The right wing media is in a frenzy today over the plan to send homeland security and disaster alerts to your cellphone. Listen to Limbaugh going off on the “regimes” plan today: I really hope that Limbaugh is talking about the Bush regime. This plan was authored by Tea Party poster boy, Jim DeMint in […]
I guess the first amendment is null and void: A photographer taking pictures of a BP refinery in Texas was detained by a BP security official, local police and a man who said he was from the Department of Homeland Security, according to ProPublica, a non-profit news organization in the U.S. The photographer, Lance Rosenfield, […]
Here’s what Lindsey Graham said about attempted car bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad being read his rights: Miranda warnings are counterproductive in my view,” Graham said at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday. “The homeland is part of the battlefield. So this idea that you get to America, the rules dramatically change, […]
Here is an article appearing on CBS right now: Faisal Shahzad on Homeland Security List Since 1999 That is one amazing feat, since DHS wasn’t formed until November of 2002. So how was Shahzad on a list of a department three years prior to that department being formed? (h/t GottaLaff)
Bernie Kerik, former NY police commissioner and BFF of Rudy 9ul1an1 has been sentenced to four years for lying and tax fraud. Let’s not forget that Kerik was also appointed by Bush to head up Homeland Security. Yup – another Republican hero.
This is the kind of news that should be plastered on every network tonight: The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to confirm Martha N. Johnson as head of the General Services Administration, nearly 10 months after she was first nominated to head the federal agency. Upon assuming office, Johnson “will become the first permanent […]
Drudge is pushing this headline today: Largest-ever federal payroll to hit 2.15 million employees… It goes to a Washington Times story talking about the increasing workforce of the U.S. government – not a bad thing with unemployment where it’s at. But let’s take a look at where these numbers are coming from: Mr. Obama says […]
This is some good news, but I’m sure the wingnuts will explode over it: Responding to the devastation from the Haiti earthquake, Obama administration officials on Wednesday temporarily suspended deportations of illegal immigrants from that country. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Haitian deportations would be halted “for the time being,” without specifying a time […]
I’m going with Andrew Sullivan on this one: Her latest interview on the Today show again reveals a total obtuseness. Yes, as was obvious from the original clip, it was clear she was referring to what happened after the incident occurred and the system does seem to have worked from then on. But before that? […]
I keep thinking back to the Bush years and every time someone in Congress wanted someone from the Bush administration to testify the Republicans would give cover to Bush by arguing about “executive privilege”. At that time so many of us on the left kept thinking “I wonder if they will do the same when […]