Jeff Cox is a deputy attorney general for the state of Indiana. This weekend he took to Twitter to go after the protestors in Wisconsin: On Saturday night, when Mother Jones staffers tweeted a report that riot police might soon sweep demonstrators out of the Wisconsin capitol building—something that didn’t end up happening—one Twitter user […]
It is amazing how badly the administration does not want the detainees at Gitmo to receive legal defense: The senior Pentagon official in charge of military detainees suspected of terrorism said in an interview this week that he was dismayed that lawyers at many of the nation’s top firms were representing prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, […]
Perhaps there is some other good for Bush with the current crisis between Lebanon and Israel. That good could be the media taking some focus off of Iraq. Perhaps that is why this story hasn’t had much play today: Bombs killed two worshippers at mosques in Iraq during Friday prayers and the authorities extended a […]
So now people in the Bush administration find it “strange” that laws apply to them? The topic was the largest defense procurement scandal in recent decades, and the two investigators for the Pentagon’s inspector general in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld’s office on April 1, 2005, asked the secretary to raise his hand and swear […]
It looks like there is still more intrigue to the case of Scooter Libby and the investigation by Patrick Fitzgerald. Editor and Publisher reported this today: Woodward suddenly revealed late last year that he had talked with Libby as well as another unnamed government official about CIA operative Valerie Plame, the wife of former Ambassador […]
The NSA spying story has just gotten worse: WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 – In the anxious months after the Sept. 11 attacks, the National Security Agency began sending a steady stream of telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and names to the F.B.I. in search of terrorists. The stream soon became a flood, requiring hundreds of agents to […]
Rep. Tancredo (R-Co) told a Florida radio talk show that if terrorists would use nuclear weapons against us, we would target their holy places such as Mecca. Needless to say this story is gaining momentum and the words the Congressman used can have serious repercussions against not only our homeland, but also our soldiers abroad. […]