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December 2010

  1. Lamo’s Two (?!) Laptops
  2. Pulling Some Threads on Lamo’s Inconsistencies
  3. Oops! Bribing Nigeria for Cheney’s Freedom Not Legal
  4. Assange Alerts His Hostages
  5. Four Words You Didn’t Want to See Together Again
  6. Floyd Abrams’ Abuse of Power
  7. Did Brennan and Napolitano Have Advance Warning of the UK Arrests?
  8. TSA’s Legal Justification for Gate Grope
  9. Fat Trash
  10. When Did Adrian Lamo Start Working with Federal Investigators?
  11. Obama/Bush DOJ Update to OLC Christmas Carol
  12. Is James Clapper’s Ignorance a Bug? Or a Feature?
  13. State Secrets Santa and SCOTUS
  14. Merry Christmas
  15. Gawker Coughs Up a Misleading Hairball On Bradley Manning
  16. If We’re Eliminating Symbols Used for Recruitment, Why Not Drones?
  17. UN Describes “the Right of Every Person to … Know What Governments Are Doing on Their Behalf”
  18. Obama’s EO on Indefinite Detention: Wanting Bud McKeon’s Cake and Eating It Too
  19. Today’s Lesson from the White House: Take Hostages
  20. Cheney Freedom Discounts Bigger than Cheap Chinese Toy Discounts
  21. Obama Formalizes His Indefinite Detention Black Hole
  22. Vaughn Walker Issues Final al-Haramain Opinion on Damages and Attorney Fees
  23. Geezer Returns: Special Old Fart Trash
  24. “Austerity” Merriam-Webster’s Word of 2010
  25. 161,948 SARs Become 103 Investigations and 5 Arrests
  26. Protecting DC’s Metro from the FBI and Facebook
  27. Snowy and Wooden Trash
  28. More Cheney Get Out of Jail Free Costs: Mitchell and Jessen’s $5 Million Indemnity Agreement
  29. Teh Gay Are Stealing the Rainbows! Who Will Protect Richie Blackmore?
  30. Christmas Special: Half Off Dick Cheney’s Freedom!
  31. Wal-Mart Hikes Toy Prices Just as Congress Gives the Waltons Huge Tax Breaks
  32. Quasi-Governmental Entities AT&T and Verizon Blocking Wikileaks Sites
  33. Republicans Vote to Ban the Terms “Wall Street” and “Deregulation”
  34. Halliburton Tries to Get Half Off Its Bribe for Cheney’s Freedom
  35. Timmeh Geithner to House of Representatives: Fuck Off And Die
  36. Bernie Sanders Quotes Jeff Immelt: “I am a Nut on China”
  37. Throwing our PATRIOT at Assange
  38. A Tale of Two Bailout Paybacks
  39. The Misplaced US Determination To Indict Assange
  40. Militarized Trash Talk
  41. Forgotten Toobz Fail
  42. Hatfill and Wen Ho Lee and Plame and al-Awlaki and Assange
  43. $500 Million to Keep Cheney Out of Jail?
  44. John Pistole: “What I Think Is Appropriate in Terms of Privacy”
  45. ACLU Appeals 9th Circuit Jeppesen Decision to SCOTUS
  46. Dick Cheney: Wanted for Bribery
  47. As Expected, Judge Bates Punts on Rule of Law
  48. Will WikiLeaks Be the Internet’s Titanic?
  49. Perry v. Schwarzenegger 9th Circuit Oral Argument Liveblog
  50. Perry v. Schwarzenegger 9th Circuit Oral Argument Liveblog Primer
  51. There Are No Critical Infrastructure Cable Landings in the Middle East
  52. Chris Christie-Patton Boggs Contract Shows Disturbing Trend
  53. The Walking Wounded The NFL Treats Like Disposable Trash
  54. UAW Sells Out American Workers for 800 Jobs
  55. White House Brags about Exporting our Pyramid Schemes to Korea
  56. Mr. Obama’s Very Very Busy Week
  57. Jakubec Indicted in Federal Charges, Still No WMD Charge
  58. The Crooks Trying to Bail-Out Alberto Gonzales
  59. The Chicken Shit in Your Neighborhood
  60. Joe Lieberman Threatens to Put Dexter Filkins, Judy Miller in Jail to Fearmonger over Wikileaks
  61. It Starts With: “Hello. I am a Prosecutor in Nigeria …
  62. Prop 8 Judge Tells H8ters to Get Lost; Denies Motion to Disqualify
  63. Dick Cheney to Face Criminal Charges
  64. DOJ Investigations into Torture as a Diplomatic Stunt
  65. The Leaked Cables I Want to See
  66. FBI Entrapment Leads to TSA Pat-Downs
  67. Senate Banking Commitee on Foreclosure Fraud
  68. SEC Inspector General: Yes, BoA Got Special Treatment

November 2010

  1. Condi and Khalid El-Masri: Perhaps We’re Not the Ones to Teach Afghans about Rule of Law?
  2. Glenn Fine Stepping Down as DOJ Inspector General
  3. Vampire Squid Pissy about Response to Data Octopus Demands
  4. Excellent Panel Announced for Perry Prop 8 Appeal
  5. Can White People Be Charged with Use of a WMD?
  6. WikiLeaks Cable Dump Goes Live
  7. John Bellinger: If the War Is Illegal, Just Change the Law
  8. Did the US Issue a Prior Restraint Request to the NYT, Too?
  9. The German “I Told You So”
  10. Correlation Does Not Equal KochNation
  11. Turkey Trash: Eat the Bird and Pass the Damn Ball
  12. Ireland Cuts Minimum Wage 11.5% to Protect 12.5% Corporate Tax Rate
  13. Fines and “Resolving this Mess”
  14. FSOC’s 15 Minutes to Save the World
  15. Did Just 170,000 Passengers Get Groped by Strangers Last Week? Or a Million?
  16. Michael Barr–Liaison on Foreclosure Fraud Investigation–Leaves Treasury
  17. White House: Only 170,000 People Have Had Genitalia Groped by Complete Stranger in Last Week
  18. John Pistole Ignored DHS Advice to Warn about Gate Rape
  19. How Ireland Is Like AIG
  20. John Pistole Wants Us to Be Afraid of His Shadow
  21. Oversight and Investigation: “Why Should They Take You Seriously?”
  22. House Committee on Homeland Security Expressed Concerns about “Gate Rape” on September 22
  23. Trash Talk: The Parity Before The Lock-Out
  24. Debbie Stabenow to Chair Agriculture Committee
  25. Both Dodd and Frank Call on Admin to Use Powers of Dodd-Frank
  26. Crist’s Morrison Pardon: 21st Century Fox In A Lizard King’s Henhouse
  27. CIA Secretly Breaking the Law with Impunity Again
  28. Rattner’s Pump Dump
  29. Happy GM Day.
  30. We Convicted a Guy the Bush Administration Tortured
  31. Ahmed Ghailani Guilty of Conspiracy, But Not Murder
  32. Expect Our Banana Republic-Like Access to Justice to Get Worse
  33. Unemployment Insurance Keeps Middle Class Families Out of Poverty
  34. Fed Orders New Stress Tests
  35. Chris Dodd Uses Hearing to Call on Geithner to Do His Job
  36. About that AG “Investigation” and “Settlement”
  37. Liveblog: Senate Banking Committee on Foreclosure Fraud
  38. The Bankster’s Stenographer Claims Credit for Private Equity
  39. TARP Oversight Panel: Securitization Mess May (Re)Crash the Economy
  40. Binyam Mohamed Wins Settlement for Being Tortured
  41. We Will Always Be at War against Everyone
  42. David Stern, Foreclosure King, a Deadbeat
  43. DOJ IG Doesn’t List Foreclosure Fraud among Significant Performance Challenges
  44. With 50 Million Food Insecure and 59 Million Uninsured, No Wonder Dems Lost
  45. Will a Role in Afghan Peace Negotiations Trump Indefinite Detention?
  46. Sheriff Dart: 5% of Chicago’s Foreclosures DON’T Have Problems
  47. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the Forever War
  48. Trash Talk: Last Call For The F1 Circus, Crunch Time in NCAA Football
  49. It’s Safer When You Don’t Let the President Reflect for Himself
  50. Are Obama and Congress Set To Screw American Counties, Homeowners and Give Wall Street Mortgage Banksters a Retroactive Immunity Bailout?
  51. Richard Shelby’s Selective Investigation
  52. “The President Ultimately Made the Call”
  53. The Obama Disconnect: Arlington, Korea and Catfood
  54. David Axelrod’s Quaint Idea of Middle Class “Security”
  55. The Privatization of Citizen Informant Networks
  56. Torture? Check. Covering Up Torture? Check. Rule of Law? Nope.
  57. Government Trying to Fudge on Its Claim to Absolute Power
  58. Darrell Issa Needs a New Baby-Sitter
  59. Mark Warner’s Chocolate Fountain Remorse
  60. Durham Torture Tape Case Dies, US Duplicity in Geneva & The Press Snoozes
  61. The War on Efficient Trash Collection
  62. Cheney Pissed at Bush: Distraction with the Wrong Cover-Up
  63. Chris Christie Was Worst US Attorney for Big Spending on Travel
  64. Russia Pressures Us to Investigate Our Torture–Some of It
  65. Zenyatta! An LA Woman Runs For The Roses & History
  66. Tax the Deadbeats, Tax the Banksters
  67. Obama Sidles Up to the People Not Creating Jobs
  68. Letter to DOJ and John Durham Re: Torture Tape Crimes Expiring
  69. Neo-Feudalism and the Housing Crisis
  70. Team Auto Never Talked to Team Healthcare Reform
  71. Bush Admits to Approving Torture–But Which Use of It?
  72. Wacky GOP Hearings Ideas
  73. Want to Sue the Banksters? Ask WhereIsTheNote
  74. An Awfully Painful Way to Convince the President Our Economy Is Not Moving
  75. Ballots and the Bench: The Iowa Judges
  76. Feingold
  77. How’s Tim Kaine Working for You Dems?
  78. Freddie Repossesses Its Files
  79. Republicans Trying to Capitalize on Housing Crisis, Again
  80. NYT and the Iranian Capture Story
  81. Rattner, Wagoner, and How to Run a Car Company
  82. Let the Drones Begin

October 2010

  1. Citi’s Fear
  2. FDL Book Salon Welcomes Steven Rattner, Author of Overhaul
  3. Trash Talk: Giants v. Texas
  4. Obama and the Constitutionality of DADT and Other LGBT Discrimination
  5. The $258 of Intelligence You Bought This Year
  6. The Boys of War
  7. Nobody Can Move for a New Job
  8. Some Questions on Principal Reductions
  9. Fidelity National Drops Nationwide Indemnity Requirement
  10. “Profound Equities with Yemen in Terms of Counter-Terrorism” Justify Child Soldiers?
  11. The Logical Outcome of Juan Williams’ Legitimization of Irrational Fears
  12. Polish Prosecutor Looks Backward; US Prosecutor Lets Statute of Limitations Tick Away
  13. NOW Fidelity National Is Heading in the Right Direction
  14. Khadr Prosecutors Trying Desperately to Hide Bigoted Article
  15. Do You Get the Feeling We’re the Adversaries Deputy Defense Secretary Lynn Is Talking About?
  16. “We’ve never lost complete command and control and functionality of 50 ICBMs”
  17. The Same Day US Gets Guilty Plea from Child Soldier, It Exempts Yemen and Others from Restrictions on Using Child Soldiers
  18. One Reason We Don’t Hear about Income Inequality: Media Execs Among the Richest
  19. Khadr’s Confession and the Lies We Tell
  20. Debbie Stabenow v. Ben Nelson; Cherry Orchards v. Con Agra
  21. The Investigative Process
  22. Wellstone Accused of Voter Fraud, Threatened with Death, Day before His Plane Crash
  23. How Does Frago 242 Relate to Our Collaboration with the Wolf Brigade?
  24. Are Iran’s Bags of Euros for Daudzai Bigger than CIA’s Bags of Dollars for Karzai’s Brother?
  25. Should Elena Kagan Really Be Getting Shooting Lessons from the Koch-Addled Hunting Buddy of the Guy Who Shoots People in the Face?
  26. Eric Holder’s Defense of Ashcroft to Defend the Material Witness Statute
  27. How Does Frago 242 Relate to Our Collaboration with the Wolf Brigade?
  28. Omar Khadr Pleads Guilty
  29. America Is a Beautiful Place, Unaccountable Elite Edition
  30. Fannie and Freddie Near a Deal with Title Industry
  31. Trash Talk: It Is All About Dallas
  32. If DOD’s Got a Problem with Wikileaked Names, They’ve Got a Problem w/NYT
  33. Fourteen Other Incidences of Blackwater Firing on Iraqi Civilians
  34. David Petraeus’ Escalation(s)
  35. In June 2004, DOD Issued Instructions to Ignore Iraqi-on-Iraqi Torture
  36. When Did Clarence Thomas Go to the Koch Conspiracy Fest? And Did He Bring Ginni?
  37. James Clapper Continues to Express Willingness to Allow GAO to Review Intelligence
  38. Juan Williams’ Irrational Fear of Non-Terrorists
  39. “The Federal Government Is Moving Comprehensively and Quickly”
  40. Unconstitutional Surveillance & United States v. United States District Court: Who the Winner is may be a Secret – Part 3
  41. Fidelity National’s Role in the Cover-Up
  42. Obama Admin: Look Forward! Even in the Face of Obvious Corporate Fraud!
  43. CIA and DOJ’s Different Ideas of Accountability on Khost
  44. Obama DOJ Moves 9th Circuit To Stay DADT Ban
  45. Dark Actors Playing Games with Iraq WMD Propaganda
  46. CIA Had Warning on Khost Attack, Will Not Hold Anyone Responsible
  47. Fred Johnson Takes on Blackwater in Erik Prince’s Home Town
  48. CIA Sues over Whistleblower Book
  49. “Then We Turned the Illegal, Legal, AND Made the White House MORE Snuggly”
  50. Administration Inches Closer to Rule of Law on Foreclosure Crisis
  51. Foreclosure Mill King David Stern Announces Big Management Changes
  52. What Did David Stern Do with the Truck of Documents He Removed from His Office?
  53. Will SCOTUS Give Ashcroft Immunity in Ashcroft v. al-Kidd?
  54. Rule of Law Has Broken Down for Secrets, Just Like Everything Else
  55. HUD Secretary Donovan: Banks Should Fix Problems Caused by their Law Breaking
  56. Trash: They Might Be Giants
  57. Who Arrested and Interrogated Hussein Abebe?
  58. Judge Kaplan: Government Couldn’t Use Abebe as Witness in Military Commission, Either
  59. How Much More Foreclosure Fraud Is Under Seal?
  60. If Voluntary Moratoria Mean Banks Are Solving the Problem, What about Wells Fargo?
  61. The UndieBomber Hearing
  62. Treasury Sez Banksters Are Lousy Neighbors Who Broke the Law
  63. JP Morgan Chase’s Several Week Timeline
  64. Why Does Alabama Love Foreclosure Fraud?
  65. Did Servicers Commit Fraud So Banksters Could Get Big Bonuses?
  66. Timmeh Geithner, Campaigner against Injustice
  67. Foreclosure Crisis May Well Be Catastrophic In Any Case
  68. Judge Phillips’ DADT Order Is Not The Victory Being Claimed
  69. Remember the Stress Tests?
  70. US Military Reneges on al-Qosi’s Plea Agreement
  71. Confirmed: Official Administration Policy Is to Continue Foreclosures
  72. The Obama Administration Wants to Ruin Your Neighborhood
  73. Greg Mankiw Proves Raising Taxes Is a Win Win
  74. Remember Cramdown?
  75. Trash Talk: Does ANY QB Still Have the Touch or Timing for Randy Moss?
  76. “You Lie!”
  77. Court Dockets Are Becoming the 21st Century Memory Hole
  78. The American Data Octopus
  79. Of Course the Intelligence Authorization Would Have a Signing Statement
  80. Todd Purdum & Vanity Fair Discover McCain the Gluehorse
  81. Kaplan’s Decision Not Just about Coercion of Ghailani, but Also of Abebe
  82. Key Prosecution Witness Excluded Over Torture In New York Terror Trial
  83. Military Encroachment On Civilian Authority & Seven Days In May
  84. Unconstitutional Surveillance & United States v. United States District Court: Who the Winner is may be a Secret – Part 2
  85. First Gitmo Habeas Case Makes Way To SCOTUS
  86. Leura Canary Strikes Again: Alabama Bingo Arrests
  87. Unconstitutional Surveillance & United States v. U.S. District Court: Who The Winner Is May Be A Secret – Part 1
  88. The (Liz) Warren Commission and Financial Reform
  89. Trash Talk: The Race Is On For Zenyatta
  90. Terror Trials In New York!!!
  91. Where’s Cheney and His Freon Pump?

September 2010

  1. As Vaughn Walker Moves On, There Are No Replacements
  2. Woodward’s Secrets
  3. DC Court: National Security Requires Dismissal of Suit Brought by Families of Men “Suicided” at Gitmo
  4. The Compromise Intelligence Authorization
  5. By October 24, 2001, They Decided They Could Detain Prisoners as Long as the Afghan War Continued
  6. Obama Has Made Civil Liberties AND Foreclosures Worse
  7. Obama’s Still Obfuscating about Domestic Surveillance
  8. A Defense of Tyranny?
  9. This Raid on Peace Activists Brought to You By Elena Kagan
  10. Special Trash Talk Rubbish Row: Scotch
  11. Is this How the Yemeni-American Partnership Works?
  12. As Axe Slams Rahm from One Side, Greg Craig Slams from the Other
  13. Obama’s Panopticon
  14. The Secrets They’re Keeping Selectively Leaking about Anwar al-Awlaki
  15. Sharktopus Live Extravaganza!
  16. Obama Doesn’t Know Why the Fuck He’s Entitled to Kill Al-Awlaki, He Just Is, Damnit
  17. Trash Talkin Texas Style
  18. Witt Reinstated To The Air Force; Wittless In The White House
  19. FBI’s Lies about Anti-War Surveillance Also Protected CIFA
  20. Ongoing Investigation of Anti-War Activists
  21. Foreclosures Are Driving Up Unemployment
  22. The Six FBI Reports Treating Merton Center Anti-War Activism as Terrorism
  23. More Missing Emails at DOJ?
  24. The Day after Blanche Filibusters Defense Bill, Biden Rewards Her w/$$$
  25. Did OLC Change the Understanding of Riot Investigations to Time w/RNC Convention?
  26. So Much for the Effort to Control Corruption
  27. If and When Democrats Keep the House, Conyers Should Remind Holder the Import of Congressional Oversight
  28. Top Culprits for Income Inequality? Exec Pay and Educational Failures
  29. Lindsey Graham Predicts Successful Terrorist Attack Followed by Harsh Resolution of Gitmo
  30. Six Years Later, US Still Trying to Find a Way to Keep Corrupt Contractor in Afghanistan
  31. The Real Terrorists
  32. Trash Talk: It Comes Out Of The Swamp Cool and Slow….
  33. Elizabeth Warren’s Soapbox
  34. Government Continues Its Fight for Indefinite Detention
  35. Congratulations and Good Luck to Elizabeth Warren
  36. But Who Has JSOC’s Back?
  37. Obama Administration Deliberates Whether to Tack to the Right of David Rivkin
  38. The NeoCons Make Unapologetic Call for McCarthyism against Muslims
  39. If Blackwater Couldn’t Keep Benazir Bhutto Safe, Why Is State Still Contracting with Them?
  40. First They Came for Women Enjoying Sex, Then They Came for Men Jacking Off
  41. Blackwater Served as Monsanto’s Intelligence Arm
  42. Is the Obama DOJ Still Coddling Colombian Terrorists?
  43. When Political Activism Gets Treated as Potential Terrorism
  44. As the White House Dithers on Warren, 525,000 Homes Have Been Foreclosed On
  45. Eight Months after Putting Anwar al-Awlaki on Kill List, DOJ Considers Charges
  46. Speaking of that Beacon of Hope in Iraq
  47. What Bush and Ashcroft Meant By “If al-Qaida Is Calling”
  48. That Beacon of Hope We’ve Created in Iraq
  49. “The law enforcement approach … mucks up our strategic interests.”
  50. A Way Towards The Rule of Law – An Answer to Cap’n Jack
  51. Trash Talk: Big Blue v. Golden Domers, Other Football & F1
  52. With Kagan On SCOTUS, We Are Still Down A Justice
  53. Cap’n Jack’s Crackerjack Logic!
  54. Erik Prince’s Long Form Graymail
  55. It’s Geezer Time! The NFL Season Takes Flight Tonight
  56. Pakistan Promises to Arrest Three “Very Bad Boys” Tied to Times Square Bombing
  57. The Telenovelas Beat the Crappy Reruns
  58. Ceci Connolly Cashes In
  59. Our Banana Republic
  60. 9th Circuit: The Government Can Kidnap and Torture You and Then Hide It Under State Secrets
  61. National Cathedral Thinks “Fuck the UAW” and “Fucking R****ds” Will Heal National Discourse
  62. Scooter Libby: “Back in 2003 There Was More That Might Have Been Done”
  63. More Torturers Coming Back to CIA as Contractors
  64. America Picks and Chooses Among Extra-Legal Entities Destabilizing the World
  65. Better Give Up Trying to Fix Housing Crisis Before Principal Reductions Hit
  66. KSM Asked after His Sons in December 2006
  67. Who We Are: Zeitoun and Camp Greyhound Five Years On
  68. Why Not Hire the Woman Who Wrote the Book on the Struggles of the Middle Class?
  69. Cheney’s “Hard, Hard Power” and Syria
  70. EW’s World Famous Trash Talk: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
  71. Hamdan Gets A Full Panel Review
  72. “I Think the Critical Term Here Is” Littering Prolonged Mental Harm
  73. The Anonymous Coward Returns
  74. Working Thread: John Yoo’s Emails
  75. On Tuesday, General Petraeus Achieved Victory in Oceania; On Wednesday, He Led Us to War against Eastasia
  76. About that “Fuck the UAW” Tax
  77. Elizabeth Warren Drops Harvard Course at Last Minute
  78. Letter to Earl Blumenauer Re: Indemnification Agreements
  79. What Changes Did Obama Just Make to Courts Martial?
  80. SEC to Ratings Agencies: Really, We Mean Business
  81. Shorter DC Circuit: Yeah, Rogers Brown and Kavanaugh Are Extremists

August 2010

  1. Nothing To Be Done But Blame Republicans
  2. ACLU and CCR Sue to Stop Targeted Killings
  3. More Stupid Housing Policy on the Way?
  4. Sparky Takes a Dump, Produces Turd Named McCain and Other News and Notes From Wingnut Hell In Arizona
  5. Obama Administration Tries to Get Out of Its Khadr Problem
  6. Trash Is Back!
  7. CIA: Money Is Fungible, Except When It Is Our Money
  8. Extend and Pretend about to Bite the Banksters in the Butt
  9. Military Commissions Good Enough for Teen Acting in Self-Defense, But Not Alleged Cole Bomber
  10. Chris Dodd’s Newfound Concern about Management Experience
  11. Dexter Filkins’ Busy Week
  12. New Wikileak: CIA Admits US Exports Terror
  13. What Irrational Exuberance Looks Like
  14. “It was the privatization of warfare.”
  15. Funny How All Those Peace Negotiations Seem to Fail…
  16. “We the Parasites” Benefiting from HAMP
  17. Gitmo Judge: Rape Threats Are Okay If They Don’t Work
  18. In First Act as DNI, James Clapper Adds to Redundancy Competitive Analysis
  19. US Paramilitaries in Colombia: Now Twice as Illegal
  20. Why Does Anthony Kennedy Hate Lindsey Graham?
  21. The Timing of the Ramzi bin al-Shibh Tapes
  22. How a Previously Qualified Elizabeth Warren became Unqualified, According to a Previously Progressive Chris Dodd
  23. Blago Lesson: It’s Okay to Sell a Senate Seat, So Long as You Don’t Lie about It
  24. Were the Ramzi bin al-Shibh Tapes Altered Like the Abu Zubaydah Tapes Were?
  25. CIA Stores Their Torture Tape the Same Place Judy Miller Does!
  26. Breaking News: Perry Prop 8 Stay Granted By 9th Circuit
  27. Our Paramilitaries and Their Militia Play Doctor
  28. “He didn’t threaten anybody. He opined.”
  29. The Bully Pulpit with Training Wheels
  30. MoDo Applauds Gibbs for Making Shit Up
  31. I’ll Take Choice “C:” Civil Society
  32. KumOnaWannaJudgeYa – 9th Circuit Has Post Perry Luau Fest!
  33. We Can’t Restore Our Country If We Underpay the Folks Restoring Our Buildings
  34. Khadr Trial Suspended for at Least 30 Days
  35. Meanwhile, Womb-Bearers Get Rights Too!
  36. Breaking News: Judge Walker’s Prop 8 Stay Decision
  37. The Things Bob Bauer Was Doing before Taking over Ethics
  38. Qosi Sentenced to 14 Pretend Years, Reportedly 2 Secret Years
  39. A Tale of Two Airline Heroes
  40. Helen Would Have Asked about the Rape Threats for Teens
  41. Gibbs’ Walk-Back: Clueless about “in America”
  42. Thank You Nicholas Merrill
  43. Mistaking a Nomination for an Appointment
  44. More Kangaroo Court Craziness
  45. The US Believes It’s Okay to Threaten Teenagers with Rape
  46. The Nomination Gap In The Justice System
  47. Mr. “Newsweek” Jane Harman’s Role in the Intelligence Industrial Complex
  48. DC Circuit, Want to Rethink that Habeas Ruling?
  49. GAO Audits and Poppy Bush’s Covert World
  50. Obama’s Relentless Abandonment of Progressive Nominees
  51. The Stay Issue in the Perry Prop 8 Case
  52. Dr. William Tam’s Understanding of “The Gay Agenda” and Vaughn Walker’s Prop 8 Decision
  53. Abu Zubaydah’s American-Taxpayer Paid Tour of the World
  54. Why Isn’t Obama Clearing Brush on PDB Day?
  55. Picking and Choosing Which Journalistic Outlets to Treat as Journalistic Outlets
  56. Will DOD Ban Itself for Publishing Joshua Claus’ Name?
  57. BREAKING NEWS: Court Overturns Prop 8; Joy For Marriage Equality
  58. Canadian Judge: Omar Khadr’s Brother Was Illegally Held and Interrogated
  59. Prop 8: Fighting about the Stay Already
  60. Holding Up Intelligence Reform, Clapping to Administration Demands
  61. Expect a Win for Plaintiffs and Marriage Equality in Perry Prop8 Case
  62. Perry v. Schwarzenegger Prop 8 Decision Tomorrow
  63. Is the Government Using OFAC to Prevent Due Process?
  64. ACLU, CCR Sue to Protect Anwar al-Awlaki’s Right to a Lawyer
  65. Dick Cheney’s Chief Apologist Advocates Kidnapping Leakers
  66. The “Maverick” Is Back!

July 2010

  1. Adam Schiff Advocates Gutting Miranda
  2. Special Trash: Lungs For The Long Run
  3. A Smart Obama Immigration Policy In The Face Of Political Cowardice
  4. Blago Goes Quietly Into The Night
  5. SSCI Unanimously Approves Nominee They Don’t Like
  6. Jay Rockefeller’s Surveillance Machines
  7. Obama Administration Wants to Make Domestic Surveillance Power Grab
  8. James Clapper Hedges on Providing Ongoing Updates on Special Ops Activities (and Other Disconcerting Answers)
  9. So Why Can’t Democrats Rein in the Intelligence Industrial Complex?
  10. Judge Bolton Enjoins Arizona Immigration Law
  11. Chevy Volt: Why Don’t People Understand Two for the Price of One?
  12. Jay Rockefeller and the Torture Tape Investigation
  13. Nancy Pelosi: How Dare the Administration Say they Would Veto Intelligence Reform?
  14. The AP’s “Most Complete Published Account” that Leaves Out Torture
  15. Pelosi: Members Are Taking Votes … You Don’t Know What You’re Voting On
  16. Leaving Las Vegas
  17. Netroots Nation: Close Gitmo and Use the Legal System
  18. Surveillance, Spying, and Racial Profiling in Obama Era
  19. Closing Gitmo: Unintended (?) Consequences
  20. Final Jeopardy Answer: Something That Doesn’t Obstruct or Impede Justice
  21. Shocking Result In Dannehy US Attorney Purgegate Scandal!
  22. FDL Talks Intelligence Contracting with Tim Shorrock
  23. Limp Daily Caller Attacks Journolist (Again) and Spencer Ackerman
  24. The Contractors Causing Chaos but Not Out and Out Corruption
  25. An Anonymous Government Official Doesn’t Want You to Know that Lockheed Works for NSA
  26. WaPo Top Secret Story: Why Not Nominate God to Be Director of National Intelligence?
  27. Ombud Distress
  28. The Intelligence Industrial Complex Prepares for War
  29. America’s Dilemma: Teachers or Food
  30. The Wishing Well: Is Macondo the Mouth of Hell Silenced?
  31. Did Jay Bybee Accidentally Admit that CIA Experimented on Abu Zubaydah with Sleep Deprivation?
  32. Jay Bybee Suggests He Wouldn’t Recuse on Ghost Detainee Case
  33. Jay Bybee Admits CIA Had No Approval for Water Dousing, Diapering
  34. Karl Rove’s Self-Delusions Hit New Heights–Forgets He Outed Valerie Plame
  35. Former WellPoint VP Liz Fowler to Implement Health Care Oversight
  36. You Have a Right to Speedy Trial … Unless They Need to Torture You First
  37. We Are All South America Now
  38. Right Wing Finally Talking about Rule of Law
  39. Omar Khadr Condemns the Military Commissions
  40. Obama Comes to MI to Celebrate Korean Technology
  41. As April Strawberry Blossoms into Perfect Citizen
  42. Spooky Timing
  43. Was the Real Target of the Spy Sting Russian Official #1?
  44. Bob Corker Kills the Catfood Commission
  45. Tory-Speak on the Torture Inquiry
  46. DOD Allows Carol Rosenberg to Return to Gitmo Next Week
  47. One Percent of All Americans Will Have Lost Unemployment by Month’s End
  48. Apparently, Reporting on Right Wing Death Squads Is Now Material Support for Terrorism
  49. Huge Brass Balls and A Burn In The Bay: BART Shooting Verdict
  50. Obama Administration Grants Europeans Rights Americans Don’t Have
  51. Did Bad Journalism Make the Country Love Torture?
  52. GAO to Have Oversight of Most-Secret DOD Programs?
  53. Did Adrian Lamo Have Two Days Worth of IM’s with Bradley Manning on May 25?
  54. Another Obama Recess Appointment For Someone Not Named Johnsen
  55. Wikileaks Leaker Bradley Manning Finally Charged
  56. Is the UK Torture Inquiry an Attempt to Limit Further Disclosure?
  57. “Creative” Wall Street and Money-Laundering
  58. Are DOJ and DOI Making A Competent Legal Effort On Gulf Moratorium?
  59. Obama Administration Follows Bush/Cheney On Politicization Of DOJ
  60. The Use of False Passports Does Not Make Someone an Al Qaeda Member
  61. Bill Keller Suppresses American Tradition of Opposition to Torture
  62. Press Groups Call Gitmo Banning Prior Restraint
  63. Liz “BabyDick” Cheney and DNC: Ideological Soulmates?
  64. Cowboys, T. Jeff’s Declaration, Bond Bitchez and Teh Porn Stash
  65. Keep Your Declaration of Independence Right Next to Your Assassination Cards
  66. Oil Shill Mary Landrieu Claims Ignorance of ConocoPhillips
  67. The Gray Lady Waited Three Years to Quote People Calling Torture Torture
  68. Even the Crusades Weren’t “Forever”
  69. Torture and Truth

June 2010

  1. Amy Klobuchar Shreds Coburn’s “Concept of Freedom”
  2. Waterboarding Is Only Torture If John McCain Says So
  3. Elena Kagan on Illegal Wiretapping
  4. DOJ Blows Smoke on Timing of Russian Spy Bust
  5. Elena Kagan and Lindsey Graham on the Global Battlefield, the Sequel
  6. Does Kagan Think the 2001 Afghan AUMF Authorized Iraq?
  7. Why Roll Up the Russian Spy Network Now?
  8. Judicial Ethics in the Gulf: Judge Feldman’s Conflicts and DOJ Malpractice
  9. DiFi Will Cave on Intelligence Reform
  10. Erik Prince, Sanctions, and Mineral Wealth
  11. Tapper Throws Softball on Drones to Panetta
  12. We Spend $1 Billion/Year Fighting Each al Qaeda Member in Afghanistan
  13. DARPA Seeking CompLit Experts
  14. The WaPo’s Very Funny Idea of Source Protection
  15. The Perils of Giving John Brennan Unchecked Power
  16. One Acting OLC Head Replaces Another
  17. We Can’t Even Get Japan to Stop Whaling…
  18. Obama Embraces Killer Drones with Communications Problems
  19. What Did Hillary Think about McChrystal’s Firing?
  20. Win One for Democratic Institutions
  21. How Is McChrystal Doing at Fulfilling His Plan?
  22. $15,000 a Truck Protection Payments to the Taliban
  23. Obama Drilling Moratorium Overturned In Curious Court Decision
  24. Ill-Considered Trash Talk McChrystal’s Idea of Winning Hearts and Minds
  25. Joe Biden, Another Big Fucking I Told You So
  26. Should We Prosecute Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal Now?
  27. Negotiation 101: How to Get Corporations to Do What You Want
  28. The Well Oiled Man Hayward Goes Yachting As Gulf of Mexico Dies
  29. The Sartorial Splendor of NYTimes Professionals (MoDo) at Work
  30. Lanny Davis Fudges and Shills His Way Through Another Op-Ed
  31. Glenn Fine to Investigate Government Use of PATRIOT Powers Again
  32. A Recess Appointment for Militarized Spooks But Not for Rule of Law
  33. Perry v. Schwarzenegger Prop 8 Closings Wrap Up
  34. Prop8 Liveblog: Ted Olson Brings Us Home
  35. Prop8 Liveblog: The Proponents Make Their Case
  36. Prop8 Liveblog: The City of SF Weighs In
  37. Prop 8 Liveblog: “June Is the Month for Marriages”
  38. The Return of CIFA. Now, with Interrogation Capabilities!
  39. In Bitchy Outburst, Risen Confirms Lithium Story Timed to Afghan Setbacks
  40. Killer Drones Coming To America!
  41. Erik Prince Follows Halliburton Beyond Reach of US Law
  42. Obama Administration Defends Stupid Counterterrorism Decisions, Again
  43. Touchdown Jesus Struck Down by Act of God (or Maybe Al Gore)
  44. Briefing Congress and Destroying Torture Tapes
  45. BP’s Well Failure Due to Effort to Save $10 Million?
  46. SCOTUS Denies Cert for Maher Arar
  47. White House Won’t Tell DNI It Should Be More Powerful
  48. BP Well Bore/Casing Integrity Issues and Senator Nelson’s Statements
  49. CIA Changed the Pelosi Briefing Description after Deciding to Destroy Torture Tapes
  50. NYT, Republican Opposition Rag
  51. “Incentives for Cooperation”
  52. House Intelligence Staffer Tried to Intervene on Illegal Wiretap Program
  53. Are You Ready For Some Futbol? Special FIFA Trash
  54. Cables on Church Sex Scandal among those Sent to Wikileaks
  55. Time to Check In on Our Relations with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
  56. Feed the Generals Catfood, Too
  57. Dawn Johnsen: Finish the Job of Fixing Office of Legal Counsel
  58. Judge: One Night at a Zubaydah-Related Guest House Not Grounds for Indefinite Detention
  59. Oil Flow Rate More Than Double What BP and Government Have Said
  60. The Blind Leading the Blind
  61. David Boies: Prop 8 Trial Establishes as “Matter of Fact” that Marriage Equality Doesn’t Hurt Straight Marriage
  62. Chamber of Commerce Flip-Flops on Retroactive Legislation
  63. The Value of Advice and Consent: Clapper Nomination
  64. Prediction: Media Will Be Angrier About AT&T Breach than Illegal Wiretapping
  65. The US Prison Colony
  66. Congress Thinks BP Commission Needs Subpoena Power, Too
  67. Bhopal Justice, Sort Of
  68. BP Well Bore And Casing Integrity May Be Blown, Says Florida’s Sen. Nelson
  69. Jose Rodriguez Briefed Pelosi and Goss in Deceptive Abu Zubaydah Briefing
  70. Alleged Wikileaks Leaker Arrested
  71. Allowing Human Experimentation under the War Crimes Act
  72. Our Former Coup Client Speaks
  73. The Illegal War on Latin American (!) Terrorism
  74. Obama Monty Hall To Give Lovely Parting Gifts To BP Death Victims
  75. BP Gulf Disaster and Its Failed Russian Experiment
  76. Liz “BabyDick” Cheney: Obama Not Bloodthirsty Enough
  77. The US Is Defending Not Just Its Closest Ally in Israeli Raid, but Also Approach to War
  78. Obama and JSOC Targeting People Not Included under AUMF
  79. Ed Koch Calls Jeremy Scahill a Terrorist Supporter for Defending Children
  80. The Impending Intelligence Games
  81. If Ever You Doubted Water-Boarding KSM Was a Bad Decision…
  82. NOAA Director Lubchenco Plays Dumb on Plumes
  83. UN Special Rapporteur Condemns America’s Killer Drones
  84. Dick Cheney’s Wyoming’s Face at MMS
  85. The NY Times, Elena Kagan and Batson
  86. Task Force Conclusion: “Many” Detainees Were Legally Detained
  87. Holder Emphasizes 11 Dead When Discussing DOJ Investigation of BP Disaster
  88. The National Security Strategy
  89. BP’s LMRP: Claws, Craws, Saws and Jaws
  90. BP Adopts the Public Face of Dick Cheney
  91. Cutting Social Security in the Name of National Security

May 2010

  1. Apparently Missing Biblical Irony, Nuclear Power Israel Complains about Slingshot Attacks
  2. BP Criminal Liability Working Thread
  3. Top Hat and Tails; BP Has Yet Another “Solution”
  4. The Last Days Of May Trash
  5. BP Criminals In The Gulf
  6. The Official Flow Rate: 12,000-19,000 BBL/Day
  7. BP’s Own Internal Documents Prove It Knew Its Oil Leak Estimates Were Bogus
  8. Breaking! Obama Cabinet Official Looks Backward!
  9. Top Kill Discussion Thread
  10. “I cannot see that any other form of organisation would stand a better chance”
  11. BP Fixed a Negative Pressure Test before the Well Blew
  12. Petraeus’ Challenge to Obama
  13. Squabble in Administration over Rule of War, Khadr, Drones
  14. The Joint Unconventional Warfare Task Force Execute Order (AKA the JUnc WTF?)
  15. BP: We Have to Use Corexit Because No One Tests for Endocrine Disruptors
  16. How Much Does BP Pay Us for Privilege of Soiling Our Shores?
  17. Dr. Sludgelove: Or How I Learned To Stop Junk Shotting And Love Teh Bomb
  18. The EPA’s History of William Reilly
  19. Obama’s BP Disaster Commission: Looking Forward with No Subpoenas
  20. Greenhouse Eats Offal for Breakfast
  21. DC Circuit Helps Obama Turn Bagram into Black Hole
  22. Congress’ 30-Day Deadline for Rubber-Stamping Exploration Plans
  23. The Inexplicable Timing of Dennis Blair’s Ouster
  24. How the Government Explains Uninterrupted Access to Faisal Shahzad
  25. BP Goes There: “No One Could Have Predicted…”
  26. John Hall Questions BP’s Greenwashing Campaign
  27. Congress Gets Results on Corexit
  28. Who ELSE Can You Target with Predator Drones? Drug Cartels and Pirates?
  29. Dennis Kucinich Says Targeting US Citizens Should Be Illegal
  30. Faisal Shahzad Gets a Lawyer
  31. Sheldon Whitehouse Lists the NEPA Exclusions
  32. The OTHER 2002 Jay Bybee Opinion
  33. Nine Years after 9/11, Intelligence Community Still Missing Threats to US
  34. Obama’s Commission
  35. Pakistani “Cooperation” on Faisal Shahzad
  36. Remember Scooter Libby’s Lost Emails?
  37. Tired McCain a Foundering Gluehorse Without Weaver
  38. Once Again, Obama Empowers State Department to Lecture Others
  39. Search and Replace: Sexually Dangerous Person, Terrorist
  40. Abu Zubaydah’s Habeas Doodle
  41. First Arab-American, Rima Fakih, Wins Miss USA
  42. When Kagan Defenders Hurt Her Case
  43. Spy Contractor v. Spy Contractor
  44. Faisal Shahzad’s “Waiver” of His Rights
  45. Does the Right to a Lawyer Disappear with Miranda?
  46. Elena Kagan and Maher Arar
  47. DOD’s Latest Black Site
  48. Eric Holder Visits HJC
  49. Betty Sutton on the Coerced Transocean Statements
  50. Banned Gitmo Reporters Appeal
  51. The House Always Wins
  52. That Iraq Withdrawal We Elected in 2008?
  53. Lois Capps: Booms Will Only Collect 15% of Spilled Oil
  54. Jon Kiriakou: Libby Knew Plame Was Covert
  55. CEO Mud Wrestling
  56. A More Revealing BP Hearing?
  57. The Flaming Hypocrisy Of US Terrorist Designation
  58. John Rizzo: DOD Engaged in Cyberwarfare with Limited Oversight
  59. Maria Cantwell Tries to Get BP to Define “Legitimate Claims”
  60. Walter Pincus’ Chummy Torture Apology
  61. Judge Rules Torture Doesn’t Violate Due Process
  62. The Questions I Should Have Asked
  63. State Secrets Non-Compromise Compromise Architect to Replace Kagan
  64. Elena Kagan Will Be The Most Unqualified Justice In History
  65. Look on the Bright Side!!!
  66. What’s It Take for Holder to Be Allowed to Do a Sunday Show? Kill Miranda!
  67. Joshua Claus: The Rape Threat and the Dead Detainees
  68. Pew: 70% Experienced Significant Financial Issue
  69. Trash Talk: Viva Los Suns!!
  70. EU Won’t Hand Over Their Data
  71. Cancer, Chemicals, and Corporations
  72. DOD Kicks Out Gitmo Reporters for Reporting Publicly Available Information
  73. “It’d be easier to launch a Hellfire missile at a non-citizen than a citizen”
  74. They Used Threat of Prison Rape to Scare Omar Khadr
  75. “Pattern of Life” Drone Strikes
  76. Rahm and Axe: Timmeh Has Got His Groove Back
  77. ACLU Better Spooks than the Torturers
  78. Oil and Water and Leaky Hydraulics Don’t Mix?
  79. The Brits Refuse Secret Trials Even as Obama Doubles Down
  80. Government Remains Belligerent in al-Haramain; Will Fight On
  81. Halliburton: We Worked to Spec
  82. BP Oil Slick The Result Of Republican DOJ And Regulatory Policy
  83. Erik Prince Proposes Blackwater Become Big Oil’s Enforcer
  84. Top Journalist’s Husband Argues People Are Too Stupid for Debate
  85. John Yoo: Stupid Political Hack AND Craven Addington Disciple
  86. $75 Million Buys BP Six Years of Lobbying or One Giant Oil Spill
  87. Lloyd Blankfein’s AAA Bridge He Wants to Sell You

April 2010

  1. Dems Not Only Call for National ID, but for Anti-Democratic National ID
  2. Khadr: “You’re Trying to Humiliate Me”
  3. Our Unlawful Enemy Combat-Drones and Their Spooky Button-Pushers
  4. Do Bloggers Suck or Does TradMed Just Suck More?
  5. Risen Gets Subpoenaed for Merlin Story. Again.
  6. The Right to Counsel at Gitmo
  7. Breaking! Torture Is Illegal! Except when Consistent with the Interests of Justice!
  8. Pleading Terror Trials
  9. George Will Goes Bipolar Over Brown
  10. The Protective Order on Khadr’s Interrogators and the John Adams Project
  11. Claire McCaskill: Synthetic CDOs Are Not Like Corn
  12. Obama-Era Military Commissions: Cramming on the Rules
  13. BP’s Procedural Spills
  14. Dick Cheney’s Counterterrorism Incompetence Continues to Endanger Us
  15. David Iglesias: Obama’s Used Car Salesman For Gitmo Show Trials
  16. I Guess The Comfy Chair Was Not An Option
  17. SEC: CoxSlackers & BushWackers Fiddled While Wall Street Burned
  18. Anthrax and Blago for Breakfast
  19. Scott Bloch Cops A Plea For Bloching Justice
  20. Why Were the Torture Tapes Destroyed?
  21. Court Slaps Government Over Use Of Torture Evidence
  22. Mudd Wrestling and Torture
  23. Holder’s Catch-22 on the al-Haramain Ruling
  24. The Interview Questions
  25. The Wikileaks Medic’s Soldier’s Apology
  26. The Abu Zubaydah Document
  27. Government Continues to Avoid Court Rulings on Domestic Surveillance
  28. Who Is Lying? The Torturers? Or John Yoo?
  29. A Concurrence In The Case Against Elena Kagan
  30. The Timeline of Torture Tape Destruction in John Durham’s Documents
  31. Did the White House Review CIA’s Records on Congressional Briefings?
  32. Abu Zubaydah May Have Been Waterboarded MORE than 83 Times
  33. How Abu Zubaydah’s Sleep Deprivation Got Out of Control
  34. CIA’s Lawyer Did Not Find Alteration of Torture Tapes “Noteworthy”
  35. Is John Durham Finally Done?
  36. Eric Holder Addresses the Constitution Project
  37. Steven Kappes Leaves the Agency, Again
  38. Reading Tea Leaves on Warrantless Wiretapping
  39. Holder Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee
  40. Daniel Levin’s Last Minute “Combined” Memo
  41. “Humane Societies … Pursue Justice”
  42. What Happened to that OTHER OPR Report?
  43. Meet Deputy Attorney General Robert Gibbs
  44. Did CIA Misrepresent Interrogation Policy to Court in Passaro Case?
  45. Al-Awlaki Family: Let’s Make a Deal
  46. Has Aafia Siddiqui’s Daughter Surfaced?
  47. Daniel Levin Tells Jim Haynes, Again, Not to Torture
  48. Obama Killed The Johnsen Nomination, Not Ben Nelson Nor The GOP
  49. David Passaro Threatened to Expose the SERE-Torture Tie
  50. The Inevitable Sacking Of The Dawn Johnsen Nomination
  51. Court Releases Slahi Decision
  52. Wilkerson: Cheney and Rummy Knew Gitmo Detainees Were Innocent
  53. Meet David Passaro, the Only CIA Guy Prosecuted for Detainee Abuse
  54. “High Side” Cables and FOIA Responses
  55. “Countering Violent Extremism”
  56. Is DOD “Losing” Videos of Its Special Ops Missions?
  57. Now Both JSOC AND CIA Have Green Light to Target American Citizen
  58. 2005 Story: Chertoff Opposed Technique Threatening Imminent Death
  59. Salt Pit Victim, Gul Rahman, Once Rescued Hamid Karzai
  60. DOJ PIN Head Steps Into More Malfeasance Poo
  61. No Habeas If They’ve Moved Your Body
  62. “Well, it’s their fault for bringing their kids into a battle.”
  63. How CIA Avoided Negligent Homicide Charges in the Salt Pit Killing
  64. Why John Yoo’s Attempts to “Negate” the Torturers’ Intent Fails
  65. How John Yoo Negated the Mental Suffering of Death Threats in the Bybee Two Memo
  66. Mummies And Bunnies Trash
  67. CIA Lawyers Were Discussing “Issue that Arose” Three Days Before July 13 Fax
  68. The Government Makes No Claim Abu Zubaydah Had Knowledge of Impending Terrorist Plans
  69. Abu Zubaydah Experienced “Hard” Dislocation After Session 63
  70. Government Admits Its Understanding of Abu Zubaydah Has “Evolved”
  71. Steven Kappes and Ibn Sheikh al-Libi
  72. Government Admits Abu Zubaydah Suffered from Cognitive Impairment

March 2010

  1. Why DOJ Is Likely to Accept Vaughn Walker’s Ruling
  2. CCR Fights to Uphold Attorney-Client Privilege
  3. Breaking: Judge Walker Grants Summary Judgment Finding Gov’t Liable Under FISA
  4. Chertoff’s Fence
  5. Targeting al-Awlaki
  6. Eve Conant: Right Wing Terrorists Are Still “Ho Hum”
  7. Our Torture Regime Based on Same Kinds of Lies and Bad Intell as the Iraq War
  8. Steven Bradbury Didn’t Disclose His Appendix M Opinion to Congress
  9. Royce Lamberth: Let’s Make a Deal
  10. The Context of the July 13 Fax
  11. Abu Zubaydah’s Drawings
  12. Yoo’s Supervisors Didn’t Know about the July 13, 2002 Fax
  13. The Militiagan Wolverines
  14. Abu Zubaydah’s Torturers Relied on July 13 Yoo Fax, not Bybee Memo
  15. Koh v. Johnson: Material Support in Far Away “Battlefields”
  16. Can’t Spell Militia without “MI” (and IN and OH)
  17. Dusty Foggo’s Girlfriend, John Rizzo, and the Salt Pit
  18. The Salt Pit and the Bybee Memos
  19. Obama Discovers Recess Appointments–But Not for Dawn Johnsen
  20. DOJ Still Deliberating about 2006 White Paper
  21. Another Administration withholding OLC Memos
  22. Jeff Sessions: George Bush Waited 7 Years to Set Up Military Commissions
  23. The Cass Sunstein Campaign against Open Source Leaks
  24. DOJ: Scott Roeder Is Not a Terrorist
  25. The 390 Terrorists Convicted in Civilian Courts
  26. Another Reason to Use Civilian Courts
  27. The Comey College Of Prosecutorial Knowledge
  28. Durham Going after the First Destruction of Torture Tapes?
  29. Bull Durham Update: Torture Tape Investigation Winding Down Again
  30. Here Comes The Judge; Gitmo Military Commissions Redux
  31. John Adams and Patrick Fitzgerald
  32. Coordinated Anti-Democratic Vandalism in at Least 3 States
  33. The Chuck and Huck Show
  34. Judge Orders Mohamedou Slahi Released
  35. British Unit Used Sleep Deprivation, Stress Positions, Hooding
  36. Jane Mayer to Marc Thiessen: Your Guys’ Ignorance Got Us Attacked
  37. The Prisoner Shellgame
  38. DOD’s Empty Vessel for Torture Authorization
  39. Did DOD Have ANY Authorization for Torture after 2004?
  40. Congressman Dingell: Call Bart Stupak on His Lies about Abortion
  41. The “Detainees Subject to the Review”
  42. Steven Bradbury: Breaking His Own Rules Even as He Writes Them
  43. Random Friday Afternoon Links
  44. The Anonymous Coward Calling Holder Weak
  45. Bybee’s Circuit: Ashcroft Can Be Sued for Wrongful Detention
  46. When Lawyers Equate Law with PR
  47. The Request for Reaffirmation of Torture
  48. Obama’s Intelligence Leaders: For GAO Oversight Before They Were Against It
  49. Kiriakou: CIA IG Report Confirmed They Waterboarded Before Getting Approval (?)
  50. Did Addington Oppose 9/11 Commission Questions to Avoid Independent Evaluation of Torture Program?
  51. In 2007, Rahm Opposed Indefinite Detention
  52. CIA Has No Idea What It Briefed Congress on Torture
  53. More Torture Documents
  54. Would Obama Issue First Veto to Protect Anthrax Whitewash?
  55. Rendering Opinions on Rendering Detainees out of Iraq
  56. Contract Killers as PsyOp Warriors
  57. The Torture Apologists Ratchet Up the Attack
  58. A Catalog of the Destroyed Torture Evidence
  59. Off-Season Trash: Who Will Be the First Corrupt Leader to be Ousted?
  60. Dan Coats’ Hypocritical Lobbying: Floorplans, Not Cars
  61. Were the Torturers Bypassing OLC in July 2004?
  62. Judy Miller’s Editor Calls on Journalists to Expose False Journalism
  63. Rove: Three More Detainees Waterboarded?
  64. Under Michael Chertoff, DHS Used David Horowitz Propaganda in Intell Report
  65. Whose Non-Disclosure Was Worse: Bybee’s or Holder’s?
  66. The Terrorist Sympathizers Grassley Doesn’t Mention: Chiquita
  67. The Next Attack: Holder’s Amicus Curiae Brief Against Unlimited Presidential Power
  68. Lindsey Graham: For McCarthyism before He Was Against It
  69. Mukasey’s Muddle
  70. Pat Fitzgerald Chose Not to Consult with Margolis on Rove Indictment
  71. Ronald Rotunda: Yoo Sent Email to Someone Else
  72. The Waterboarding Smoking Gun, Again
  73. Richard Shelby Held Up
  74. The DOD Techniques from Spring 2004
  75. Senator Bob Graham: Majority on Senate Intelligence Committee Supported Interrogation Oversight in 2002
  76. A Blowjob for Liz “BabyDick” Cheney
  77. Days after Taguba Reported Sadistic Criminal Abuse at Abu Ghraib, DOD Asked to Use More Torture
  78. Clarence Thomas’ Revenge
  79. “We all benefited” from Margolis’ tenure
  80. Rahm’s Mouthpiece: White House to Cave on KSM Trial
  81. The Legal Principles Document and OLC’s Leaky SCIF
  82. Nadler: FBI’s Not Done on Amerithrax
  83. OLC Identified 31 Missing Documents During Period Leading Up to Torture Tape Investigation
  84. Bob Lutz Hangs Up On Ed Whitacre’s GM
  85. German Constitutional Court: Don’t Let America Spy on Germans
  86. Boxes and Burials in the CIA’s Torture Plans
  87. More Obama Administration Civil Liberties Neglect
  88. Ibn Sheikh al-Libi’s and Abu Zubaydah’s Coffins
  89. A Momentous Day to Lose Your Documentation
  90. GM’s Turn for a Big Recall
  91. The Latest Rahmlinology
  92. Did DOJ “Lose” the Smoking Gun Torture Document?
  93. Conyers Asks for the White House Side of Yoo and Philbin’s Emails
  94. It’s Not Just the Emails DOJ Lost, It’s the Backup Documentation

February 2010

  1. The Mock Burial in the OPR Report
  2. OPR Working Thread Part Three
  3. Holder: Zazi's plot "one of the most serious terrorist threats to our nation since September 11th, 2001"
  4. Duke Cunningham Rails against Leadership Failures and Scandals
  5. Goss and Harman's July 13, 2004 Briefing on the IG Report
  6. Henry Waxman Agrees w/Me; Toyota Study Is Horrible Whitewash
  7. Najibullah Zazi: Another Counterterrorism Victory for Civilian Law
  8. Bybee’s Lawyer: Bybee Distracted from Torture Memo because Protecting Cheney’s Energy Task Force
  9. Pat Roberts' "10 Reasons Right Off" Not to Exercise Oversight Over Torture
  10. Michael Hayden Lied to SSCI on April 12, 2007
  11. Ghost Detainee FOIA Release
  12. Toyota's "Wins for Toyota-Safety": $100 Million by Avoiding Finding the Acceleration Problem
  13. The Inherent Conflict Of Interest With DOJ's OPR And David Margolis
  14. The Emails the Bush Lawyers Were So Worried About
  15. OPR Working Thread Two
  16. OPR Report Working Thread
  17. DOJ Anthrax Report Working Thread
  18. Unsolved Anthrax Case to be Closed Today
  19. Toyota Pays Whitewash Firm to Produce UNBELIEVABLY Bad Whitewash
  20. Will Akio Toyoda Testify on Brakes?
  21. UK Relations with Israel "in the Deep Freeze" over Dubai Assassination
  22. Happy Stimulus Day to Susan Collins, Who Killed Billions in School Funding
  23. The FOUR OLC Opinions Retroactively Justifying Telecom Data Collection
  24. WaPo Retracts Report that Anwar al-Awlaki on CIA Kill List
  25. Did Evan Bayh Quit Because Reid Refused to Give Paris Hilton a Tax Break?
  26. Big Brother Kidnapping Your Babies' DNA?
  27. Why Did FBI Need the Exigent Letters OLC Memo? (Background Post)
  28. Why Did the FBI Need the Exigent Letters OLC Memo
  29. Fresh Off Negotiations w/Rahm, Lindsey Graham Demands Military Commissions AND Indefinite Detention
  30. Dick and the Naked Senator: Waterboarding BFFs
  31. Rahm's Method of Politicizing DOJ
  32. The Exigent Letter OLC Opinion
  33. Second Working Thread on Exigent Letter IG Report
  34. Scott Brown and Do-Nothing Senate Will Cause 900,000 More to Lose Jobs
  35. Of COURSE Blumenthal Is Running against Civilian Law
  36. Dealing Away Civilian Law
  37. Toyota's Revolving Door and Failing Brakes
  38. "The Same Old Game Playing in Washington"
  39. Obama Prepares to Sacrifice Justice and National Security for Political Expediency
  40. Obama to Shelby (and Others): Let Those Hostages Go
  41. Patterico Confirms NYT Owes Its Readers a Correction
  42. EU Parliament Rejects Interim SWIFT Deal
  43. Meet Richard Shelby's Airbus Hostages: Frank Kendall
  44. "Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment by the United States Authorities" … BEFORE the Bybee Memo
  45. Kit Bond's Politico Projections
  46. 9th Circuit to Jeffrey White: Get Back to Work on EFF FOIA
  47. NYT Thinks TeaBugger James O'Keefe Entitled to Own Set of Facts
  48. Republicans Trashing Law Enforcement because It Polls Well
  49. Shelby Claims to Relent; Still Holds Military Nominations Hostage for Airbus
  50. Is Obama's Bipartisan Healthcare Summit an Attempt to Recuperate the Cadillac Tax?
  51. Spike the Yoo Findings, Get a Judgeship?
  52. Nixon The Obama Campaign Goes to China
  53. And Now They're Disclaiming Responsibility for their Briefings
  54. The SWIFT Battle Heats Up
  55. Super Trash
  56. C Street to Jenny Sanford: Keep Fucking Mark, Even While He's Cheating on You
  57. "The president himself does not have to sign off on kill orders."
  58. Pay $25,000 and become a "Best School" in Michigan
  59. Corporatist Dems Killing another Public Option
  60. Where Will Brennan Land in Rahm v. DOJ Spat?
  61. Mayer on Rahm
  62. BAE Settles US and British Anti-Fraud Investigations
  63. Republicans Prepare to Kill Jobs; Democrats Angle for Majority Leader
  64. Hopey Changey Bipartisany Bush!
  65. Shelby Tries to Shut Down US Senate to Benefit Foreign Company
  66. Obama Had 60 Votes For Dawn Johnsen's Confirmation Last Year; Johnsen Stalled Again This Year
  67. ZOMG! A Congressperson Accuses CIA of Lying to Congress
  68. Assassination Permission Slips and Hall Passes
  69. Google Boondoggle With No Such Agency
  70. Holder to Republicans: Stop Being Such WATBs about Miranda Warnings and Mukasey's Decisions
  71. Frank Luntz's Ideal Small Businessperson: Democratic Congressman Mark Schauer
  72. Breaking! A Month of Interrogation Works Better than Waterboarding Someone 183 Times
  73. The House Will Vote to Eliminate Health Insurance's Anti-Trust Exemption Next Week
  74. The Republican Base Rejects Prop 8 Family Vision, but not Prop 8
  75. The Jobs Bills: The Battle for COBRA
  76. TeaBugger Victimology
  77. OPR Report Timeline
  78. What Glenn Greenwald Said On American Terrorism Cowardice

January 2010

  1. Revisiting the al-Harithi/Derwish Assassination
  2. LAT: The CIA Hasn't Yet Added al-Awlaki to its Kill List
  3. Rahm’s Authorization to Use Military Force
  4. OPR Report Altered To Cover Bush DOJ Malfeasance
  5. TeaBugger O'Keefe: Liberate the Tapes!! (No, Not THOSE Tapes!)
  6. ODNI Funded the Author of the "Penis Monologues" to Try to Interest Women in Spying
  7. The Poodle's Prevarications
  8. Fred Hiatt Loves Torture
  9. Shuster v. Breitbart: The TeaBuggers' Latest Story
  10. The Word Not Spoken: Foreclosure
  11. An Interesting Few Days for Al-Awlaki
  12. TeaBuggerGate, Two: Some Questions and the Simple (But Inadequate) Explanation
  13. A Sure Sign Democrats Must Impose a Spending Freeze
  14. The List of US Citizens Targeted for Killing (or Capture)
  15. TeaBuggerGate, Part One
  16. Bad Nelson, Bayh, and Lincoln Objectively Pro-Cornhusker Kickback
  17. The Obama Chill: In 2012 Obama Will Run Against Democratic Congress
  18. GM's Dick Cheney and TARP Loans and Chinese Cars
  19. This Fed Chief Brought to You by Enron
  20. Championship Sunday Trash
  21. The Brits Buried Evidence on David Kelly's Death
  22. "MD's Sob Story"
  23. A Barren Straight Wife Watches the Prop 8 Trial
  24. Feingold, Durbin, and Wyden Demand the OLC Opinion on Exigent Letters
  25. Some Thoughts on Healthcare
  26. Vaughn Walker Dismisses Jewel
  27. Clarence Thomas Speaks–to Engage in Anti-Gay Fearmongering
  28. Obama Gorging Himself on Poison Fruit
  29. Supreme Court Unleashes Corporate Campaign Cash In Citizen's United Decision
  30. Matthew Alexander Points to the Abuse Still Permitted by the AFM Appendix
  31. The Exigent Letter IG Report
  32. Outside the Courtroom: "Sassy Parody" and Cindy McCain Against Hate
  33. Lanny Davis's Rent-a-Wisdom
  34. John Yoo: Much More, and Much Less, Than a "Mere Lawyer"
  35. The FBI's Non-Emergency Exigent Letters
  36. Prop 8 Trial: A Tale of Two Lawyers
  37. The Murders (?) at Camp No
  38. On Gruber: I Don't Want Apologies. I Want Independent Analysis.
  39. NY Times Admits Gruber Problem, Fails To Mention Krugman Problem
  40. Divisional Playoffs Weekend Trash Talk
  41. Liveblogging the Prop 8 Trial, Friday PM addendum
  42. Liveblogging the Prop 8 Trial: Day Five Friday PM Two (21)
  43. Liveblogging the Prop 8 Trial: Day Five Friday PM(20)
  44. Liveblogging the Prop 8 Trial: Day Five Friday AM (19)
  45. Liveblogging the Prop 8 Trial: Day Five Friday AM (18)
  46. New ACLU Torture FOIA Docs Working Thread
  47. Liveblogging Prop 8 Trial: Day Four, Thursday PM One (Sixteen)
  48. Liveblogging Prop 8 Trial: Day Four, Thursday AM Two (Fifteen)
  49. Liveblogging Prop 8 Trial: Day Four, Thursday AM One (Fourteen)
  50. China Google Attack and the Terrorist Surveillance Program
  51. Liveblogging Prop 8 Trial: Day Three, Wednesday PM Two (Thirteen)
  52. Supreme Court Blocks Video Coverage Of Prop 8 Trial
  53. Liveblogging Prop 8 Trial: Day 3, Wednesday PM One (Twelve)
  54. New Pecora: Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Discussion Thread
  55. Marcy Wheeler TeeVee – Jonathan Gruber and the Cadillac Plan
  56. A Rather Sad Ending For Dan
  57. Congress Reviews the Taxpayers' Investment
  58. A Conversation with GM North America President, Mark Reuss
  59. SCOTUS Scuttles Prop 8 Video Coverage; The History Behind The Denial
  60. Ford Wins NA Car and Truck of the Year
  61. Krugman on the Cadillac-as-Chevy
  62. Gruber Caveats the "Excise Tax Raise" Claim
  63. Wildcard Weekend Trash
  64. Gruber Did Not Disclose Conflict to the WaPo
  65. Reinhardt: Gruber's Simulations Better than Private Sector Ones
  66. Gruber Doesn't Reveal that 21% of MA Residents Can't Afford Health Care
  67. Gruber's Response: "Consistent" but Not "Disclosed"
  68. Jonathan Gruber Failed to Disclose His $392,600 Contracts with HHS (Updated)
  69. The Crotch-Bomber and Nidal Hasan Reviews
  70. Jordan: CIA Attacker Was Pissed about Civilian Deaths
  71. BREAKING: C Street Member Says Health Care Bill Will Fail
  72. The Lobbyists That Brought You Telecom Immunity
  73. White House Still Pushing the Excise Tax Hocus Pocus
  74. Blackwater at Khost
  75. Byron Dorgan Will Not Run for Re-Election
  76. MI's New Plot for World Domination: Pizza
  77. DC Circuit Limits Detainee's Procedural Rights
  78. Fake Anthrax Attacks in Two States
  79. Back to the Land
  80. Subsidies
  81. Obama's New Classification Policy: the Good and the Bad
  82. Another New Month, and Still No OPR Report
  83. Crazy Pete Hoekstra Called On His Efforts to Profit Off of Terrorism
  84. Trash Talk: Swinging In The New Year
  85. It All Depends on Your Definition of Failure
  86. Obama's Royal Scam and The Iron Fist Of Rahm
  87. New Year's Resolution Music Jam
  88. New Year’s Trash

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