Privatize, privatize, privatize. The has been a a cornerstone of Republican policy that has spanned decades. But what does Edward Snowden say about privatizing? The simple fact that a government contractor could access such vital information as Snowden did, has sent shockwaves around the world. Snowden didn’t happen along the information he has leaked. He […]
Now if a Democrat did this the Republicans would be calling for a criminal investigation: A congressional trip to Iraq this weekend was supposed to be a secret. But the cat’s out of the bag now, thanks to a member of the House Intelligence Committee who broke an embargo via Twitter. A delegation led by […]
You can watch it live here. From the opening questions, I can kind of see how the Republicans are starting to frame this. They are going on the premise that Robert Novak leaked Plame’s name. The question to these Republicans should be, “what was Robert Novak’s security clearance at the time of the article?” We […]
Stopping the “flow of illegal immigrants” across the border is so damn important that they are building this wall. I guess seeing that wall will prevent them from going around holes like this: While the border wall will go through her backyard and effectively destroy her home, it will stop at the edge of the […]
Salon has a very interesting article today that might give us a glimpse into the next big debate over Iraq: Congress has demanded that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld hand over a raft of documents to Congress that could substantiate allegations that U.S. forces have tried to break terror suspects by kidnapping and mistreating their […]
Last night we were slapped with this very disturbing piece of news: The government has abruptly ended an inquiry into the warrantless eavesdropping program because the National Security Agency refused to grant Justice Department lawyers the necessary security clearance to probe the matter. The Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility, or OPR, sent a fax […]
Here’s an interesting article compliments of the Associated Press: Bush Orders Staff to Review Ethics Rules President Bush, reacting to the indictment of a high-level White House aide in the CIA leak case, has ordered his staff to get a refresher on ethics rules. In a memo sent to all White House aides on Friday, […]
Howard Kurtz has an interesting column in the Washington Post today where he has examined the response of the blogosphere to Judith Miller’s story. While questions are being asked around the internet about her security clearance that she received from the Department of Defense (see this article atPoynter Online by former CBS correspondent Bill Lynch), […]
Why are the Republicans engaging in a smear campaign against Democrats by stating they are trying to smear Karl Rove? Well finally we can say “the shoe is on the other footâ€ÂÂ. In the last couple weeks we have seen an increasing campaign on Republicans taking to the airwaves to discredit the Democrats demand for […]
The Valerie Plame case has been the talk of the week. A case that has seem to sit somewhat stagnant by the way of news media had a new found life after an email from Matt Cooper identifying one of his sources as Karl Rove was published in the New York Times last weekend. Since […]