By now I’m sure everyone has heard that Keith Olbermann has been suspended indefinitely from MSNBC for contributing to political campaigns without disclosing those contributions to his superiors at MSNBC. There has been a lot of back and forth over this decision in the blogosphere and twitterverse today. I have mixed feelings on the story. […]
Today is D-Day for General Stanley McChrystal. Catching up on the overnight and early morning news, I noticed two very interesting takes from one source – ABC. First off, here’s what George Stephanopoulos has to say: All of my reporting indicates President Obama truly hasn’t made up his mind, but my bet is Obama will follow Lincoln’s […]
The following video is from KOMO News in Seattle. So what started all this? Well the officer was citing them for jaywalking. Yup – the extremely horrible crime of crossing a street where you shouldn’t. It looks like the officers superiors have a “number of concerns” over what happened also: Seattle police officials said Tuesday […]
It looks like Team Obama will have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to leaks, saying “if you leak, you’re gone”: Several Obama transition staffers have put a version of that quotation in transition co-chief John Podesta’s mouth. Many of the major staff appointments so far – Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff, Greg […]
Bush is still trying to show us he cares nothing about our privacy, just his own: The Bush administration has informed Congress that it is bypassing a law intended to forbid political interference with reports to lawmakers by the Department of Homeland Security. The August 2007 law requires the agency’s chief privacy officer to report […]
Because our soldiers shouldn’t be trusted to make decisions on what they read, their superiors will: The Air Force is tightening restrictions on which blogs its troops can read, cutting off access to just about any independent site with the word “blog” in its web address. It’s the latest move in a larger struggle within […]
Kind of sounds like it: The CIA official who gave the command to destroy interrogation videotapes apparently acted against the direction of his superiors, the top Republican House Intelligence Committee member said Wednesday. “It appears he hadn’t gotten authority from anyone,” said Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., speaking to reporters after the first day of closed […]
This is large big huge enormous. Looks like the old N.H. phone jamming scheme is leading to the White House more and more, as Raw Story points out: The fourth man indicted in a New Hampshire phone-jamming scheme — in which Republican operatives jammed the phone lines of Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts in a 2002 Senate […]
The Associated Press has this little piece of scary news: WASHINGTON – The agency entrusted with protecting the U.S. homeland is having difficulty safeguarding its own headquarters, say private security guards at the complex. The guards have taken their concerns to Congress, describing inadequate training, failed security tests and slow or confused reactions to bomb […]
What is truly amazing on this entire Dubai ports deal is the fact that some of the people defending the deal are the same people who have painted the entire Arab/Muslim world as being terrorists. If we are talking about torture, wire tapping or racial profiling then it is fine to question all of them. […]