OctThe Methods Used in the Zazi Investigation
92. 4 OctThe Total Nail Polish Remover Awareness Program, Brought to You by the Democratic Party
93. 4 OctEvidence The US Bought The Megrahi Conviction
94. 3 OctBig Game Trash
95. 3 OctDiFi and Pat Leahy, Silencing the Librarians
96. 2 OctDiFi’s Invitation to a Fishing Expedition
97. 2 OctThe Evidence Against Zazi
98. 2 OctNino Scalia Reinvents The Wheel
99. 1 OctWhat Judge Sullivan’s Opinion Means
100. 1 OctJudge Sullivan Rejects DOJ’s Expansive Claims to Protect Cheney Interview
101. 1 OctBuy Beauty Products? You Might Be a Terrorism Suspect.
102. 1 OctLiveblog of SJC Reauthorization of PATRIOT Act
103. 1 OctFeingold’s Opening Statement on PATRIOT Reauthorization
104. 1 OctDiFi: Zazi Investigation Biggest Since 9/11
105. 1 OctJay Rock Demands 90%

September 2009

1. 30 SepAs Predicted, the Administration Folds on Horn State Secrets Claims
2. 30 SepGeorge Steph Wrings His Hands
3. 30 SepOn PATRIOTs and JUSTICE: Feingold Aims for Justice
4. 29 SepThe Senator Henceforth to Be Known as Jay Rock
5. 29 SepThe Lack of Discipline Is Spelled R-A-H-M
6. 29 SepOn PATRIOTS and JUSTICE: What We Don’t Know
7. 28 SepOn PATRIOTs and JUSTICE: Leahy’s PATRIOT Renewal
8. 28 SepChris Christie’s Death Panels for “Exceptions”
9. 28 SepChuck Schumer to Bloggers: “Fuck You”
10. 28 SepDOJ’s DOD Advice for CIA
11. 27 SepWaPo Tries to Silence Its Twits
12. 27 SepThe Fraud Of GOP Tax And School Choice Policy Shown In Arizona
13. 27 SepThe Lead Up to Bybee
14. 26 SepLaw & Order v. John Yoo
15. 26 SepFound: The OGC Review. Still Missing: Legal Plausibility.
16. 25 SepRahm’s Placeholder, Forrest Claypool?
17. 25 SepTrash Talk – Crazy Pete’s Miranda Edition
18. 25 SepCrazy Pete Hoekstra: Obama Must Torture
19. 25 SepFurther Comments from Jerrold Nadler on the “New” State Secrets Policy
20. 25 SepState Secrets: Holder’s Game
21. 24 SepVote Fraud in Clay County and the Hanged Census Worker
22. 23 Sep“New” State Secrets Policy “Smoke and Mirrors”
23. 23 SepMore on Holder’s “New” State Secrets Policy
24. 23 SepObama’s New State Secrets Policy Is Reaffirmation Of Bush’s Policy
25. 22 SepJPRA’s Advice Has Gone Missing
26. 22 SepCIA’s Latest Vaughn Declarations, Working Thread
27. 22 SepBill Clinton on Student Loans and Health Care
28. 21 SepTorture Is Counterproductive To Interrogation Results!
29. 21 SepTravel Week
30. 21 SepMowhoush and al-Jamadi
31. 20 SepObama (and John Boehner) on Al Punto
32. 19 SepCIA OIG’s Wild Parsing about What Was “Depicted” on the Torture Tapes
33. 19 SepTrash Talk – Spooks And Jukes Edition
34. 18 SepPoppy Bush Not Joining Other DCIs Opposing Investigation of W Bush’s Torture
35. 18 SepAl Punto Versus Fox News Sunday
36. 18 SepMaxTax’s Medicare Reforms: Would They Really Reform Health Care?
37. 18 SepDog Day Afternoon: The Militarization Of American Police
38. 17 SepPay2Play Ceci: “The Most Influential Players” Love MaxTax
39. 16 SepCBO on Co-Ops
40. 16 SepThe REAL Worst Policy in the Bill
41. 16 SepAffordable for Individuals Versus Affordable for Wal-Mart Employees
42. 16 SepMaxTax: Working Thread
43. 16 SepWaPo Happy, Two: Lalalalalala! I Can’t Hear You!
44. 15 SepDennis Blair’s Not Going to Touch Bush’s “Inaccuracies”
45. 15 SepJonathan Fredman on Approvals
46. 15 SepWe Can’t Afford the MaxTax
47. 15 SepThe Sexing-Up Sickness
48. 15 SepHappy Weymouth, Happy WaPo
49. 14 SepHaynes’ Multiple Choice Memos
50. 14 SepBybee: No Written Advice Provided to Any Agency Prior to August 1, 2002
51. 14 SepDepression Economy
52. 13 SepMichele Brown Gets the Payoff for her Role in Deferred Prosecution Agreements?
53. 13 SepRace and the Public Option
54. 13 SepThe July 2002 Torture Training Session
55. 12 SepSurplus Trash Talk – Trojans And Vikings
56. 12 SepThe JPRA Memo Described the “Improvised” Techniques Later Used
57. 11 SepMaxTax Is a Plan to Use Our Taxes to Reward Wal-Mart for Keeping Its Workers in Poverty
58. 11 SepAbout KSM’s Lies
59. 11 SepWilkerson on Durham’s Investigation
60. 11 SepHelgerson’s Hints
61. 11 SepCheney’s Hagiographer Takes a Mulligan
62. 10 SepTrash Talk: The Regular Season, at Last!
63. 10 SepLetting Insurance Write the Bill: How Bad Is That?
64. 9 SepWhich 2003 Document Was Hayden Talking About?
65. 9 SepNo Investigation of Chris Christie for His Rove Chats
66. 9 SepWhy Don’t Big Media Matt and Ezra Ever Use the Word “Profit”?
67. 9 SepThe Congressional Oversight Panel Report on Auto Bailouts: Dealer Closures
68. 9 SepNo One Saw the Bybee One Memo, Either
69. 9 SepThe Max Tax Distribution List
70. 9 SepWhy Are Jersey Cops Changing Accident Story 7 Years after the Fact?
71. 9 SepCheney’s Sabotage of Counter-Terrorism
72. 8 Sepal-Haramain Reply Filed; Constitution & Rule Of Law In Judge Vaughn Walker’s Hands
73. 8 SepThe Max Baucus WellPoint/Liz Fowler Plan
74. 8 SepIncenting Shit Plans
75. 8 SepMore on the Max Tax
76. 8 SepThe Bad Max Tax
77. 7 Sep“Believe”
78. 7 SepBad Max Provides More Details
79. 6 SepAddington’s Direct Involvement in the Torture Memos
80. 6 SepWhat al-Nashiri and KSM Didn’t Tell Us
81. 5 SepTrash Talk: My Traffic Su@k$
82. 5 SepAshcroft on Waterboarding Prosecutions
83. 4 SepChristie Sued for Accident with Motorcyclist
84. 4 SepDan Rather, Jane Mayer, and emptywheel, NYC, September 23
85. 4 SepObama Doesn’t Want You To Know He Knows Public Option Is Popular
86. 4 SepAnother “Good Max” Sighting
87. 4 SepThe “Legal Principles” Timeline
88. 4 SepObama to (Finally) Fulfill One of His Promises
89. 3 SepWill Obama Even Meet with the Progressives?
90. 3 SepJournalism Is Killing America
91. 3 SepAGAG Doesn’t Recall What He Said Monday
92. 3 SepA Decent Health Care Reform Plan–from Max Baucus
93. 3 SepDavid Broder Gives Cheney a Big Blow-Job
94. 3 SepWhitehouse and the Corpus Delicti Leading to Cheney
95. 2 SepIs All This about C Street?
96. 2 SepAs Justice Stevens Winds Down, Will Obama Continue SCOTUS Trend To The Right?
97. 2 SepMore on CIA’s Fictions about Executive Branch and Congressional Briefings
98. 1 SepThe CIA’s Latest Vaughn Follies
99. 1 SepGonzales’ Choice
100. 1 SepBowe Bergdahl and Joke Line
101. 1 SepJoke Line Just Called IF Stone’s Grand-Daughter “Pathetic”
102. 1 SepWaxman Keeps Gathering Data

August 2009

1. 31 AugConfirmed: 7 People, One Kid’s Seat, 4-Door Car
2. 31 AugBack to Breuer’s Claims about Future Investigations
3. 31 AugMcCain Owes Pelosi an Apology
4. 31 AugPolitico’s “Media Criticism” Multiplies the Errors
5. 31 AugMore CIA Lies about Torture Briefings
6. 30 AugFinder Is CIA’s Keeper In Slanted NYT Op-Ed
7. 30 AugCheney: No, I Won’t Cooperate with a Torture Prosecutor
8. 30 AugCheney’s Sophistry on Torture Investigations
9. 30 AugDick Cheney: I’m Proud I Tortured to Protect Our Country But Not Our Allies
10. 30 AugHell Loses Its Guard Dog
11. 30 AugYour Daily WaPo Torture Apology Debunking
12. 29 AugThe WaPo Declares Itself Unable to Find the Truth
13. 29 AugCheney: Torturers Can Do No Wrong
14. 29 AugTT: Are You Ready For Some Football??
15. 28 AugDan Levin’s September Memo
16. 28 AugThe IG Report Chronology
17. 28 AugHow a Review Gets to Grand Jury in Five Days or Less
18. 28 AugThe Tortured Intra-Administration Squabble Continues
19. 28 AugThe Royce Lamberth-Vaughn Walker Golf Match
20. 27 AugBREAKING! Karl Rove Lectures on “Hitting at US Security” During Time of War
21. 27 AugGet Your Torture Team Trading Cards
22. 27 AugThe Continuity of Addington’s Man-Sized Safe
23. 27 AugWeight: —
24. 27 AugLanny Breuer’s (?) Conflict
25. 26 AugAre Bradbury’s Two 2006 OLC Opinions Still Active?
26. 26 AugNYT: False Banality Is Not Evil
27. 26 AugThe Pundits Come Out in Force
28. 26 AugObama’s Remarks on Kennedy
29. 26 AugThe Wind Takes The Lion: RIP Senator Edward M. Kennedy
30. 25 Aug“We Will Provide, at a Later Date, an Opinion That Explains the Basis for this Conclusion”
31. 25 AugThe Prosecutor with Whom Chris Christie Has an “Ongoing Financial Relationship” Resigns
32. 25 AugWas John Yoo Free-Lancing When He Approved the “Legal Principles”?
33. 25 AugAshcroft versus CIA
34. 25 AugCondi’s Okay Came After OLC Approval
35. 25 AugThose Undated “Legal Principles”
36. 25 AugAbu Zubaydah’s Psychological Profile
37. 25 AugWhere Is the “Legal Principles” Document?
38. 25 AugSociete Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale, Or the Geneva Convention
39. 25 AugFeinstein Issues Statement On IG; Misunderstands Army Field Manual
40. 24 AugCheney’s Cherry-Pick
41. 24 AugIG Report: Working Thread
42. 24 AugHolder Announces the Investigation
43. 24 AugDurham to be Torture Special Prosecutor
44. 24 AugPanetta’s Threats
45. 24 AugReposted: The CIA IG Report’s “Other” Contents
46. 24 AugReposted: The CIA IG Report on the Inefficacy of Torture
47. 23 AugBetter than Clearing Brush … Getting HELP from Kennedy?
48. 23 AugIs DOJ Withholding the OPR Report Tomorrow to Frame a White-Wash Investigation?
49. 23 AugJello Jay Gets Into the Act
50. 22 AugWill the Release of SpecialOps Detainee Names to ICRC End our Policy of Disappearances?
51. 22 AugRepublicans Are Really Good at Clearing Brush
52. 22 AugWaxman’s Methods
53. 22 AugMarc Ambinder’s Cave
54. 22 AugHiding al-Nashiri’s Torture
55. 21 AugThe Republican Stimulus Package
56. 21 AugIntimidating the Defense Attorneys
57. 21 AugWhy Send Andy Card and Frances Fragos Townsend to Rebut Ridge?
58. 21 AugRick Scott Aspires to Do as al Qaeda Did
59. 20 AugChristie’s AUSAs Still Won’t Respond to Corzine’s FOIA Requests
60. 20 Aug700,000 Cars in One Month
61. 20 AugWhy Does SEIU’s Andy Stern Sound Like Rahm Emanuel?
62. 20 AugScahill on the Blackwater Rent-an-Assassin Service
63. 20 AugAmbinder: Sorry I Was So Stupid, But I Was Right To Be Stupid
64. 20 AugRed Alert! Bush Was Going to Lose!
65. 20 AugCIA’s Blackwater Circular Firing Squad
66. 20 AugBlackwater’s Nay-Sayer in HPSCI: Crazy Pete Hoekstra
67. 20 AugThe Wind And The Lion: Ted Kennedy Mans Up To Mortality
68. 20 AugDid I Say the Daily Beast Story Was BS?
69. 20 AugA Chebby In The National Driveway & Lesson In Healthcare Messaging
70. 20 AugThe Errors of Telling of Leon Panetta’s Error
71. 19 AugChris Christie, Former US Attorney, Claims He’s Still “Got” Federal Prosecutors, Talked with Them about State Jobs
72. 19 AugOh yes. The Henry Waxman we know and love.
73. 19 AugPay2Play Connolly’s Sources Are “Mystified”
74. 19 AugThe Secrets Novak Brings to the Grave
75. 19 AugChris “Nervous Wreck” Christie
76. 18 AugMore on Christie’s “Ongoing Financial Relationship” with Michele Brown
77. 18 AugHal Turner: Allegedly Inciting Violence for FBI from 2002 to 2007
78. 18 AugThe Crazy Man Above the Garage
79. 18 AugMore on Christie’s Below-Market Loan Gift to a Prosecutor in His Office
80. 18 AugTroy Davis Gets A New Hearing
81. 17 AugThe $46,000 Question: What Are the Terms of Chris Christie’s Loan to NJ’s First AUSA?
82. 17 AugNYT Neglects to Mention Foggo and the Torture Tapes
83. 17 AugJane Rebuts Mrs. Greenspan’s CW with Mr. Bayh’s Conflict
84. 17 AugHonoring Service Rather than Trumping Up War
85. 17 AugHey Specter, How’s Your Persuasion of Grassley Coming Along?
86. 17 AugRahm and the Torture Investigation
87. 16 AugMarcy Eats Kobe at Netroots Nation
88. 16 AugThe Poetry Of Detroit Auto
89. 15 AugThe Cost Of Obama’s Beer Fest Failure Is More Tasered Moms
90. 14 AugWoodstock: 40 Years Down The Road And A Nation Lost
91. 14 AugDeath Panels From Bad Legislation
92. 14 AugLive-Blogging Scrapple for Breakfast
93. 14 Aug21st Century Hate
94. 13 AugGreetings from Steel-Town
95. 13 AugExtension And Delay In al-Haramain
96. 13 AugObama’s First Rendition Looks Very Questionable
97. 12 AugRandom Thoughts On The Purgegate Document Dump
98. 12 AugCitizens United v. Federal Elections Commission
99. 12 AugThailand Refuses to Extradite Viktor Bout
100. 11 AugThe Rove Interview Materials, Working Thread
101. 11 AugGood Question. What DID Happen to that Promised State Secrets Policy?
102. 11 AugThe Waterboarding Authorization the Torturers Used?
103. 10 AugRamzi bin al-Shibh’s Lawyers Can’t Know about the Torture that Drove Him Crazy
104. 10 AugMadoff’s Finance Chief to Plead Guilty
105. 10 AugChuck Schumer for Majority Leader
106. 9 AugBush’s Info Sharing Memo and the Warrantless Wiretap Revelations
107. 9 AugAs the Brush Piles Up in August
108. 9 AugWith Justice Sotomayor Sworn In, Back to Torture
109. 8 AugGonzales and Bush Haven’t Spoken
110. 7 AugPre-Season Trash Talk: SpyGate, the Twitter Edition!
111. 7 AugDana Milbank’s Time Management Problems
112. 7 AugWhy Isn’t Billy Tauzin at a Town Hall Meeting?
113. 7 AugMcCaskill: Crazier than Corker on Cash for Clunkers
114. 6 AugJohn Brennan Gives Gonzales-Like Answer on Illegal Surveillance Program
115. 6 AugSEC Charges Hank Greenberg on AIG Accounting Violations
116. 6 AugOn PDB Day, a New Direction against Terrorism? John Brennan’s Coming Out Party?
117. 5 AugDoes Lanny Breuer Have a Conflict in the Cheney Interview FOIA Case?
118. 5 AugMark Ambinder Thinks Granny “Really” Is a Clunker
119. 5 AugCash for “Assembled in the USA” Program
120. 4 AugWhy Not a Cash for Ford Focus Program?
121. 4 AugRosenberg Guilty of “Unnecessary Profanity” But Not Harassment
122. 4 AugWhy Can’t CIA Handle the Same Level of Oversight the Military Gets?
123. 4 AugGreg Craig in Trouble … But for What?
124. 3 AugThe Job No One Wants: CyberCzar
125. 3 AugConsumers Can’t Save $750 by Driving a More Efficient Gun to Work
126. 3 AugIs Robert “Gold Bars” Luskin Hoping for Real Estate in Antigua?
127. 3 AugMcCain Is A Clunker, Can I Trade Him In?
128. 3 AugBreaking! Crazy Pete Hoekstra Wants to Refuse New Jobs for Michiganders
129. 2 AugLurita Doan: Still a Moron, Though Thankfully Not on Our Dime
130. 2 AugThe Stealing Wars: What’s Good for Gawker Is Good for WaPo’s Slate
131. 2 AugArmy Responds to its Own Spy Program–by Investigating Lynndie England
132. 1 AugLeon Panetta Begs and Threatens for Consensus Rather than Oversight
133. 1 AugKarl Rove: That’s Why They Call It a Limited Hang-Out

July 2009

1. 31 JulSenator Al Franken!
2. 31 JulHouse Adds $2 Billion to Cash for Clunkers
3. 31 JulA Fusion Center Before Its Time
4. 31 JulHow Many Reporters Does It Take to Cover a Beer Summit?
5. 31 Jul“Three Reporters,” Is Right
6. 30 JulSeven Days, 250,000 Cars
7. 30 JulWaPo: Rove Spins His Role in US Attorney Firings
8. 30 JulThe CIA Doesn’t Want You to Know about Tom Cruise’s Lobbying for Scientologists
9. 30 JulThis Bud Is For You Mental Midgets Of The Media
10. 29 JulNo, DiFi, the Competition Is with Canada (and Mexico)
11. 29 JulMegan McArdle Thinks I Should Pay $72,000 More for Breast Cancer
12. 29 JulCIFA Lives?
13. 28 JulMadni’s Coffin Flight Rendition
14. 28 JulMissing the Deployed Military for the Trees
15. 27 JulDodd and Conrad: The Appearance Of Impropriety
16. 27 JulThe Yoo Tumor
17. 26 JulCrazy Pete Hoekstra’s Pre-Emptive Disavowal of C Street
18. 25 JulThe Libby Non-Pardon: From the Department of Pre-Spin
19. 25 JulSexual Harassment Claim or Attempt to Silence?
20. 25 JulSuspension of Posse Comitatus for 9/11 Anniversary?
21. 24 JulACLU Torture Tape Working Thread
22. 24 JulSpeed Freak$: Wall Street’s Fast & Furious MOTUs
23. 24 JulMedia Failure: Gates And Crowley Need To Personally Lead
24. 24 JulRoad Trip Friday
25. 23 JulCollege Dems Eat Scrapple
26. 23 JulThe Bush Fairy Tale on the Libby Pardon
27. 23 JulHenry Louis Gates’ Contempt Of Cop
28. 22 JulA New Mission for the WH Press Corps
29. 22 JulC Street’s Waterloo
30. 22 JulIs DOD So Sure They Weren’t Involved in the Rashid Dostum Massacre?
31. 22 JulDays after Cronkite Passes with Little Notice from CBS, Rather Gets Discovery
32. 21 Jul“Protecting” President Cheney, Too
33. 21 Jul“Protecting” President Cheney
34. 21 JulPanetta’s Parsings
35. 21 JulCIA Fraud In State Secrets Assertions
36. 20 JulCIA: A Different Kind of Derivative Trading
37. 20 JulThe Changing Story on Past Torture Investigations
38. 20 JulCalifornia’s Detroit
39. 19 JulThe Use of Photographs as Propaganda
40. 19 JulBill Leonard: Congress Is Responsible for CIA Not Informing Them
41. 19 JulOne Former Official Ready to Bust Others for Torture
42. 18 JulThe Real Reason They’re Hiding Cheney’s Interview?
43. 17 JulIm-me-di-ate: adjective (DOJ) 1. More Than 2 Years
44. 17 JulSenate Hate Crimes Bill Threatens First Amendment
45. 17 JulMeet the Press STILL Lets Guests “Control the Message”
46. 17 JulSilvestre Reyes Announces Investigation into Violations of National Security Act
47. 17 JulWill Miguel Estrada Represent John Yoo Before Sonia Sotomayor at SCOTUS?
48. 17 JulChuck Todd’s Law
49. 17 Jul“C” Is for Cheater
50. 16 JulJohn Yoo: Al Qaeda Uses Telephones But KGB Spies Don’t
51. 16 JulSotomayor Confirmation Hearings, Day 4, Witnesses
52. 16 JulQuestions and Answers about Beginning of Domestic Spying Program
53. 15 JulSotomayor Confirmation Hearings, Day 3, Part V
54. 15 JulSotomayor Confirmation Hearings, Day 3, Part IV
55. 15 JulThe “Other Intelligence Activities”
56. 15 JulSotomayor Confirmation Hearings, Day 3, Part III
57. 15 JulBacon, Boobs & A Blowjob: All Star Trash Talk
58. 14 JulFeingold Asks Sotomayor about Executive Power
59. 14 JulSotomayor Confirmation Hearings, Day 2, Part IV
60. 14 JulSotomayor Confirmation Hearings, Day 2, Part III
61. 14 JulThe US Government Owns Abu-Zubaida’s Thoughts
62. 14 JulCeci Connolly’s Pay2Play Puff Piece
63. 14 JulYoo Lawyers Up for a Shot at the 9th
64. 13 JulJoe Lockhart Wanted to Say Blow Job
65. 13 JulHellerstein: Accelerate the Production of the IG Report
66. 13 JulMarcy On MSNBC To Explain Secret Program Background
67. 13 JulLiz “BabyDick” Cheney Returns
68. 13 JulObama on the Afghan Massacre
69. 13 JulThe Assassination Squads: Two Points
70. 13 JulOn The Eve Of Sotomayor: Ricci Is Irrelevant
71. 12 JulThe Scope of the (Hypothetical) Torture Investigation
72. 12 JulWhen and To What Degree Was John Ashcroft Read Into the Illegal Surveillance Program?
73. 12 JulAmbinder on Holder
74. 11 JulHolder v. Rahm: The Torture Fight
75. 11 JulJohn Brennan, The Terrorist Threat Integration Center, and Main Core
76. 11 JulDid Obama Flip-Flop on FISA to Protect John Brennan?
77. 11 JulCeci Connolly Was the “Play” in the WaPo’s Pay2Play Dinner
78. 11 JulFISA’s 15-Day Exemption
79. 11 JulCIA Sticks with Its Waterboarding Shiny Object Strategy
80. 10 JulUS Government Covered Up War Crimes Committed by CIA’s Warlord
81. 10 JulGeorge Bush PERSONALLY Sent Card and Gonzales to Thug Up Ashcroft
82. 10 JulNeither of Cheney’s Illegal Programs Was Effective
83. 10 JulGonzales KNEW Ashcroft Was Too Sick to Reauthorize the Program–But Asked Him To Anyway
84. 10 JulWorking Thread on Warrantless Wiretapping IG Report
85. 10 JulWhy Is Hampton Embarrassing “the Family”?
86. 10 JulWas Porter Goss Briefed on Things Pelosi and Harman Weren’t?
87. 10 JulShorter the Republican-Funded, Right-Leaning Politico
88. 10 JulFinal Decision: The Dignity Of Judge Karen Williams
89. 9 JulStunning al-Haramain Filing Shames Obama; Shows Duplicity Of Officials
90. 9 JulDavid Kris: Our Only Military Commission Convictions May Be Illegal
91. 9 JulDeep Thought
92. 9 Jul“Certain Officers”
93. 8 JulCould Cheney’s Lawyer’s Leak Break through the Cloud over Cheney?
94. 8 JulTom Coburn and “the Family” Tried to Buy Off Ensign’s Mistress
95. 8 JulObama and Gang of Eight Veto Threat: “Fundamental Compact” My Ass
96. 8 JulSilvestre Reyes: CIA Lied to Congress
97. 8 JulAnyone Having 2006 Flashbacks?
98. 7 JulYou Think Alberto Gonzales Knows There’s Not a “Department of Law”?
99. 7 JulPalin Misrepresents Ethics Complaint Dismissal Record
100. 7 JulFroomkin Hired by HuffPo
101. 7 JulCheney’s Lawyer Already Leaked the Content of Cheney’s “Privileged” Interview
102. 7 JulWaPo Finally Begins to Admit Pay2Play Details
103. 6 JulHPSCI Writes Sternly-Worded Letter Report on JSOC Activities
104. 6 JulRummy: It’s Jim Haynes’ Fault
105. 5 JulThe Contents of the Fitzgerald-Cheney Interview, Annotated Edition
106. 5 JulWeymouth STILL Doesn’t Renounce Pay2Play
107. 4 JulHappy American Exceptionalism Day
108. 4 JulPalin Accused Of Moose Homicide!
109. 3 JulPalin: Is There A Scandal Or Is She Just Abandoning Her Office And Constituents
110. 3 JulHowie Kurtz’s Latest Story: Weymouth Defends Pay2Play Scheme
111. 3 JulCheney Interview: Pay2PlayPo Losing Its Ability to Report, Too
112. 3 JulCheney Interview: The New Jon Stewart-Worthy Excuses
113. 2 JulCIA Wants to Stall All Summer on IG Report
114. 2 JulThe Contents of the Fitzgerald-Cheney Interview
115. 2 JulThe Iraq Survey Group Leads Its Witness, Saddam Hussein
116. 2 JulThe WaPo Digs Deeper
117. 2 JulThe New(s) Access Brokers: So Much for the “Impartial Center”
118. 2 JulThe Saddam Interviews
119. 1 JulTortured To Death
120. 1 JulA Sliver of Good News
121. 1 JulPride And Petulance

June 2009

1. 30 JunFroomkin and Rosen on Accountability Journalism
2. 30 JunJohn Rizzo Pre-Empts the OPR Report
3. 30 Jun04-309: Death from Torture
4. 29 JunOn The Rule Of Law And Crimes Of Torture
5. 29 JunBill Leonard on AIPAC Trial
6. 29 JunDana Milbank’s Very Thin Folder
7. 29 JunCriticizing Mr. 25% vs. Criticizing Mr. 65%
8. 28 JunThe Backstory of Sanford & Sonnets Is Dribbling Out
9. 27 JunThe IG Report Delay May Actually Be a Good Sign
10. 27 JunJello Jay Rockefeller on the Public Option
11. 27 JunJenny Sanford Lays The Wood To Lovey Govey
12. 27 JunThe WaPo’s Omerta on Froomkin
13. 26 JunWalid bin Attash to Be Denied Day in Court because al-Nashiri Was Tortured?
14. 26 JunEnding Torture: Wrong Agency, Mr. President
15. 26 JunWaPo Discovers C Street
16. 26 JunMonica Conyers Pleads Guilty
17. 26 JunOld Friends
18. 25 JunA Ten-Day Nookie Run Turned Break Up?
19. 25 JunHayden Throwing Mudd at Bloggers
20. 25 JunPonzi Nation: Sports Talk “Webio” Edition
21. 25 Jun“God’s Law” and Mark Sanford’s DIY Consequences
22. 25 JunBush Officials Compromised Renzi Investigation for Political Gain
23. 24 JunDid “the Family” Force Sanford to Ditch His Mistress?
24. 24 JunSteelworkers Don’t Like Scrapple
25. 24 JunThey Planted a Gay Whore in His News Conferences!!!
26. 24 JunThe CIA Loses Control of the Narrative
27. 23 JunThey Fired Froomkin for THIS?!?
28. 23 JunWithholding Torture Timelines
29. 23 JunPolitico: “Oh Noes! The Best Reporter on a Subject Got Called on!!!”
30. 23 JunYes, an Adulterer WAS Living in “the Family’s” House; Yes, “teh Gays” Are Ruining Marriage
31. 23 JunDid Ensign’s Mistress Fail to Report Her Own Payoff?
32. 23 JunAuto Decline Not Bringing Local Media Down–as Much as It Could Have
33. 23 JunDemocrats versus the Satellites–Democrats Win!!
34. 22 Jun264 Hours of Sleep Deprivation
35. 22 JunWilson Suit Denied Cert
36. 22 JunThe CIA IG Report’s “Other” Contents
37. 22 JunThe CIA IG Report on the Inefficacy of Torture
38. 21 JunJournalists and Auto Workers
39. 21 JunHadley’s Email
40. 20 JunWho Accessed the Rove Email Search on July 26, 2005?
41. 20 JunWhy Was the White House Searching for Plame-Wilson-Novak Emails Dated May 1, 2003?
42. 20 JunWhy Tom Davis Shouldn’t Be Obama’s Cyberczar
43. 20 JunMeddling
44. 20 JunTrash Talk – The Hitched and The (Potentially) Unhitched Edition
45. 19 JunCIA Stalling on the IG Report
46. 19 JunDid the Ensign Confrontation over His Affair Take Place at a “Family” Gathering?
47. 19 JunFox’s Non-Denial Denial
48. 19 JunEnsign’s Senate Colleagues Confronted Him about His Affair in February 2008
49. 19 JunIbn Sheikh al-Libi IDs Others
50. 19 JunJudge Sullivan: Steven Bradbury Not Qualified to Withhold Cheney’s Plame Materials
51. 18 JunFroomkin’s Sins of the Village
52. 18 JunFitzgerald Subpoenas and Server Crashes
53. 18 JunIn April 2003, after Waterboarding Him 183 Times, the CIA Admitted KSM Was Lying to Them
54. 17 JunHolder Refuses to Stand By Statements Saying Violating FISA Breaks the Law
55. 17 JunCIA Now Reviewing OPR Report on Yoo, Bybee, and Bradbury
56. 17 JunHolder SJC Oversight Hearing Liveblog
57. 17 JunDennis Blair’s Spokesperson: The Domestic Surveillance Program Violates the Fourth Amendment
58. 17 JunEric Holder Demagogues Hate Crimes
59. 17 JunTenet: “No Papers, No Opinions, No Program”
60. 17 JunIllegal Wiretapping … Still; Bill Clinton’s Email Accessed
61. 16 JunRove Has a Date with HJC–He Just Doesn’t Want to Tell Fox News That
62. 16 JunIf Harriet Can Appear Before HJC, Why Not Rove, Yet?
63. 16 JunAl-Nashiri’s Swollen Nerves, the CIA’s Apology to Abu Zubaydah
64. 16 JunHassan Ghul Timeline
65. 15 JunRuss Feingold Throws Vaughn Walker a Softball
66. 15 JunIs Detainee 2 Abu Faraj al-Libbi?
67. 15 JunEnding the Gang of Eight
68. 15 JunThe Gray Lady Is A Tramp
69. 15 JunHassan Ghul and Goldsmith’s Exception to the Geneva Convention’s Protected Person Rule
70. 15 JunCourt Allows Padilla Suit Against Yoo To Proceed
71. 14 JunFrom the Blogger’s Basement on Jane Mayer
72. 14 JunEric Holder’s Secrets
73. 13 JunHassan Ghul, Mystery Detainee 2, and the Three Bradbury Memos
74. 13 JunThe April 22, 2005 Fax on Torture
75. 12 JunObama DOJ Asks Full Panel to Review Jeppesen
76. 12 JunThe Scope of the SSCI Investigation and Where It Leads
77. 12 JunA Funny Thing Happened On The Way To al-Haramain Justice
78. 11 JunACLU’s Latest Lawsuit: Suing to Get the 2002 Convention Against Torture Opinion
79. 11 JunAmerican Heroes, American Union Members
80. 11 JunWhy the CIA Would Want to Hide May 2002 from Judge Hellerstein (and the ACLU)
81. 11 JunWhy Doesn’t the CIA’s Vaughn Index Match the CIA’s Vaughn Index?
82. 10 JunDid Somebody Improperly Make Torture a Special Access Program?
83. 10 JunChamber of Commerce Bids “Campaign for Free Enterprise” to Attack the Bailouts It Doesn’t Like
84. 10 JunSheldon Whitehouse: “No Further Actionable Intelligence Was Obtained” from Abu Zubaydah by Waterboarding
85. 10 JunSSCI Investigating Its Torture Briefings
86. 10 JunAP’s Definition of “Unbiased Source of News:” Don’t Criticize the Clients
87. 10 JunCIA IG Report: To Be Released on June 19
88. 9 JunLeon Panetta: I’ve Got to Protect the Contractors from Unwarranted Invasion of Privacy
89. 9 JunGravely Damaging Intelligence Gaps
90. 9 JunThe CIA’s Cherry Pick, Two
91. 9 JunThe CIA’s Cherry-Pick
92. 9 Jun1000 Words
93. 9 JunLeon Panetta Kisses His Credibility Goodbye
94. 8 JunDan Maffei Joins Bob Corker in Trying to Rewrite BK Law Just for Car Dealers
95. 8 JunOn Jane Harman and NAO
96. 8 JunVaughn Walker’s Chess Game: Sue the Telecoms Part One
97. 8 JunCheney’s and Gonzales’ CYA Libraries
98. 7 Jun“Legal”
99. 6 JunAll the News NYT Does Not See Fit to Print
100. 6 JunThe May 10, 2005 Opinions Were Retrospective
101. 6 JunPre-Emptive Strike on OPR Report: NYT Misrepresents Comey Emails, Claims He Approved Torture
102. 6 JunVaughn Walker’s Chess Game: The New Rules
103. 5 JunBob Corker, After Begging for Auto BK, Wants Dealers Exempted
104. 5 JunThe Hill’s Campfire Games on Intelligence Briefings
105. 5 JunVaughn Walker’s Chess Game: The Cases
106. 4 JunHouse Judiciary State Secrets Hearing Open Thread
107. 4 JunObama’s Cairo Speech
108. 4 Jun12 to 16 Bottles, Not 5
109. 4 JunBush Punted on GM and Chrysler … But Not Cerberus
110. 4 JunThe al-Haramain Order From Walker
111. 3 JunVaughn Walker Dismisses Challenge to Retroactive Immunity
112. 3 JunWhy Did CIA Hide Dick Cheney’s Role in Briefing?
113. 2 JunIs Obama Fixing to Own Some Banks?
114. 2 JunNadler and State Secrets
115. 2 JunCheney ‘Fesses Up that Rapport, Not Torture, Got Intelligence
116. 2 JunBye Bye American Pie
117. 1 JunObama: They Said We Couldn’t Fast-Track Chrysler, Now I’m Doubling Down
118. 1 JunThe Government Dodges and Weaves on al-Haramain
119. 1 JunObama Announces Socialism!

May 2009

1. 31 MayDan Froomkin: Anachronistic Voices
2. 31 MayRichard Clarke Reminds Cheney and Condi of Their Incompetence
3. 31 MayCIA: Congress Shouldn’t Get Records of Our Crimes
4. 30 MayBush’s Approved Torture … in 2003?
5. 30 MayRoland Burris: “Fred Is Dying on the Vine”
6. 30 MayDecision Day On al-Haramain (updated)
7. 29 MayCarl Levin to Cheney: You’ve Got Nothing
8. 29 MayThe Politics of Car Dealers
9. 29 MayCheney’s So-Called Recidivists
10. 28 MayLiz Cheney: Calling My Daddy a Torturer Is Libelous
11. 27 MayWhat Pelosi, Rockefeller & Harman Could Have Done
12. 27 MayWhy Did Tenet Create a False Record on the Day After He “Quit”?
13. 27 MayCIA: Focus on the Beatings, Not the Incompetence
14. 26 MayDick Cheney’s Torture Kabuki
15. 26 MayAs Goes the Chevy Volt, So Goes America?
16. 25 MayWood v. Kagan on Executive Power
17. 24 MayFeingold’s Opposition to Indefinite Detention
18. 24 MayRichard Shelby Contradicts the CIA and Everyone Else
19. 24 MayJohn Rizzo’s Nomination and the Bybee Two Memo
20. 23 MayFast Trash!
21. 23 MayPreventative Detention and Our Crimes
22. 23 MayWaPo Doubles Down on Conflict Over Truth
23. 22 MayBreaking! Judge Walker Gets Ready to Penalize the Government in al-Haramain
24. 22 MayDid Abu Zubaydah’s Torture Begin After May 28, 2002?
25. 22 MayThe Context of the Torture Index
26. 22 MayGallup Polls Public Approval on Innocent Bystanders, But Not Torturers
27. 22 MayVictory Is Mine!!!!
28. 21 MayDick Asks Obama to Wave His Magic Wand
29. 21 MayJoe Miller of FactCheck.Org Got Played for a Fool
30. 21 MayGitmo as OUR Recruitment Tool
31. 21 MayGoss Won’t Elaborate on Torture Techniques that “Were To Be Employed”
32. 21 MaySenator Bob Graham Clarifies His Briefing
33. 21 MayObama “Looks Forward” on Financial Fraud, Too
34. 21 MayJohn Durham’s Torture Tape Documents
35. 21 MayYet Another Error in the CIA Briefing List
36. 21 MayIssa: Waaahhhh! Dems All Reminding Us of Lies CIA Told in 2002!
37. 20 MayLevin: Send Those Terrorists to My Backyard
38. 20 MayScrapple and Pelosi
39. 20 MayApril 13, 2002; May 6, 2002, May 20, 2002; May 23, 2002; May 28, 2002; August 4, 2002; August 11, 2002
40. 20 MayThe CIA Won’t Give Abu Zubaydah His Own Diaries
41. 20 MayMark Your Schedules
42. 20 MayTorture Appropriations
43. 19 MayThe CIA’s Comedy of Briefing List Errors
44. 19 MayDavid Obey: Yet More Proof the CIA Briefing List Is Totally Wrong
45. 19 MayPincus and CIA Panic
46. 19 MayIf the Detainee Dies, Doing Sleep Deprivation Is Wrong
47. 19 MayDetails on the New Fuel Efficiency Standards
48. 18 MayThe Advantages and Pitfalls of Auto Bailouts
49. 18 MayBob Graham: It Was OCA, with the Briefing, in the Hart Senate Building
50. 18 MayLiz Cheney’s Non-Denial #2: Daddy Suggested–But CIA Refused to Execute–Waterboarding
51. 18 MayWaPo’s Partisan Press Release Service
52. 17 MayThe Data Mining Secrets and al-Haramain
53. 17 MayThe Latest al-Haramain Filing
54. 17 MayA Dick Cheney Torture Trifecta!
55. 16 MayYou Can’t Spell “Walter Pincus” without C, I, and A
56. 16 MayThe Two Torture Tape Suspects, the Pelosi Briefing, and the Panetta Statement
57. 16 MayThe Terrorism Intelligence and the Briefing Schedule
58. 15 MayDick Cheney, Torture, Iraq, and Valerie Plame
59. 15 MayFox Reports Absence of Presidential Finding, Clear Violation of Law, Yawns
60. 15 MayCrazy Pete Hoekstra Flip-Flops on Congressional Notification
61. 15 MayGraham: They Claimed to Have Briefed Before Torture, Did Not
62. 15 MayDick Cheney Out on a Limb Fourth Branch
63. 14 MayMark Mazzetti, the Gray Lady’s Grammar-Impaired Spook Stenographer
64. 14 MayTurdblossom Has Another Meeting Scheduled with a Special Prosecutor
65. 14 MayLeahy to Bybee: Why Won’t a Federal Judge Testify before Senate Judiciary Committee?
66. 14 MayWilkerson: al-Libi’s Waterboarding
67. 14 MayPelosi: CIA Told Us Waterboarding “Was Not Being Employed”
68. 14 MaySenator Bob Graham: The CIA Made Up Two Briefing Sessions
69. 14 MayThe 9/11 Commission and Torture
70. 14 MayAbout the Foto Flip-Flop
71. 13 MayPhilip Zelikow: How BushCo Gamed the Briefing Process
72. 13 May“If You’re Trying to Commit a Crime,” You Wouldn’t Brief Democrats
73. 13 MaySoufan’s Narrative
74. 13 MayLindsey Graham: Cheney Put People in Gitmo Who Weren’t Military Threat
75. 13 MaySenate Judiciary Hearing on Torture, Two
76. 13 MaySenate Judiciary Hearing on Torture
77. 13 MayPiling on PolitiFact
78. 13 MayGeithner NY Fed & Congress Knew About AIG Bonuses All Along
79. 13 MayDick Cheney, the “Not Available” Briefer?
80. 13 MayWhitehouse: Laying the Groundwork for the Torture Case
81. 12 MayMcCain’s Tortured Briefing Memory
82. 12 MayRockefeller to Politico: Read the Damn SSCI Narrative Already!!!
83. 12 MayDick’s “Presidential-Level” Torture Decision
84. 12 MayTiming and the Sheikh al-Libi Death
85. 12 MayGraham Corroborates Pelosi
86. 11 MayThe Five Criminal Referrals WaPo Doesn’t Report
87. 11 Mayal-Libi Dies in a Libyan Prison
88. 10 MayWhy Is Pat Roberts So Quiet?
89. 9 MayObama To Git-Mo Better Military Tribunals
90. 9 MayMemo to WaPo: Torture Is Not Just Waterboarding
91. 9 MayBed Dinnertime For Bonzo Gonzo
92. 8 MayBreaking News!! CIA Manipulating Briefing Process!!
93. 8 MayRepublicans Appropriating Torture
94. 8 MayCIA Lying to ABC about Torture. Again. ABC Reporting It Uncritically. Again.
95. 8 MayPelosi’s Advisory On Abu Zubaydah And Torture
96. 7 MayStressing Teh Kitty
97. 7 MayInterrogation and Response–the Democratic Way
98. 7 MayBig Auto Musical Chairs
99. 7 MayThe Value Of The Hometeam
100. 6 MayThe OPR Report: Why No Sanctions for Bradbury?
101. 6 MayDougie Feith’s Little Shop of Tortures?
102. 5 MayThe New Journalism
103. 5 MayMore on the Field Trip to Gitmo
104. 4 MayConyers (et al) to Archivist: How Successful Were They at Destroying Evidence?
105. 4 MayIf It Sounds Too Good for the Goss, It’s Worth a Second Gander
106. 4 MayIf Condi Says “Nixon” Directly Rather than Through Anonymous Sources, Does the NYT Hear?
107. 3 MayRice and Goss Turn on Cheney
108. 3 MayDid Mitchell and Jessen Have the Three OTHER Torture Tapes? Or the Egyptians?
109. 3 MayTorture Tapes and Briefings
110. 3 MayZelikow’s Dissent and Rockefeller’s Question
111. 2 MayAddington’s Multiple Choice Torture Memos
112. 2 MayThe Next Anti-Union Myth: Obama Gave Them Chrysler
113. 1 MayExclusive!! Pro-Torture Spooks Continue to Play Journalists for Chumps!!
114. 1 MayBradbury’s Bellybutton
115. 1 MayJudge Bybee, Can You Say Panic?
116. 1 MayWhat Did BushCo Hide By Not Revealing Surveillance Activities?
117. 1 MayThe Gestation of Bradbury’s Torture Memos
118. 1 MayWhen Did John Yoo Start the Bybee Memo?

April 2009

1. 30 AprCondi’s “Position of Responsibility”
2. 30 AprObama and State Secrets
3. 30 AprJP MorganThe Banks Forces Chrysler into Bankruptcy
4. 30 AprCondi: If It Smells Like Nixon, It’s Criminal
5. 30 AprA Bush EO on Torture?
6. 30 AprObama on Torture
7. 29 AprLeahy to Bybee: Here’s Your Chance to Chat
8. 29 AprPolitico: Still Stumbling Over Obvious Crimes to Cover a He-Said-She-Said Story
9. 29 AprObama’s 100 Days of Auto Bailout
10. 29 AprJay Bybee Speaks Quavers
11. 28 AprFrom “Haggis” to “Scrapple”–It’s Still Offal
12. 28 Apr9th Circuit Rejects Obama/Bush State Secrets Argument In Mohammed
13. 28 AprRuss Feingold: Repeated Assertion of State Secrets “Reminiscent of Bush Administration”
14. 28 AprBreaking News! CIA’s Spooks Lie and Deceive!
15. 28 AprDid Bybee Say No to Waterboarding on July 24, 2002?
16. 27 AprDid Condi Really Not Know Defense Was Sleeping with the Spooks on Torture?
17. 27 AprGM Restructuring Plan, Take 20
18. 27 AprTorture Timeline and Iraq-Al Qaeda Ties
19. 27 AprJim Haynes’ Request: A[nother] List of Techniques–Including Waterboarding
20. 26 AprAbout Democratic Complicity: the Early Briefings on Torture
21. 26 AprWho Gave James Mitchell the Al-Qaeda Resistance Manual?
22. 25 AprNFL Entry Draft Trash Talk
23. 25 AprThe Torture Document Dump Timeline
24. 25 AprPelosi: Of Hidden Memos and Covert Ops Hidden in Supplementals
25. 25 AprThe Bush Administration Did Not Give Legally-Required Prior Notification to Congress
26. 25 AprPorter Goss Escalates Attacks on Pelosi and Harman–But Admits CIA Broke the Law
27. 25 AprZelikow, the 9/11 Commission, and Effectiveness
28. 24 AprYet Another Warning against Torture Ignored
29. 24 AprJudge Hellerstein Spanks (Figuratively) the CIA
30. 24 AprWhy Don’t They Claim al-Nashiri’s Waterboarding Worked?
31. 24 AprCheney Cherry Picks Intelligence Again
32. 24 AprIs the Harman Story an Attempt to Silence Her about Torture?
33. 24 AprCrazy Pete Hoekstra Wants to Be Governor Torture
34. 24 AprDetainee Abuse Pictures to Be Released May 28
35. 24 AprCliff May: N_O Reading, ‘Riting, or ‘Rithmetic
36. 23 AprLiz Cheney: I’m Proud My Daddy Is the Prime Mover of Torture
37. 23 AprGAO: Advanced Hybrids May Not Be Best Way for GM to Rebound
38. 23 AprJerrold Nadler: We Must Investigate Torture … and Fix State Secrets
39. 23 AprAnd Did James Mitchell Also Write the Psychological Profile of Abu Zubaydah Bybee Used?
40. 23 AprAbu Zubaydah’s FBI Interrogator Removes the Legal Cornerstone of the Torture Regime
41. 23 AprSpotted: Aspen Trees, Turning on Roots
42. 23 AprBush DOJ Reunion Tour
43. 23 AprPonzi Nation, TARP Edition
44. 23 AprLambert Dogs the Press
45. 22 AprZelikow’s Destroyed Memos
46. 22 AprSSCI Torture Narrative
47. 22 AprAbu Zubaydah: Waterboarded 83 Times for 10 Pieces of Intelligence
48. 22 AprBreaking: Torture Architect John Rizzo Still Working at CIA
49. 22 AprDid Cheney Order Up Abu Zubaydah’s 83rd Waterboarding?
50. 22 AprThe SASC Smoking Gun on Waterboarding
51. 22 AprSASC Torture Report, Working Thread
52. 21 AprCheney Plans to Continue to Manufacture Intelligence
53. 21 AprOLC + CIA = CYA
54. 21 AprThose CIA Employees Don’t LOOK Pissed that Obama Released the Torture Memos
55. 20 AprDan Quayle’s and John Snow’s Flunkies Putting Greed Ahead of America
56. 20 AprRevisiting Jane Harman’s Over-Reaction to Partisan Pressure on FISA
57. 20 AprMcCain on the Torture Memos
58. 20 AprPonzi Nation, Monday Edition
59. 20 AprJane Harman: Stupid and Reckless, Not the Victim of Illegal Wiretaps
60. 20 AprAlberto Gonzales’ Blackmail Notes and Jane Harman’s Support
61. 20 AprWhat Does a House Intelligence Chairmanship Cost?
62. 20 AprThe al-Haramain Case Stays On Track
63. 19 AprIs There a 2003 Waterboarding Memo We’re Missing?
64. 19 AprThe CIA IG Report: Is Waterboarding KSM 183 Times Really Effective?
65. 19 AprDebunking the Torture Apologists’ “Half the Intelligence” Claim
66. 19 AprThe Torture Memos and the FBI-CIA Dispute
67. 18 AprKhalid Sheikh Mohammed Was Waterboarded 183 Times in One Month
68. 18 AprThe CIA Directors Protecting Themselves
69. 18 AprDo CEOs Really Matter?
70. 18 AprConvertino Gets His Source
71. 18 AprBurning Down the House Lawn
72. 18 AprOn the al-Haramain Decision
73. 17 AprBREAKING NEWS: Judge Vaughn Walker Keeps Al-Haramain Alive!
74. 17 AprThe CIA IG Report and the Bradbury Memos
75. 17 AprThe Bybee Memo Can’t Be Used for Good Faith Defense on Water-Boarding
76. 17 AprThe OLC Memos, “Erroneous and Inflammatory Assumptions,” and John Rizzo’s Lies
77. 16 AprThe Torture Memos
78. 16 AprObama on the OLC Memo Release
79. 16 AprThe 6-Month Review
80. 16 AprFeingold (and ACLU): I Told Congress So
81. 16 AprDid Holder Know About the “Significant Misconduct” When DOJ Claimed Sovereign Immunity?
82. 16 AprLichtblau and Risen Report Illegal Wiretapping of Americans … Again
83. 15 AprDoes This Explain DOJ Reluctance to Turn Over AIG Monitoring Documents?
84. 15 AprThe Big Banks’ FDIC Boondoggle
85. 15 AprGrading on a Curve
86. 15 AprIt’s Not the Water-Boarding, It’s the Blows to the Head
87. 15 AprChalabi: “I am convinced [there was] an implicit agreement between America and Iran”
88. 14 AprPonzi Nation
89. 14 AprNo Wonder Bob Corker’s Trying to Play Politics with Spring Hill
90. 14 AprDana “Pig Missile” Perino to Do Crisis Communications for AIG?
91. 14 AprGreg Craig and State Secrets
92. 14 AprCables and Toobz, Again
93. 14 AprElizabeth Warren’s Not Allowed to Know the Super Stress Test Secrets, Either
94. 13 AprLouis Freeh Defending Iran-Contra Type Arms Deals Along with Bandar
95. 12 AprOf Puppies and Pirates
96. 12 AprWhat’s in Feeney’s File on Rove?
97. 11 AprYo Ho Yo Ho, It’s The Risk Management Life For Thee
98. 10 AprThe Dead-Enders Do Dallas
99. 10 AprNoted Terrorist Indicted
100. 10 AprChina’s Number One!
101. 10 AprGeithner to Banks: “Ix-Nay on the Solvency-Inay”
102. 10 AprDebt Negotiations: JP Morgan Chase and Friends Claim They Found a Pony!
103. 9 AprPanetta: Contractors Not Allowed to Interrogate (Anymore)
104. 9 Apr17,600 New Hybrids by June
105. 9 AprMichael Moore Endorses Chase Boycott
106. 9 AprCredit Where Due: Keith Olbermann Edition
107. 8 AprWill Alabama Join Michigan in Boycotting Chase?
108. 8 AprAmerica Strikes Back at Pirates … with Unions!!
109. 8 AprSave American Jobs: Boycott Chase
110. 8 AprGranholm to JP Morgan Chase and Friends: You Got Your Help, Now Give Chrysler Theirs
111. 8 AprAbout those [Stress] Test Results
112. 7 AprThe Latest State Secrets Claim
113. 7 AprHow JP Morgan Chase Plans to Profit Off the 300,000 People It’s Forcing to Lose Their Jobs
114. 7 AprPre-Coffee Deep Thought
115. 7 AprDouble-Dipping at Gitmo?
116. 7 AprSave American Jobs: Close Your Chase Account
117. 6 AprChrysler’s Two Options: What JP Morgan’s Insistence on Bankruptcy Will Mean
118. 5 AprHolder Wants to Stop Playing Mukasey’s Whack-a-Mole with Financial Fraud
119. 4 AprBailed Out Bank, JP Morgan, Dooming Chrysler
120. 3 AprPatrick Kennedy to Introduce Bill to Repeal Gramm-Leach … Maybe
121. 3 AprWhite House Flowers: Make a Statement
122. 3 AprIs Rahm Congressman A?
123. 2 AprBlagojevich Indicted
124. 2 AprWhat Does Dusty Foggo Know about the Torture Tapes?
125. 2 AprHank Greenberg Sorta Liveblog
126. 2 AprHank’s Dog and Pony Show
127. 2 AprCar Recovery Czar Ed Montgomery Comes to Michigan
128. 1 AprCheney’s Stay Behind
129. 1 AprFire Ken Lewis for the $3 Billion in Merrill Lynch Bonuses
130. 1 AprWhat the Scope of the IG Report on Warrantless Wiretapping Tells Us

March 2009

1. 31 MarDarrell Issa Whines He Didn’t Get Enough of Your Tax Dollars to Be a Pest
2. 31 MarDurbin and Whitehouse: Why Did Mukasey Give OLC a Peek at the Yoo/Bradbury Results?
3. 31 MarPool Boy’s Third Way Propaganda
4. 31 MarNate Sez: It’s about Legacy Costs
5. 31 MarBusiness Models: Banksters Still in Denial
6. 31 MarPBGC Scam: In the Summer, They Still Believed They Could Win
7. 31 MarJohn Hannah: Unitary Executives Can Assassinate Enemy Leaders
8. 30 MarBob Corker: “Bust the UAW Already, Obama!!!”
9. 30 MarObama Moves GM and Chrysler Towards Bankruptcy
10. 29 MarCheney Lies, Obstruction Of Justice & Torture Tape Destruction
11. 29 MarThey’re Not Tax Havens … They’re Secrecy Havens
12. 29 MarCiti and AIG Didn’t Still Don’t Get It
13. 29 MarThey Should Have Listened to Noor al-Deen
14. 28 MarThe Torture Tape Library, Episode 51
15. 28 MarTrash Talk – F1 Circus Begins and Elite Eight
16. 27 MarLobbyists Wailing about Delicious Hell for Lobbyists
17. 27 MarDeferred Prosecution Agreements and AIG
18. 26 MarWhat If Big Media Became a Systemic Risk?
19. 26 MarDarrell Issa Fears Michelle’s Triceps, But Not Dick’s Guns
20. 26 MarYet More House Finance Hearing Geithner Liveblog, Part Two
21. 26 MarGeithner Likes It Naked
22. 26 MarDid Chuck Todd Ask about Sacrifice because He’s Been Asked to Sacrifice?
23. 26 MarYet More House Finance Hearing Geithner Liveblog
24. 26 MarFrench Execs Shoot Their Gun; Our AIG Employees Accuse US of Extortion
25. 26 Mar“Reasonable grounds to conclude”
26. 25 MarDeclining Justice: DOJ Lets Statute Run On Bush Criminality
27. 25 MarAgain on the al-Haramain Stuff
28. 24 MarBrad Miller Asks More Questions about Goldman Sachs
29. 24 MarBrad Sherman Predicts This Will Work Out Badly
30. 24 MarJoe Baca: When Was It Broken?
31. 24 MarMichael Capuano: Why Are We Using the FDIC in the Bailout? And Why Do We Trust Ratings Agencies?
32. 24 MarManzulllo: Why Do Americans Who Lost Their Retirement Have to Pay AIG?
33. 24 MarGeithner: There Is No Plan B
34. 24 MarMaxine Waters: Is Goldman Sachs Going to Manage Our Toxic Waste?
35. 24 MarGeithner and Bernanke Visit Financial Services Liveblog (Thread the Third)
36. 24 MarGeithner and Bernanke Visit Financial Services Liveblog (Member Questions)
37. 24 MarGeithner and Bernanke Visit Financial Services Liveblog
38. 24 MarWhere’s the Guy Who Doesn’t Know $hit about Wall Street?
39. 23 MarCheney’s Assassination Squads and Iran-Contra and Findings
40. 23 MarThe Fed and Bonuses
41. 22 MarMy Seeds
42. 22 MarThe Clarion Call Of Gideon’s Trumpet
43. 22 MarBad Brackets – Hoops Trash Talk Part Deaux
44. 21 MarCIA Refuses to Turn Over Torture Tape Library
45. 20 MarLiddy’s Lies to Congress: Meet AIG’s $6.4 Million Man
46. 20 MarObama Creates Delicious Hell for Stimulus Lobbyists
47. 20 MarPresident Obama Warns Americans about Threat from Financial Terrorists
48. 20 MarThe Fear-Mongering to Silence the AIG Employees
49. 20 MarIs AIG’s Reinsurance Side a House of Cards, Too?
50. 20 MarMore Whines from AIG
51. 19 MarGeithner Still Pushing the “Lawsuit” Myth
52. 19 Maremptywheel at University of Michigan College Dems Event
53. 19 MarWah! Wah! Wah! And More Semtex from AIGFP
54. 19 MarWhat Did Geithner Know and When Did He Know It?
55. 18 MarMarch Madness Bracket Trash Talk
56. 18 MarFinancial Services AIG Hearing Liveblog, Liddy Testimony Part Two
57. 18 MarGary Peters: Why Is It Okay to Abrogate UAW Contracts But Not Wall Street’s Contracts?
58. 18 MarLiddy: We Can Threaten US Taxpayers but They Can’t Threaten Us
59. 18 MarFinancial Services AIG Hearing Panel 2 (Liddy)
60. 18 MarFinancial Services AIG Hearing Liveblog, Panel 1
61. 18 MarFinancial Services AIG Hearing Liveblog, Member Blowhard Statements
62. 18 MarCassano’s Golden Parachute and the Retention Bonuses
63. 18 MarEdward Liddy’s Pitch in the WaPo
64. 18 MarThe Geithner Master Plan To Recover The AIG Bonuses
65. 17 MarAIG: “Retention” Payments for Leaving?!?!?!
66. 17 MarTime to Get Geithner under Oath on AIG
67. 17 MarTwo BIFFOs Celebrate St. Paddy’s Day
68. 17 MarWin the Super Bowl? Win a Long Trip to Ireland!!!
69. 17 MarGreg Craig Won’t Tell You How Obama Disappeared the Whistleblowers
70. 17 MarLawyers Revolt Against Haynes And Yoo; Where’s The OPR Report?
71. 16 MarAG “Paunch” Sulzberger Fellates Dick
72. 16 MarObama to Geithner: Get That Bonus Money Back
73. 15 MarThe Semtex in the AIG Retention Contracts
74. 15 MarDear W,
75. 15 MarThe Abu Zubaydah Experiment
76. 14 MarObama Becomes Bush As We Wait For Walker’s Ruling
77. 14 Mar“And it does not employ the phrase ‘enemy combatant'”
78. 13 MarPixie Dust and Cheney’s Assassination Squads
79. 13 MarThe IP Treaty Is Secret Too?!?!?
80. 12 MarObama’s Signing Statement Disappears Whistleblowers
81. 12 MarCall for the Senate to Vote for Process at OLC–and Dawn Johnsen
82. 12 MarSam Zell Chats with Fitz
83. 11 MarCheney’s Assassination Squads
84. 11 MarMike Allen’s Punditry Ether
85. 11 MarThe Latest Prop from Gitmo
86. 11 MarThe McCain Economic Leadership that Might Have Been
87. 10 MarThe Statute of Limitations on Bush’s March 11, 2004 Illegal Wiretapping Expires Today
88. 10 MarThe FDIC Takes Over a Bank
89. 9 MarUnemployed Bush Lawyers and the OPR Report
90. 9 MarTell Us How the Signing Statements Were Used
91. 9 MarJohn Yoo’s Wrestling Match with the First Amendment
92. 8 MarThe Diplomatic Bridge To Somewhere In The Middle East
93. 8 MarGetting Their Kicks: The American-Saudi Go Around Come-Around
94. 8 MarThe Northeast Takes Over Freedom and Commerce in Georgia
95. 7 MarThey Picked a Bad Week to Stop Sniffing Glue
96. 7 MarNot Seeing Storm Troopers, Not Scratching My Head
97. 7 MarA Few Thoughts on the Torture Tape Inventory
98. 6 MarBurris’ Partner Fred Lebed Spoke of Favors for Blagojevich
99. 6 MarMost Convictions Against Siegelman Upheld
100. 6 MarJustice Ginsburg to Senator Bunning: “Screw You”
101. 6 MarThe Secret State Continues to Crumble
102. 6 MarElena Kagan Confirms Her Vacuity and Farce
103. 5 MarDana Jill Simpson and Greg Craig
104. 5 MarThe HJC Agreement with Rove and Miers
105. 5 MarThe FISA Dance in the Wake of 9/11
106. 4 MarBreaking: Turdblossom and Harriet to Testify
107. 4 MarSpanking Spak and Spec
108. 4 MarRush Holt: Investigate the Anthrax Attacks
109. 4 MarSheldon Whitehouse Destroys David Rivkin’s “Gallery of Horribles”
110. 4 MarSenate Judiciary Hearing on Truth Commission Liveblog
111. 4 Mar“Not Much Patience for Failure”
112. 3 MarWhere Are the Other Memos?
113. 3 MarCorrecting the Confused al-Haramain Reporting
114. 2 MarOLC Restores 4th Amendment after Hounding from Congress
115. 2 MarBreaking: Previously Unreleased OLC Opinions Now Released
116. 2 MarWho Watched the Torture Tapes?
117. 2 MarRetroactive Immunity for the Banksters, Too?
118. 1 MarSome Clues to What “Inaccurate” Information Bush Provided in al-Haramain
119. 1 MarThe al-Haramain Stall Timeline

February 2009

1. 28 FebDid Bush Lie to Vaughn Walker?
2. 28 FebSenator Lieberman Wants to Pay My PACER Bill
3. 28 FebThe Vaunted WaPo Fact-Checking Process
4. 28 FebMichelle’s Triceps Continue to Disarm Critics
5. 28 FebObama’s Response to the al-Haramain Smack-Down? Cheneyesque Reasoning
6. 27 FebObama’s FISA Headache
7. 27 FebBREAKING: The 9th Circuit Says State Secrets Can’t Halt al-Haramain Suit
8. 27 FebFleet Standard Fail
9. 27 FebDiFi’s Whitewash
10. 27 FebObama’s Two “Ifs” on FISA: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
11. 26 FebA Whole Heap of Bad Faith in al-Haramain
12. 26 FebRoland Burris, the Sequel
13. 26 FebThat’s Why They Call It “Domestic” Surveillance
14. 26 FebHey FBI?!? Who Put the Tin in Your Anthrax?
15. 26 FebFunny Telecom Games on Retroactive Immunity
16. 25 FebThe Guy Who Refused to Wiretap Illegally Is Off to Jail
17. 25 FebMichelle’s Buff Arms
18. 25 FebDarrell Issa’s Burning Concern about White House Emails? Not So Hot…
19. 25 FebChina Auto: Crouching Tiger, Looming Giant
20. 24 FebSully Goes to Washington
21. 24 FebKirk Lippold, Gitmo Architect, Still Making Torture Cool
22. 24 FebThe AIPAC Prosecution Suffers A Crippling Blow
23. 23 FebRoland Burris’ Bad PR Strategy
24. 23 FebWill the House Hold Rove in Contempt before March 4?
25. 23 FebCREW: Obama and Greg Craig Stand with the Dead-Enders
26. 23 FebThe Appeals Court Gives Obama His Week
27. 23 FebMonday, 9AM, Roland Burris Is Still Senator
28. 23 FebCondi’s Whole Life, in Three Volumes, Worth Slightly More than David Plouffe’s Two-Year Campaign
29. 23 FebInauguration Week Was a Busy Week for Dead-Enders
30. 22 FebScott Shane’s Love Affair for Dick Cheney and Kit Bond
31. 22 FebLebanese Recipe For Economic Health: Go With What You Know
32. 22 FebAnd Now the Appeals Court Jumps in the Fray
33. 21 FebLouisiana Gubernatorial Sitcom
34. 21 FebDeveloping Arguments about Classified Information in the al-Haramain Litigation
35. 21 FebDown On The Border: State Of War In Mexico
36. 20 FebWhy GM Matters: Inside the Race to Transform an American Icon
37. 20 FebIs This Healthcare Reform Or Just Assistance To Health Corps?
38. 20 FebThe Iseman Cometh, The Iseman Goeth
39. 20 FebSteele and Boehner Go Gangsta
40. 19 FebIssa Bit Hypocritical For Darrel To Want WH Email Compliance Now
41. 19 FebWhy American Industry (And Its Future) Matters
42. 18 FebGive the Gift of Life: Become an Organ Donor
43. 18 FebVeni, Vidi, Vici – Obama’s Foreclosure Reveal In Phoenix
44. 18 FebObama Hates The Truth On Binyan Mohamed
45. 17 FebBREAKING: Burris Fesses Up
46. 17 FebAre Your Members of Congress Supporting an Investigation into Bush Crimes?
47. 17 FebGM Gets Its Loan; No Bankruptcy for Now
48. 16 FebConason’s Lost Truth About Reconciliation
49. 16 FebPresident’s Day Down South
50. 16 FebGone Mountaineer Hunting
51. 15 FebIs the Obama White House Caving (Again) on Presidential Privileges?
52. 15 FebBurris’ Campaign for the Senate Seat
53. 15 FebAny Bets Burris Did Bundle Donations?
54. 15 FebBurris Did Not Want to Reveal His Conversations–and He Didn’t
55. 14 FebThe Push to Publish the OPR Report
56. 14 FebBurris Did Not Reveal Contacts with Blagojevich
57. 14 FebHouse Judiciary Cuffs Joe Arpaio, The Most Abusive Sheriff In America
58. 13 FebObama Again Supports Bush’s Bogus Stance on al-Haramain, But Partly Punts on State Secrets
59. 13 Feb“Very Harsh Conclusions” about Yoo and Bradbury
60. 13 FebRove’s Rather Uncooperative Cooperation
61. 13 FebWill We Finally See the John Kerry Who Investigated BCCI Again?
62. 12 FebAnyone Wondering Whether Gregg Just Didn’t Want Scrutiny of His Office’s Favors for Abramoff?
63. 12 FebSusan Collins: I Stand With Crazy Pete the Twit-Leaker in Opposing Intelligence Whistleblowers
64. 12 FebPeople Might LIKE Haggis, But They Don’t Want to Eat It
65. 12 FebJudge Walker Busts A Move: The Legal Foundation For It
66. 12 FebVaughn Walker: Okay Mr. Holder, I’d Like to See YOUR Work Now
67. 12 FebDomenici Gets a Subpoena
68. 11 FebThe Senate State Secrets Bill
69. 11 FebThe State Secret Protection Act
70. 11 FebCEO’s Eating Their Own Toxic Products
71. 11 FebMaybe We’ve Got Each Other By the Nuts…
72. 11 FebSenate Stimulus: Steal from the Poor to Give to the Affluent
73. 11 FebFoul Balls: The Legal Fixation On Athletes
74. 11 FebLeahy: Congress Will Do Truth Commission with or without POTUS
75. 10 FebThe MI GOP: Leading Their National Party to Twit Failure
76. 10 FebDon’t Drill Baby, Don’t Drill
77. 10 FebIs Geithner Planning on a Public-Private Partnership with the Sovereign Wealth Funds?
78. 10 FebMary Beth Buchanan’s Going Away Present: Jack Murtha?
79. 10 FebBoy, That Anthrax Attack Sure Led to an Expansion of Our Anthrax Program, Huh
80. 10 FebUSAMRIID Can’t Keep Track of Its Microbes
81. 9 FebPat Leahy Calls for Truth Commission
82. 9 FebJames Jones on the NSC Under Obama
83. 9 FebBREAKING: Obama Continues Bush Policy On State Secrets
84. 9 FebUSAMRIID Can’t Keep Track of Its Microbes
85. 9 FebComings and Goings and Dealings at the SEC
86. 9 FebIs Bush Getting the Military to Pay Laura for Her Native Plants?
87. 8 FebThe Surge’s Virgin Birth
88. 8 FebThe Grassley-Isakson-Coburn-Collins-Bad Nelson Bill
89. 8 FebToyota Sings The Mercury Blues
90. 7 Feb“Bipartisan”
91. 7 FebWanted: An Ask for Phone Calls
92. 7 FebThe AP’s Remaining Competitive Function: Litigators for Big Media
93. 7 FebHaggis Logic
94. 6 FebCrazy Pete Hoekstra’s Misplaced Priorities on Keeping Secrets
95. 6 FebDOD Spends More on Domestic PsyOps Than On Foreign PsyOps
96. 6 FebSign the Petition: Howard Dean for HHS Secretary
97. 6 FebWhat Explains Commander Lippold’s Newfound Impatience on the Cole Prosecutions?
98. 5 FebJoe the Vice President at the Train Station
99. 5 FebHow to Get the Bush Dead-Enders to Do What You Want
100. 5 FebNOW Can We Dismiss the Notion that Toensing Is Independent?
101. 5 FebHey Andy? What About Dick’s Breach of Etiquette?
102. 5 FebDan’s Rather Exciting Brief
103. 5 FebThey’re Close to Domenici … Are They Close to Bush?
104. 4 FebSalazar’s Successes
105. 4 FebThe Only Picture on Dick’s Wall
106. 4 FebFellatio for Cheney from the Politico
107. 4 FebTweety Sez, “Why Not Dr. Dean?”
108. 3 FebGibbs Won’t Say There Aren’t More Tax Problems
109. 3 FebWho Is Paying a Private Investigator to Snoop on Rahm?
110. 3 FebIs Cheney Behind the Attack on Obama’s Plans to Withdraw from Iraq?
111. 3 FebIs Cheney Behind the Attack on Obama's Plans to Withdraw from Iraq?
112. 3 FebI Bet Howard Dean Pays His Taxes
113. 3 FebWho Told Woodward of Impending Tax Problems Over 10 Days Ago?
114. 3 FebMargaret Chiara’s Falsely-Accused “Lover” Re-Hired
115. 3 FebGrand Jury Getting Closer to Rove
116. 2 FebEric Holder Confirmed, 75-21
117. 2 FebKit Bond Sings a Different Song on Holder
118. 2 FebHolder on State Secrets
119. 2 Febdr. emptywheel
120. 2 FebRahm’s Not So Secret Plans
121. 2 FebConyers Invokes the CIA Inspector General Report on Torture
122. 2 FebWaPo: You Should Give the $800 Billion Away with No Oversight
123. 2 FebSome Obama Folks Miffed about al-Haramain

January 2009

1. 31 JanTaking Out Iraq's Future Leaders
2. 31 JanPat Tillman's Super Bowl
3. 30 JanRove Deadline Delayed
4. 30 JanSuper Bowl 43 Trash Talk: The Red & The Black
5. 30 JanWhy the Silence on Tice's Revelations?
6. 30 JanMikey Isikoff's Old Lovers Cite New Privileges
7. 29 JanBuh Bye Blago
8. 29 JanMatt Cooper Predicts Bad Things for His Buddy Karl Rove
9. 29 JanAbout those Missing OLC Opinions
10. 29 JanRove: It's Still the Absolute Immunity Issue
11. 28 JanWhy We Can't Have Federal Whistleblowers, Per Congress
12. 28 JanDid Holder Promise No Prosecutions?
13. 28 JanWhitehouse and Leahy Scold Cornyn and Specter for Asking for No Prosecution Guarantee
14. 28 JanHolder Vote in SJC Now
15. 27 JanThe Blagojevich Shakedown
16. 27 JanScottish Haggis Lives Up to the Name, Backs Holder
17. 27 JanRove's "Renewed" Privilege Assertion: Is It Absolute Immunity or Executive Privilege?
18. 27 JanFISA: Grill the Executives
19. 26 JanKansas' Lobbying Helps France Fly Citi to Its Tax Shelters
20. 26 JanConyers to Turdblossom: "Time's Up!!"
21. 26 JanAlberto Gonzales Tells the Tale We've Been Waiting For
22. 26 JanWhat Jane Mayer Tells Us about Warrantless Wiretapping
23. 26 JanCrappy Record-Keeping: A Feature, Not a Bug
24. 25 JanJay Rockefeller Told Us What Russell Tice Just Confirmed, Years Ago
25. 25 JanFeingold Sez: No More Clusterfuck Senate Appointment Processes
26. 25 JanChange Pixie Dust We Can Believe In
27. 25 Janal-Haramain: the Dead-Enders Misrepresent Their Appeal to Dismiss the Need to Wait for Obama
28. 24 JanThree Data Points on Blagojevich
29. 24 JanObama's Executive Privilege Order and the House Judiciary Committee Lawsuit
30. 23 JanWorking Thread on WH EMails "Compliance"
31. 23 JanThe "Obama" Support for Stay Pending Appeal in al-Haramain
32. 23 JanHow to Prove Intentionality of Domestic Surveillance?
33. 22 JanDick Still Complaining that His Beloved Firewall Didn't Get Pardoned
34. 22 JanWhitehouse: We Have to Look Back
35. 22 JanEmptywheel to Senator Whitehouse: We Only Have 7 Weeks to Indict Bush
36. 22 JanRussell Tice Confirms Everything We've Surmised About Bush's Illegal Wiretap Program
37. 22 JanObama Gitmo Draft Executive Order Working Thread
38. 22 JanCarl Levin on Torture Investigation
39. 21 JanPresident Obama's New Presidential Records Order
40. 21 JanMore Comments from Reid, Progressive Media Summit
41. 21 JanReid on Lieberman
42. 21 JanObama Drafts Order To Close Gitmo; Suspends Habeas Cases In DC Circuit
43. 21 JanBush Opts for Continued Protection Over Payback
44. 21 JanPresident Obama Officially Halts GITMO Show Trials
45. 21 JanColin Powell Tees Off A Parting Shot At Bush & Cheney
46. 20 JanMarty Lederman Takes over John Yoo's Former Position
47. 20 Jan"A Much Better Party Than a Republican Party"
48. 20 JanThank You Howard Dean, for Showing Us the Way!
49. 20 JanThe Bad Side of the Crowds
50. 20 JanToday IS The Day!
51. 20 JanCoach Bush is 3-23 In Real Courts On Gitmo Show Trials; Katyal, The Hero Of Hamdan, To Join Obama Administration
52. 19 JanObama, The Crawford Torture Admission & The Army Field Manual Lie
53. 18 JanTrash Talk: Phred's Hubcap for a Steal!!
54. 18 JanHints That the FISCR Plaintiff Is an Email Provider
55. 18 JanBushCo: You Can't Have Scooter's and Turdblossom's Emails…
56. 18 JanFISA + EO 12333 + [redacted] procedures = No Fourth Amendment
57. 17 JanThe Government Sez: We Don’t Have a Database of All Your Communication
58. 17 JanBushCo Drops All Charges against Andy Card's Cousin
59. 17 JanTurley Speaks Out On The Bush "Policy Of Crime"
60. 16 JanBlagojevich's Lawyers Don't Do Impeachment
61. 16 JanCiti, Morgan Stanley, Not Paying Their Taxes
62. 16 JanComing Soon: The O'Bama Heritage Center
63. 16 JanThis Miracle Brought to You by America's Unions
64. 15 JanHolder Nomination Hearing, Part Three
65. 15 JanHolder Nomination Hearing, Part Two
66. 15 JanMagistrate Judge Calls "Bull" on WaPo's Gloss–Calls for More E-Mails
67. 15 JanFISA Appeals Court Opinion
68. 15 JanEric Holder Hearing Open Thread
69. 15 JanThe US Torture Regime – Where Is The Swift Justice?
70. 14 JanAn Appropriate Detroit Welcome for Bob Corker
71. 14 JanThe Inventory of Blagojevich Wiretaps
72. 14 JanMore Archiving Headaches for the Poor Bush Administration
73. 14 JanWhat about Abu Zubaydah?
74. 14 JanOne Night of Indigestion for Obama
75. 14 JanThose Evil Dems Are Preventing Bush from Archiving Properly
76. 13 JanThe OLC Opinion Eliminating the 4th Amendment (and "Justifying" the Warrantless Wiretap Program)
77. 13 JanShorter Schloz' Criminal Referral
78. 13 JanHillary Confirmation Hearings Open Thread
79. 13 JanOrrin Hatch to Support Holder Yet the Delay and Kabuki Continues
80. 12 JanThe Congressional Research Service Says the Senate Can Exclude Burris
81. 12 JanTARP, the Consumer-Driven Version?
82. 12 JanOh Noes! Lobbyists Standing in Line with Labor Leaders!!
83. 12 JanThe Reid/Durbin Fabrication On Burris
84. 11 JanWe're All Detroit, MI Now
85. 10 JanTrash Talk: The Return of the Hubcap!
86. 10 JanDemocrats Trying to Reverse Bush's Attempt to Dismantle UAW by Fiat
87. 10 JanAbu G's New Book
88. 10 JanThe Method to Blagojevich's Sam Adam's Madness
89. 9 JanLon Monk and Roland Burris
90. 9 JanBlago's Dog and Pony Presser
91. 9 JanOh, Now They're Trying to Insist on Their Responsibility to Archive
92. 9 JanBlagojevich Impeached
93. 9 JanEric Holder's New Pardon Controversy: Oops He Did It Again
94. 9 JanSteven Rattner?!?!?!
95. 8 JanBurris Doing VERY Badly Before the Impeachment Committee
96. 8 JanFive Years After Pay-to-Play Gang Tried to Get Fitz Fired, Blagojevich Tries Again
97. 8 JanThe WSJ's Curious Picture of Congress and Torture
98. 8 JanDraft Blagojevich Impeachment Report Released
99. 7 JanIraq War Memos Released: Working Thread
100. 7 JanThe Constitution and Roland Burris
101. 6 JanThe Little Bomblet for Turdblossom in the New Rules
102. 6 JanAnother $25 Billion Pissed Away by George Bush
103. 6 JanThe al-Haramain Dates
104. 6 JanOops! They Pissed Off Judge Walker Before He Finalizes Immunity
105. 6 JanVaughn Walker Will Review the al-Haramain Document
106. 5 JanHonda, Toyota, Fail More in December than Two of Three "Failed" US Carmakers
107. 5 JanObama's DOJ Nominees through the Lens of Bush's OLC
108. 5 JanRahm's Contacts
109. 5 JanRoland Burris Subpoenaed
110. 4 JanBlagojevich, Reid, and Rahm: Who Is Distorting Claims about Jesse Jackson Jr.?
111. 4 JanSchadenfreude Delayed
112. 3 JanAnthrax, Again
113. 3 JanTrash Talk – Saturday Wildcard Weekend Fighting Edition
114. 3 JanReid On Tape Manipulating Illinois Senate Seat Before Blago's Arrest
115. 3 JanBurris: Why Not Withhold Committee Assignments?
116. 2 JanWith Chris Cox, Suckers Are Everywhere
117. 2 JanBush DOJ Is Now Filene's Basement for Corporate Crooks
118. 2 JanHappy New Year!
119. 1 JanThe Ugly Legal Optics Of Harry Reid's Burris Battle
120. 1 JanTrash Talk – 2009 NCAA Bowl Edition