Category: Misc

The NSA hearings will start tomorrow at 9:30am eastern andGlenn Greenwald will be doing live blogging. If you are not near a television, the hearings can be watched onC-Span’s website.  

According to a new article inTime Magazine, members of Senate on both sides of the aisle are considering a constitutional amendment that will limit the powers of the President at wartime. A source familiar with the nascent constitutional amendment says one version would make clear that any actions by the President as Commander in Chief […]

So what can we expect tomorrow when the hearings into the wiretapping kick off. WellTime magazine has a little preview. According to the documents, Gonzales plans to assert in his opening statement that seeking approval for the wiretaps from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court could result in delays that “may make the difference […]

Michael Isikoff ofNewsweek laid to rest that right wing argument that Valerie Plame was not a covert agent: But special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald found that Plame had indeed done “covert work overseas” on counterproliferation matters in the past five years, and the CIA “was making specific efforts to conceal” her identity, according to newly released […]

This really has me thinking: “The government of Syria’s failure to provide protection to diplomatic premises, in the face of warnings that violence was planned, is inexcusable,” he said in a statement from Texas, where President George W. Bush is staying at his Crawford ranch. Read full articlehere. So we are blaming the Syrian government […]

This morning on Meet The Press, new Majority Leader John Boehner was asked about his dealings with Jack Abramoff. One part really got my curiosity going. Boehner told Russert he would not return the money from the Chippewa tribes because he was working on legislation for them as a Representative. Now being part American Indian […]

The Sunday morning lineup via Washington Post: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (WTTG), 9 a.m.: Gen. Michael V. Hayden , deputy director of national intelligence, and Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio). THIS WEEK (ABC, WJLA), 9 a.m.: Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman , Olympic gymnast Dominique Dawes and Hayden . FACE THE NATION (CBS, WUSA), 10:30 […]

This shows you the level of maturity exercised by Republicans in Congress: Rep. Michael Oxley, outgoing chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, shouted in outrage at a closed-door conference of House Republicans last Tuesday in protesting a reform barring from the House gymnasium former congressmen who become lobbyists. Oxley, who is not seeking election […]

A video report is available from Channel 4 news in London about the latest memo proving Bush was determined to overthrow Saddam. Click here to view it.

In an article appearing in tomorrow’s Washington Post and available online now, we learn that it wasn’t just the opinion of Fitzgerald and the grand jury that Libby perjured himself but one judge who had made rulings in the case also felt the same: [Judge David] Tatel wrote that interviewing Miller would be crucial to […]