Month: June 2013

I was looking for testimony that I knew Jesus James Angleton gave before the Church Committee and, lo and behold, Google provided a link to an article I wrote about it on January 4th, 2007. I decided to reprint it here because...

I had the exact same thought that Steve Benen describes when I read Al Franken’s take on the whole NSA flap. So I suppose one of two things is likely. One, those who’ve been skeptical of NSA surveillance will say,...

I guess this is the Intelligence Community’s way of arguing that they need these massive capabilities in order to keep us safe. If it seems kind of high-school to be garbling al-Qaeda’s newsletters, it does open up...

Without regard to the merits, I am finding the politics of immigration reform fascinating. Mitch McConnell praised the Judiciary Committee when they voted out their bill and he still says that he wants the Senate to pass a bill....

If you are looking for bipartisanship, you can find it by looking at the Senate’s farm bill, which just passed with broad Republican support. It’s not a great bill by any means, but it’s vastly better than...