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December 2012

1. 31 DecFuture Forecast: Shocking?! Not
2. 30 DecFuture Forecast: Roundup of Scattered Probabilities
3. 29 DecWiretapping Your Business Records: The White House Doesn’t Want You To Be Confused
4. 29 DecFiscal Cliff Football Trash Talk
5. 29 DecFuture Forecast: Ignoring Half the Picture Yields Surprisingly Poor Results
6. 28 DecDebate over Public Gun Information Undermines Excuse for Guns
7. 27 DecRon Wyden: Liar, Liar, Alexander Pants on Fire
8. 27 DecWashington Post Lifts Veil Further on CIA’s Global Response Staff, Raymond Davis
9. 26 DecDear FBI: Show Your Work
10. 24 DecChristmas at Emptywheel: Friends Current and Past
11. 22 DecHoliday Trash Talk: Football, Fun and Frivolity
12. 21 DecScott Bloch and Roll: DOJ Takes a Holiday Friday News Dump
13. 21 DecWayne LaPierre Demands $5 Billion Subsidy for His NGO
14. 21 DecCourt Dismisses Suit on Constitutionality of Filibuster
15. 21 DecIf Gun Buyers Were Mexican
16. 20 DecBarney Frank: “As Well as To Financial Regulators”
17. 20 DecTrailing Crist Badly in Popularity, Scott Does Sudden Reversal on Early Voting in Florida
18. 20 DecDangerous Gun Lobby Seizes Platform from President
19. 20 DecGovernment Teat-Sucking Bankster, Steven Rattner, Calls Auto Bailout “Un-American”
20. 19 DecAs Death Toll Reaches Eight Polio Workers, Taliban Deny Responsibility for Attacks They Fomented
21. 19 DecPetraeus: Sex Under the Desk with Broadwell Less Dangerous than Intercourse with the Kagans
22. 18 DecDiFi and the Silly Season of Senate Committee Music Chairs
23. 18 DecRick Snyder: One Unpopular Nerd
24. 18 DecFive Polio Workers in Pakistan Killed in Further Fallout From Panetta’s Leak
25. 18 DecHigh Profile Republican Firm, Cerberus, to Sell Freedom
26. 18 DecWill Michael Vickers Now Be Subjected to Forced Nudity?
27. 17 DecComplicit in 20 Children’s Death, Mitch McConnell Claims He Can Do Nothing
28. 17 DecAfghan High Peace Council, Taliban and Northern Alliance to Meet in Paris This Week
29. 17 DecWhy Is Ron Weiser Such a Sissy?
30. 16 DecWeek 15 Big Game NFL Trash Talk
31. 16 DecNational Security Tools and Gun Violence
32. 15 DecThree Months after Latif’s Death, “Transparent” Gitmo Reveals Acute Pneumonia
33. 15 DecIt’s Like No One Noticed What Happened to Saddam and Qaddafi
34. 14 DecDemocratic and Republican Agreement: Prosecute HSBC
35. 14 DecThe Day Gun Rampage in Elementary School MI Passes Bill Allowing Guns in Schools
36. 14 DecThe Provocateurs Making Jokes about Selling the Goods for the DeVos Company
37. 14 DecAmid Reports of Near Agreement and IAEA, Iran Followup Meeting, Jahn Eats Crow
38. 13 DecGrand Rapids Press: A Pox on All Their Houses, But Not Our Own
39. 13 DecJohn McCain: Declassify the Torture Report
40. 13 DecZero Dark 30 “Heroine” Outed and Scarred By European Torture Judgment
41. 13 DecShorter Gen. Nicholson: “Yeah, We Lied Earlier About Afghan Troop Capabilities, But You Can Believe Us This Time”
42. 13 DecJohn Brennan: Not only Drone Assassination Czar, But Eliminate American Privacy Czar
43. 13 DecHow to Solve a Crime: Report It to the Police
44. 12 DecThe Libertarians Against Coercion Applauding Dick DeVos’ Coercion
45. 12 DecLanny Breuer Covers Up Material Support for Terrorism
46. 12 DecDelay in Publishing Afghan War “Progress” Report Forces Panetta Into “Clarification” Mode re Safe Havens in Pakistan
47. 11 DecOne Cowardly Nerd
48. 11 DecBreitbart Folks Appear to Fake Violence in Lansing
49. 11 Dec2012 Afghan Fighting Season Data Are In: Daniel Davis Was Right on Surge Failure
50. 11 DecIt’s Not about Workers, It’s about CEOs
51. 10 DecUS Intelligence Community: Still Not Getting It on Climate Change
52. 10 DecHow Treasury Justified a $13 Million Smaller SCB Settlement than NYS
53. 10 DecLevin Brothers: Rick Snyder Doesn’t Understand How Unions Work
54. 10 DecIran Claims to Have Decoded All Data From Captured ScanEagle and RQ-170 Drones: What Did They Learn?
55. 10 DecAssume Obama Drone Rules Dead
56. 9 DecMI Right to Ram Round-up
57. 8 DecHeisman Trash Talk
58. 7 DecWarrick Selectively Edits Amano Remarks to CFR
59. 7 DecRepublican “Freedom:” Pepper Spray, Locked Doors, and Legalistic Gaming
60. 6 DecThe ameriMac
61. 6 DecRick Snyder Wants Michigan to be Indiana
62. 6 DecNew Global Terrorism Index Demonstrates US War on Terror Is Abject Failure
63. 6 DecThe New Measure of DOJ Seriousness: The Charges It Defers
64. 5 Dec“Liberal” 9th Circuit Deals Death Blow To Al-Haramain Illegal Wiretapping Accountability Case
65. 5 DecTom Coburn Takes on the Zombie Apocalypse
66. 5 DecWalmart Takes Advantage of Health “Reform” It Championed
67. 4 DecSo Much for David Petraeus’ Aspirations in Libya
68. 4 DecShorter Roger Ailes: I’m Not a Kingmaker, I’m a Chairman-Maker
69. 4 DecOne By Land If None By Sea?
70. 4 DecConfirmed: Dutch Ruppersberger, NSA Intercepts, and Deep Hypocrisy on Leaks
71. 3 DecOn Toobz and Gases
72. 3 DecCyber-9/11 Warning!! … Screams Man Making Huge Profit Off Such Screams
73. 3 DecWhen Overseers Become Talking Heads
74. 3 DecWhitlock, Costas Bravely Point to Role of Guns in Perkins, Belcher Tragedy
75. 2 DecSpooks in Wolf’s Clothing
76. 1 DecAlabama’s Song, SEC Dominance, NCAA Bullshit & BCS Fuckery
77. 1 DecThe War on Drugs Other Countries’ Ruthless Vicious Capitalists

November 2012

1. 30 NovDid DOJ Intervene in Yemen’s Efforts to Try the Guy We Said They Wouldn’t Try?
2. 30 NovIs This What the Government Considers Inability to Capture Awlaki?
3. 30 NovPinheads Dance on Nuclear Accusations Against Iran
4. 29 NovUS Climate Inaction: Blame Dick Cheney
5. 29 NovPeshawar Jail Retaliates Against Afridi for Fox News Interview, Afridi Goes on Hunger Strike
6. 29 NovClue: It Was the Drugs in the Solitary Confinement
7. 28 NovGood Thing John Brennan Didn’t Have to Follow His “Rule Book” When He Killed Adnan al-Qadhi
8. 28 NovRight to Work Coming to Michigan
9. 28 NovAre Escaped Zoo Animals Autonomous?
10. 28 NovAQ Khan Organizes Political Party: What Could Go Wrong?
11. 27 NovWhat If the Insider Threat Memo Is about David Petraeus?
12. 27 NovWhere Are the Dirt Photos? We Must Have Dirt Photos!
13. 26 NovThe Evidence Explaining Latif’s Death? “Now Badly Decomposed”
14. 26 NovIs the Drone “Rule Book” an Effort to Force Kill-Not-Capture?
15. 25 NovWhite House Attempts Again To Do In Secret What Requires Transparency, Law
16. 25 NovBangladeshi Garment Fire: Downstream Effect of a WalMart Economy?
17. 24 NovTrash Talk: Fourth Best Team In the Country Visits The Trojans
18. 24 NovPetraeus’ Rules for Living, Amended Edition
19. 23 NovThe Greatest Live Rock and Roll Albums Ever
20. 22 NovWhile You Were Munching
21. 22 NovThanks to Michigan’s Farmers for the Bounty
22. 22 NovTurkey Day Football Trash Talk
23. 21 NovA New Home for the Holiday
24. 21 NovThe Secret to Turkey: Bacon
25. 21 NovHow Obama’s DOJ Sold Out American Citizens In the Robo-Signing Criminal Plea
26. 21 NovECPA Amendments and Privacy in a Post Petraeus World
27. 20 NovRedirecting the Redirected: Returning Attention to Climate Change Policy and Planning
28. 20 NovKarzai Frustrated by US Lies Relating to Parwan Prison Agreement
29. 20 Nov97 House Republicans Join Latest Mob Attack on African-American Obama Appointee
30. 19 NovDavid Petraeus’ Response to Climate Change: MOAR DRONZ!
31. 19 NovWhy Does Matt Yglesias Hate Exports, Innovation, and Productivity Growth?
32. 19 NovRomney’s White Whale: Old Man’s IT and the Election That Got Away
33. 19 NovAnother Veep Loser Planning to Quit?
34. 19 NovWest Gets the Recount He Wanted, Deficit Increases to 2146 Votes, Still No Concession
35. 19 NovSilent Talking Points: Don’t Tell the Terrorists We Know They Exist
36. 18 NovWhat If It Were the Real Muslim Housewives of Tampa Bay Scandal?
37. 17 NovComing To America: Formula One Is In Austin
38. 16 NovWhat Does Dunford’s Confirmation Hearing Tell Us About the Path Forward in Afghanistan?
39. 16 NovThe Pineapple Patrol IG Investigation
40. 16 NovAs Obama Prepares to Not Withdraw from Afghanistan, Treasury Declares the War on Drugs There
41. 15 NovUS Looking for a Better SOFA to Leave Behind In Afghanistan After Iraq Failure
42. 15 NovWhy Was Petraeus Fact-Finding While CIA Was Spinning “Facts”?
43. 14 NovThe Part of the Story “Shirtless FBI Guy” Left Out
44. 14 NovA Curious Time in an Ongoing Investigation to Suspend Base Access
45. 14 NovThe Sexy-Time Exception to Retaining Classified Information
46. 14 NovWhile Washington Sniffs the Generals’ Panties, Afghan Peace Talks Begin to Show Progress
47. 14 NovDavid Petraeus: A Thrice-Failed Trainer?
48. 13 NovA “Self-Appointed” Go-Between with Lebanese Officials
49. 13 NovInvestigating National Security Personnel in the Post-Nidal Hasan Era
50. 13 NovFunny. General Petraeus Didn’t USE to Avoid Testifying to Congress…
51. 13 NovGeneral Dynamics: The Digital Tale of John & Jill and Dave & Paula
52. 13 NovScandal Surge: The Mid-Summer Adjustment
53. 12 NovA CIA Report on a Trip to Africa, Again
54. 12 NovThe February 17 Brigade Liberates the Prisoners
55. 12 NovPetraeus Rules
56. 12 NovBroadwell’s Denver Appearance: Did She Cover Petraeus’ Bad Briefs?
57. 11 NovWhy Would a Whistleblower Go to Eric Cantor?
58. 10 NovBlowback: Stuxnet and the Ongoing Risk to Manufacturing Worldwide
59. 10 NovPetraeus Knew of FBI Investigation During Benghazi Pushback
60. 10 NovChicago Style Trash Talk
61. 9 NovSCOTUS Prepares to Decide 2016 Election
62. 9 NovGeneral Petraeus Heads Out to the Pineapple Fields
63. 9 NovAs Predicted, Government “Finishes” Latif Autopsy after Election
64. 9 NovThe 2nd Richest County in the Country “Can’t” Find Enough Qualified Poll Workers
65. 9 NovMiami-Dadistan Finishes Absentee, Provisional Ballot Counting, Media Still Doesn’t Call Floriduh
66. 9 NovDid Michael Hayden Pick the Contractor for Mitt’s Voter Turnout Website?
67. 8 NovFirst a Leak (or Rumor) about Secret Bilateral Peace Talks, Then a Leak about a Drone-Plane Standoff
68. 8 NovThe Top Unmentioned Obama Replacement: Robert Mueller
69. 8 NovMissing White Women
70. 8 NovUpdate From Miami-Dadistan: Vote Counting Continues into Third Day
71. 8 Nov500,000 Uncounted Ballots in Maricopa County AZ With Elections In the Lurch
72. 7 NovThe Day After the Election, Mike Rogers Finally Decides To Do His Job
73. 7 Nov“We are running out of angry old white men in this country”
74. 7 NovGOP Pays the Price for Authoritarianism–Will They Respond?
75. 7 NovMatty Moroun’s Bridge to Nowhere
76. 7 NovMiami-Dade Republican Mayor Gimenez Shrinks Government So Small It Can’t Conduct Election
77. 7 NovLet Mitt Romney Go Bankrupt
78. 6 NovOn the Ground Turnout in MI Feels Like It Did in 2008
79. 6 NovElection Day: Can Democracy Be Saved? Vote! Stay Involved!
80. 5 NovAdios Arpaio – The Fiscal and Legal Case For Removal of Sheriff Joe
81. 5 NovRick Scott, Florida Republican Legislature Used Blatantly Partisan Tactics to Suppress Democratic Votes
82. 5 NovOrigins of Bombs Mysterious Amid Continued Rights Clampdown in Bahrain
83. 3 NovSick Of The Election Jiz Virtually Speaking Trash Talk
84. 3 NovNYT Kisses David Petraeus’ Boo Boos To Make Them Better
85. 2 NovIf CIA’s Benghazi Annex Was So Secret, Why Were Its Personnel Being Harassed?
86. 2 NovSIGAR Reports That Afghan Bases Can’t Be Maintained After Handoff
87. 2 NovThe Petraeus Barrage on Benghazi
88. 2 NovAnd They’re Off! 4 GOPers Make Bid for 2016 Over Mitt’s Still-Warm Body
89. 1 NovAnother Sequel in the Libyan Left Behind Series
90. 1 NovJonah Goldberg Complains That Media Treats Boys Who Cry Wolf Like Boys Who Cry Wolf
91. 1 NovWeak State Department Response to Bahrain Ban on Protests Shows Oil Higher Priority Than Lives
92. 1 NovFoxes Are to Hen House Security as Bankers Are to Occupy Wall Street

October 2012

1. 31 OctCreeping Unemployment in the New Battlegrounds: PA and MI
2. 31 OctWhy Does Mitt Hate Profit?
3. 31 OctSandy’s Teachable Moment on Infrastructure
4. 30 OctLee Iacocca: Mitt Will Make It Easier for Auto Companies to Evade Taxes on Cars Built in China
5. 30 OctItalian Automaker Brings about Chrysler Success after GOP Private Equity Failure
6. 30 OctProvide For the Common Defense or Go Galt?
7. 29 OctWhy Should We Believe Solicitors General about Warrantless Wiretapping
8. 29 OctSandy Makes Turn, Landfall in Mid-Atlantic Expected by Monday Night
9. 29 OctIf Hillary Named Fat Al Gore a Foreign Terrorist Organization…
10. 29 OctWherein DC Sir Lancelots Turn Their Tail And Flee Like Candyass Sir Robins
11. 27 OctBlowing Like A Hurricane: Sandy Trash Talk
12. 27 OctAdministration Continues Apparent Policy of Harassing Pakistani Drone Critics
13. 26 OctIs Chinese Elite Looting More Newsworthy than Middle Eastern–or US–Looting?
14. 26 OctLethal Events in Afghanistan Become Even More Difficult to Decipher
15. 25 OctMichael Hayden, Privacy and Counterterrorism Frugality Champion
16. 25 OctThe Moral Rectitude Assassination Czar
17. 25 OctOnly in Florida: Congressman David Rivera Funds Sham Candidate, Faces Ethics Charges, FBI Probe – Doesn’t Resign
18. 25 OctWould the Real Ansar al-Sharia Please Stand Up?
19. 25 OctMaybe This Is Why Mitt Didn’t Exercise His “Jimmy Carter Opportunity” on Libya on Monday?
20. 24 OctFood Trucks: The Next Terrorist Threat
21. 24 OctBioWatch: Even Stupider Than Reagan’s “Star Wars” System
22. 24 OctNashiri Asks for the Targeting Package on the OTHER USS Cole Mastermind
23. 24 OctDiFi’s Very Brown List of Terrorists
24. 24 OctTurning the Drone Program into a Weekly Lawn Maintenance Program
25. 23 OctLindsey Graham Must WANT the Terrorists to Have Kittens and Beard Dye
26. 23 OctYep, Jonathan Chait Was Wrong
27. 23 OctThe Benghazi Suspect Was Headed to Syria
28. 23 OctRemember Larry Franklin…
29. 23 OctUK to Double Drone Fleet, Move Control From Nevada to England
30. 22 OctRepublicans Now Complaining Obama Relies on PDBs
31. 22 OctAccused Ohio Mosque Arsonist Retaliated for Muslim 9/11 Protests and Attack
32. 22 OctThe Opportunistic Attack in Benghazi
33. 22 OctNew, Lower Number for Afghan Security Force Size Finally Appears
34. 21 OctHint: If Hillary’s Involved with Negotiations, They’ve Started Already
35. 20 OctThe US Attorney for CIA Scrambles to Cover-Up CIA’s Torture, Again
36. 20 OctThe Kiriakou Conundrum: To Plea Or Not To Plea
37. 20 OctDarrell Issa Exposes the CIA as a Foreign Policy Debate Stunt
38. 20 OctDon’t Fuck With The Ducks Trash Talk
39. 19 OctAbu Khattala’s Info Ops Suggest Other Militias Involved in Benghazi Attack
40. 19 OctThe Iran Sanctions Regime: Tracking Criminals Who Transship $5,241 of Dental Equipment
41. 19 OctPetraeus Pouts About His Small Drone Fleet, But Did He Hide Benghazi Intelligence?
42. 19 OctObama Makes the Case for Releasing the Targeted Killing Memo
43. 18 OctLatif’s Unexplained Death: Yemeni Government Facilitates US Stall
44. 18 OctBreaking: Albright Discovers That After Covering Buildings at Parchin With Pink Tarps, Iranians Now Removing Tarps!
45. 18 OctEric Holder Rewards the Teams that Gave Torturers and Mortgage Fraudsters Immunity
46. 17 OctFBI Arrests Bangladeshi Goldfinger in the Stupidest FBI Sting Yet
47. 17 OctScary Iran Plotter Pleads Guilty
48. 17 OctNun on the Bus Tells Paul Ryan to Turn Off the Camera
49. 17 OctCongressman Bill Young on Latest Constituent Killed in Afghanistan: “It Is That Bad”
50. 17 OctThe Libya Question
51. 16 OctDC Appeals Court Throws Out Hamdan Conviction
52. 16 OctPrediction: Mitt Will Condemn Capitalist Consolidation Tonight
53. 16 OctHow NATO Will Game the Numbers on Afghan National Security Force Size
54. 15 OctWill Paul Ryan’s Photo Op Hurt a Catholic Charity’s Efforts to Feed the Poor?
55. 15 OctWhich Came First: The Radicalization, the Armed Jihadists, or the Monarchs Supporting “Democracy”?
56. 15 OctMalala Moved to UK for Treatment as Anger Aimed at Taliban Builds
57. 14 OctR.I.P. Senator Specter, You Will Be Missed
58. 14 OctBreaking: Panetta Equating Crude Iranian Cyberattacks with Pearl Harbor, Iran Infiltrated Aramco
59. 13 OctTrash With No Name
60. 12 OctPanetta Misses Underlying Problem with Cyberwhines
61. 12 OctCorporations Are People, and Beans Are People, But Healthy Women Are Not People
62. 12 OctFourteen Dead and 170 Infected: Poor Regulation Built That
63. 12 OctPutting the Torture Back in the Torture Whistleblowing Case
64. 11 OctThe War on Terror-and-Drugs Turns Inward
65. 11 OctObama Provides Paper Protection for Whistleblowers … Why Now?
66. 11 OctSomeone Doesn’t Want the Sanaa Embassy Storming Investigated
67. 11 OctInstead of Arab-Specific SARS, Iran Should Be on Alert for Anthrax
68. 11 OctEven Dana Milbank Wonders Why Darrell Issa Is Doing Mike Rogers’ Job
69. 10 OctNation-Building, 12 Years Later
70. 10 OctA New Security Reality Challenges Our Ability to Practice Diplomacy in Dangerous Places
71. 10 OctWhy Was Eli Lake Getting Documents Democrats on Oversight Committee Not Getting?
72. 10 Oct“Brave” Taliban Gunmen Shoot Fourteen-Year-Old Girl in Head Because She Dares to Blog About School
73. 9 OctIs Obama Preparing the “Vote for Me or Mitt Will Indefinitely Detain You” Pitch?
74. 9 OctNot The Onion? PressTV Claims British, Israeli Scientists Developing SARS Virus Targeting Arabs
75. 9 OctBig Bird Says Neither Obama Nor Mitt Know Who Our Bankster Enemies Are
76. 9 OctThe Evolution of the “Obama Doctrine” after Benghazi
77. 8 OctJonathan Chait Is Wrong about Debate Formats
78. 8 OctEmptywheel: Over 1 Million Amazing Readers Served
79. 8 OctYet More Reason to Question Rafallah al-Sehati’s Role in Benghazi Attack
80. 8 OctDespite Military’s Rosy Spin, Truth Coming From Afghanistan Highlights Civilian Casualties, Coming Political Meltdown
81. 8 OctRomney Surrogate Jason Chaffetz Goes to Dangerous, Scary Libya
82. 7 OctWhat Kind of Custody Is It When You Secretly Hold an American at a Military Base?
83. 7 OctWhy Would the US Government Have Deconfliction Issues with Manssor Arbabsiar in 2010?
84. 7 OctFBI’s Shrink-for-Hire Undermines Their Case While Trying to Rebut Manic Defense
85. 6 OctTriple Crown Trash Talk
86. 5 OctArsonist Burns Landmark Toledo, OH Mosque
87. 5 OctThe Senate Report on Fusion Center Fails to Ask or Answer the Most Basic Question
88. 5 OctTime to Fund State Like We Fund DOD
89. 5 OctShorter Stafford Smith to Obama: “Don’t Drone Me, Bro!”
90. 5 OctComputer Returns
91. 5 OctThe Quickie FBI Visit to Benghazi and the Arrests in Turkey
92. 4 OctLatif: Indefinitely Detained Even in Death
93. 4 OctMitt’s Dirty Tomatoes Will Get Cleaned Up
94. 4 OctChris Stevens’ Rescheduled Meeting with the February 17th Brigade
95. 4 OctBarack Obama (and the Three Musketeers of Selective Leaking) Says Barack Obama Wanted an OBL Trial
96. 4 OctRomney Foreign Policy Advisor’s Wife Joins Dance on Ambassador Stevens’ Grave
97. 4 OctBREAKING! Romney Surrogate Points to Effects of Republican Budget Cutting as Factor in Benghazi Attack!!
98. 4 OctIran’s Economy on Its Knees: The West Built That
99. 4 OctWhen You’ve Spent 3 Years Disdaining Criticism
100. 3 OctThe Libyan Left Behind Novels
101. 3 OctFord Motor Company Has a TIDE Report
102. 3 OctCaramel: The 7.5% Solution to Iran’s 60% Uranium Enrichment Threat
103. 3 OctAP Reports “Strong Circumstantial Evidence” Cartel Involved in Tres Marias Hit
104. 3 OctAbout That FBI Investigation of the Benghazi Attack…
105. 2 OctWinter™ — Property of The Weather Channel®
106. 2 OctThat Pico de Gallo Mitt Had for Lunch?
107. 2 OctWhy Can’t Darrell Issa Read the Wall Street Journal?
108. 2 OctWhy Is Darrell Issa Doing Mike Rogers’ Job?
109. 2 OctConfusion Rules in Afghanistan
110. 1 OctWhy Is Jose Rodriguez Hanging Out John Brennan NOW?
111. 1 OctMeet the Guy Who Picks Up 15 Tons of Trash Mitt Is Trying to Shortchange
112. 1 OctWe Still Don’t Entitle Presidents

September 2012

1. 29 SepThe Joy of Real Referees For the NFL Trash Talk
2. 28 SepI Don’t Think Luddite Means What CNN Thinks It Means
3. 28 SepBehind the Humble Blue Pickup Scott Brown Has Been Working for Banks with Ties to Home-Stealing Forgers
4. 28 SepRebecca Solnit’s Mirror
5. 28 SepPanetta, DoD Use Semantic Games to Claim Joint Operations Nearly Normal Again in Afghanistan
6. 28 SepSteven Bradbury’s Revenge
7. 27 SepMaybe Congress Doesn’t Want Constituents to Know Surveillance Has Spiked Under Obama?
8. 27 SepNo Easy Day, WikiLeaks, and Mitt’s 47%: Three Different Approaches to Illicitly-Released Information
9. 27 SepHow Many Ways Out of Afghanistan?
10. 27 SepThe Mushroom Cloud Thinking Fostered By Our War on Terror
11. 26 SepJay Bybee Wrote Memo Permitting Broad Sharing of Intelligence-Related Grand Jury Information
12. 26 SepThe Lesson of Ohio: Industrial Strategy
13. 26 SepInformation Flow is Key in Iran War Posturing
14. 26 SepWe Have Always Been at War in Iran
15. 25 SepCongressman Tim Ryan’s 4 Reasons Obama Is Winning Ohio
16. 25 SepDrones: Nation-Unbuilding in Pakistan and the US
17. 25 SepThe Scab Grab Teaches Scott Walker the Value of Unions
18. 25 SepHow Mitt Manufactured a Charitable View of His Taxes
19. 24 SepAn Airplane Window on Mitt’s Thinking
20. 24 SepHealth and Workers Dying to Feed Us
21. 24 SepPakistan Denounces Railway Minister for Filmmaker Bounty, US Joins Condemnation, Ignoring Own Bounties
22. 24 SepPoking Our Eyes Out in Libya
23. 22 SepIrish Trash
24. 22 SepHow Does a Paper Personal Journal Survive a Fire?
25. 22 SepHow to Make Mitt’s Tax Rate Look 3.5% Higher Than It Was
26. 21 SepNow That Latif Has Died But His Precedent Lives, DOD Releases List He Would Have Been On
27. 21 SepMitt’s DOES Have a View of Workers
28. 21 SepAnd What Will MEK Be Doing in Baghdad While Waiting for Resettlement?
29. 21 SepPanetta Continues to Ignore Reality, Calls Surge a Success
30. 21 SepIt’s Actually Not about the West Wing–It’s about Rule of Law
31. 20 SepMitt Romney Guilty Of A Hate Crime
32. 20 SepFox News Blames Benghazi Attack on Gitmo Detainee
33. 20 SepAs Failure Language Creeps into Afghanistan Discussion, McCain, Young Call for Accelerated Withdrawal
34. 20 SepTim Pawlenty Gives Mitt the Bain Treatment
35. 20 SepLatif, the NDAA, and Mitt’s Moochers
36. 19 SepNow that MI’s Unemployment Has Gone Up over 1%, Will the Press Report It?
37. 19 SepThe Missing Two Minutes: Mitt’s Case for Permawar
38. 19 SepAn Auspiciously Timed Republican Meltdown
39. 19 SepFriday Day of Reckoning: Pakistan Declares Holiday to Protest Film; France Closes Outposts After Cartoon Published
40. 19 SepArt Prize: The Starting Gates
41. 18 SepMitt: Hostage Situations Are Electoral “Opportunities”
42. 18 SepMitt’s Efforts at Disenfranchisement Drown in Grover Norquist’s Bathtub
43. 18 SepMitt Hides with the Moochers in UT
44. 18 SepBeginning of the End in Afghanistan? Most Joint Operations Below Battalion Level Suspended
45. 18 SepHow Many of the Protests Have Gotten Diplomatic Documents?
46. 18 SepHedges NDAA Indefinite Detention Decision Stayed By 2nd Circuit
47. 17 SepLearning to Overcome the Public Opinion Industry, at Home and Abroad
48. 17 SepObama Launches Trade Dispute over Chinese Auto Part Subsidies
49. 17 SepLeaky Leon Does More Damage
50. 17 SepRahm Sues Teachers Because They Want to Read, Engage in Democracy
51. 16 SepBad Weekend in Afganistan: Attacks by Afghan National Police, Afghan Local Police and Taliban in US Uniforms
52. 16 SepOCC Circles Back to JP Morgan’s Money Laundering
53. 15 SepWeek Two Trash Talk
54. 14 SepLatif’s Death: A Blow to the Head of Our System of Justice
55. 14 SepLanny Breuer Admits That Economists Have Convinced Him Not to Indict Corporations
56. 14 Sep“They Hate Us for Our Religious Freedom”
57. 14 SepI’ll Take Middle Class “Pockets of Prosperity” for $250,000, Please
58. 14 SepThe Tragedy of Suicide Bombs: Children Killing Children
59. 14 SepTreasury’s Quaint Notion of “Voluntarily”
60. 13 SepDOJ Files Appeal: Further Thoughts On Hedges and The Lawfare/Wittes Analysis
61. 13 SepMitt Criticizes Pockets of Prosperity from Bank Accounts of Looting
62. 13 SepWhat “Desert Warriors” Attacked Us in Libya?
63. 13 SepWhen Job-Killing Regulations Are Removed, Jobs Become Killers
64. 13 SepChris Hedges et. al Win Another Round On the NDAA
65. 12 SepThe Benefit of Teachers Unions
66. 12 SepDid Fox News Really Interview Dr. Shakeel Afridi From Peshawar Central Jail?
67. 12 SepUS Ambassador Christopher Stevens Dies in Attack on Benghazi Consulate
68. 11 SepBittersweet Justice for Bradley Birkenfeld
69. 11 SepJanice Rogers Brown and Our Failed Justice System Killed Adnan Farhan abd al Latif
70. 11 SepAP’s George Jahn, ISI’s David Albright Re-run Allegations of Iranian Bomb Calculations
71. 11 SepMark Thiessen: More Important to HEAR–Not Read–Daily Brief Than Actually Respond to It
72. 10 SepRemember When Obama Thought the FISA Amendments Act Was Imperfect?
73. 10 SepWhat If Rahm Were Evaluated Like a Teacher?
74. 10 SepHandoff of Detention Facility in Parwan Marred: Afghan Government Places Higher Value on Rule of Law Than US
75. 9 SepObama, Stuck in the 9/11 Era as Much as Mitt Is Stuck in the Cold War Era
76. 8 SepThe Elites Cling to Their Jobs
77. 7 SepNFL Hard Knocks, Head Injuries and The Monza Rebuttal
78. 7 SepVilma Vanquishes Goodell & NFL; Saints Players Reinstated
79. 7 SepMitt’s Election Would Just Mean Cofer Black Would Get His Kill List Back
80. 7 SepClint Eastwood’s Time Travel
81. 7 SepCongress Finally Gets Around to Learning about Domestic Drones and Privacy
82. 7 SepExpress Tribune Reveals Remarkably Detailed Intelligence on TTP Threat to Attack Nuclear Facility
83. 6 SepJudge Lamberth Upholds Gitmo Detainees’ Right to Counsel
84. 6 SepObama Looking for Structures to Ensure He Abides by Rule of Law
85. 6 SepWhat You Won’t Hear at the DNC: Children Are Going Hungry in the Richest Country in the World
86. 6 SepDoD’s Bungled Answers to Questions on Re-Vetting ANSF and Cultural Awareness
87. 5 Sep(Re)Productive Conventions
88. 5 SepDOD Gets Awfully Sensitive When They’re Cornered
89. 5 SepAfghanistan Begins Purge of Army While NATO Chief Promises “Cultural Awareness Training”
90. 4 SepWith What Databases Has NCTC Cross-Referenced with FBI’s 12 Million iDevice User IDs?
91. 4 SepPetraeus Tie to Afghan Local Police Program Hits NYTimes One Day After ALP Role in Revenge Killings Noted
92. 4 SepThe Imperial Overlords Giveth, the Imperial Overlords Taketh Away
93. 4 SepMess at DHS: The ICE Lady Goeth and Thoughts On The Real Story
94. 3 SepRemember, the Question Is “Are YOU Better Off?” Not “Is Your Boss Better Off?”
95. 3 SepMaybe Republicans Didn’t Want Hologram Reagan Because They Didn’t Want a Snitch at Their Convention?
96. 2 SepImmunizing Crimes: Blankfein, Zirbel, and Arpaio, but Whither Corzine?
97. 2 SepSpecial Forces Suspend Training of Afghans in Program Petraeus Started
98. 2 SepDid Mitt Romney Make Clint Eastwood Lie Cry?
99. 1 SepThe Democrats’ “Diversity Problem”
100. 1 SepLaborious Trash Talk

August 2012

1. 31 AugDOD to Give Penguin the WikiLeaks Treatment?
2. 31 AugDid Clint Get Cold Feet?
3. 31 AugThe Quarter Billionaire’s $9 Jobs
4. 31 AugFear-Mongering Over New IAEA Iran Report Falls Flat
5. 30 AugAfter Making Bank Fraud Legal, Eric Holder’s DOJ Makes Torture Legal
6. 30 AugWalt Kowalski to Speak at the RNC?
7. 30 AugThey Should Have Just Called It a Poll Tax
8. 30 AugOne Truth the GOP Did Tell: They Want You To Work For Yourself
9. 30 AugIncreased Rate of Green on Blue Deaths Not Due to Increased Afghan Force Size
10. 29 AugAppeals Court Grants Zimmerman Judge Disqualification Motion
11. 29 AugDid the CIA Agents in Mexico Shoot at Their Pursuers?
12. 29 AugMatt Bissonnette’s Information Operation Against a Broken System of Secrecy
13. 29 AugDid Karzai Fire NDS Head Nabil for Confirming ISI Shared Intelligence on Badruddin Haqqani’s Killing?
14. 29 AugDear CIA: Maybe It’s Time to Spring for New PO Boxes?
15. 28 AugIf by “Fact Check” You Mean “Spy on MoDo”
16. 28 AugPublisher’s Shock and Awe
17. 28 AugThe Paul Ryan Surge, MI’s Anti-Obama Blacks, Mitt’s Bankrupt Birth, and Other Republican Myths
18. 28 AugThe Diplomacy of Ambushes
19. 28 AugDeadly Isaac Was at 2008 Republican Convention
20. 27 AugAdmiral McRaven: Taxpayers Should Learn about Special Operations from Hollywood Movies
21. 27 AugNow Legal Speech in Michigan: “Cold and Hungry, God Bless”
22. 27 AugWill the NYPD Be Spying on Muslims to Learn What They Think of These Administrative Punishments?
23. 27 AugN!**@r Ha Ha
24. 27 AugPersians Punk Photo Pretenders: Parchin Pretty in Pink
25. 25 Aug“With A Neck Like a Jockey’s Bollocks” Trash Talk
26. 24 AugThis Is Your War On Drugs
27. 24 AugWhere Mitt Was Born and Raised: “Public Nuisance,” “Blight”
28. 24 AugDear Johns: Remember the Government Doesn’t Destroy Incidentally Collected Intelligence
29. 24 AugThe First Rule of the Fight Club…
30. 24 AugNATO Figures: Green on Green Death Rate Exceeds Green on Blue. What About Blue on Blue?
31. 23 AugMitt Gets Squeamish about Tithing
32. 23 AugAllen Makes Worst Excuse Yet for Green on Blue Attacks: Ramadan Fasting
33. 23 AugAppeals Court Treats Commissary Gatorade Supplies as a “Clear and Present Danger”
34. 23 AugSigns of Intelligence Sharing Give Way to Call for “Divorce”: US-Pakistan Relations Continue Extreme Swings
35. 22 AugCondi Rice’s So-Called Banner Week for Feminism
36. 22 AugPromontory Financial Group Describes a New “Risk-Based” Approach to Anti-Money Laundering
37. 22 AugAfter Stearns Ousted by Yoho, Gaillot Has Opportunity for Democratic Pick-Up in FL3
38. 21 AugNYPD’s Search for Cafes in Which Terrorists Would Be Comfortable
39. 21 AugThe NYPD Will Record Your Opposition to Drone Strikes
40. 21 AugNATO: “Afghanistan Will Not Unravel After Withdrawal” — Probably Because It’s Unraveling Now
41. 21 AugNYPD’s Spying Program: Not a Single Lead
42. 20 AugFat Al Gore Shuts Down Highways the Terrorists Couldn’t
43. 20 AugDOJ Corporate Settlement Dealer Takes Over at FinCEN
44. 20 AugPussy Riot and the Spectacle of Protest
45. 20 AugOn the Questions of Drones, First Responders and Collective Punishment in Pakistan
46. 19 AugThe Gray Lady Falls Off the Balance Beam
47. 19 AugGood Thing Obama Kept that Iraq AUMF Lying Around
48. 18 AugPoor Responses by US Military, Press to Increased Green on Blue Attacks
49. 17 AugYou Don’t Suppose All These Dictators Have Been Looting with SCB’s and HSBC’s Help?
50. 17 AugThe Trip Wires in the Anwar al-Awlaki Investigation
51. 17 AugGreen on Blue (Insider) Killings Too Common for Reuters Headlines
52. 17 AugThe Terror Attack in the Temple
53. 16 Aug10 Years Later, Information Asymmetry Could Launch Another War
54. 16 AugAnother Week, Another Bankster with Impunity
55. 16 AugThe Assange Diplomatic Standoff Exposes Precisely the Same Side of US/UK as WikiLeaks Cables
56. 15 AugEven Liars Get To Invoke State Secrets
57. 15 AugBy “Cooperative Investigations” Does WSJ Mean “Protection Money”?
58. 15 AugMemo To The Clueless Nepotistically Self Unaware Flexible Bag Of Mostly Water Known As Luke Russert
59. 14 AugStandard Chartered Bank Admits Promontory’s Estimates of Its Iran Business Were Wrong
60. 14 AugChanging Voters to New Precincts With Poor Notification: New Vote Suppression Tactic in Florida?
61. 14 AugGood Thing the Democrats Forced That Vote on the Ryan Plan
62. 14 AugNational Sickness: No Debate Allowed on Civilians Owning Weapons of War
63. 14 AugA Two-President, Three-Term Policy Coup
64. 13 AugOn the Press Release Sanctions against Hezbollah
65. 13 AugAnother Breach of Contractor-Protected Critical Infrastructure
66. 13 AugAfghanistan War: Now With Even More Suckitude
67. 12 AugDOJ Attributes Its Inadequate Response to Targeted Killing FOIA on the Deputy and Attorney General’s Staff
68. 12 AugRacial Profiling Is Wrong, Sometimes
69. 11 AugLatest StuxNet Incarnation Resembles Alleged Project of Murdered GCHQ Officer
70. 10 AugDick Durbin: The Targeted Killing Memo Is Like the Torture and Illegal Wiretap Memos
71. 10 AugCornyn Called Targeted Killing a “Program,” Too
72. 10 AugI’m Confused. Are THESE Leaks Permissible, or Not?
73. 10 AugThe Goldman Sachs Department of Justice™ Would Like to Apologize to Mr. Blankfein for the Inconvenience
74. 9 AugJohn Brennan’s Incredible Claims
75. 9 AugHow Drone Strikes against American Citizens Are Like Clinton’s Blowjob
76. 9 AugMaking Orders of Magnitude of Fraud Disappear
77. 8 AugJohn Brennan Channels Scott McClellan Dodging Leak Questions
78. 8 AugJohn Brennan Vows to Combat the “Bad Guys” Attacking Our Critical Infrastructure
79. 8 AugThe Superintendent of Financial Services Draws the Curtain Back on the Get Out of Jail Free Industry
80. 8 AugNGOs to Congress: Don’t Hide Our Secret Government
81. 7 AugBlackwater’s Slap on the Wrist for Gun Smuggling and Arms Trafficking
82. 7 Aug9th Circuit: No Way to Punish the Government If They Illegally Collect (But Don’t Use) Your Telecommunications
83. 7 AugWhy Is the Superintendent of Financial Services Policing our Iran Sanctions?
84. 6 AugIf Mitt Had Had His Way, San Diego Would Have Had to Lay Off Another Teacher So He Could Send More $$ Overseas
85. 6 AugThis Time, We Were Warned
86. 6 AugIt’s Not Just Whether Nidal Hasan’s Emails Stuck Out, It’s Whether Abdulmutallab’s Did
87. 4 AugWhen One Mormon Gossips about Another Mormon Not Paying His Taxes
88. 3 AugPeter King Rejoins the Leak Witch Hunt
89. 3 AugIn MI This Year It’s All about the Referenda
90. 3 AugTony Bologna, John Pike, and Stop and Frisk: A Bad Couple of Days for Abusive Cops
91. 3 AugWashington Post Contradicts ISAF Narrative on Afghan Troop Capabilities
92. 2 AugI Guess Steve King Would Cede the All-Around Gymnastics Gold to Russia’s Victoria Komova?
93. 2 AugNuke Site Breached Just Days After SSCI Moved to Eliminate Reporting on Nuke Site Security
94. 2 Aug“Dear John Brennan: You’re Being Investigated”
95. 2 AugLost Among the Findings in Syria
96. 2 AugDianne Feinstein Agrees with Obama: Public Can’t Know Targeted Killing Legal Justification
97. 2 AugDid Pakistan Provide Intelligence Against Haqqani Network?
98. 1 AugIf FBI Believes NYPD Spying Violates Americans’ Rights, Why Not Stop It?
99. 1 Aug“They Were Suspending My Credit Line”
100. 1 AugUsing Pensions to “Punish” “Leaks” Will Subject Clearance Holders to Arbitrary Power
101. 1 AugABC, Reuters Parrot Deceptive State Department Spin on Terrorism Data

July 2012

1. 31 JulThe Administration Has Not Responded to Over 10 Congressional Requests for Targeted Killing Memo
2. 31 JulCongress Can’t Legislate Oversight for Fear of Legal Challenges That’d Accomplish Oversight Congress Can’t Legislate
3. 31 JulSenate Moves to Hide Our Secret Government
4. 31 JulMore Evidence US Views Drone Strikes as Political Retaliation Tool
5. 30 JulDianne Feinstein Undermines John Cornyn’s Effort to Get Transparency on Targeted Killing
6. 30 JulBolshevik Wins Gold for US
7. 30 JulHas Mitt Been Reading “Why Nations Fail”?
8. 30 JulUS Wasting Money on Afghanistan Infrastructure While US Infrastructure Continues Decline
9. 28 JulIf Everything NSA Does is “Auditable,” Why Can’t NSA Tell Us How Many Americans They’ve Spied On?
10. 28 JulAs Mitt Heads to Sheldon Adelson’s Country, CIA Exposes Israel’s Treachery
11. 27 JulFear & Loathing Mix With Beauty & Greed In the Olympic Cauldron
12. 27 JulThese Teachers Don’t SEEM “Greedy”
13. 27 JulPakistan Press Reporting UK Lawmakers Wrote Letter Urging Obama to Stop Drone Strikes in Pakistan
14. 26 JulIs Obama Worried that Fat Al Gore’s Drought Will Threaten His Reelection?
15. 26 JulConflation of Military and Sports to Give Us Basketball Game on Ship Used for Rendition, Torture
16. 26 JulWhy Are FAA Boosters Satisfied with Inadequate Oversight?
17. 25 JulWhat Was the Evidence Supporting the First Strike on Anwar al-Awlaki?
18. 25 JulCheney’s Thugs Win the Prize for Leak Hypocrisy
19. 25 JulGAO Catches DoD Changing Definitions to Claim Progress Training Afghans, Misses Real Risks
20. 25 JulFAA Extension: The Data Gaps about Our Data Collection
21. 24 JulJudge Kollar-Kotelly Sees No Evil, Hears No Evil
22. 24 JulThis Drone Assurance Brought to You By Northrop Grumman
23. 24 JulHuge Backlog Remains in Karachi for NATO Supplies; Driver Killed Near Peshawar
24. 23 JulWhen Green on Blue Attacks Aren’t “Technically” Green on Blue Attacks
25. 23 JulThe New Gitmo Memorandum of Understanding: Obama Finally Figured Out How to Close Down Gitmo!
26. 23 JulNCAA, Mark Emmert, Unitary Executives & The Death of Due Process
27. 23 JulBig US Banks Have Gained Market Share in the Looter Assistance Business
28. 22 JulMitt and His Buddies Looted Almost $10 Trillion from Real Economy
29. 21 JulThe Only Terrifying Math That Gets Any Attention Is Defense Spending
30. 21 JulHockenheim, Highway Stars & Aurora
31. 20 JulRon Wyden to Dianne Feinstein: Pants on Fire
32. 20 JulJailed Journalist More Credible than FBI Interview
33. 20 JulThat’s Why They Call It Senseless Violence
34. 20 JulDOD’s New Anti-Leak Plan: Turn Michael Vickers into a Blogger
35. 19 JulThe William Webster Report: Working Thread
36. 19 JulTargeted Killings: When John Cornyn Makes Better Sense than Democrats …
37. 19 JulCIA “Command and Control” in Syria
38. 19 JulSheldon Whitehouse Confirms FISA Amendments Act Permits Unwarranted Access to US Person Content
39. 19 JulMore Dirty Secrets Go to the Grave
40. 19 JulTaliban Role Large in Green on Green Attacks
41. 19 JulTrained in America; Clothed in China
42. 18 JulWill the Government Finally Use a Lawsuit as an Opportunity to Explain the Anwar al-Awlaki Killing?
43. 18 JulTaliban Destroy 22 Supply Trucks in Afghanistan: No “Protection” Money on Northern Route?
44. 18 JulA 15-Month Fight for Subscriber Information
45. 17 JulScary Iran Plot: Bipolar Disorder and Other Reasons to Dismiss
46. 17 JulMore Damage from Panetta’s Vaccine Ruse: UN Doctor on Polio Vaccine Drive Shot; Hundreds of Thousands Denied Polio Vaccine
47. 17 JulNo Banksters Were Harmed in the Production of This Anti-Crime Video
48. 16 JulYesterday’s Some-Sayers Have Become Today’s Fact-Checkers
49. 16 JulBREAKING! Importers Get Cost-Benefit Consideration, But You Don’t
50. 15 JulDo Republicans Wish They Retroactively Had Let Newt Sustain His Bain Attacks?
51. 15 JulThe FDA Demonstrates What “Targeting” Does
52. 14 JulGlenn Kessler Didn’t USED to Treat SEC Filings as Boilerplate
53. 14 JulWhere Is this Killer Instinct in Governance?
54. 13 Jul“Killing Is a Part of War, and Torture Isn’t”
55. 13 JulLamar Smith’s Futile Leak Investigation
56. 13 JulIs Ambassador Feierstein Drawing Up the Kill Lists in Yemen?
57. 12 JulWe Can’t Afford Another “Complicated and Quirky” Presidency
58. 12 JulThe House Judiciary Committee Preens in Full Ignorance at Leaks Hearing
59. 12 JulObama Brings Bankster and Oil Curses to Burma
60. 11 JulDid NYPD Manufacture a Murder Tie to Occupy Wall Street because Its Terror Myth Is Dying?
61. 11 JulDIA Failed to Protect Jose Padilla’s Welfare
62. 11 JulFat Al Gore Colludes with Banksters in the Midwest
63. 11 JulRehman: Drones in Pakistan “Radicalize Footsoldiers, Tribes and Entire Villages”
64. 11 JulFirst They Came for WikiLeaks … Then They Came for Pot Dispensaries … Then Online Sharing
65. 10 JulNYPD’s Counterterrorism Strengths: Bigfooting, Entrapping, and Overselling
66. 10 JulSecurity Clearance Tyranny
67. 10 JulMcClatchy Exposes NATO Lies on Afghan Force Capability
68. 10 JulThe Banksters Know They’re Banksters
69. 9 JulThe Sevenfold Increase in Emergencies at AT&T
70. 9 JulOur “Cooperation” with Yemen
71. 9 JulThe Tracking Device in Your Pocket
72. 9 JulDeadly Fallout from Reopening of Pakistan Border Crossings: Taliban IED’s, US Drone Strikes on First Responders
73. 9 JulWithholding the Tax Decision: SCOTUSblog on the ObamaCare Decision
74. 8 JulRupert Murdoch and the Invisible Hand Job of Capitalism
75. 8 JulThe Wonderful Wet At Wimbledon and Silverstone
76. 7 JulFailed Overseers Prepare to Legislate Away Successful Oversight
77. 6 JulThe Incidental Anti-Drug Spying on a White SUV
78. 6 JulManned Flights Kill Civilians Too
79. 6 JulUmar Patek: Indonesia’s 20 Year Sentence Versus One Errant Drone Strike
80. 5 JulSelective Prosecution from CIA’s US Attorney
81. 5 JulNATO Supply Shipments Through Pakistan Resume With Payments to Afghan Taliban Instead of Pakistan
82. 4 JulThings Worth Fighting For
83. 3 JulSCOTUS Conservatives in Anonymous Disarray
84. 3 JulAlbright Attempts to Deflect Neutron Activation Issue at Parchin
85. 3 JulComplacency on Medicaid Would Feed Two Years of Ugly Race-Baiting
86. 3 JulThe Invisible Hand-Job of Capitalism
87. 2 JulSome Data Points on Minh Qhang Pham, AQAP’s Graphic Artist of Mass Destruction
88. 2 JulLast Week in Deferred and Non-Prosecution Agreements: Arming China and Stealing Trillions from Municipalities
89. 2 JulNew Green on Blue Attack Kills Three British Troops in Afghanistan
90. 2 JulThe Real Blowback: Drone Instability
91. 1 JulThe John Roberts-Anthony Kennedy Smackdown

June 2012

1. 30 JunJohn Roberts Fails to Dictate Another Presidential Outcome, John Yoo Cries
2. 30 JunFat Al Gore Determined to Strike in US
3. 29 JunPakistani Drone Strikes! Now, with 10% More Enemies!
4. 29 JunIt Was All Going Swimmingly Until Morsi Committed to Freeing the Blind Sheikh
5. 29 JunChief Justice Roberts, Flipped Votes, and the Naked Partisans
6. 29 JunBlack Holes and Mock Burial
7. 28 JunThe Next Honduras
8. 28 JunThe SCOTUS Healthcare Decision Cometh
9. 27 JunOur Other Assassination Program: Mafia Hitmen Hidden from Congress
10. 27 JunBagram: Still a Black Hole; Somalia: Increasingly a Black Hole
11. 27 JunWhy Is DOJ Deliberately Hiding Information Responsive to ACLU’s Anwar al-Awlaki FOIA?
12. 26 JunThe NSC’s May 2011 “Draft” Legal Analysis and the Continued Stonewalling of Ron Wyden
13. 26 JunIs There a Pre-2001 OLC Opinion Authorizing Targeted Killing of US Citizen Terrorists?
14. 26 JunJames Clapper’s Anti-Leak Efforts Will Increase Information Asymmetry
15. 25 JunDid Obama Screw Himself on SB1070 with Secure Communities?
16. 25 JunPro-Drone Leaks from the Leak Witch Hunt Committees
17. 23 JunSEC versus Pac-12 Throw Down Trash Talk
18. 22 JunScience Wins Out: Studies NSABB Attempted to Censor Published, Fears Unfounded
19. 22 JunAnwar al-Awlaki FOIA: The CIA Speech the CIA Did Not Mention
20. 22 JunDOJ Ethics: PIN Heads, Bloch Heads & The Rocket
21. 21 JunZardari Changes Prime Minister Candidates After Warrant Issued; Viral Video Mocks Powerful in Pakistan
22. 21 JunAfter Month of False “Transparency,” Administration Invokes Secrets Again
23. 20 JunIran’s Cat and Mouse Game at Parchin Continues; Albright Takes Bait Yet Again
24. 20 JunSuicide Bomber in Khost Targets Biometric Screening Checkpoint?
25. 19 JunThe Only Independent Reviewer of Targeting and Minimization Refuses to Review It
26. 19 JunMultiple Attacks in Kandahar Area Include at Least Two by Attackers in Afghan Police Uniforms
27. 19 JunPakistan’s Supreme Court Rules Gilani No Longer Prime Minister
28. 19 JunIt’s Not a Pee Pee or a Wee Wee, It’s a Vagina
29. 19 JunRocket Pitches A No Hitter; DOJ Whiffs A Golden Sombrero+2
30. 18 JunVaccination and Leak Wars
31. 18 JunP5 +1 Talks Resume in Moscow With Iran Sanctions Set to Ratchet Up
32. 17 JunMichael Hayden’s Stone Walling
33. 16 JunTime to End the War in Iraq
34. 16 JunThe Machine Approving the Failing Flying Robots
35. 15 JunThe Soon to Be Announced War in Yemen
36. 15 JunThe “Most Transparent Administration Ever” Treats Recess Appointments with Greater Secrecy than Illegal Wiretapping
37. 15 JunRon Wyden: “An Obvious Question I Have Not Answered”
38. 15 Jun“Cozy Ties Between Regulators, Politicians and Utilities” Gives New Nuke Agency in Japan, Business as Usual on Wall Street
39. 15 JunDiFi Admits She Okayed Unleashing 21st Century WMD with Inadequate Details
40. 14 JunVerboten: Vagina and Vasectomy
41. 14 JunHugo Chavez’ Balsa Wood Drone
42. 14 JunSheldon Adelson Could Buy Bibi a Very Effective October Surprise
43. 14 Jun“The Yemeni situation and … the Iranian cyber situation”
44. 14 JunThe Baitullah Mehsud Propaganda
45. 14 JunA Tale of Two Senators: Feinstein Calls for Apology to Pakistan, Paul Attempts to Defund
46. 14 JunPeak Chicken: PA’s Drinking Water versus Saudi Extravagance
47. 13 JunThe Whack-a-Moles Leave Women Unaroused
48. 13 JunCan Hillary Turn on Electricity in Yemen Better than AQAP?
49. 13 JunKarzai Objects to Sham Agreement on Air Strike “Restrictions”
50. 13 JunAn IP Tax, before It’s Too Late
51. 12 JunJPM and ING: Some Trading with the Enemy Is More Equal than Other Trading with the Enemy
52. 12 JunWhy Isn’t Neil MacBride Investigating the Alleged UndieBomb 2.0 Leak?
53. 12 JunUS Negotiators Leave Pakistan, Supreme Court Commission Blames Husain Haqqani for Memo
54. 12 Jun$356 Million in Drone Failure
55. 11 JunFISA Amendments Act: “Targeting” and “Querying” and “Searching” Are Different Things
56. 11 JunPakistan Still Searching for Long-Term Imprisonment Site for Afridi
57. 11 JunSCOTUS Kills Habeas Corpus
58. 11 JunStuxNet: Covert Op-Exposing Code In, Covert Op-Exposing Code Out
59. 9 JunIs Administration Admitting It Is Lying about Drones?
60. 8 JunTrashing Up the Weekend
61. 8 JunWhy The DOJ Can’t Prosecute Banksters: Map of Clemens Investigation
62. 8 JunForeclosure Fraud: The Most Dangerous Panel in the World
63. 8 JunAlarming Rise in Military Suicides: More Than Double Rate in 1999
64. 7 JunTraveling Wheels
65. 7 Jun30 Ways to Shrink Intelligence Oversight
66. 7 JunFirst Quarter Violence Down in Afghanistan: Progress or Harsh Winter?
67. 7 JunGang Warfare to Protect Israel’s Secrets
68. 6 JunUndieBomb 2.0: Defying the Trend
69. 6 JunThe Banksters and the Cartels
70. 6 JunWill al-Libi Killing Be Used to Justify Drone Strikes on Mourners, First Responders?
71. 6 JunSCOTUS Reviews the “Military Age Male” Standard on Thursday
72. 5 JunProp 8 Appeal Takes A Step Forward; But Not The Big One It Should Have
73. 5 JunBREAKING! EXCLUSIVE! NYT’s Ambiguous Reporting Leads to Logical Conclusions
74. 5 JunWhen Did the “Signature Strikes” Start in Yemen?
75. 5 JunArmed US Diplomats Detained at Peshawar Toll Booth: What Was Mission?
76. 5 JunZimmerman Bond Revocation & Why Bond Will Likely Be Reinstated
77. 5 JunGlomar and CIA’s Propagandistic Campaign of Sanctioned Leaks
78. 4 JunFor All the Targeting “Transparency” We Still Don’t Know How al-Majala Was Targeted
79. 4 JunOnly Banks Might Want to Review How Criminal Banks Are
80. 4 JunNear Daily Drone Attacks Continue in Pakistan
81. 3 JunUndieBomb 2.0’s Handler
82. 3 JunAt What Point Will the Administration Admit “American interests” Equal “What the Saudis Want”?
83. 2 JunWhat You Learn at Yale
84. 2 JunYour Obligatory Fran Fragos Townsend Leak
85. 1 JunZombie Trash
86. 1 JunRobert Bales Allegedly Started Doing Steroids January 1, Accused of Assault on Afghan in February
87. 1 Jun16+1=17; 17-1=16
88. 1 JunRemember When WE Accused IRAN of Hacking?
89. 1 JunObama’s “Zoo Animal” Broke Free and “Crossed the Rubicon”
90. 1 JunTranscribing Obama Administration Iran Spin, Sanger Advances False “Breakout” Capability

May 2012

1. 31 MayDid Treasury Fire Jim Freis for Showing that Banksters Are a Bigger Problem than Terrorists?
2. 31 MayWill Treasury Hire the Guy Who Allowed JP Morgan Help Iran Launder Money?
3. 31 MayThe “Kill List” Is a Shiny Object
4. 31 MayJack Goldsmith to John Brennan: Not Good Enough
5. 31 MayParchin Game of Cat and Mouse Escalates: Razed Buildings, Earthmoving Probably Don’t Affect Controversial Chamber
6. 31 MayWhat Happened to Mehsud’s Dirty Bomb?
7. 30 MayThe Commercial for John Brennan’s Signature Strike Drone Shop TADS
8. 30 MayDay of Surprises in Afridi Case: Conviction Not Related to CIA Help; Ignatius Chastises CIA
9. 29 MayHesham Abu Zubaydah Dates FBI Investigation of Mohammed Osman Mohamud a Year Earlier
10. 29 MayAngler 2.0: Brennan Wields His Puppet Strings Differently
11. 29 MayJohn Brennan, Liar
12. 28 MayBrennan to Pakistan: The Beatings Drone Strikes Will Continue Until Morale Improves
13. 28 MayWaPo Forgets the Scarequotes for the Word “Plot”
14. 28 MayOn Chris Hayes & America’s Fallen Heroes
15. 27 MayUS Let China Buy Treasuries Directly During Debt Ceiling Crisis
16. 27 MayPanetta: We Do Not Share Anything Inappropriate with Anybody … Except Our Assets’ Identities
17. 26 MayBashar al-Assad, Gitmo Judge and Jury
18. 26 MayThe Government Can’t Make Up Its Mind Whether WikiLeaks Amounts to Aiding Al Qaeda or Not
19. 25 MayEither Torture Is Ongoing Or the Administration Is Hiding Something Else
20. 25 MayThe Assassination Czar’s War Crimes Dodge: Revisiting John Brennan’s Targeted Killing Speech
21. 25 MayGeorge Jahn Once Again Grants Anonymity for Dubious Iran Accusation
22. 25 MayDallas Trash Talk
23. 24 MayThe Ted Stevens OPR Report: The Return of the DOJ Roach Motel
24. 24 MayOverview of the Pat Fitz Resignation Press Conference
25. 24 MayJohn Brennan, Assassination Czar
26. 24 MayAfridi’s Trial: Similar to Gitmo Military Commissions? Bonus: Rohrabacher Goes Bold
27. 23 MayPatrick Fitzgerald Resigns
28. 23 MayFlaunting Shakeel Afridi’s CIA Ties Appears Not to Have Worked All that Well
29. 23 MayUS Drone Strike in Pakistan Reeks of Political Retaliation Yet Again
30. 23 MayMark Brewer and Steve Pestka: Taking the “Democratic” Out of the Democratic Party
31. 23 MaySCOTUS Cert Grant In Clapper Takes Key 9th Circuit Cases Hostage
32. 23 MayThe First Torture Cover-Up Was Covered Up By The First Torture Cover-Up Lawyer
33. 22 MayWhat the White House “Official Announcement” of UndieBomb 2.0 Would Have Looked Like
34. 22 MayUndieBomb 2.0 Led to John Brennan’s Personal Signature Strike Drone Shop
35. 22 MayAmano: Agreement With Iran Reached, “Will Be Signed Quite Soon”
36. 22 MayMore Failed Targeting Based on Travel Patterns
37. 21 MayRiyadh’s Station Chief, John Brennan, Takes JSOC’s Drone Keys Away
38. 21 May2nd Circuit: President Can Declare Proof that President Authorized Torture Secret
39. 21 MayGOP Targets John Brennan and Leon Panetta with Leak Witchhunts
40. 21 MayObama DOJ Claims Journalists Are Like Drug Users
41. 21 MaySCOTUS Grants Clapper Cert, Stalls on Detainee Cases
42. 21 MayJoin a Military Exercise and Win a Drone!
43. 21 MayIran Putting Out Hopeful Signals Ahead of Amano Meeting in Tehran, Resumption of P5+1 Talks Wednesday
44. 19 MayI Was Wrong About The Chen Affair
45. 18 MayHow Does John Brennan Still Have Clearance?
46. 18 MayAdministration Again Attempts to Keep News of Its Drone Damages Out of the Country
47. 18 MayRorhrabacher’s Attempt to Defund Pakistan Falls 335-84
48. 18 MayMcClatchy Confirms One Shooter at Alkozai
49. 17 MayIf Domestic Drones Are All Civil, Then Why Are They in the Defense Authorization, Too?
50. 17 May“Remember, an FBI agent [like Ali Soufan] always keeps his notes.” Why Won’t Obama Admin Release Them?
51. 17 MayThe Problem with Equating Travel Routes and Terrorism: 34 Dead Civilians
52. 17 MayDespite Progress on Iran-IAEA Talks, US Envoy Emphasizes War Plans
53. 17 MayJudge Forrest’s Invitation to Congress: Pass the Smith-Amash Amendment
54. 17 MayJudge Enjoins NDAA Section 1021 because Government Implies Speech May Equal Terrorism
55. 16 MayObama’s Yemen EO Still Lets Our Spooks Pay the Targets of the EO
56. 16 MayThe Jeremy Scahill Yemen Executive Order
57. 16 MayThe Brits Move Forward with Secret Court Plan–Because, We Claim, They Can’t Keep Secrets
58. 16 MayC Street Takes Care of The Family’s Sex Problems, Again
59. 15 MayIs It Okay to Admit the US Is Behind the Drone Strikes Now?
60. 15 MayHuman Rights First Reminds General Dempsey that Geneva Conventions Still in Place
61. 15 MaySeparating Truth from Fiction at Parchin: Neutron Activation Can’t Be Scrubbed Away
62. 15 MayMEK to Be Delisted as Terrorists in Reward for Engaging in Terrorism
63. 14 MayNYPD Stopped 351,739 People Last Year for “Furtive Movements”
64. 14 MayJamie Dimon: Inspiring Fear Among “Wealthy Private Clients” Even in Disgrace
65. 14 MayAfghanistan Meltdown Continues
66. 14 MayColin Powell’s Last Vial of Anthrax
67. 13 MayObama’s Commitment to Atrocities Prevention Lasts Less than 3 Weeks
68. 13 MayNearly Eight Years After Petraeus’ “Tangible Progress” WashPo Op-Ed, Iraq Security Training Still a Failure
69. 12 MaySon Of “Dumbest Fucking Guy On The Planet” Shills For More War In Afghanistan And Elsewhere
70. 11 MayThe Transnational Crime Organizations Chasing the Transnational Crime Organizations
71. 11 MayThe 4 Month Detainee Review Election Season Special
72. 11 MayThe Government Continues to Play Redaction Games with Latif
73. 11 MayThe General Must Have Pineapple
74. 10 MayAbu Zubaydah to DOD: Charge Me Now!
75. 10 MayDOD: Consider Whether We’ve Made Detainees Crazy in Periodical Review
76. 10 MayCluster Bombs on the Head of a Saudi Pinpoint
77. 10 MayVladimir Putin Too Busy Rearranging His Sock Drawer to Attend the G8
78. 10 MayAs NATO Summit Approaches, Taliban Strength Accumulates
79. 10 MayPeter King Makes It More Clear He’s Targeting the AP, Not Leakers
80. 9 MayAlbright Discovers Puddles in Parchin
81. 9 MayDid the Saudis or the Yemenis Expose the Involvement of a Double Agent?
82. 9 MayThe UndieBomber’s Signature Timing
83. 8 MayGovernment Invokes Valerie Plame to Argue CIA Acknowledgment that Bush Authorized Torture Is Not Official Acknowledgment
84. 8 MayDrone Oopsies in US Airpsace
85. 8 MayDid Another Saudi Double Agent “Tip” Us Off to a “Plot” Against America?
86. 8 MayTerrorist Training Camp Busted in Central Florida
87. 8 MayConfessions of an Orwellian Oppenheimer
88. 7 MayIt Takes an Attempted Terrorist Attack to Actually Test Backscatter Machines
89. 7 MayNYT Covers the War on Terror Drugs with No Mention of Larger Context
90. 7 MayMarja Serves as Microcosm of Military Failure in Afghanistan, But Failure is Country-Wide
91. 7 MayWhat If the Biggest Risk ISN’T Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Giving Speeches?
92. 5 MayKentucky Derby Trash Talk: A Run For The Roses & Missing Mary
93. 4 MayThe Padilla v. Yoo Decision Will Not Put Chong’s Claim Up In Smoke
94. 4 MayThe End of an Era? Final Japanese Nuclear Power Plant to Shut Down Sunday
95. 3 MayStrikes in CA, Republicans in FL Admitting Loss of Quality: Fallout from Long-Term Underfunding of Higher Education
96. 3 MayThe Bin Laden Document Dump
97. 3 MayChen Guangcheng: The Hollow Core of a Press Manipulation Presidency
98. 2 MayJay Bybee’s Colleagues Say OLC Lawyers Couldn’t Know that Torture Was Torture in 2001-2003
99. 2 MayGoing to Jihad with the Medical Records You Have, Not the Jihad Fighters You Might Want
100. 2 MayAfter Obama Slips into Afghanistan Under Cover of Darkness, Taliban Attack at Dawn
101. 1 MayIf “Anarchists” Threaten to Blow Up a Little-Used Bridge Over Federal Property, Is It a Plot?
102. 1 MayConfirmed: The Government Is Blowing Up Habeas with an Interrogation Report Involving Pakistan
103. 1 MayAP’s Burns: ISAF Systematically Under-Reporting Green on Blue Attacks
104. 1 MayThe Secret Service Tamps Down at Home, Too

April 2012

1. 30 AprBig Boy Pants and the Presidency
2. 30 AprFeinstein and Levin: Hassan Ghul Revealed Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti’s Role, and Then We Tortured Him
3. 30 AprJohn Brennan’s Outdated Drone Speech
4. 30 AprJanice Rogers Brown Sings “Follow the Yellow Brick Road” as She Guts Habeas
5. 30 AprCIA Disrupts Ongoing US, Pakistan Negotiations With Drone Strike Just as Breakthrough Neared
6. 30 AprJose Rodriguez’ Mushroom Cloud of Torture
7. 28 AprWe Drone Strike, Ergo We Are at War
8. 27 AprPeter Bergen’s Bumper Sticker
9. 27 AprAmerica’s Power Couple: Samantha Power Fights Atrocities, Cass Sunstein Defends Child Labor
10. 27 AprRight on Cue, the Counter-Argument to the Torture Apology Comes Out
11. 27 AprAfghan Special Forces Soldier Joins Parade of “Isolated Incidents”, Kills US Trainer, Translator
12. 27 AprInadequate Briefing on the Drone Program Shows Congress Hasn’t Fixed the Gloves Come Off MON
13. 26 AprFighting Middle Eastern Wars with Pegs and Drones
14. 26 AprPakistan’s Supreme Court Finds Prime Minister Gilani Guilty of Contempt; Appeal Planned; Opposition Calls for Resignation
15. 26 AprObama’s Signature
16. 25 AprThe 99% Demand that GE Pay Its Fair Share
17. 25 AprRohrabacher’s Team for Decentralizing Afghan Government: War Criminal, Thief and War Hawk
18. 25 AprWhy Jose Rodriquez Should Be In Prison, Not On A Book Tour
19. 25 AprJose Rodriguez’ Idea of “Ugly Visuals”: Blank and Altered Tapes
20. 24 AprDefying the Rules of Gravity, Obama Directs Sanctions Solely against Israel’s Enemies
21. 24 AprIs the Government Worried about Revealing Broader Targeted Killing Authority in the Drone FOIAs?
22. 24 AprResistance Rabble-Rouser Rohrabacher Refused Entry to Afghanistan
23. 24 AprYet More White House Involvement in FOIA Responses
24. 23 AprWhy Is Tarek Mehanna Held to a Different Standard than the Hutaree Militia?
25. 23 AprLinks, 4/22/12
26. 23 AprRemember When Russia’s Enemy Helped the Mujahadeen Neutralize Russia’s Most Effective Weapon?
27. 23 AprUS Achieves Sham Agreement Trifecta With Afghanistan
28. 23 AprRecruiting Informants: Framings, Expulsion, and Torture
29. 21 Apr“The Gloves Come Off” Memorandum of Notification
30. 20 AprJudge Hellerstein: Yes, the Redacted Torture Authorization Pertains to the September 17, 2001 Torture Authorization
31. 20 AprJohn Brennan Praises the Object of His Own Intimate Knowledge
32. 20 AprThe CIA’s NSC’s President’s Torture Program
33. 20 AprBahrain Drain: Oppressive US Client State Sucks The Life Out Of Formula One
34. 20 AprAs Pakistan Angles for Joint Ownership of Drone Attacks, Kerry To Be Dispatched for Another Apology
35. 20 AprJudy Miller, Barabara Starr, and an Influx of Intelligence
36. 19 AprGeorge Tenet’s Bureaucratic CYA
37. 19 AprThe Memorandum of Notification the CIA Pretends Has Never Been Acknowledged
38. 19 AprNominated Defense Intelligence Chief Flynn Tied to Petraeus, McChrystal Night Raid Policy
39. 19 AprIs It the CIA–or the Saudis–Who Want Signature Strikes in Yemen?
40. 18 AprThe CIA Continues to Cover Up Bush’s Authorization of Torture
41. 18 AprObama Takes a Position to the Right of Congress on Indefinite Detention
42. 18 AprPeter Van Buren Says “Blowjob” to Hillary Clinton
43. 18 AprSpreading Free “Trade” To Colombia But Not Freedom of the Press
44. 18 AprDisclosure of US Troops Posing With Body Parts Newest Threat to Afghanistan Stability
45. 17 AprSaleh: “I have given you an open door on terrorism, so I am not responsible.”
46. 17 AprAttempted Coup in Qatar? Updated: Probably Not
47. 17 AprLike NYPD, FBI Also Investigating How Many Times a Day Muslims Pray
48. 16 AprDEA Busts TOR-Operated “Farmer’s Market” Drug Market Place
49. 16 AprScientist Who Destroyed Iraq’s Chemical Weapons the Last To Be Freed
50. 16 AprNATO Response to Taliban Attacks: Pump Up Image of Afghan Forces
51. 16 AprWilliam Welch Leaving DOJ; Main Justice Circles The Ethical Wagons
52. 15 AprThe War-Mongers Find Their Great White Whale
53. 14 AprThe US Attempts to Retain Control Over the Financialized Playground
54. 14 AprZimmerman: Anatomy Of A Deficient Probable Cause Affidavit
55. 14 AprThe Damage Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki Was Collateral To? Not Dead.
56. 13 AprThe FBI Wanted a Propagandist to Become an “Informant”
57. 13 AprWhy Does Mitt Cheat His Country But Not His Church?
58. 13 AprThe Democrats Had Already Conceded the War on Women
59. 13 AprPakistan’s Parliament Calls For End to Drones, Covert Agents in New Guidelines for US Relationship
60. 12 AprThe CIA’s Four-Box of Death
61. 12 AprEpisode Three of Who Rules Your World? Begins: The Leak Retribution Event
62. 12 AprChief Justice Chaudhry: Balochistan Burns While Police Watch
63. 12 AprThe Libyan Gift That Keeps Giving: Sarkozy’s Turn
64. 12 AprWhat Zimmerman’s Charge Means (Or Doesn’t)
65. 11 AprWhy Florida Is Charging Zimmerman Directly Instead Of By Grand Jury
66. 11 AprCIA General Counsel: The Osama bin Laden Killing Was Legal Because … “Triumph!”
67. 11 AprCIA General Counsel: If the President Authorizes It, It’s Legal
68. 11 AprAmid Cautious Optimism for P5+1 Talks, Iranian, Israeli Spies Arrested in Azerbaijan
69. 11 AprAt What Point Do Our Cyberwar Toys become WMD?
70. 10 AprPrediction: Latif Will Be Repatriated
71. 10 AprSheriff Joe Arpaio’s Legal Henchman Andrew Thomas Gets The Axe
72. 10 AprData Mining Adoptive Parents along with Suspected Terrorists
73. 10 AprOpening Week: Baseball and Bombs
74. 10 AprThe Guy Who’s Always Right, Harold Koh, Changes His Mind
75. 10 AprGareth Williams Inquest to be Secret Tribunal
76. 9 AprJudge Issues Gag in Sandusky Case–After ESPN Exposes Tom Corbett’s Conflicts
77. 9 AprDHS Inspector General Fluffs the Success of Secure Communities
78. 9 AprRohrabacher Attempts to Justify His Meddling With Pakistan
79. 9 AprAlong with Vetos on US Interrogations, Afghanistan Gets a 10-Year Commitment
80. 8 AprTrading Renditions for Oil Contracts
81. 8 AprOur Torturer, Omar Suleiman, Wants to Be President–Will We Help Him?
82. 7 AprSCOTUS and the Designated Strip Seach Observers
83. 6 AprDOD Attributes a 3-Week Delay on Forensic Collection to Absent Villagers
84. 6 AprDOE Washing Terrorists in the Nevada Desert
85. 5 AprDid DOJ Ratchet Up the Charges Against Kiriakou Because of Poland Investigation?
86. 5 AprDid Covert Officer A–Whose Identity John Kiriakou Allegedly Leaked–Leave the CIA?
87. 5 AprWhose Illicit Money Did Citi Help Launder?
88. 5 AprTurning Soft Power into a Casus Belli
89. 5 AprIs Obama Threatening the “Special Relationship” to Hide Torture?
90. 4 AprWhat if the FBI Infiltrated Anti-Choice Groups?
91. 4 AprPhilip Zelikow Saves Condi Rice’s Hiney (Again)
92. 4 AprThe US and Afghan National Army Become Partners on Night Raids
93. 4 AprNate’s “Common Sense” on ObamaCare
94. 3 AprThe National Security Committee Knew They Were Going to Get FALSE Confessions from Torture
95. 3 AprThe National Security Council Was Briefed on Anna Chapman before Her Arrest
96. 3 AprWho Brought Key Al Qaeda Forums Down?
97. 3 AprThe Brownish Pink Ghetto on Terrorism Protections
98. 2 AprThe Magical Science of Beans
99. 2 AprObamaCare SCOTUS Reaction: Why Not Find a Way to Make the Benefits Worth the Price?
100. 2 AprObama Puts More American Targets in Yemen
101. 2 AprBig Brother Works Both Sides of the Atlantic
102. 1 AprThe Intelligence Community Has Cleaned Up Its Attribution Problem … Has the Press?
103. 1 AprRequiem For ACA at SCOTUS & Legitimacy Of Court and Case

March 2012

1. 31 MarPanjwai: Was There One Killer at Alkozai But Multiple at Najiban?
2. 30 MarAmerica, the Dystopian Reality Show: Pink Slime Edition
3. 30 MarArizona Has A New Democratic Senate Candidate!
4. 30 MarRichard Clarke Also Suggests Hacking Has Made F-35 Ineffective
5. 30 MarWhite House Counsel Kathy Ruemmler Vows Not to Let the White House Be Defeated by Actual Citizens
6. 30 MarUS Announces “Guardian Angel” Program to Protect Sleeping Troops Day Before Sleeping Afghans Killed
7. 30 MarThe US Still Doesn’t Want to Admit to the 44 Dead Yemenis
8. 29 MarAnother Attempt to Understand the Panjwai Victim Discrepancies
9. 29 MarUS Source Contradicts CNN’s Reporting in Anonymous Leaks to CNN
10. 29 MarCNN: “No US Access to Sites of Afghan Killings”, But Did US Ask for Access?
11. 29 MarSCOTUS Limits Privacy Act Just as NCTC Expands Access to US Person Data
12. 28 MarAnonymous DOJ Statement: “Trust Us”
13. 28 MarDOD: No Military Operations in Panjwai Villages During Night of Attack
14. 28 MarWhat Went Into the FBI Intelligence That Will Be in NCTC’s Database for Five Years?
15. 28 MarRohrabacher, Gohmert and King Invade National Press Club
16. 27 MarThe WMD Charges against White People Get Thrown Out
17. 27 MarDOD’s Non-Denial Denial Suggests They May Consider Some Panjwai Dead Legitimate Targets
18. 27 MarIs It Possible 20 Were Killed at Panjwai, 3 by Another Soldier?
19. 27 MarTime to Start Rethinking How We Define “Insurgent”
20. 27 MarObama, Gilani Meet in Seoul While Allen Undermines Talks
21. 26 MarNYT: “Impartial” … “Impartial” but Anti-Iran
22. 26 MarIs the “Roger” Profile Yet Another InfoOp in Support of Signature Strikes?
23. 26 MarObamaCare Week Is a Great TIme to Support Pro-Choice Trevor Thomas
24. 26 MarLatest “Isolated Incident” Raises Death Toll to 15 NATO Troops Killed by Afghan Troops This Year
25. 26 MarACA at SCOTUS: Some Thoughts On The Mandate
26. 25 MarAbdulelah Haider Shaye and Anwar al-Awlaki’s Emails
27. 25 MarMichael Leiter Went Skiing … And All We Got Were Vast Expansions of Data-Sharing and No T-Shirt
28. 23 MarWas Mohammed Wazir’s 2-Year Old, Palwasha, the Victim of a Revenge Killing?
29. 23 MarThe “Oversight” over NCTC’s Not-Terrorist-Terrorist Database
30. 23 MarDoes NCTC Have the Minimal Data Security to Guard Its New Not-Terrorist-Terrorist Database?
31. 23 MarWhitewater Rafting? New Orleans Film Festivals? What Boondoggles Will NYPD’s Cops Go on Next?
32. 23 Mar“Stand Your Ground” Just Tip of Iceberg for Baxley’s Racism, Religious Intolerance and Gun Fetish
33. 23 MarThe National Counterterrorism Center Just Declared All of Us Domestic Terrorists
34. 22 MarThree Men Plead Guilty to Federal Hate Crimes for Brutal Murder of African American Man
35. 22 Mar5 Years of Data Not Collected by NSA
36. 22 MarHomeland Security Twitter Monitoring in Action?
37. 22 MarMcCain, Lieberman and Graham Attempt to Revive Mass Delusion on Afghan “Success”
38. 21 MarFBI Admits It Used GPS Tracking on 250 People without Probable Cause
39. 21 MarGod so loved the world he gave the Jets Tim Tebow
40. 21 MarPeter King Uses Tax Evasion Case as Proof of Hezbollah Involvement in US
41. 21 MarDid GAO Deem Secret PATRIOT a Waste of Time?
42. 21 MarDespite Afghanistan Spiraling Out of Control, Allen Wants No Drawdown Acceleration Until After Election
43. 21 MarNSA Director Keith Alexander: The FBI Does the Domestic Collection
44. 20 MarChain of Command: Some Violations of Military Discipline Are More Equal Than Others
45. 20 MarWhy Does Fat Al Gore Hate Flower Festivals?
46. 20 MarSo Much for the FBI’s $100,000 Informant
47. 20 MarAs Fraud History Emerges for Bales, US Pushes FISA Court as Ideal for Afghan Night Raid Approval
48. 20 MarThe Rationale for NSA’s Bottomless Pit of Data: Hackers
49. 20 MarDavid Gregory & NBC Give John McCain Blowjob; Screw Americans
50. 19 MarStart a 8 Year Regional War and Set Iran’s Nukes Back 3 Years
51. 19 MarClaiming Over 12 Soldiers Involved in Massacre, Afghan Lawmakers Call for End of SOFA Immunity
52. 19 MarDrones Killing Fewer Civilians, But Still Killing Diplomacy
53. 19 MarAs Bush Did with Judy Miller, Obama Insta-Declassifies for David Ignatius
54. 19 MarDavid Ignatius and Bin Laden’s Biden Judgment
55. 19 MarThe Wiretap Jury on the Iran War
56. 18 MarSpooky AssadLeaks: The Provenance of the Emails
57. 18 MarSpooky AssadLeaks: The Nir Rosen Connection
58. 17 MarReal Fast & Legitimate Trash Talk!
59. 17 MarThe Secret PATRIOT FOIA
60. 16 MarThe Other Drinking Soldiers
61. 16 MarFor Obama Administration, Human Rights in Egypt Less Important Than Payments to Arms Manufacturers
62. 15 MarAre Presidents Who Cover Up Crimes Murderous Sociopaths?
63. 15 MarKarzai, Taliban Begin Angling for Afghanistan Dominance, Confirming Failure of US Mission
64. 15 MarThe Full Text of the Schuelke Report on DOJ Misconduct
65. 15 MarA Primer On Why Schuelke Report Of DOJ Misconduct Is Important
66. 14 MarWhile Celebrating “Special Relationship,” Cameron’s Government Pushes for Secret Law
67. 14 MarAlbright Rushes to CNN With New Satellite Imagery Claims on Parchin After Debunking
68. 14 MarBAE F-35 Hack Confirmed
69. 13 MarAs Government Releases Evidence of Systemic Mortgage Fraud, FBI Focuses on Distressed Homeowner Fraud
70. 13 MarDOD Preparing to Admit Afghan Massacre Soldier Was Drunk
71. 13 MarWhat Is Government Covering Up with the Imprisonment of Yemeni Journalist?
72. 13 MarPoll: Do Men Realize Birth Control Is Rarely Just for “Female Employees”?
73. 13 MarRumored Satellite Imagery of Parchin “Clean-Up” Fails to Materialize, Claim Debunked
74. 13 MarIs This What Robert Mueller Meant by Cyber Expertise?
75. 13 MarHere’s Your Dang March on Peyton’s Colts Trash Already!!!
76. 12 MarEric Holder Suggests Scary Iran Plot Was Legal
77. 12 MarEd Rendell Defends Material Support of the “Right” Terrorists
78. 12 MarPanjwai Rogue Night Raider: Probably Not a Malingerer
79. 12 MarThe NYPD’s Surveillance of Muslims and Occupy Wall Street Converges
80. 11 MarThey Hate Us for Our Freedoms
81. 10 MarTime to Start Profiling All the Dunkin’ Donuts
82. 10 MarLeak Prosecutions: Enforcing Secrecy Asymmetry Does Not Equate to Rule of Law
83. 9 MarNYPD Makes Work But Not Knowledge
84. 9 MarUniforms and WikiLeaks in the Discussion of the Anwar al-Awlaki Killing
85. 9 MarAgreement in Principle Signed on Handover of Afghan Prisons, Night Raid Agreement to be Separate
86. 9 MarIs Our War-Mongering on Iran Making Syria Go Dark?
87. 9 MarThe Senate Judiciary Committee Hasn’t Seen the Targeted Killing Memo Either
88. 8 MarThe Answer, Robert Mueller, Is “Yes, DOJ Does Believe It Could Kill a Citizen in the US”
89. 8 MarRickyLeaks
90. 8 MarOpponent Claims FBI Recorded Phone Calls Investigating Stearns Bribery Allegations, Prohibited Recording Boehner
91. 8 MarWhy Doesn’t the FBI Follow SAC Michael Ward’s “Specific Articulable Basis” Standard?
92. 7 MarDianne Feinstein Assures Us Her Review of Targeted Killing Is Adequate
93. 7 MarSo It Was the FBI Threatening to Take Down the Internet, Then?
94. 7 MarMI’s 3rd CD: “West Michigan Values” of Exclusion, or American Values of Equality and Justice for All?
95. 7 MarFirst They Came for Russ Feingold, Then They Came for CATO
96. 7 MarGraham Throws Tantrum Over an Afghanistan With No Night Raids or US Control of Prisons
97. 6 MarLisa Murkowski Admits She Voted To Help Catholic Church Enforce a Doctrine She Ignores
98. 6 MarWhile Obama Urges Caution, Netanyahu, McConnell, IAEA Fan Anti-Iran Rhetoric, Iran Takes Positive Diplomatic Steps
99. 6 MarRemember When that “Recidivist” Jabir al-Fayfi Saved American Lives?
100. 5 MarHolder’s Unproven Claims about Anwar al-Awlaki the AQAP Leader
101. 5 MarCongress and Killing Oversight: Eric Holder v. Ron Wyden
102. 5 MarEric Holder’s View on National Security: Three Branches. Except for When the Third becomes Inconvenient.
103. 5 MarHow Good Are DOJ’s Reasons for Burying Its Case against Anwar al-Awlaki?
104. 5 MarGranholm, Cherry Endorse Trevor Thomas
105. 5 MarAccording to DOD Inspector General Definition, Bradley Manning Did Not “Leak”
106. 4 MarJudge Cebull’s Smart Response To His Incredibly Stupid Act
107. 4 MarNYT Finally Weighs in on CIA-on-the-Hudson
108. 3 MarThe King/Schumer Christie/Booker Smackdown
109. 3 MarDid Catholics Pay to Snip Roy Blunt?
110. 2 MarMost Blunt Amendment Supporters Likely to Have Used Birth Control
111. 2 MarIn Memogate Cross-Examination, Ijaz Claims to Have Transcript of Zardari, Kayani Phone Conversation
112. 2 MarAn Interesting Day at Gitmo
113. 1 MarMichigan Dems Should Bill Mitt $5 Million
114. 1 MarClear and Present Climate Blindness
115. 1 MarUnintended Consequences: Rohrabacher’s Inept Balochistan Meddling Provokes Pak Rebuke of ISI, MI for Extra-Judicial Killings
116. 1 MarDrones: Counterterrorism But Not Strategy

February 2012

1. 29 FebSenate Judiciary Committee: Closing the Barn Door after the Barn’s Been Foreclosed
2. 29 FebGrand Rapids Dem Telling People to Shut Up about Choice Again
3. 29 FebAfter Arguing People Shouldn’t Attack Media Indiscriminately, Jamie Dimon Attacks Media Indiscriminately
4. 29 FebObama’s Detainee Waivers Exempt Aspirational Terrorists from Military Detention
5. 29 FebIran Moves Toward Opening Parchin to IAEA; Warrick Surprisingly Disrupts Israel’s “Zone of Immunity” Argument
6. 29 FebVagina’s Vengeance: Republicans Officially Killing Their Party for Birth Control
7. 29 FebThe Emptywheel Primary Trash Talk
8. 28 FebUS Vows No Change of Course in Afghanistan Despite 17% of NATO Deaths in 2012 From Fratricide
9. 28 FebNYPD’s Fearmongers Are Arguing It’s More Useful to Spy on 2nd Graders than Disrupt Real Plots
10. 28 FebDjibouti’s Cable News
11. 27 FebIf the Drug Czar Does Not Supervise the Money It Doles Out, Who Does?
12. 27 FebRay Kelly: Please Call My Spying “Enhanced Police Investigation”
13. 27 FebCheney’s Torture Apologist Complains Cheney’s Torture Program Necessitates Plea Deals
14. 27 FebHiding Report on Fratricide in Afghanistan Doesn’t Make It Go Away
15. 27 FebWhite House Drug Czar Helps Pay for CIA-on-the-Hudson
16. 26 FebObama’s Malign Neglect of Federal Judiciary Redux
17. 26 FebAfter Ray Kelly Proved Incapable of Hosting a Terrorist Trial, His Supporters Shouldn’t Call OTHER Cities Overmatched
18. 26 FebAP Shows Civilian Casualties Equal To or Worse than TBIJ, Drone Boosters Declare Victory
19. 25 FebIs David Petraeus Leaking to Undercut the President? Or Is Someone Framing Him?
20. 24 FebIf Radical Muslims Aren’t Found at Kosher Delis, Then Why Did NYPD Look for Them at Kosher Butchers?
21. 24 FebWall Street Shills Hype How Much Preet Bharara Could Make If He Stopped Shielding Wall Street
22. 24 FebOur Detention Authority Branches Out beyond Al Qaeda
23. 24 FebNew Anthrax Scare: This Time Leahy’s Letter Tests Negative
24. 24 FebWhy Won’t the NYT Report on Ray Kelly’s Spooks?
25. 23 FebJeh Johnson on the “Military’s Domestic Legal Authority”
26. 23 FebShorter Jeh Johnson: 16-Year Old Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki Legitimate Military Target
27. 23 FebCould Santorum’s Radical Religious Fundamentalism Propel US Into Religious Violence?
28. 23 FebMajid Khan to Accept Plea Deal
29. 23 FebJake Tapper Flummoxes Jay Carney On White House Press Policy Hypocrisy
30. 23 FebFour of Seven Dwarves: Consistent, Courage, Resolute, Cheerful
31. 22 FebA Victory on DOMA For Karen Golinski
32. 22 FebMDP: Take Advantage of Taxpayer Funded Right to Screw with GOP Primary
33. 22 FebClose, But No Cigar: NYPD within 3 Miles of Faisal Shahzad’s Hawala, Missed It
34. 22 FebIran: Parallel to 2003 Rhetoric, Senate War Lobby Objects to Negotiations, IAEA Visit Controversial
35. 22 FebThe Girls’ School that Terrifies Ray Kelly
36. 21 FebVagina’s Revenge: MI’s Women Changing their Mind about Rick Santorum
37. 21 FebElena Kagan Votes With Alito and Thomas To Undermine Miranda
38. 21 FebWill SCOTUS Invent a “Database-and-Mining” Exception to the Fourth Amendment?
39. 21 FebIran Embraces Bush Doctrine, Press Pulls a Palin
40. 20 FebBill Keller Blames Leak Arrests that Preceded WikiLeaks on WikiLeaks
41. 20 FebThe Government Doesn’t Want to Talk about Collecting Domestic Communications under FAA
42. 20 Feb“Terror” by Scare Quote
43. 20 FebRohrabacher’s Balochistan Resolution Provokes Massive Anti-US Demonstrations in Pakistan
44. 20 FebReading, Writing, and Real World Skills
45. 19 FebThe SCOTUS Merrygoround: Is Ginsburg Shuffle Coming?
46. 19 FebDo We Really Want a Unipolar Middle East?
47. 18 FebScience Wins Out: Bird Flu Virus Experiments Will Be Published Without Redactions Despite Continued US Fear Mongering
48. 18 FebJamie Dimon: A $50,000 ATM Is a Big Risk
49. 17 FebAnother Empty Suicide Vest
50. 17 FebCarnage in Pakistan’s Tribal Region Continues: US Drones Kill 21 Thurs., Suicide Bomber Kills 26 Fri.
51. 17 FebIsrael: All Magnet Bombs Must Have the Same Culprit
52. 17 FebBishop Lori Took the Pig Right Out of Eric Cantor’s Mouth
53. 16 FebTreasury Accuses Iran of Hacking
54. 16 FebDOJ Once Again Succeeds Where DOD Has Failed
55. 16 FebFoster Friess, Anachronistic Dumb Ass
56. 16 FebTime to Institute the Random Penis Swabs
57. 16 FebPeace Talks Breaking Out All Over
58. 16 FebRick Snyder: “Look at Me!!! And, Oh, BTW, Mitt Was Born in MI”
59. 15 FebThe Drone Lobby Admits It Has a Cybersecurity Problem
60. 15 FebThe Arab Spring Meets US Counterterrorism: “We consider the drones terrorism”
61. 15 FebIran Loads Domestically Produced Fuel Plates into Tehran Reactor
62. 15 FebMajid Khan Charged with Musharraf Assassination as Musharraf Accused of Sheltering Bin Laden
63. 15 FebJamie Dimon: “I was safer in Beirut”… Maybe Because of Those Gold Bullions JPMC Sent Iran?
64. 14 FebWhen WAS DOJ Going to Get around to Telling Us about Awlaki? Part One
65. 14 FebMitt Doesn’t Even Know When MI’s Recession Started
66. 14 FebUN Finds Cluster Munition Evidence in Libya, PressTV Runs Video of US Cluster Bombs in Afghanistan
67. 14 FebMitt Advocates Taking Healthcare from Retirees to Give Money to Bailed Out Banks
68. 13 FebWill MI Democrats Champion Women’s Rights as Santorum Surges through Our State?
69. 13 FebWhat WAS Our Sentinel Drone Surveilling in Iran?
70. 13 FebA Race to Get Excited About: Trevor Thomas
71. 13 Feb“Quiet Lobbying Campaign” For SOCOM: Hollywood Movie, President’s Campaign Slogan
72. 13 FebDOJ’s Untracked Email Spying
73. 13 FebThe UndieBomber’s Interrogators Asked Him about Anwar al-Awlaki’s Death Just after He Was Put on Kill List
74. 12 FebAlan Gross and Jacob Appelbaum
75. 12 FebThe Anonymous DOJ Handmaiden of Political Whim
76. 12 FebHonorable Military Whistleblower: Why Daniel Davis Is and Bradley Manning Is Not
77. 11 FebLt. Col. Daniel Davis’ Truth-Telling Continues: Long Report Published by Rolling Stone
78. 11 FebWhy Has the Government Story about Who Ordered the UndieBomber to Attack the US Changed?
79. 10 FebGovernment Finally Releases Narrative of Anwar al-Awlaki’s Role in UndieBombing Plot
80. 10 FebExploitation: How a “Recidivist” became a Double Agent
81. 10 Feb91% Fewer Terrorist Sympathizers with Twice the Cash and 48% More Surveillance
82. 10 FebRohrabacher Chairs Hearing on Balochistan, Pronounces it “Balookistan”
83. 10 FebLanny Breuer’s Theory of Chatting Accountability for CEOs
84. 9 FebEric Schneiderman: Foreclosure Settlement “Down Payment”
85. 9 FebIf Ron Wyden Hasn’t Seen Awlaki Memo, There Has Been Inadequate Oversight
86. 9 FebConferring Immunity from Justice, Barack Obama Becomes “The Great Vaccinator”
87. 9 FebBank Bailout Day, February 9, 2012
88. 9 FebSantorum to “Plant His Flag” in Michigan
89. 8 FebOsama bin Laden: “The ship of Ali Abdullah Saleh is the only ship we have”
90. 8 FebWilliam Welch Probably NOT One of the Attorneys Who Engaged in Gross Prosecutorial Misconduct in Stevens Case
91. 8 FebOne-Third of Americans Known to Have Been Killed in Drone Strikes Were US Servicemen
92. 8 FebNot So Great Expectations: Paying the Price of Hubris in Iraq, Afghanistan
93. 8 FebShort Sale at the White House?
94. 7 Feb9th Circuit Prop 8 Decision: Equal Protection NOT At The End Of The Rainbow
95. 7 FebMy Lady Parts Will Be Voting This Year
96. 7 FebWorld Approach to “Peace” in Syria: Arm Both Sides
97. 7 FebScary Car Broker Plot and the Fifth Amendment
98. 6 FebPete Hoekstra Mocks His Asian-American Neighbors
99. 6 FebAdministration Complains that Others Are Bringing Transparency It Refuses To on Its Drone Strikes
100. 6 FebChrysler’s Halftime Lesson: Government Investment for America’s Rebound
101. 6 FebCol. Davis Goes to Washington: A One-Man Battle for Truth-Telling About Afghanistan
102. 6 FebIn Memoriam: Mary Beth Perdue
103. 5 FebMI Politics Gets Interesting: Trevor and Crazy Pete
104. 4 FebHow Do You Profile J. Edgar Kelly with Almost No Mention of Domestic Spying?
105. 4 FebEmptywheel’s Gigantic Patriotic Bad Ass Mega Super Bowl Trash Talk Houseparty
106. 3 FebFBI Director Mueller Boasts of FBI’s Cyber Expertise before Anonymous Hacks Cyber Call
107. 3 FebI Always Hated Pink, Anyway
108. 3 FebWhen Was the Last Time a Pope Was Shit-faced Drunk On the Streets of Paris?
109. 3 FebMitt Cozying Up to Foreclosure Mill that Got McCain in Trouble
110. 3 FebThe NYPD Profiles Everyone’s Favorite Terrorist Group, MEK
111. 2 FebYour Summer Schedule: Vacation, Beach, Iran War
112. 2 FebTarget of New Year’s Day Firebombing Also Target of NYPD Intelligence Collection
113. 2 FebGovernment Awards $35 Million Contract to Expand Parwan Prison
114. 2 FebAnthrax Sent to Pakistan’s PM Begs Question of Whether FBI Investigated Presumed Anthrax Sent to US Pak Embassy in 2001
115. 2 FebThe Administration’s Many Excuses for Hiding Its Targeted Killing Memo
116. 1 FebRon Wyden Suggests Secret PATRIOT GPS Tracking May Be Illegal Under Jones
117. 1 FebMichael Hayden’s Risky and Edgy Schadenfreude
118. 1 FebThe Non-Counterterrorist Drone Loophole: Did Clapper Admit We Targeted Iranian Scientists?
119. 1 FebNewest Leaked NATO Report Aimed at Preventing Afghanistan Withdrawal?
120. 1 FebDianne Feinstein Calls James Clapper a Polyanna on Afghanistan

January 2012

1. 31 JanDianne Feinstein Complains about Executive Branch Blabbing
2. 31 JanCIA’s Drone Cowboys Complaining about “General Betrayus”
3. 31 JanDid Ivins Move the Refrigerator? New Cold Facts Cast Further Doubt on Amerithrax Conclusions
4. 31 JanNever Put Money within Reach of Jamie Dimon
5. 30 JanDennis Ross’ Red Phone
6. 30 JanLeon’s Book of Law
7. 30 JanLatif: Presumption of Regularity for Thee, But Not for Me
8. 30 JanIran Repeats Claim Research Reactor Fuel Plates Object of Enrichment as IAEA Visit Could Be Extended
9. 30 JanAnd the Drones Start Patrolling Iraq, Again
10. 28 JanLeon Panetta and the Pakistani Doctor: Yet More Double Standards on Classified Information
11. 28 JanWe Are All Pirates Now
12. 27 JanThe Evolution of Patrick Fitzgerald’s Investigation into Torturer Disclosures
13. 27 JanLatif and the Misattribution Problem: “All Arabs Look the Same”
14. 27 JanIran Kills Six Pakistanis in Latest Border Incident; Iran Silent (Updated)
15. 26 JanPlaying Whack-a-Mole with Somali Pirates
16. 26 JanJamie Dimon, Toddler MOTU
17. 26 JanRick Scott Just Can’t Stop Shoveling Federal Money to HCA
18. 26 JanLocal Head of International Republican Institute Prevented from Leaving Egypt
19. 26 Jan4th Circuit: Enemy Combatants Can’t Complain about Having Been Made Enemy Combatants
20. 25 JanWhat If Obama Sent SEAL Team 6 after Online Pirates?
21. 25 Jan“More Respected Around the World”? Really?
22. 25 JanCIA Ousts Another Officer Working on Iran because of Political Shitstorm
23. 25 JanOsama bin Laden: “I am Alpha and Omega”
24. 24 JanUS Resolves to Clean Up Its Illegal Detention at Parwan
25. 24 JanDid the Government “Know Who Journalists Are Talking To” in the Kiriakou Investigation?
26. 24 JanMansoor Ijaz Rejects Security Arrangements, Does Not Go To Pakistan for Testimony
27. 24 JanHow Did DOJ Find Jon Kiriakou?
28. 24 JanDid John Brennan’s Leak Hypocrisy Catch Up to Him?
29. 23 JanDespite Metaphysical Impossibility, US Government Repeatedly Attempts Retroactive Classification
30. 23 JanWill the CIA Regret It Started a Witchhunt against Detainee Lawyers?
31. 23 JanDOJ Charges Former CIA Officer for Exposing CIA’s Torture
32. 23 JanSCOTUS Unanimously Declares (Some) GPS Tracking a Search
33. 23 JanThe Administration’s Half-Striptease of Anwar al-Awlaki’s Rotting Corpse
34. 21 JanWhat Do You Call a “Cornhusker Kickback” for California?
35. 21 JanChampionship Sunday Trash Talk
36. 21 JanExhibits in Latif’s SCOTUS Petition Prove Interrogation Summaries Should Not Be Entitled to Presumption of Regularity
37. 20 JanIf the Only News Is Good News and There Is No News …?
38. 20 JanWells Fargo, Freddie, Bank of America, and UBS at DOJ
39. 20 JanIn Rush to Transcribe Military’s Concern on Why We Can’t Leave Afghanistan, Did NY Times Fact-check “Classified” Report?
40. 20 JanObama’s Housing Campaign
41. 20 JanThe FBI Feeding Fantasies for Fun and Fear
42. 19 JanThe OTHER Assault on the Fourth Amendment in the NDAA? Drones at Your Airport?
43. 19 JanAhsan Procures Adjournment to Feb. 1 in Gilani Contempt Case; Pasha Term to Expire; NATO Routes to Re-open?
44. 19 JanJudy Miller Discovers the Word “Claim”
45. 19 JanInspiring Attorney-Client Crackdowns
46. 18 JanThe False Report of Banned Books In Tucson: The Tempest in the Arizona Teapot
47. 18 JanSave the Internet!
48. 18 JanTurkish Double Talk
49. 17 JanFans, Fertilizer, and False Flags
50. 17 JanDick Cheney’s Turkey Talk
51. 17 JanIraq Learned the Ray Davis Lesson from Pakistan
52. 16 JanWeaning Ourselves Off War in the Middle East? Or Preparing for Israel’s War?
53. 16 JanGilani to Appear Before Pakistan Supreme Court Jan 19 on Contempt Charges; Early Elections Likely
54. 16 JanThe Home of the Free Got Foreclosed
55. 15 JanUbercapitalist Begs for Government Intervention
56. 14 JanThe False Flag Waves in the Fog
57. 14 JanDivisional Playoff Trash – One Way Out Version
58. 13 JanBmaz Made Me Ruin Trash Talk
59. 13 JanLaw Enforcement Still Can’t Keep Hate Crimes and Terrorism Consistent
60. 13 JanForeign Policy’s “False Flag”
61. 13 JanPG&E’s Profitable Threat to Our Critical Infrastructure
62. 13 JanMitt’s Welfare-Driven Vulture Capitalism
63. 13 JanAfter Trading Jobs, Petraeus and Panetta Have Traded Sides in Military vs. Intelligence Differences
64. 13 JanPissing on the Peace Process(es)
65. 12 JanWho Will Redact Our Next Big Constitutional Debate?
66. 12 JanThe OLC Opinion on Obama’s Recess Appointments
67. 12 JanTorturing the Truth Vigilantes
68. 12 JanZardari Flees to Dubai Again Under Cover of “One Day” Trip: Is He Finished?
69. 12 JanSanta’s Elves Just Got Fired
70. 12 JanWhy Won’t the FAA Tell EFF Who’s Flying the Drones in US Airspace?
71. 11 JanAssociate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli to Leave DOJ in March
72. 11 JanThe Mafia Bank
73. 11 Jan“Creative Destruction” as Catchall
74. 11 JanThis Gitmo Anniversary Needs to Be about Bagram, Too
75. 11 JanIran Begins Uranium Enrichment at Qom Tuesday, Enrichment Scientist at Natanz Assassinated Wednesday
76. 11 JanThe Greatness of America: “Ashes of Doomed Factories, Pink-Slipped Workers, and Towns Laid to Waste”
77. 10 JanOur New Teachers about Rule of Law
78. 10 JanFast and Furious Money Laundering
79. 10 JanCommodity Bubbles and the Resource Curse
80. 10 JanIn Constitutional Showdown, Pakistan Supreme Court Cites Quaint Olmstead v. US on Rule of Law
81. 9 JanObama Swaps a JP Morgan Chase Chief of Staff for a Citi One
82. 9 JanThe Beat from Hell: Carol Rosenberg’s Decade Covering Gitmo
83. 9 JanWhile NY Times Agitates for Resumption of Drone Strikes, Peace Talks Set to Add Afghanistan, Haqqani Network
84. 9 JanWilliam Welch, Jeffrey Sterling, and the Sixth Amendment
85. 8 JanThe Corporatist Free Speech Superiority of the Roberts Court
86. 7 JanWildcard Weekend and Battleship Potemkin Trash
87. 6 JanPeter King, Movie Mogul
88. 6 JanNow that DOJ Has Revised Rape Stats, Will They Finally Do Something about Prison Rape?
89. 6 JanThe Upside of Evidence-Free Nuke Accusations Against Iran? We Can Declare Victory!
90. 6 JanKarzai and US Fight over Who Gets to Run the Abusive Prisons
91. 5 JanOn Strategy, Drones, and Climate Change
92. 5 JanJohn Yoo Defends Senate’s Authority to Sit Around and Do Nothing
93. 5 JanThe McChrystal Apologists Ignoring McChrystal’s Own Take
94. 5 JanEarly Effects of NDAA Iran Sanctions Being Felt: EU Agrees on Oil Embargo, China Cuts Oil Contracts by Half
95. 5 JanIs NYPD Avoiding “Terrorism” Charges in New Years Day Bombings To Claim They Didn’t Miss a Terrorist Attack?
96. 4 JanThe Challenge To Richard Cordray Not Being Discussed
97. 4 JanObama Promised Admin Would Not Indefinitely Detain American Citizens without Trial, But Continues to Deport Them
98. 4 JanHow Dare the President Protect Consumers!?!?!
99. 4 JanShorter Jamie Dimon: “I am not a psychopath”
100. 4 JanIntelligence Aide Flynn re McChrystal: “Everyone Has a Dark Side”
101. 3 Jan“Crackpots don’t make good messengers”
102. 3 JanThe Campaign in Afghanistan: Neutralizing Petraeus, Though Not the Taliban?
103. 3 JanAs US-Iran Threat Exchange Continues, Pakistan Detains Three Iranian Border Guards
104. 2 JanIs It Any Surprise NYPD Would Investigate Anti-Muslim Terrorism as a “Bias Crime”?
105. 2 JanDo Iowans Care More about Family and Christmas than GOP Primary Reality Show?
106. 1 JanSeasons End New Year’s Trash