Month: March 2007

BY LARRY C. JOHNSON, RAY McGOVERN, RAY CLOSE, DAVID C. MACMICHAEL, and COLLEEN ROWLEY (Steering Group, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity [VIPS]) MEMORANDUM FOR: Speaker of the House | Senate Majority Leader SUBJECT:...

Last night I had a long discussion with Brendan of Brendan Calling. Brendan specializes in all things Arlen Specter. We had a debate over whether Arlen was aware of the language that was slipped into the Patriot Act that allowed...

Assbackery 101, second semester, 2007: This story came in last night, but The Guardian picked it up: The 2006 hurricane season turned out to be mild, and the new pumps were never pressed into action. But the [U.S. Army]Corps [of...

Also at DKos. Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Peter Pace is entitled to his opinions regarding homosexuality.  Whether it’s proper for him to express those opinions publicly is another matter.   In an interview...

also at Lutton Square (h/t to various TPM Muckraker commenters) The prosecutor purge scandal seems to gravitate around some very interesting machinations involving the candidates for United States Attorney for the District of...