2011

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December 2011

1. 31 DecThe Worst Part of the Signing Statement: Section 1024
2. 31 DecStart Out the New Year with Indefinite Detention
3. 31 DecPredicting a New Paradigm
4. 30 DecWe Request to Inform You that You Inform Us We Killed Another Drone Target
5. 30 DecMore Collateral Damage From Mad Rush to Rely on Drones
6. 30 DecIn Egypt, Our Military Surrogates Crack Down on Our Civil Society Surrogates
7. 29 DecIn Jewel Decision, Article III Uses Article I to Rebut Article II
8. 29 DecNo Straight Talk, Only Posturing Between US, Iran on Strait of Hormuz
9. 29 DecNYDN: Census Now Mapping Your Back Hallways
10. 28 Dec“Oddly Passive” in the World of Drone Killing
11. 28 DecUpdate On The Signing Of The NDAA
12. 26 DecWith US Attention on Memogate Fallout and Taliban, Khan’s Tsunami Gathers Strength
13. 25 DecMerry Christmas!
14. 25 DecOn the Manning Art. 32, Court Secrecy & Nat. Sec. Cases
15. 24 DecEmptywheel’s Christmas Eve Mega Football Trash Talk
16. 24 DecCIA: No Big Deal That We Trained NYPD to Conduct Domestic Spying
17. 23 DecThe Holiday Friday Document Dump Signing Statement
18. 23 DecDrone Pilots to Control Four Planes at Once: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
19. 23 DecA Note About OWS and Pre-Trial Diversion in Los Angeles
20. 23 DecEarly Christmas Trash: Running With The Devils
21. 22 DecIranian Navy Plans Wargames for Saturday: Will the Filipino Monkey Show Up?
22. 22 DecThe Material Support of Hillary Clinton and Tarek Mehanna
23. 21 DecObama Apologists Ignoring the Rotting Corpse of Anwar al-Awlaki
24. 21 DecIn Ferreting Out Science’s Secrets, There Is No Room for Censorship
25. 20 DecFuck You To Jamie Dimon & His Plaintive Wail For The 1%
26. 20 DecDrone War Secrecy and Kill or Capture
27. 19 DecThe Next Round of Looting
28. 19 DecZardari Returns to Pakistan; Liaison Officers Return to Border Centers; Stage Set for Haqqani as Double Scapegoat
29. 19 DecAhmed Warsame and StuxNet
30. 18 DecVáclav Havel: From the Prague Spring to the Velvet Revolution to the Year of the Protestor
31. 18 DecTebowling For Columbine Trash
32. 17 DecMitch McConnell’s Greatest Fear: DOJ Proved Him Wrong for 5% of the Cost
33. 16 DecObama’s Re-elect Strategy: Vote for Me, or Newt Will Have Authority to Indefinitely Detain You
34. 16 DecJay Carney: NDAA Still Doesn’t Give the Courts Any Oversight Over Detention and Killing
35. 16 DecOur Trade Pact Partners–Colombia and Panama–and Multinational Hezbollah Plots
36. 16 DecRussia’s Description of Sodium-22 in Bag Headed for Iran As “Work of a Nuclear Reactor” Misleading
37. 15 DecFeinstein Tries Again to Fix the Detainee Provisions
38. 15 DecSenate Passes Defense Authorization
39. 15 DecHow to Indefinitely Detain Jamie Dimon
40. 15 DecZardari Released From Hospital, Remains in Dubai; Memogate Reply Delayed
41. 15 DecNo, the Iraq War Is NOT Over
42. 15 DecDid Dianne Feinstein’s “Fix” on AUMF Language Actually Authorize Killing American Citizens?
43. 14 DecObama Will Not Veto Defense Authorization
44. 14 DecEngland Gave Us Habeas Corpus Once Before…
45. 14 DecRobert Mueller Reveals Counterterrorism Intelligence Techniques Being Used to Combat Healthcare Fraud
46. 14 DecThe Scary Used Car Broker Plot
47. 14 DecWhat If We Scrubbed Wachovia Like We Did the Lebanese Canadian Bank?
48. 13 DecLanny Breuer Rewards DOJ Lawyers for Winning Impunity for Prosecutorial Misconduct
49. 13 DecUS Keeps Losing Control of Its Drones
50. 13 DecIran Seeks Interpol Prosecution of Neoconservatives Jack Keane, Reuel Marc Gerecht
51. 13 DecDefense Authorization Conference Makes Few Changes to Detainee Provisions
52. 12 DecObama to Iran: Please Give Our Assassination Surveillance Drone Back
53. 12 DecNormalizing the Disenfranchisement of African Americans
54. 12 DecGilani to BBC: Zardari to Remain in Dubai Hospital Two More Weeks
55. 12 DecThe Wild, Wild West: Drones Hunting Down Cattle Rustlers
56. 11 DecPro Football Trash Talk
57. 10 DecSerial Abuser of Executive Branch “Flexibility,” John Brennan, Making Veto Case on Detainee Provisions
58. 10 DecOperation Buckshot Yankee and WikiLeaks
59. 9 DecDOJ Doesn’t Think Bloggers Are Media Either–and It May Use NSLs to Get Media Call Records
60. 9 DecThe Government Continues To Classify WikiLeaks Cables to Cover Up Their Torture Cover Up
61. 8 DecBaby-Sitting Terrorists Rather Than Tracking Osama Bin Laden
62. 8 DecObama: “As the Father of 2 Daughters” I Want the Government to Ignore Science
63. 8 Dec“This Isn’t the Assassination Surveillance Drone You’re Looking For”
64. 8 DecArchiving Terrorists in the False-Floored Cells in the Basement
65. 7 DecThe Albatross of Obama’s “Rule of Executive Order”
66. 7 DecZardari in Dubai Hospital; Coup Rumors Quelled for Now
67. 6 DecTwo Drone Questions: How Did Iran Get It? What Will the Damage Be?
68. 6 DecPakistan Withdraws Cooperation From Key Border Posts, McCain and Graham Stir Pot
69. 5 DecJon Kyl Justifies Military Detention by Claiming CIA-Military Credit for FBI Interrogations
70. 5 DecFlorida Containment Dome Crackers: How Saving $15 Million Ended Up Costing $2.5 Billion
71. 5 DecEric Holder, Indefinitely Detained by DOD?
72. 4 DecDid Iran Hack Our Drone?
73. 4 DecOklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt Advocates Extending PATRIOT Act to Domestic Terrorists
74. 3 DecThe Price of NCAA Trash
75. 3 DecLindsey Graham’s Independent Review for All Detainees in US Prisons
76. 2 DecDoes the FBI Contend Intelligence Reports on Community Outreach Events Comply with Its Policy?
77. 2 DecPakistan’s “Temoporary Campsite” at Center of NATO Border Post Attack Controversy
78. 2 DecWhy the Iraq AUMF Still Matters
79. 2 Dec49% of Michigan’s African Americans to Lose Their Right to Self-Governance
80. 1 DecSenate Achieves Craven Punt on Indefinite Detention
81. 1 DecGovernment Establishes Task Force to Combat HAMP Scams, But Not Foreclosure Scams
82. 1 DecAdministration Has Means to Sustain Civilian Primacy without Veto
83. 1 DecBorder Post Attack Fallout Continues: No Obama Apology; Pakistan Threatens WOT Role
84. 1 DecAyotte’s Pro-Torture Amendment Referred to Conference

November 2011

1. 30 NovEfforts to Combat Levin-McCain Don’t Do Anything to Prohibit Indefinite Detention of Americans
2. 30 NovWhy Didn’t DOJ Look More Closely at DTRA’s Role in 2001 Anthrax Attacks?
3. 30 NovAhmed Abdulkadir Warsame and the Paper Trail Preventing Floating Ghost Prisons
4. 30 NovGive Them a Damn Ticker Tape Parade Already
5. 29 NovUdall Amendment Fails 37-61
6. 29 NovBritish Embassy in Tehran Stormed by Protesting Students
7. 29 NovBachmann Was Almost Right: The ACLU Is in Cahoots with the CIA
8. 28 NovMark Udall’s Unsatisfactory Solution to the Detainee Provisions
9. 28 NovJed Rakoff to SEC: Do you think I’m a tool?
10. 28 NovExplosion Reported Near Iranian Uranium Processing Facility
11. 28 NovFallout From NATO Attack on Pakistani Border Posts Continues: Afghanistan At Center of Conflict
12. 28 NovGeithner’s Duplicitous Efforts to Reinforce the Oligarchy
13. 28 NovThe Lessons of Iran-Contra 2.0
14. 26 NovFast Trash
15. 26 NovNATO Helicopter Attack Kills Up to 28 at Pakistani Border Post, Supply Crossings Closed
16. 25 NovThe Two Scary Iran Plot Complaints: A Comparison
17. 24 NovIn Thanks for Michigan’s Bounty
18. 23 NovIs the Government Hiding Chase’s Cooperation in the Scary Iran Plot?
19. 23 NovDid the US Coerce a Miranda Waiver (Again) by Threatening Family Members?
20. 23 NovMichelle Bachmann’s Nuclear Theft
21. 23 NovTricksy Turkey Day Trash with Nickelback!
22. 22 NovLatif: The Administration Blew Up Habeas with a Detainee They Determined Could Be Transferred
23. 21 NovWhy Is William Welch, Whose Team Is Accused of Intentional Prosecutorial Misconduct, Still at DOJ?
24. 21 NovIt’s the Zenith-Limiting War Declaration, Not the Detainee Restrictions, Obama Wants to Veto
25. 21 NovIn Terror Fight, “Rush For Immediate Results” Leads to Loss of Tradecraft, Misses Real Threats
26. 21 NovSome Pigs Money Launderers Are More Equal Than Other Pigs Money Launderers
27. 21 NovThe Bloomie and Kelly Show … with Fake Video Props!
28. 20 NovTrash Regurgitated
29. 19 NovWith Latif Decision, Section 1031 Authorizes Indefinitely Detaining Americans Based on Gossip
30. 19 NovThe Detainee Debate Heats Up: The Rule of Martial Law Vs. the Unitary Spookery
31. 18 NovCongress and the Administration Agree: the Government Can Indefinitely Detain US Citizens
32. 18 NovAre the Chinese Spying on Our Spying?
33. 18 NovThe Checkered Neocon History of Mansoor Ijaz, Instigator of Pakistan’s “Memogate”
34. 17 NovRobert Mueller Once Again Claims Anna Chapman a Bigger Threat to US than Lloyd Blankfein
35. 17 NovCalifornia Supreme Court Rules There Is Standing For Prop 8 Intervenors
36. 17 NovObama Issues Veto Threat to Revised Detainee Language
37. 17 NovRogin Obtains Proof Mullen Received Ijaz Memo, Pakistan Ambassador Recalled, Offers Resignation
38. 16 NovMore FOIA Refusals Hiding DOJ’s Informant Practices
39. 16 NovThe More You Look for Terrorists, the Fewer Banksters You Have to Prosecute
40. 16 NovNight Raids, Drones and Raymond Davis Still in Af-Pak News
41. 16 NovSenate Armed Service Committee Celebrates Agreement to Spend 32 Times More on Detainees
42. 15 NovThe Gray Lady Calls the GOP Candidates Gray
43. 15 NovIAEA Iran Report Fallout Continues: France Leads Militancy, MEK Rumors, Iran Reconsiders Cooperation
44. 15 NovTwo MI Counties File Class Action Suit against MERS and Banks for Being Tax Cheats
45. 15 NovThis FOIA Request Will Self-Destruct in 10 Seconds
46. 14 NovPakistani Bounty Claims: Adnan Farhan Abd Al Latif and TD-314/00684-02
47. 14 NovBibi, Albright (and Warrick) on Iran Nuke Report: “But Wait, There’s More!”
48. 14 NovDrowning Government in Antibiotic Tainted Chinese Honey
49. 13 NovJets, Pats & Other Pro Trash
50. 12 NovHow Did Investigators Find the Victims?
51. 12 NovCarrier Classic, Veterans, Lions and Huskers Trash Talk
52. 11 NovPenn State’s Evil Game of Telephone: Joe Paterno Is Crucial Witness against PSU
53. 11 NovFlorida Joining Re-awakening? GOP Voters Against SS-Medicare Cuts, Tea Party Chides Scott Over Ethics
54. 11 NovA Terrorist Goes to Prison for 33 Years
55. 11 NovODNI’s Response on Intelligence Oversight Board Shows Lack of Intelligence
56. 10 NovIraq Redux? Media Parroting Dubious IAEA Iran Claims
57. 10 NovWilliam Welch Appears to Commit Prosecutorial Misconduct. Again.
58. 10 NovJohn Rizzo Latest Target for DOJ Probe into Leaking
59. 10 NovOn JoePa
60. 9 NovAs the Next Phase of the Crash Accelerates, Watch for More Looting
61. 9 NovAbd al Rahim al-Nashiri Delays His Own Trial until after Presidential Election
62. 9 NovSCOTUS and GPS Tracking: US v. Jones and Secret PATRIOT
63. 9 NovDid the US Authorize Albright and Sanger to Publish the IAEA Iran Report?
64. 9 NovTruth, Justice, and the American Way of Empire
65. 8 NovIf Gun Walking Is Wrong, Why Isn’t Nuclear Blueprint Walking?
66. 8 NovRichard Blumenthal Asks Eric Holder Where the Foreclosure Prosecutions Are
67. 8 NovEric Holder: Torture Inquiries, Ted Stevens Prosecutorial Misconduct Investigations Almost Finished
68. 8 NovThe Declining Credibility of the IAEA
69. 8 NovJamie Dimon Owns Obama’s Testicles
70. 8 NovGitmo’s Commanders and My 4-Year Old Niece Play Games
71. 7 NovCHINA! and RUSSIA! and [an unnamed ally that is likely Israel] Are Stealing Our Stuff!
72. 7 NovTwo Years After ElBaradei’s Departure, IAEA Joins Anti-Iran Drumbeat
73. 7 NovThe Waffle House Terrorists “Citizens Who Threaten Our Safety and Security”
74. 5 NovTide, Tigers and Other Pro Football
75. 5 NovThe Implications of DOJ’s FOIA “Lies”
76. 4 NovThe Dangers of Hiring BAE’s Mercenaries
77. 4 NovCIA’s “Vengeful Librarians” v. DiFi: Open Source Grudge Match
78. 4 NovColumnist Endorses War Crimes Against al Qaeda Because They Murdered a Journalist
79. 4 NovIs DOJ Trying to Hide Valerie Plame at the Sterling Trial?
80. 4 NovDOJ Admits It Has Been “Lying” for 24 Years; Journalists Applaud
81. 3 NovDOJ Lies about Its FOIA Lies
82. 3 NovDOJ Will Neither Confirm Nor Deny They’ve Okayed the Assassination of US Citizens
83. 3 NovPredictions of Israeli Attack on Iran Hit Traditional Media–How We Got There
84. 3 NovWar Gaming WikiLeaks–and the First Amendment
85. 3 NovThe Army Teaches American Culture to Americans
86. 2 NovCrackers and Castor Beans: FBI Busts Wannabe Ricin WMD “Terrorists” in Georgia
87. 1 NovAfghanistan Exit Strategy: “Fight, Talk, Build” Working (for Fight, Anyway)
88. 1 NovBlind American Concern Troll Finds Nut

October 2011

1. 31 OctIt’s A Great Football Weekend Charlie Brown
2. 31 OctJSOC Denial of Ignoring Torture in Afghan Prisons Not Credible–They Trained Afghan Military Police
3. 31 OctThe FBI: Now, with 48% More Domestic Surveillance … but No Banksters
4. 30 OctA Rancid Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Trial Balloon, Herbert Obamavilles, What Digby Said & The Import of the Occupy Movement
5. 29 OctThe Scandal Is that Jonathan Alter Doesn’t See the Scandal
6. 28 OctA Great World Series Arises From The Ashes
7. 28 OctThe Coordinated Leaky Drips In The White House
8. 28 OctThe “Good Faith” Dodge: Moving From Torture to Business?
9. 27 OctCommercializing Campaign Ads: California Roll For Mayor
10. 27 OctBBC Documentary Exposes ISI Training, Equipping of Taliban Militants
11. 26 OctDOJ’s “New” FOIA Rule Just Attempt to Formalize Practice They’ve Been Following for Years
12. 26 Oct“The Patriot Act, which the president signed into law on October 2001”
13. 26 OctTen Years Ago, Anthrax Attacks–and Judy Miller–Had Huge Effect on Passage of Patriot Act
14. 26 OctConfirmed: the Government Hid–and Is Still Hiding–Manssor Arbabsiar’s First Docket
15. 26 OctThe Informant Racket and the Scary Iran Plot
16. 25 OctFeigned Ignorance Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry
17. 25 OctWhy Isn’t the Federal Government Treating the Maine OWS Attack as WMD Terrorism?
18. 25 OctAmerica’s Privatized Repression
19. 25 OctPakistan Update: 18,000 Flee Khyber Area, Haqqani Insist Taliban Must Lead Talks
20. 25 OctHow the Fed Helped Qaddafi Keep His $200B in Loot
21. 24 OctWhy Does Duqu Matter?
22. 24 OctThe West Is Shocked–Shocked!–to Find Qaddafi’s Loot in their Casinos!
23. 24 OctNow That Training in Iraq is a Failure, Petraeus No Longer Mentioned
24. 24 OctMoDo’s Camels and Ponies
25. 23 OctTebow Christ Superstar!: Wash Yer Hands & Seal The Fishes Fate
26. 22 OctThe OTHER Saudi Assassination Plotter Got a Reduced Sentence in July
27. 21 OctFBI in Detroit Profiles Muslims and Arabs in Spite of 12 Whites Engaged in Terrorism
28. 21 OctDOJ Offers No More Detail on Scary Iran Plot in Indictment
29. 21 OctFrom US-Pakistan Meetings: No Pakistan Action in North Waziristan; Petraeus to Deliver Evidence Against ISI
30. 21 OctJohn Brennan Boasts that an Obama Decision Killed Anwar al-Awlaki
31. 20 OctScary Iran Plot: FBI Had No Need to Investigate Arbabsiar’s Corpus Christi Past
32. 20 OctDid Duqu fix the bug that revealed Stuxnet?
33. 20 OctThree Teenagers and a Journalist Attempt to Prosecute Bush for Torture
34. 20 OctClinton, Petraeus Head to Pakistan for Talks While NATO Attacks Near Border
35. 20 OctObama’s “Get Out of Jail for Helping 1.36% Card” for Banksters
36. 19 OctSpy v. Spy, Terrorist v. Terrorist: All the Usual Suspects Now Implicated in Scary Iran Plot
37. 19 OctBen Bernanke Prepares to Rob My Mom
38. 19 OctKarman Argues Against Amnesty for Saleh as al-Awlaki Family Continues Protests
39. 19 OctObama Administration’s Price Tag for Bank Lying, Predation, and (Probably) Securitization Fail: $8 Billion
40. 19 OctRon Paul Shits in the Saint Ronnie Punch Bowl
41. 19 OctStealing Babies, in Franco’s Spain and the Junta’s Argentina
42. 18 OctWhy Did the Scary Iran Plotter Speak Directly from a Contested Treasury Department Script?
43. 18 OctAs al-Awlaki Family Mourns Abdulrahman, 16, US Develops “Kamikaze Drones” Targeting Single Humans
44. 18 OctTelling Stories about What Iran Is Capable Of
45. 18 OctThe Missing Dirty Bomb that Set Off the Chain of Death
46. 17 OctScary Iran Plot: Follow the Money
47. 17 OctDetails of Silicon-Tin Chemistry of Anthrax Attack Spores Published; Willman Tut-tuts
48. 17 OctScary Iran Plot: Making an International Case before Passing the Ham Sandwich Test
49. 16 OctPut Down The Ducky Trash
50. 15 OctWhat Is the Source of Gholam Shakuri’s Urgency?
51. 15 OctYemen Tries to Claim US Drone Strikes as Yemeni Air Force Strikes
52. 14 OctGovernment Remains Mum about When It First Charged Arbabsiar and For What
53. 14 OctThe Four Month Warning of a Not-Yet Ripe Plot
54. 14 OctMOTU Rules: Material Support for Terror Edition
55. 14 OctBloomberg Averts Zuccotti Park Showdown as Occupy Wall Street Goes Global
56. 14 OctIgnatius: CIA Is Involved with the Iran Plot, So It Must Be True!
57. 13 OctGaps in the Iran Plot Docket to Go Along with the Gaps in the Story
58. 13 OctThe Narratology of the Russian Scientist We’re Allowed to Memorialize but Not Quote
59. 13 OctProject BACUS Facility at Dugway Has Both Fermentation and Weaponization Capabilities
60. 13 OctThe Iran “Plot”: Hillary Tries to Involve the UN
61. 12 OctHow a Used Car Salesman’s Alleged Kidnapping Plot Turned into an International Incident
62. 12 OctFBI Accused Ivins of Hiding Material While FBI Hid Data From Public, Ivins’ Attorney
63. 12 OctThe UndieBomber’s 15 Minutes of Fame
64. 12 OctLisa Monaco Would Like to Thank the Academy
65. 11 OctThe Iranian Plot: Bank Transfers of Mass Destruction
66. 11 OctThe Uber-Plot: Iran, Mexican Drug Cartels, Koch Brothers, and Republicans
67. 11 OctIs the US Outsourcing Torture, Again?
68. 10 OctBig Kitty Cats On The Prowl & Talking Trash In Detroit Motor City
69. 10 OctFBI’s Lone Wolf Case Against Ivins Continues to Crumble
70. 10 OctNo Wonder the Administration Didn’t Want Buck McKeon’s New AUMF; Marty Lederman Already Gave Them One
71. 9 OctHow Can Samir Khan Be “Collateral Damage” If OLC Memo Restricted Civilian Death?
72. 8 OctYet Another “Lady Gaga” Exposure Forces DOD to Wipe Drone Control Computers
73. 7 OctRay Kelly Vs. Minimal Oversight
74. 7 OctPakistan Asks for Update On Raymond Davis Investigation; OBL Immunization Doctor Accused of Treason
75. 6 OctWhy Is Thomas Perrelli Negotiating a Settlement If the Banksters Didn’t Commit Fraudulent Actions?
76. 6 OctIf the Legal Case for Killing Awlaki Is So Sound, Then Why Maintain Presidential Plausible Deniability?
77. 6 OctSuperCongress Transparency: Dave Camp Staffer Lies to Avoid Talking to Citizens
78. 6 OctGITMO: The Same Old New Opaque Transparency
79. 6 OctThanks For The Memory Banks
80. 5 OctAll Sides Agree There Is Excessive Secrecy Surrounding Targeting Of US Citizens
81. 5 OctNew Report on Zazi Investigation Reinforces NYPD’s Miss
82. 5 OctA Pity Republicans Didn’t Fight the Abrams, Bloch Precedent
83. 5 OctAfghanistan Affects US-Pakistan Dance, Signing Agreement With India; US Met With Haqqani Network
84. 4 OctAt About the Time He Subpoenaed Judy Miller, Patrick Fitzgerald Interviewed Cheney a SECOND Time
85. 4 OctRaymond Davis Facing Felony Assault Charge; What Happened to Murder Investigation?
86. 3 OctAs NYPD Engages in New Civil Liberties Violations, Past Violations Under New Scrutiny
87. 3 OctCNN Carries DOJ Water in Repeating Weak Amerithrax Accusations Against Ivins
88. 3 OctThe Gang of Four Doesn’t Have Access to the Kill List
89. 2 OctDick Cheney: Awlaki Killing Violated American Principles of Justice Just Like Torture Program Did
90. 2 OctTaking Back Wall Street Trash Talk
91. 1 OctAnwar al-Awlaki Assassination: Double Secret Illegitimacy
92. 1 OctWhy Blame the Failure of the 50-State Settlement Solely on Tom Miller?

September 2011

1. 30 SepWhat Is the Secret Item the Government Wants Withheld from Abdulmutallab?
2. 30 SepExtrajudicial Execution of Samir Khan Arguably More Significant Than Awlaki
3. 30 SepLots of Senior Officials Spilling State Secrets Today
4. 30 SepLet’s See the Evidence on Al-Awlaki
5. 29 SepDOJ Deems Plan to Attack Military Targets with a Drone, Terrorism
6. 29 SepI Was that Trust-Fund Kid Working as a Supermarket Checker
7. 29 SepIs Democracy the Problem, or Money-Corrupted Governance?
8. 29 SepPakistan Update: Graham Advocates Escalation, Chaman Crossing Closed After Tanker Bombed
9. 29 SepCheney Tells the Seventh Circuit It Would Erode Military Discipline To Let Courts Second Guess Cheney’s Torture Decisions
10. 28 SepLinks, 9/28/11
11. 28 SepTwo of Obama’s Independent Intelligence Advisors Have Supported Oversight in Past; Why Not Now?
12. 28 SepIs DOD Trying to Bypass the Gitmo Press Corps (AKA Carol Rosenberg)?
13. 28 SepPakistan Issues New Warning to US; Mullen Accusations Softened
14. 28 SepThe Terrorist Watchlist: One Watchlist Among a Collection of Databases and Watchlists
15. 27 SepThe Freddie Mac/Bank of America Settlement: Billions of Reasons to Actually Investigate the Loans
16. 27 SepA List of Food Trucks That Will Take Orders for #OccupyWallStreet Protesters
17. 27 SepSucking Tritium
18. 27 SepThe Government Once Again Harrasses Others to Hide Its Own Failures
19. 27 SepCover-up Specialist Mark Martins Chosen as Gitmo Chief Prosecutor
20. 27 SepOur Counterterrorism Policies Will Make Impact of Climate Change Worse
21. 27 SepThe Name of NYPD Brutality: Anthony Bologna
22. 26 SepLinks, 9/26/11
23. 26 SepThe Problem with Purportedly Apolitical Policy Wonks: Their Faulty Logic
24. 26 SepTake Back the American Dream Conference Next Week
25. 26 SepIf the NYPD Maces the First Amendment, What Will They Do with Anti-Aircraft Weapons?
26. 24 SepEmptywheel’s Famous Trash Talk: Es Caballos de los Muertos Edition
27. 23 SepContinued Escalation in US-Pakistan Rhetoric
28. 23 SepDoes Treasury Believe Spreading Our Flawed Banking System Is a Solution to Terrorism?
29. 22 SepHow Does the CIA-on-the-Hudson Program Interact with Secure Communities?
30. 22 SepOnce Again, US Ratchets Up Rhetoric Against Pakistan
31. 22 SepWarrants for Innocent People Are Not Like Warrants for Suspects
32. 21 SepWe’re Not Even Spending Enough to Educate Our Service Members’ Children
33. 21 SepRelentless Expansion of the Great War on Terror Despite Achieving Primary Goal
34. 21 SepSo Much for the Apolitical Fed
35. 21 SepScalia, SCOTUS & Troy Davis’ Last Gasp
36. 20 SepWe’re Losing More Tech Jobs Than Socks Jobs to China
37. 20 SepShould David Petraeus Be Replaced With a Computer?
38. 20 Sep11th Circuit: Padilla’s Torture Doesn’t Merit a Big Downward Departure, Just Because We Said So
39. 19 SepThe Cost of $100 Million Prison Expansions and Other “Civilian-Led” Blowback
40. 19 SepNo, Class Warfare WILL Create Jobs!
41. 19 SepThe $648 Monthly Fine for Not Having a Job
42. 19 SepA Gang of Deficit Fairy Phantoms
43. 19 SepDespite Accuracy Improvement, Huge Increase in Afghan Night Raids Detains More Innocent Civilians
44. 19 SepCheney’s War Plan for Afghanistan? Deny Safe Haven To–But Not Destroy–Al Qaeda
45. 17 SepTrash Talk: NCAA Shame, Ephs and Jeffs
46. 17 SepThe CIA Hates Us for Our Freedom
47. 16 SepDick Cheney Made No Mention of Millenium Plot in His Book
48. 16 SepState Department, DoD Argue Over “Rules” for Drone Targets Outside Pakistan
49. 16 SepThe Chief of Staff Who Might Have Been
50. 15 SepTeaching Christian Moderation
51. 15 SepJohn Brennan, the Intelligence Community’s One Man Justice Department
52. 15 SepMaybe Iraq Should Just Replace Idaho as Our 50th State
53. 15 SepBill Daley Preparing to Ruin Another Democrat’s Election Chances
54. 15 SepFBI’s Problem with Mohammed: Torture and Assassination
55. 14 SepIt’s the Bush Record on Jobs (and His Role in the Deficit) Cheney Should Be Embarrassed About
56. 14 SepTen Years after 9/11, Inherent Authority Dies a Small Legal Death
57. 14 SepGovernment Contracting: Lower Wages, But Higher Cost
58. 14 SepAnother Secret Self-Investigation of Counter-Terrorism Abuses
59. 13 SepThe Narratology of Leaks, Part Two: Schooling William Welch
60. 13 SepWe’re Getting Poorer
61. 12 SepThe World Should Have Revolted Over America’s Illegal War on Iraq
62. 12 SepTurki al-Faisal Picked the Wrong Day to Make Veto Threats
63. 12 SepJamie Dimon: The Face of America’s Free Market Politburo
64. 12 SepAfter Trading with the Enemy, JP Morgan Chase Whines for Regulators to Fight “Anti-American” Regulations
65. 11 SepNine Years after Aluminum Tube Fear-Mongering, Judy Miller Is Back at It
66. 10 SepItalian Grand Prix 1961-2011: Monza, Death of von Trips & A Yankee Champion
67. 10 SepMark Warner’s SuperDuperCongress
68. 9 SepJohn Rizzo: We Should Have Been Prouder of Our Cover-Up
69. 9 SepObama’s Infrastructure Request Is 1/40 1/25th of What We Need
70. 8 SepTrash Talk: The NFL Season Begins Packers & Saints
71. 8 SepRizzo’s Brief with Nancy Pelosi: Bush Didn’t Include Torture in the Finding Authorizing Torture
72. 8 SepCNN: Only Brown People Can Be Lone Wolves
73. 8 SepBrian Williams, Meet Cameron Todd Willingham
74. 7 SepObama Rejects Senate Advice and Consent Over the Guy Who Data Mines Our Communications
75. 7 SepLinks, 9/7/11
76. 7 SepWilliam Welch & DOJ’s Dishonest Intelligence Witness Against Jeff Sterling
77. 7 SepUnlike Islamic Terrorists, Neo-Nazi Terrorists Don’t Get Life Sentences
78. 7 SepObama’s Re-Election Campaign: Destroying the Country to Save It
79. 6 SepLinks, 9/6/11
80. 6 SepThe Narratology of Leaking: Risen and Sterling
81. 6 SepThe Death Squads “Protecting” Our Country
82. 6 SepHow Will City Council Oversee NYPD’s Spooks after This?
83. 6 SepThe Next Target in the War on Voting: Hoffa and the Unions
84. 5 SepCops, Security Guards, and Prisoners
85. 4 Sep“The Congressional directory now reads like a casebook of lunacy”
86. 3 SepMoussa Koussa’s Security File
87. 3 SepTrash Talk: NCAA On The Way To Save The Day!
88. 2 SepFHFA Shows TurboTax Timmeh Geithner What a REAL Long Weekend Is
89. 2 SepJust in Time To Undercut Eric Schneiderman, the (Ongoing) HUD Investigation!
90. 2 SepHappy Labor Day, You Zeroes!
91. 2 SepAt What Point Does T-Mobile CEO Get Dinged for False Advertising?
92. 1 Sep10 Years Later, 9/11 Commission Says President Is Failing to Protect Civil Liberties
93. 1 SepElliott Abrams: A Convicted Liar Defends a Convicted Liar’s Boss by Lying

August 2011

1. 31 AugRendition Flight Lawsuit Gives Lie to Government’s Jeppesen State Secrets Claim
2. 31 AugNational Transportation Safety Board Identifies the Real Threat to Pipelines: PG&E
3. 31 AugIf Bank of New York Mellon Has So Many Tax Shelters It Doesn’t Pay Taxes, How Is It NY’s “Main Street”?
4. 31 AugDOJ Sues to Stop AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
5. 31 AugIA AG’s Office Whining That They’re Not Getting Credit for Settlement Bank of America Violated
6. 31 AugNYPD’s Failed Ethnic Profiling Program
7. 30 AugObama & Holder Push AZ USAtty Burke Out Over ATF GunRunner Cock-Up
8. 30 AugTrue “Resilience” Would Help Prevent the Next 3,420 Climate-Related Deaths, Too
9. 30 AugHow Are Americans Feeling about Their Own Circumstances Now, David Plouffe?
10. 29 AugLinks, 8/29/11
11. 29 AugThe Auto Industry and America’s Future
12. 29 AugPaying for Climate Change by Gutting Programs to Deal with It
13. 28 AugRule of Law, Food Safety Edition
14. 28 AugTrash Talk: Belgian Grand Prix A Trip To The Spa
15. 26 AugGone Fishing to the Most Beautiful Place in America
16. 26 AugThe Government Still Doesn’t Say Whether or Not It Has Recordings of James Risen
17. 26 AugEric Cantor’s Nuclear Failure
18. 26 AugLinks, August 25, 2011
19. 25 AugJamie Dimon’s Company Fined $88.3 Million for Trading with the Enemy
20. 25 AugPaul Kanjorski: Government Can’t Control Multinationals Anymore
21. 25 AugHow Would States Divvy Up the Foreclosure Settlement?
22. 24 AugTurns Out Cheney Was Never Really Vice President After All
23. 24 AugThe Timing of the Schneiderman Attack
24. 24 AugNYPD’s Spooks Didn’t Find Two of the Most Significant Terrorists to Attempt Attacks on NYC
25. 24 AugIn Last Two Years, FBI Developed Intrusive Files on 77,100 Innocent Americans
26. 24 AugIA AG Tom Miller: Playing “Survivor” with Homeowners’ Futures
27. 23 AugCantorQuake: Trembling at the Heart of GOP Claims We Don’t Need Government
28. 23 AugThe FBI’s File on Antiwar.com
29. 23 AugThe Other Auto Bailout: Ford, Toyota, … and Harley Davidson?
30. 22 AugFBI Conducts Threat Assessment on Antiwar.Com Journalists for Linking to Publicly Available Document
31. 22 AugFed Lending: Bailing Out Banks over People
32. 22 AugThe Global Crisis of SOME Institutional Legitimacy
33. 22 Aug2 Funny Things about Obama Administration’s Effort to Pressure Eric Schneiderman
34. 21 AugIs this Why DOJ Is Sheltering Colombian Terrorists?
35. 20 AugTony Fratto’s Post Office Field Trip
36. 20 AugTrash Talk: I’m Still Mad In Memphis West Edition
37. 19 AugRaining On The West Memphis Parade: Fundamental Fairness Denied
38. 19 AugJeff Immelt: EPA Should Say Fracking, Gulf Drilling, and Trans-Candian Pipeline Are Safe in One Week
39. 19 AugJeff Immelt Claims Government Can’t Make Him Invest–Ignoring It Already Did
40. 18 AugLinks, 8/17/11
41. 18 AugConsensus that America Should Be Like Sweden
42. 18 AugThe New Ag Bubble and Climate Change
43. 17 AugRegister of Deeds Curtis Hertel: “If you or I committed this kind of fraud, we’d go to jail.”
44. 17 AugWhy Oh Why Can’t We Have Better Political Journalism, University of Miami Edition
45. 16 AugLinks, 8/16/11
46. 16 Aug“A Public Service,” My Fannie
47. 16 AugStimulus in Action, MI Edition
48. 16 AugNothing Like a Third Forever War to Boost the Confidence of the Military-Industrial Complex
49. 15 AugDavid Plouffe and Bill Daley Double Down on Rhetoric over Action
50. 15 AugThe Re-Scoop that Pakistan Showed China Our Stealth Chopper
51. 15 AugWarren Buffett: My Super-Rich Brethren Shun Work
52. 14 AugThe Administration’s Lame Plan on the Economy? It Gets Worse
53. 14 AugStill More Deficit Reduction and “Department of Competitiveness”?!?!?
54. 14 AugThe Village Discovers the “Jihadists” among Them
55. 14 AugUS Delays Handover of Afghan Prison So We Can Not Try Detainees Rather than Afghans
56. 13 AugEven as the Costs Become Apparent, Big Business Pushes to Legalize Bribery
57. 13 AugUnder Austerity, We Can’t Have Nice Things Like State Fairs Anymore
58. 12 AugTrash Talk! Packers v Barack Obama
59. 12 AugLinks, 8/12/11
60. 12 AugDavid Plouffe, Still Believe People Are Feeling Better about Economy?
61. 12 AugMade in China: Ensuring Everyone Gets Paid Less
62. 11 AugApparently, “Freedom” Is the New Euphemism for “Government Investment”
63. 11 AugObama Tries to Sell Free Trade in Holland, MI
64. 11 AugA Jobs SuperCongress
65. 10 AugLinks, 8/10/11
66. 10 AugComing Soon to Your Hard-Hit Neighborhood: Government-Subsidized TBTF Slumlords
67. 10 AugRon Bloom to Spend More Time with His Family While Obama Pushes Trade Deals
68. 10 AugWSJ: How the Problem of Low Wages Is Different from the Problem of Low Wages
69. 9 AugLinks, 8/9/11
70. 9 AugDonald Rumsfeld’s Torture Defense and Appendix M
71. 9 AugAttacking Romney Rather than the People Looting our Economy
72. 8 AugAnother Day, Another Person Suing Donald Rumsfeld for Torture
73. 8 AugLinks, 8/8/11
74. 8 AugMexico Drug Cartels: Fighting Transnationalism with Transnationalism
75. 8 AugThe UndieBomber Trial Gets Interesting
76. 7 AugObama’s Slogan for Trade: “Displaced workers … Made in America”
77. 7 AugThe End of the American Empire
78. 6 AugWho Will Be the Last 31 Americans to Die in Effort to Kill the Last 31 Al Qaeda Members in Afghanistan?
79. 6 AugTrash Talk With Stevie Nicks
80. 6 AugThe $100 Billion TeaBagger Tax
81. 5 AugLinks, 8/5/11
82. 5 AugJohn Brennan: Immunizing the Truth
83. 5 Aug“Sustainable Growth” Wasn’t
84. 4 AugLinks, 8/4/11
85. 4 AugReliability and the UK’s Guidelines on Using Torture
86. 4 AugJudge Brinkema Cites Espionage Act to Protect Reporter’s Privilege
87. 4 AugBuffalo Hangs Its Head In Shame as L’il Luke Laughs at Slaves and Dead Workers
88. 3 AugLinks, 8/3/11
89. 3 AugTornadoes, Austerity, and Food Stamps
90. 3 AugThe Omnivore Bites Back
91. 3 AugMark Warner Thinks It’s Bold for a $200M Man to Cut Seniors’ Pensions
92. 2 AugLinks, 8/2/11
93. 2 AugObama’s Efforts to Create Korean–Not American–Jobs Gets More Cynical
94. 2 AugMitt Romney Names Two Torture Lawyers to “Justice Advisory Committee”
95. 2 AugThe “Pivot to Jobs” Will Be an Attempt to Sell Trade Deals
96. 2 AugShock Doctrine International
97. 1 AugLinks, 8/1/11
98. 1 AugIs Mark Warner the Designated Social Security Killer?
99. 1 AugYet More Proof Big Business Is Unamerican

July 2011

1. 31 JulThe Unstated Constitutional Problems With Obama “Using the 14th”
2. 31 JulGrijalva: We Just Got Thrown Under the Bus
3. 31 JulThird Cave’s a Charm
4. 30 JulRichard Ben-Veniste Calls out Obama for Spiking the Privacy Board
5. 30 JulF1 Hungarian Grand Prix and The Return of Football Trash!!!
6. 29 JulLinks, 07/29/11
7. 29 JulFBI Doesn’t Consider Amerithrax among Its WMD “Highlights”
8. 29 JulAddington’s Useful Idiots
9. 28 JulLinks, 7/28/11
10. 28 JulThe Solution to this and the Next Economic Crisis
11. 28 JulGoldman’s Latest Scam: Turning Empty Space into Riches
12. 27 JulLinks, 7/27/11
13. 27 JulDOJ’s Twisted Notion of Rule of Law Is Poisoning Our Country
14. 26 JulFour Mobs: Yet More Bizarre Thinking Behind Administration’s Transnational Crime Program
15. 26 JulLinks, 7/26/11
16. 26 JulMedian Net Worth of Whites Twenty Times that of African-Americans
17. 25 JulLinks, 7/25/11
18. 25 JulThe Blinds Spots of the Administration’s New Transnational Organized Crime Program
19. 25 JulPreserving the Fabric of Our Society as They Roll Out the Shock Doctrine
20. 24 JulF1 German GP at Nurburgring & A New York Rainbow In the Night
21. 23 JulNaming Terrorism
22. 23 JulThe Ugly Truth On What Was Really “Left At The Altar”
23. 22 JulLinks, 7/22/11
24. 22 JulWhat shall we condone?
25. 22 JulThe Chief of Staff from JP Morgan
26. 21 JulLinks, 7/21
27. 21 JulObama DOJ Doubles Down on President’s Ability to Detain US Citizens with No Charges
28. 21 JulAt Some Point, Lanny Breuer Is Responsible for William Welch’s “Judgment”
29. 20 JulLinks, 7/20/11
30. 20 JulFamine in Somalia Ought to Lead Us to Rethink War on Terror
31. 20 JulPatrick Leahy in Big Rush to Reconfirm the Guy Who Won’t Solve Leahy’s Attempted Murder
32. 20 JulDOJ: These Aren’t the BioPort Spores You’re Looking For
33. 20 JulThe Inevitable Collapse of Legitimacy Under Secret Law: WikiLeaks Hacks
34. 19 JulLinks, 7/19/11
35. 19 JulRupert Murdoch: I went through Mr. Brown’s back door many times
36. 19 JulGovernment Inches Closer to Admitting It Hasn’t Solved Anthrax Attack
37. 18 JulElizabeth Warren: I’m Saving All the Rocks in My Pocket for the Republicans
38. 18 JulLinks, July 18, 2011
39. 18 JulWhy Push Elizabeth Warren to Join America’s Most Ineffective Body?
40. 18 JulWSJ: Don’t Be Mean to Us Like Fitz Was to Judy
41. 17 JulTrash Talk: There Will Be Football
42. 17 JulRebekah Brooks Arrested
43. 16 JulWhy Assign the Met’s Counterterrorism Squad to Investigate Murdoch?
44. 16 JulRand Paul’s Timely Questions
45. 15 JulLinks, July 15, 2011
46. 15 JulWelcome Back to Emptywheel!
47. 15 JulSterling’s Graymail Attempt
48. 14 JulReggie Walton Unleashes the Rocket’s Red Glare
49. 14 JulDarrell Issa Steps in It, Inadvertantly Reveals Improper Use of Congressional Funds to Serve AEI
50. 13 JulACLU FOIAs CIA for Documents on Juan Cole
51. 13 JulObama Administration: Don’t Cut Construction Funding to Bahrain
52. 13 JulOn Two Torture Investigations
53. 12 JulOur Unilateral Counterterrorism Operations in Somalia
54. 12 JulEmptywheel Leaving Firedoglake
55. 12 JulIn 1,200 Word Profile on Eric Cantor, WaPo Neglects to Mention His Bet against the US
56. 12 JulHamid Karzai’s Brother Killed by Guard
57. 11 JulHow the Government Hid Their Pacha Wazir Mistake by Denying Habeas Corpus
58. 11 JulNo Wonder They Hired Andy Coulson
59. 11 JulRomneyCare Didn’t End Medical Bankruptcies
60. 10 JulOn the Wisdom of Keeping Up Offensive Pressure
61. 10 JulTrash: F1 British Grand Prix, Sweater Vest Forfeitures & Foxsuckers
62. 9 JulIs “National Security” a Good Excuse to Pursue Policies that Undermine the Nation-State?
63. 9 JulPanetta: Kill 20 Leaders, End the War on Terror
64. 8 JulDavid Plouffe: ALSO Wrong on Consumer Confidence
65. 8 JulObama’s Plan to Address 9.2% Unemployment: Send More Jobs Overseas
66. 8 JulWho Knew Firing Public Workers Increases Unemployment?
67. 8 JulVisa Shuts Down DataCell’s Donation Processing for WikiLeaks Again
68. 7 JulDavid Plouffe’s “Same Old War Horses”
69. 7 JulGuardian: Andy Coulson to Be Arrested in Hacking Scandal
70. 7 JulCredit Card Companies Forestall Legal Trouble by Allowing Donations via DataCell
71. 7 JulIs Anwar al-Awlaki The Unnamed “National of the United States” In Warsame Indictment?
72. 7 JulYet Another Torture Cover-Up
73. 6 JulScott Horton: Glenn Carle’s “CAPTUS” Is Pacha Wazir
74. 6 JulGovernment: Risen Shouldn’t Be Able to Reveal We Want(ed) to Trump Up War against Iran
75. 5 JulEric Holder, Preet Bhrara, and Ray Kelly Planning Civilian Terror Trial in Manhattan
76. 5 JulBin Laden Found By Trolling The Weeds, Not By Torture
77. 5 JulRupert Murdoch’s Hacks
78. 4 JulThe Drone War on Westphalia
79. 3 JulOur “Public Debate” about Drones Is a State Secret
80. 3 JulThe WikiLeaks Suit against Visa and MasterCard
81. 2 JulDSK Case Collapse: Lawyers, Phone Calls & Money the Shit Hits The Fan
82. 2 JulObama’s “Evolution” Accelerates: DOJ Formally Declares DOMA Unconstitutional
83. 1 JulWhither Stephen Kappes?
84. 1 JulMichael Mukasey’s Torture Apologies
85. 1 JulWill Cyrus Vance Turn His Head & Walk Away From DSK?
86. 1 JulGul Rahman and Manadel al-Jamadi Investigations: The New Information

June 2011

1. 30 JunBetting for the Little People: Timmeh Geithner Departure Watch
2. 30 JunTwo Dead Detainees May Get Justice. The Other 99 Will Not.
3. 30 JunBahraini Riot Police Attacks Citizens on Day After Human Rights Inquiry Announced
4. 30 JunBank of America Offers to Pay $8.5 Billion to Stay in Business
5. 30 JunUS Refusing to Let Truth-Tellers Visit Country Again
6. 29 JunThe Fed Gives JP Morgan Chase Another Multi-Billion Dollar Bailout
7. 29 JunDefending the Corporate “Freedom to Relocate”
8. 29 JunMore Evil in One Wyoming House than Dick Cheney?
9. 28 JunWilliam Welch’s Gimmick and the Harassment of James Risen
10. 28 JunMax Baucus Finally Gets His Grand Bargain!
11. 28 JunWaxman Gives Obama Lessons in Negotiation, Again
12. 28 JunThe Charlie-Savage-Used-to-Be-Richard-Lugar’s-Intern SFRC Libya Hearing
13. 28 JunJim Webb: We Are Endorsing Assassination of Leaders of Countries We Recognize
14. 28 JunNational Archives Spends 3 Days Declassifying 11 Words Declassified 40 Years Ago
15. 28 JunObama Capitulates to GOP and Withdraws Labor Protection from Colombia Trade Deal
16. 27 Jun“SWIFT” Boating the Russian Mafia
17. 27 JunNSA Managers Modified or Supressed Studies on ThinThread and Trailblazer
18. 27 JunJames Risen’s Community of Interest
19. 26 JunTrash Talk: Fox TV Sucks a Bag Of Big Honking Salted Dicks
20. 26 JunBoGlo Proclaims RomneyCare Successful at Transferring Wealth from Consumers to Big Health Care
21. 25 JunAnonymous Sources Claim Polish President Didn’t Know of Torture Site
22. 25 JunNew York’s Enlightenment & Some Thoughts On Perry Prop8 Case
23. 23 JunThomas Drake Proved To Be Bloody Well Right
24. 22 JunRuss Feingold Was Proved Fucking Right
25. 21 JunStill Fishing
26. 20 JunObama War Powers Treachery and The Founders’ Remedies
27. 20 JunGoing Astray – Obama and Nato Bombings in Libya
28. 19 JunNetroots Nation Recap: Saving the Middle Class
29. 18 JunFeingold For Governor: Scott Walker & WI GOP’s War On Good Beer
30. 17 JunAnother NSA-Private Sector Partnership
31. 17 JunNetroots Nation: Marcy Wheeler Introduces Guest of Honor Russell Feingold
32. 16 JunDOJ: Calling Out Government Lies Would Endanger National Security
33. 16 JunInvestigating Juan Cole Rather than Ahmed Chalabi
34. 15 JunHassan Ghul’s World Travels
35. 14 JunJon Tester: Get Out of My Trash
36. 14 JunRobert Mueller: Civil Liberties Don’t Need a “Fresh” Review
37. 14 JunChina Is Hiding Its Counterfeit Electronics Parts
38. 14 JunCIA Inspector General Reopens Khalid El-Masri Abduction
39. 14 JunMore Security Theater as Play
40. 13 JunIMF Blames State Actor for Hack
41. 13 JunThe “Purported” Detainee Assessments
42. 13 JunDurham Targeting More Contractors?
43. 13 JunFBI Aspires to Be the Stasi
44. 12 JunF1 Trash: Bernie Ecclestone Takes a Swing At Sultans of Bahrain
45. 12 JunThe Quiet Death of Habeas Corpus
46. 11 JunThe Chambermaid’s Revenge: IMF Hacked
47. 11 JunAnglo-Americans at Cyberwar: Two Weeks of Cupcakes
48. 11 JunThe Gitmo Lawyers’ Information Gulag
49. 10 JunDid Thomas Drake Get iJustice?
50. 10 JunPlea Bargain a Concession that DOJ Indicted Thomas Drake for Unclassified Information
51. 10 JunMichael Leiter Resigns, Undermining Claimed Rationale for Mueller Extension
52. 9 JunThomas Drake Signs Plea Agreement; Government Attempt to Expand Espionage Act Fails
53. 9 JunACLU FOIAs WikiLeaks Cables
54. 9 Jun“Collections Sites” and the Thomas Drake Case
55. 9 JunThomas Drake to Government: “Bring It”
56. 9 JunE. Coli EFMs
57. 9 JunThomas Drake’s Public Domain Motion
58. 9 JunThe Government’s Thomas Drake Case Crumbles
59. 8 JunThe Oil Weapon and the Fight for Hegemony of the Middle East
60. 8 JunRobert Mueller: Anna Chapman and Mohamed Mohamud Are Bigger Threats than Lloyd Blankfein
61. 8 JunTom Coburn Suggests Problems with Use of PATRIOT Act Section 215 Will Be Big Court Battle
62. 8 JunSJC to Consider Re-Confirmation of Guy Who Let Major Domestic Terror Attack Go Unsolved
63. 8 JunHave WSJ and Al Jazeera Already Ceded the Espionage Debate?
64. 7 JunUsing Domestic Surveillance to Get Rapists to Spy for America
65. 7 JunDHS Gutted Domestic Terrorism Analysis Unit after Report Leaked
66. 7 JunThe Crux of the Cisco-US Government Collaboration
67. 6 JunIs Apparent US Conspiracy with Cisco about Wiretapping?
68. 6 JunFBI’s Hacker-Informants
69. 6 JunThomas Drake: The Government Hides Its Toys
70. 6 JunAn American Fairy Tale: Prison Industry Edition
71. 6 Jun“As I plan to inform the White House”
72. 5 JunTrash Talk: Raffa v. Fed
73. 4 JunChiquita’s Alleged Victims Can Sue for Torture, But Not Terrorism
74. 4 JunDiplomats Concede Drones Might Destabilize Nuclear Armed Pakistan
75. 4 JunTeaching Our Polish Partners in Torture: State Secrets
76. 3 Jun“Terrorists are cowards. Torturers are, too.”
77. 3 JunNext They’ll Put Gitmo Transfer Prohibitions on USDA Funding
78. 3 JunHow’s that Plan Going, Mr. President?
79. 3 JunThe Government Asked to Use Silent Witness Rule in Thomas Drake Case
80. 3 JunWhy Didn’t We Ask China to Find Scooter Libby’s Missing Plame Leak E-Mails?
81. 2 JunExecutive Nominations, Judicial Emergencies and Change in WH Counsel’s Office
82. 2 JunWhy Is Michael Hayden’s Desperation on Illegal Interrogation More Urgent than on Illegal Wiretapping?
83. 2 JunCan’t We Call this “Counter-Terrorism Preparedness”?
84. 1 JunChiquita: The Guns and Drugs and Union Killing CNN Didn’t Mention
85. 1 JunAs with Voting, in Marketing, Real People Don’t Count Anymore
86. 1 JunThe Cyberwar Campaign against Jihadi Literature and WikiLeaks
87. 1 JunIn Thomas Drake Case, Protected Doesn’t Mean Protected

May 2011

1. 31 MayUS Charges KSM, 9/11 Plotters, Again
2. 31 MayScalia Invents a New Meaning for “Suspicion” while Letting Ashcroft Off the Hook
3. 31 MayRetaliating against State-Sponsored Cyber War
4. 30 MayAbout the Lockheed Martin Hack
5. 29 MayWho Is Rehashing the Shrinks-4-Hire Report on Bruce Ivins?
6. 28 MayWhere I Walk My Dog
7. 28 MayDiFi’s Secret Law
8. 28 MayThe Army’s “Sticky Note” SIPRNet Security
9. 27 MayHappy Memorial Day! Remember Your Government Will Be Tracking with Whom You Celebrate this Weekend
10. 27 May“Robo-signing” the PATRIOT Act
11. 26 MayThe PATRIOT Act Vote: One Quarter of the Way to a Fourth Amendment
12. 26 MayClapper: We Need to Pass PATRIOT to Make Sure Apple Continues to Track Your Location
13. 26 MayThe Un-Patriot Acts of Harry Reid
14. 26 MayThe Changes Wyden/Udall Wanted to Section 215
15. 25 MayNavy SEALs Beat Osama bin Laden … and Then Mickey
16. 25 MayThe Government’s PATRIOTic Databases on Innocent Americans
17. 25 MayThe Circumstantial Case against Bruce Ivins Gets Weaker
18. 25 MayNadler Wants to Know Why FBI Lied to Him about Anthrax
19. 25 MayObama Misses the Lesson in NY-26
20. 24 MayWyden and Udall Want Obama to Admit to Secret Collection Program
21. 24 MayObama’s Secret Cyberwars
22. 24 MayObama Issues Veto Threat on Forever War
23. 24 MayRepublicans Would Rather Red-Staters Die than Pay for Externalities Related to Oil
24. 24 MayDear DNC: Automotive “I Told You Sos” Need to Be Directed Down-Ticket, Too
25. 24 MayGovernment Subpoenas James Risen for the Third Time
26. 23 MayWhy Didn’t FBI Investigate AFIP’s Role in Starting the Iraq-Anthrax Rumors?
27. 23 MayDid Thomas Drake Include Privacy Concerns in His Complaints to DOD’s Inspector General?
28. 23 MayThomas Drake Complained about Michael Hayden Spending $1B to Do What $3M Could Do
29. 22 MayFirst Mickey Donned Night Vision Goggles, Now Mickey Embraces GateGrope
30. 21 MayNSA Twice Chose to Forgo Privacy Protections in Domestic Data Mining Programs
31. 20 MayWar, Intelligence, Law and Forever
32. 20 MayKarl Rove, Bankster Bailer
33. 20 MayIf Only They Had Listened to Thomas Drake, They Might Have Prevented CableGate
34. 19 MayReid and Republicans Tee Up Another PATRIOT Extension
35. 19 MayObama’s Middle East Speech: Applause Lines for Democracy
36. 19 MayAs the Arab Spring Gives Way to the Sunni Summer
37. 19 MayJared Bernstein’s Glorious Diarrhea of Quashed Ideas
38. 18 MayReport on Entrapment Describes Pattern of Informant-Created “Terrorism”
39. 18 MayDHS’ Top Cybersecurity Officer Resigns
40. 18 MayLarry Thompson: From Rendering Maher Arar to Pushing Pop to Teaching Lawyers
41. 18 MayFBI Takes 2 Years to Indict FBI Agent Facilitating Mortgage Fraud
42. 18 MayPlease Help Support My Next 525 Posts on Torture
43. 18 MayThe Issues Thomas Drake and Others Whistleblew On Remain Urgent
44. 18 MayGoodwin Liu To Get Senate Floor Vote On Cloture Thursday
45. 17 MayIs Mukasey Suggesting We Ignored Information Mohammed al-Qahtani Gave Us?
46. 17 MayHillary Picks Cheney Aide to Replace PJ Crowley
47. 17 MayApparently the Terrorists Can’t Learn How Much Radiation They’ll Get from Going through TSA Security
48. 17 MayDid the Administration’s Own Propensity for Leaks Crash the SEAL’s Blackhawk?
49. 17 MayEric Holder Claims Rule of Law Exists in Cyberspace
50. 16 MayObama Administration: Sorry, 2013 Is Too Soon to Fix Gaping Holes in Our Network Security
51. 16 MayUS Bank Plans to Make Up Profit on Swipe Fees by Screwing the Unemployed
52. 16 MayPanetta: No Detainee in CIA Custody Revealed Courier’s Real Name
53. 16 MaySCOTUS: Govt Can Use State Secrets to Hide Crimes
54. 16 MayThe Feds Now Complaining about Thin Terrorist Indictments
55. 16 MayThomas Drake: The Unclassified Documents the Government Wants to Claim Were Classified
56. 16 MayAnother US “Diplomat” Arrested (Briefly) in Pakistan
57. 15 MayMickey Mouse’s Night Vision Goggles
58. 15 May“He is hoping to build an empire in the desert, far from the trial lawyers” to train anti-Iranian soldiers
59. 14 MayThe Confusion about When Hassan Ghul’s Torture Started
60. 14 MayWhitewash Investigation on Detainee Abuse Is Why We Need WikiLeaks
61. 14 MayWhy Can’t DOJ Investigate as Well as the Hapless Senate?
62. 13 MayJSOC Decides It’s Ready to Return to Shadows … Soon
63. 13 MayJP Morgan Chase Nickel and Diming the Last Nickels and Dimes from the Unemployed
64. 13 MayMichael Mukasey Doubles Down on the Sophism
65. 13 MayYemen’s Head of Al Qaeda Scrambles to Make Anwar al-Awlaki Al Qaeda’s #3
66. 12 MayCorporate Fairy Tales in Afghanistan
67. 12 MayTwo Themes from Obama’s Cybersecurity Proposal: Private Auditors and Immunity
68. 12 MayGovernment Claims Classified Information Procedures Act Also Applies to Unclassified Information
69. 12 May9/11 Commission Redux
70. 12 MayJohn McCain: KSM Lied Under Torture, Just Like I Did
71. 11 MayComcastSucks Got Suckier So FCC Commish Could Get a Swank New Job
72. 11 MayMI Dems to Benton Harbor: You’re on Your Own
73. 11 MayKilling Democracy with Bad Intelligence
74. 11 MayThe Congressman from NSA Wants Contractor Contributions to Remain Secret
75. 11 MayDangerous Counter-Narratives: Our Global Finance Ponzi Scheme and Iranian Cooperation
76. 10 MayObama Administration Finally Brags about Jobs Created in Auto Bailout
77. 10 MayAfter Killing the Guy Who Started this War, We Simply Redefine It
78. 10 MayMountain Pure “Purified” Drinking Water Recalled for Mold
79. 10 MayCongress to DOD: You Must Start Briefing Us on (Some) Cyberwar Now
80. 9 MayComing Soon to a Base Near You! Drone Hangars!
81. 9 MayMarc Thiessen, You Are My Piñata
82. 9 MayCondi Claims US Was at War When She Ignored August 6, 2001 PDB
83. 9 MayAlberto Gonzales Explains Why Torture Didn’t Work Even While Defending It
84. 8 MayThe MSM’s Gift to Moms? The Mushroom Cloud Brigade
85. 8 MaySometimes Notes Get Destroyed, Sometimes They Don’t
86. 8 MayOsama bin Laden Left the Tribal Lands in 2003
87. 7 MayGrey-Bearded Osama Watching Videos of His Youth
88. 7 MayMore on the Year-Long Pursuit of Mohamed Mohamud
89. 7 MayWH Stenographer: Obama Took Big Risk in Deciding to Go after Bin Laden
90. 6 MayObama Apparently Was Hoping for a Trifecta
91. 6 MayWhy Did the Torture Apologists Come Out of their Caves?
92. 6 MayLike SSCI, HPSCI Requires DNI to Close Gaping Security Holes … by 2013
93. 6 MayMaybe We Fought the War Wrong?
94. 6 MayChoo Choo Track Attacks
95. 5 MayThe Weird Circumstances Surrounding Hassan Ghul’s Interrogation
96. 5 MayMonica Goodling Finally Gets Reprimanded
97. 5 MayObama’s DOJ Advocated Lying to Judges in June 2009
98. 4 MayBeneficiary of Revolving Door Pork to Head Blackwater Ethics Committee
99. 4 MayJose Rodriguez Brags that He Got Terrorists to Deny Things Using Torture
100. 3 MayKSM Was Lying about OBL’s Location While Hiding the Courier Who Could Locate Him
101. 3 MayISI Raided Abbottabad Compound in 2003, Looking for Abu Furaj al-Libi
102. 3 MayTracking the Courier … Through Hassan Ghul
103. 2 MayThe Osama bin Laden Trail Shows Waterboarding Didn’t Work
104. 2 MayAnd about that Nuclear Hellstorm Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Promised if Osama bin Laden Was Killed?
105. 2 MayApaches, Seminoles, and al Qaeda
106. 2 MayAbu Faraj al-Libi and the Trail to Osama bin Laden
107. 2 MayOsama bin Laden in Abbottabad: Pakistani Incompetence or Complicity?
108. 2 MayBREAKING: Unusual Hasty Sunday Night Obama Statement

April 2011

1. 30 AprUS Assassinates Saif Qaddafi and Three Qaddafi Grandsons
2. 29 AprTwo WMD Terrorists, the President’s Daily Briefing, and Lone Wolves
3. 29 AprBradley Manning Protest: White House Bans Journalist for Doing Journalism
4. 28 AprThe Blowjob that Shall Not Be Named
5. 28 AprSaifullah Paracha’s Gitmo File Contains Suspect Details, but His Defense Attorney Can’t Point Them Out
6. 28 AprTom Brady et. al v. The National Football League Stay Decision
7. 27 AprRoberts Court Sticks Another Dagger In the Back Of Consumers
8. 27 AprThe Cover Story that Serves as a Cover Story
9. 26 AprThe Drone “Debate” and Friendly Fire
10. 26 AprTortured Confessions and the Gitmo Protection Orders
11. 26 AprIllegal Wiretap Leak Probe Dropped
12. 25 AprDOJ Warns Gitmo Defense Attorneys Not to Use Gitmo Files
13. 25 AprThe US Training Manuals al Qaeda Used
14. 25 AprThe Gitmo Documents Reveal Disparities between US and Other Countries’ Assessment of Risk
15. 25 AprThe Gitmo Files: Abu Zubaydah’s File
16. 25 AprGitmo Detainee Files Working Thread
17. 24 AprHappy Easter
18. 24 AprWho’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
19. 23 AprObama Pretends the Bob Woodward Law Doesn’t Exist
20. 22 AprDC Circuit Reinstates Blackwater Nisour Shooting Prosecution
21. 22 AprDOJ Sits On Its Thumbs A Year After Macondo’s Mouth Of Hell Roared
22. 21 AprManning Protesters Sing to Obama: “We Paid Our Dues; Where’s Our Change?”
23. 21 AprCIFA 2.0 Back in the Outsourcing Business
24. 21 AprWhat Happened to Bradley Manning in January
25. 20 AprAs Expected, DOD Charges al-Nashiri; Will the US Also Charge His Torturer?
26. 20 AprDid the Pentagon Misinform Obama When It Said Bradley Manning’s Treatment Met Our Standards?
27. 20 AprMSNBC’s New Sources on Bradley Manning’s Treatment: Pentagon Officials
28. 20 AprAir Force: We’re Screwed
29. 19 AprDid BP Have Special Reason to Worry about the Iraq War for Oil?
30. 19 AprPJ Crowley: “Will My Words Be Credible?”
31. 19 AprHow to Stage Manage a Show Trial
32. 18 AprSome Context on MI’s Emergency Financial Manager Law
33. 18 AprNYT Speculates on Departure of Goldman Sachs’ Blankfein, Doesn’t Mention Levin’s Referral
34. 17 AprUS-Based Drones for the Sake of Drones
35. 16 AprUsing New Emergency Financial Manager Law, They Start Dissolving Governments in Michigan
36. 15 AprThe United States of Monsanto
37. 15 AprFormer Army Intelligence Analyst: “Army security is like a Band-Aid on a sunken chest wound”
38. 14 AprWikiLeaks Reveals that China Already Knows What WikiLeaks Reveals
39. 14 AprHave the Spooks Finally Admitted to Congress They’ve Been “Exploiting” Gitmo Detainees as Spies?
40. 14 AprThe Weakness Of The Barry Bonds Obstruction Verdict
41. 13 AprDOJ Points to David Passaro’s Trial as Proof We Investigate Torture, But It Actually Proves John Yoo Should Be Tried
42. 13 AprResponse to GE Hoax Reveals How Badly Press Understands Multinational Capitalism
43. 13 AprA New Form of MI “Terrorist”: The Friendly Fire One
44. 12 AprOne Good Reason the WaPo Should NOT Get Kudos for Its “Top Secret” Series
45. 12 AprHelicopter Ben Invented Tax Evasion Vehicles for the Real Housewives of Wall Street
46. 12 AprPJ Crowley’s Acting Replacement Can’t Differentiate Us from China on Human Rights and Transparency
47. 12 AprOngoing Fallout from Raymond Davis Affairs Reveals Extent of Our Activities in Pakistan
48. 11 AprDC Mayor Gray Arrested: Finally a Leader In Washington DC Finds His Shoes
49. 11 AprUS Willing to Bomb Libya to Maintain UN Credibility, But Not Allow an “Official” Visit to Bradley Manning
50. 11 AprDemocracy and Now Capitalism Are Failing Ideologically; But What Comes Next?
51. 11 AprAdministration Continues to Cling to Precedent of Slavery, Genocide, and Illegal Belligerency to Legitimize Its Actions
52. 11 AprObama’s Would-Be “Rule of Law” Counselor Calls Bradley Manning’s Treatment Unconstitutional
53. 10 AprThe Fog of Obamawar In Hi-Def 1080p
54. 10 AprFormula One Trash Talk: Malaysian Grand Prix
55. 8 AprWilliam Welch and DOJ’s Mojo Is Not Risen
56. 8 AprOLC Memo as Time Machine
57. 7 AprSolicitor General Email FOIA Shows White House Stunt Fail
58. 7 AprTerror Trials, Ray Kelly and the FBI Director Job
59. 7 AprAnother Two-Tier Justice System: for “Unauthorized” Leaks
60. 6 AprIntelligence Community Will Close Gaping Hole that Allegedly Led to WikiLeaks Disclosure … in 2013
61. 6 AprOne Way to Make Sending Frank Wisner to “Negotiate” with Mubarak Look Smart
62. 6 AprThe Charismatic Blonde Women and the Consent Decree
63. 6 AprChasing Humanitarian Organizations Out of Afghanistan
64. 6 AprHow Many Other Journalists Does the FBI Consider Informants?
65. 5 AprOne Year After Collateral Murder Release, DOD’s Networks Are Still Glaring Security Problem
66. 5 AprIn July 2001, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Tried to Come to the US
67. 5 AprDOD Considers Illegal Data Mining Part of Capital Crime
68. 4 AprDOJ: Iraq Had No Al Qaeda Affiliates (Working Thread on KSM Indictment)
69. 4 AprEric Holder: Moving KSM Trial to Gitmo Wrong Decision, But We’re Doing It Anyway
70. 4 AprHolder’s Press Conference Liveblog
71. 4 AprThis Presidential Campaign Brought to You by a Massive Capitulation on Civilian Law
72. 4 AprSWIFT and the Asymmetric Control of Data
73. 3 AprHow Allowing Money Laundering Keeps Our Bubblicious Finance Afloat
74. 2 AprPutting “Really Mushy” Functions in a Department that Refuses to Be Audited
75. 2 AprDonald Trump: The Jamaica Jerkoff
76. 1 AprUniversity of Wisconsin’s Response to FOIA Request Emphasizes Importance of Academic Freedom
77. 1 AprDarrell Issa Complains that Janet Napolitano Took a Whole Year to Change Michael Chertoff’s Inefficient FOIA Process
78. 1 AprWingnut Pastor’s Koran-Burning Gets UN Staffers Killed
79. 1 AprUS Intelligence Operatives in Libya, Before a Finding, Sounds Like JSOC

March 2011

1. 31 MarOut of the Mouths of Babes Real People: Just Keep Jobs Here
2. 31 Mar“Pro Life” Republicans Trying to Kill 70,000 Children
3. 31 MarGoldman’s Lies and Jamie Dimon’s Piggy Bank
4. 31 MarUterus: (Yew-Tur-Us), N, A curse word meaning “not a corporation.”
5. 31 MarHow the “Most Transparent Administration Ever” Worsens Transparency with Transparency Effort
6. 30 MarWhere Will Obama Try Himself for Material Support for Terrorism?
7. 30 MarScott Bloch Headed To Prison
8. 30 MarThe Mackinac Center’s Assault on Academic Freedom Is a Stunt
9. 30 MarMark Bittman: “I stopped eating on Monday”
10. 29 MarPJ Crowley Explains Why Manning’s Treatment Is Ridiculous, Counterproductive, and Stupid
11. 29 MarFrontline Ignores Most Embarrassing “Cause” of WikiLeaks Leak
12. 29 MarThe Colonized Advises the Colonizer on What to Do When You Go Broke
13. 28 MarIn Re Sealed Case and the Goldsmith Memo
14. 28 MarFinally! Our Declining Manufacturing Base Becomes a National Security Issue
15. 27 MarAre 95% of People Investigated Under New FBI Guidelines Innocent, but Entered into Database?
16. 26 MarBill Keller: True = False, But Better False Than Left or Right
17. 26 MarCelebrating 10 Years of the Rights Associated with Marriage
18. 26 MarF1 Trash: Circus Starts Anew, 50 Years On From the Yankee Champion
19. 26 MarIn 2004, the White House Considered FISA’s Exclusivity Provision to Be Top Secret
20. 25 MarThe Abu Zubaydah Standard in Obama’s Miranda Memo
21. 25 MarBREAKING!! White Terrorists to Be Treated Like Brown Terrorists!!
22. 25 MarUSAMRID Lost Vials in 2003 AND 2009
23. 25 MarReal Reason For US Deficit: GE Greed-$14.2B Profit, $0 Tax
24. 24 MarThe White Paper and the Classified Opinion
25. 24 MarRichard Clarke: The Chamber Broke the Law
26. 24 MarDOJ’s New Miranda Policy Betrays Constitution & Power of Judiciary
27. 23 MarFBI’s Shrinks-4-Hire: Stalkers Are Likely Bioterrorists
28. 23 MarGM Squanders What Tax Payers Gave It
29. 23 MarAT&T Confident Its Partner in Crime Will Let It Take Over T-Mobile
30. 23 Mar8 Years Ago Today, KSM Was Probably Being Waterboarded for the 179th Time
31. 23 MarNew Standard for Justice: Innocent Until a Secret Shrink Study Proves You Guilty after Your Death
32. 22 MarWill the US Share Intelligence with Israel’s New Left Wing Intelligence Initiative?
33. 21 MarHow to Ensure You’ll Always Have War Powers to Fight Eastasia
34. 21 MarDick, the Miniseries
35. 21 MarThe March–and April or May–2004 Changes to the Illegal Wiretap Program
36. 21 MarApparently, “Blood Money” Now Includes “Green Cards”
37. 20 MarAnother Secret OLC Opinion: This One on Information Sharing
38. 19 MarWorking Thread on Illegal Wiretap Memo
39. 19 MarNewly Released OLC Opinion Reveals How Yoo Relied on Eliminating Fourth Amendment to Wiretap Illegally
40. 18 MarChris Smith Opposes IRS Enforcement on Undeclared $$, But Supports IRS Enforcement on Undeclared Babies
41. 18 MarNSA’s Clusterfuck Financial Management
42. 18 MarJudge Questions Government’s Persecution of DADT Activists
43. 17 MarBIFFOs and Banksters
44. 17 MarWhy Won’t Jeh Johnson Answer Hank Johnson’s Question about Forced Nudity?
45. 17 MarUS Cheating on European SWIFT Agreement Reveals Safeguards Were Oversold
46. 17 MarUS Cheats on SWIFT Agreement with Oral Requests
47. 17 MarPakistan Pays Blood Money So We Don’t Have To
48. 16 MarPhotos from MadMI, Lansing
49. 16 MarDylan Ratigan, Law Professors and I All Agree: Obama Needs to Explain or End Manning’s Treatment
50. 16 MarNuke Industry: We Don’t Plan for Disasters as Big as Fukushima
51. 15 MarThe Secrets Military Commissions Keep that Civilian Courts Don’t
52. 15 MarDOD: Defense Attorneys Can’t Tell Detainees What They Said
53. 15 MarDOD Gives Manning Caveman Gown, Says They’re Not Humiliating Him
54. 15 MarKiller: A Tribute To My Neighbor Alice
55. 14 MarWikiLeaks Reveals How the British Lied to OECD about BAE Bribery
56. 14 MarCrowley: “The Impact … for Which I Take Full Responsibility”?
57. 14 MarDOD Continues to Stall on Kucinich’s Request to Visit Bradley Manning
58. 14 MarThe Brothers Daley Cover Up Abuse of Suspects Again
59. 14 MarMr. PJ Crowley, Obama & Firedoglake
60. 13 MarFDL Membership: The Value Of The Firedoglake Legal Team
61. 12 MarNYT’s Selective Press Prosecution Outrage Doesn’t Include WikiLeaks
62. 11 MarWikiLeaks: Court Upholds US Subpoena For Twitter Records
63. 11 MarNot Only Won’t Obama Close Gitmo, He’s Now Relying on Gitmo’s SOPs
64. 11 MarPJ Crowley on Manning’s “Ridiculous, Counterproductive, and Stupid” Treatment
65. 11 MarThe Logical Consequence of Looting in Libya
66. 11 MarState Department’s Crowley Condemns Treatment of Bradley Manning: “Counterproductive and Stupid”
67. 11 MarBecome an FDL Member and Kick Our A$$ If We Ever Act Like NPR
68. 10 MarThe Folks Who Run Our Economy Believe in the Easter Bunny
69. 10 MarPlaying God with Bradley Manning
70. 10 MarKeith Ellison Salutes Mohammed Salman Hamdani
71. 10 MarPeter King McCarthyist Hearing LiveBlog
72. 10 MarCourt Denies Scott Bloch & DOJ Collusive Attempt To Withdraw Plea
73. 9 MarOn Eve of Peter King’s Anti-Muslim Hearings, FBI Arrest White Supremacist Alleged Terrorist
74. 9 MarWe Didn’t Need Lone Wolf Provision to Catch Lone Wolf
75. 9 MarPeter King Needs to Be Object Lesson in Our Failed Counter-Terrorism Approach
76. 8 MarThey Won’t Even Create Jobs in the Military-Industrial Complex Anymore
77. 8 MarDOD Promises to Defend the Networks They Failed to Defend after 2008
78. 8 MarA Grammar Lesson: Obama’s Executive Order on Indefinite Detention
79. 8 MarWhat about Indefinite Detention in Afghanistan?
80. 7 MarA Modest Proposal: Indefinitely Detain the Banksters
81. 7 MarWith David Kris Gone, Obama Rolls Out “New and Improved” Military Commissions
82. 7 MarWith David Kris Gone, DOJ Tries to Vacate Vaughn Walker’s FISA Opinion
83. 7 MarJohn McCain and iPhone’s Sick Chinese Workers
84. 6 MarDOJ Bigfoots Over A Bridge Too Far On Loughner Indictment
85. 5 MarA Narrative Chronology of Bradley Manning’s Alleged Leaks
86. 4 MarDOD Declares War on … Underwear
87. 4 MarDOD Passes the Buck Rather than Let Kucinich Visit Bradley Manning
88. 4 MarOnline Personas and Congress
89. 4 MarNine Years of Nudity in American Detention
90. 3 MarWe Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us
91. 3 MarBradley Manning’s New Charges: “Bringing Discredit upon the Armed Forces”
92. 2 MarWill DOJ Finally Finish Its “Review” of Faulty White Paper on Illegal Wiretapping on Monday?
93. 2 MarTime to Reevaluate the Importance of Bradley Manning’s Alleged Leak?
94. 2 MarWill Issa’s Fired Spokesperson Expose How Politico “Wins the Morning”?
95. 2 MarLiar Calls Access Journalist a Pot
96. 1 MarCourt Should Deny DOJ & Scott Bloch Collusion to Avoid Accountability
97. 1 MarAmerican Girl, Made in China, The Reality Show
98. 1 MarBob Woodward, Blogger
99. 1 MarProgressives Demand House GOP Committee Chairs Investigate Hunton & Williams
100. 1 MarIf a TBTF Bank Lost Its Quant Code to Chinese Hackers and No One Knew, Would We Still Have a Functioning Market?
101. 1 Mar“Tactics Developed for Use against Terrorists May Have Been Unleashed against American Citizens”

February 2011

1. 28 FebHB Gary CEO Aaron Barr Resigns
2. 28 FebWhy We Need an Industrial Policy
3. 28 FebThe Alternative to NYT’s Subservience: Actual Journalism
4. 28 Feb“Shut up and explain how we could assist the FPs in finding *MORE* detainees”
5. 27 FebNYT: All the News That’s Fit to Authoritatively Quash
6. 27 FebRoger Ailes to Be Indicted?!?
7. 27 FebBankster-Coddling Party Suffers “Electoral Meltown”
8. 26 FebNewt’s Singeing Statement
9. 25 FebDid FBI First Request James Risen’s Phone Records Using the CAU Program?
10. 25 FebGeorge W Bush Won’t Share Stage with Someone Who Has Harmed US Interests
11. 25 FebSpain Will Investigate Gitmo Torture
12. 25 FebThe John Walsh-Liz Warren-Investors & Homeowners Cage Fight
13. 25 FebThe Business Records and Classified (?) Emails of James Risen
14. 24 FebWhen Militaries Conspire to Ignore the Will of the People
15. 24 FebVikram Pandit’s Material Mistatements
16. 24 FebFBI Gets Its Lone Wolf, Just in Time for PATRIOT Debate
17. 24 FebThousands of Spooky Americans Doing Who-Knows-What in Pakistan?
18. 24 FebHAMP II: The $20 Billion Get Out of Jail Free Card
19. 23 FebThe New Obama Policy On Constitutionality Of DOMA & Boies/Olson Reaction
20. 23 FebObama DOJ Stops Defending Defense of Marriage Act
21. 23 FebA Tale of Three WikiLeak Stories
22. 23 FebRummy Lawyers Up … To Defend Ordering Death Threats?
23. 22 FebIt’s Not the Pakistanis from Whom Papers Were Withholding Davis’ CIA Affiliation
24. 22 FebWhistleblowers Concerned that DOJ Refuses to Jail Scott Bloch, Too
25. 22 FebWho Was–and Was Not–in on Rummy’s “Plan”
26. 21 Feb$9 Million Per Sort-Of-Kind-Of Important Drone Strike
27. 21 FebRaymond Davis: Diplomatic Immunity v. US Impunity
28. 21 FebRaymond Davis’ Work “with” the CIA
29. 21 FebNouri al-Maliki’s Retirement Fund?
30. 21 FebSpy v. Spy: Unmasked?
31. 20 FebAnother Day at the Beach
32. 19 FebMubarak’s Loot: $38 Million Found! Still Hidden? $69,962 Million
33. 19 FebAngelo Mozilo Will Not Be Charged
34. 19 FebPoppy Bush’s Virgin Born Intelligence Knowledge
35. 18 FebJudge: Padilla Can’t Sue for Torture because Justification for His Torture Was Based on Torture
36. 18 FebLindsey Graham Calls Raymond Davis an “Agent”
37. 18 FebPolitical Giving and Willingness to Cave to Law Enforcement
38. 17 FebHunton & Williams Left Fingerprints at SEIU
39. 17 FebStuxnet: The Curious Incident of the Second Certificate
40. 17 FebConfirmed: Our Government Has Criminalized Beauty Products
41. 17 FebThemis Applies JSOC Techniques to Citizens “Extorting” from Corporate Clients
42. 16 FebCalifornia Supreme Court To Hear Perry Prop 8 Question
43. 16 FebCurveball: I Lied to Get Rid of Saddam
44. 16 FebChet Uber Contacted HBGary before He Publicized His Role in Turning in Bradley Manning
45. 15 FebOur DOJ Refuses to Send Officials to Jail – Scott Bloch Edition
46. 14 FebJudge: Government Can Shield Its Conversations about Engaging in Torture
47. 14 FebThe Shirley Sherrod Complaint Against Andrew Breitbart
48. 14 FebThe HBGary Scandal: Using Counterterrorism Tactics on Citizen Activism
49. 14 FebSenior Officials Wave Their SIGINT Around
50. 14 FebThe CIA IG Report on Renditions
51. 13 FebA Lovely Day at the Beach
52. 12 FebFBI Still Inventing New Ways to Surveil People with No Oversight
53. 12 FebFrom the ChamberPot: Number Two
54. 12 FebEgyptian Trash Talk
55. 11 FebHBGary Fees: “Dam It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta”
56. 11 FebDear Egypt: We Love You for Your Freedom
57. 11 FebPalantir Tries to Preserve Their Government Contracts
58. 11 FebOur Government Has Been Declaring Children’s Nosebleeds a State Secret
59. 11 FebFrom the ChamberPot: A Carefully Worded Nondenial Denial
60. 10 FebHacked Documents Show Chamber Engaged HBGary to Spy on Unions
61. 10 FebThe Government’s Amended Twitter Order
62. 10 FebThe Homes Chuck Schumer Didn’t Save
63. 9 FebThe Disinformation Campaign Bank of America Considered
64. 9 FebSecurity Firms Pitching Bank of America on WikiLeaks Response Proposed Targeting Glenn Greenwald
65. 9 FebLook Forward, and Promote the Torturers
66. 8 FebRummy’s Dump
67. 8 FebTrashing Korans in Federal Prisons
68. 7 Feb“Made in America” in the 21st Century
69. 7 FebOmar Suleiman Promised the 2006 Election in Gaza Wouldn’t Take Place
70. 7 FebHillary Can’t Decide Whether to Impose Democracy or Not
71. 6 FebSuperBowl XLV Trash Talk
72. 6 FebAlan Simpson: America Is a Cow w/300M Tits. Plus, 10M MOTUs?
73. 6 FebClaiming Consensus, Omar Suleiman Promises to Hold Protesters Accountable
74. 5 FebHillary’s Tortured Democracy and the Suleiman “Assassination Attempt”
75. 4 FebOur Diplomats Need to Spend More Time Surfing the Toobz!
76. 4 FebWhat Goes into Watchlisting?
77. 4 Feb“Did Anyone Know a Fruit Vendor in Tunisia Was Going to Light Himself on Fire?”
78. 3 FebAbbe Lowell’s Leak as Governance Theory
79. 2 FebClinton’s Blowjob: 5 Times More Important than the Wall Street Crash
80. 2 FebWH Press Corps Demands Photo Ops of Them Asking about Egypt
81. 2 Feb“No One Could Have Predicted the Housing Bubble Middle East Status Quo Would Crash”
82. 1 FebBennie Thompson to Peter King: What about the White Supremacists?
83. 1 FebUnlike the Guardian, the NYT Told State Precisely What WikiLeaks Cables It Would Publish
84. 1 FebFormer CIA CounterTerrorism Head: “The US has simply become irrelevant in the Middle East”

January 2011

1. 31 JanIn Egypt a Dictator Censors Politics; In the US a Corporation Censors … Football
2. 31 JanStuxnet: A Way to Nuke Iran without Using a Bomb?
3. 31 JanThe $900 Million Headline Versus Our Afghan Policy Backing a Vertically Integrated Criminal Enterprise
4. 31 JanOur Industrial Policy Needs to Do More than Arm Dictators
5. 30 JanHas the Obama Administration Backed Off Its Plan to Reconsider Aid to Egypt?
6. 30 JanArizona’s New White Panther Party: Money & (Anchor) Baby Hate
7. 30 JanFran Fragos Townsend Admits We Render to Torture in Egypt
8. 29 JanWhat State Wanted Withheld from WikiLeaks Publication
9. 28 JanRobert Gibbs: Basket of Individual Freedoms Includes Freedom to Access the Internet
10. 28 JanThe NeoCons’ Long Animosity towards Mohamed el Baradei
11. 28 JanObama Gives Manufacturing a Promotion
12. 28 JanWorking Thread on FCIC Report
13. 28 Jan“Consular Employee” Charged with Murder in Pakistan
14. 27 JanIllinois Supreme Court Rules For Rahm Emanuel Ballot Inclusion
15. 27 JanDOD Press Office Scrambling to Explain Bradley Manning’s Treatment
16. 27 JanThe Mythification of the Looting Elite
17. 26 JanA Sputnik Moment without the Moon
18. 26 JanThe NYT’s “Heads Up” Meeting with the FBI on Wikileaks
19. 26 JanVisa: WikiLeaks Guilty until Proven (Twice) Innocent
20. 26 JanThe Sun Belt Needs a Killer App
21. 26 JanRahm’s Ballot Eligibility Case Appeal and White House Interference
22. 25 JanDid Manning Zerofill His Computers? Or Did the Military?
23. 25 JanCNN: Military Investigating Why Brig Commander Put Bradley Manning on Suicide Watch [Update: Or Maybe Not]
24. 25 JanRove and the (Escape) Hatch Act
25. 25 JanGovernment Admits Brig Commander Improperly Put Bradley Manning on Suicide Watch
26. 24 JanDid DOJ Subpoena Ex-Spook’s Lawyer to Discredit Any Whistleblower Motive?
27. 24 JanPeter King’s “Danger from Within”
28. 24 JanIs That Why We Bombed the Chinese Embassy?
29. 23 JanThe Final Countdown: Championship Sunday NFL Trash Talk
30. 22 JanWho Is Paying for Dewey Clarridge’s Old Spy Novels?
31. 22 Jan“Competitiveness” Is Peace
32. 21 JanJeff Immelt’s GE: The Too Biggest To Fail
33. 21 JanSanders: I hope Immelt changes his mind, focuses on rebuilding manufacturing in the US
34. 21 JanCheney/Obama Justice: 3 Detainees + 1 Jailed Whistleblower = 19,000 Rich Tax Cheats
35. 21 JanGulet Mohamed’s Interrogation without Counsel: Is this the New Miranda Policy?
36. 21 JanObama’s Kabuki Jobs Council, Brought to You By “Nut on China” Jeff Immelt
37. 20 JanReport Concludes Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Personally Killed WSJ Reporter Danny Pearl
38. 20 JanSome Terrorism Scares Are More Useful Than Other Terrorism Scares
39. 19 JanUAW: A Seat at the Table
40. 19 Jan“Foreclosure,” “Housing,” and “HAMP” Not Part of Epic on Obama’s Recovery Plan
41. 18 JanSo, Amazon, Visa, PayPal, Was It Worth Accepting Government Lies?
42. 18 JanBlindspots and Fear of the Working Class
43. 18 JanThe US Prevented BabyDoc from Returning in 2006, Why Not Now?
44. 18 JanLetter from Nigeria Goldman
45. 17 JanNoted “Nut on China,” Jeff Immelt, Uses $16B Bailout to Share Technology with China
46. 17 JanIs the Government Confirming They Used MERLIN with Other Countries?
47. 17 JanGMAC Still Can’t Process Mortgages Properly
48. 17 JanDear Judge Hellerstein: Ask About the OLC Torture Documents, Too
49. 16 JanSister Sara, RIP
50. 16 JanJack Blum’s Client Goes to Wikileaks
51. 15 JanDivisional Playoff Trash Talk
52. 15 JanOr Maybe Your Profit Levels and Bonuses Are Simply Obscene?
53. 14 JanAir National Guard Will Deploy Drones to Spy on Black Bears in Adirondack Park
54. 14 JanAmerican Democracy, Tunisia, and Wikileaks
55. 14 JanHiding our Cyberwar from Congress
56. 14 JanWikiLeaks Media Files: Are They Definitely Fox?
57. 13 JanA New Judge For the Giffords Case and An Early Problem For Him
58. 13 JanDavid Kris Resigns from DOJ
59. 13 JanWikileaks Redactions: It’s Not Just the Chinese that Bribe for Oil
60. 12 JanThird Way “Solution” to Foreclosure Fraud? Limits on Rule of Law
61. 12 JanColombia Refuses to “Look Forward”
62. 12 JanRedefining Security
63. 11 JanCould the UndieBomber Have Destroyed the Plane?
64. 11 JanWhy Did Bradley Manning Allegedly Leak WikiLeaks Two Things before He Verified Assange’s Identity?
65. 11 JanState Department Secrecy: What a Bunch of Crap!
66. 10 JanIs the Government Alleging Bradley Manning Loaded Encryption Software onto DOD Computers?
67. 10 Jan“Our” Terrorist Goes on Trial
68. 9 JanOur (We) Working Class Pundits
69. 8 JanWildcard Weekend Trash
70. 8 JanWhat the Government Might Be After with Its Twitter Subpoena
71. 7 JanA Day After Reading Constitution, Republicans Abolish Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties Bits of It
72. 7 JanObama Signs Non-Signing Statement
73. 7 JanIRA Attack Survivor on Peter “Material Support for Terror” King’s Hypocrisy
74. 7 JanMA Court: Banks Must Own a House to Foreclose on It
75. 7 JanOn Gate-Keepers and Pragmatists
76. 6 JanDid John Brennan Have a Role in DOJ’s Decision to Prosecute Jeffrey Sterling?
77. 6 JanDid NYT’s Editors Alert the Government to Risen’s Source?
78. 6 JanCIA Doesn’t Want You To Know It Gave Iran Nuclear Blueprints
79. 6 JanJames Risen’s MERLIN Source Arrested
80. 6 JanIf POTUS Can Order Assassination of US Citizen w/No Due Process, Can He Order Torture, Too?
81. 6 JanWhat a GOP-Managed Reading of the Constitution Looks Like
82. 6 JanDavid Ignatius Confuses Joe McCarthy and Dan Burton
83. 5 JanExcluding Atheists from the Military Just as You Let Gays Openly Serve
84. 5 JanThey Don’t Even Use the “Time with the Family” Excuse Anymore
85. 5 JanCalling Obama’s Bluff on His Signing Statement
86. 5 JanScalia Kills Corporate Personhood
87. 5 JanGul Rahman: Another Case Where Torture (and Homicide) Failed to Elicit the Location of Extremist Leaders
88. 5 JanRobert Gibbs to Leave White House, Will Join “Professional Left”
89. 5 JanOMB’s New Security Memo Suggests WikiLeaks Is Media
90. 5 JanPeter the Material Support for Terror King’s Slippery Slope
91. 4 Jan9th Circuit Punts On Perry Prop 8; Certifies Standing To California
92. 4 JanWhy Not Monopolize the Term “for Prevention”?
93. 4 JanDOD, State, and Obama’s “Pretend” Desire to Close Gitmo
94. 3 JanTim Griffin: Rove’s US Attorney Project Comes Full Circle
95. 3 JanA Signing Statement to Protect Presidential Powers Obama Won’t Commit to Use
96. 3 JanW Apparently Understood “What’s Good for GM Is Good for the Country…”
97. 3 JanMore New York Republicans Providing Material Support to Terrorists
98. 2 JanPeter “Material Support for Terrorism” King
99. 2 JanMove Over 2010, It’s A New Year Of Trash Talk!
100. 1 JanEl País Editor: When Democracy’s Rules Are Flouted, Democracy Is Put at Risk
101. 1 JanTrash Talk: Horny Roses Edition
102. 1 JanA New Year