At What Point Does T-Mobile CEO Get Dinged for False Advertising?
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The CEO of T-Mobile thinks the government, in suing to stop its merger with AT&T, simply didn't understand how merging with AT&T would benefit customers. (h/t mistermix)
By now you have heard the news…
10 Years Later, 9/11 Commission Says President Is Failing to Protect Civil Liberties
The 9/11 Commission released a 10-year report card on the recommendations they made back in 2004. And one of three recommendations that remains entirely unfulfilled--the only one that is entirely the responsibility of the executive branch--is…
Elliott Abrams: A Convicted Liar Defends a Convicted Liar's Boss by Lying
Elliott Abrams makes a good point: the "reviews," thus far, of Cheney's book have focused on particular incidents rather than on the scope of the narrative. Once I get done with it, I plan to do a full review, which I think would have been better…
Rendition Flight Lawsuit Gives Lie to Government's Jeppesen State Secrets Claim
When they screw our tortured clients, they assert "National Security", but when it is a matter of money, they don't. -- Reprieve's Clive Smith
The British human rights organization Reprieve figured out that a NY state court case--a billing…
National Transportation Safety Board Identifies the Real Threat to Pipelines: PG&E
A year ago, I suggested that PG&E's willful incompetence was probably a bigger threat to critical infrastructure and key resources like pipelines than the anti-fracking activists PA investigated as potential terrorist threats.
Just to take…
If Bank of New York Mellon Has So Many Tax Shelters It Doesn't Pay Taxes, How Is It NY's "Main Street"?
Update: Kelly just stepped down, citing "differences in approach."
A number of outlets have carried the report on the number of CEO's getting paid more than their companies paid in taxes last year, but few have linked to the actual report,…
DOJ Sues to Stop AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
Finally, the Department of Justice did something (aside from its good work on Civil Rights) worthy of its name: it sued to prevent the AT&T/T-Mobile merger.
The Department of Justice today filed a civil antitrust lawsuit to block AT&T…
IA AG's Office Whining That They're Not Getting Credit for Settlement Bank of America Violated
The folks desperately working to give the banks a Get Out of Jail Free card for their servicing abuses are trying hard to deny they're not doing so.
Take this anonymous accusation from someone involved in the settlement talks claiming that…
NYPD's Failed Ethnic Profiling Program
When Goldman and Apuzzo exposed NYPD's domestic spying program last week, NYPD insisted it didn't exist. So this time, they've posted documentary proof.
As they report, the domestic spying program employed a "Demographics Unit" that mapped…
Obama & Holder Push AZ USAtty Burke Out Over ATF GunRunner Cock-Up
Coming across the wire this morning was this stunning announcement by the Department of Justice:
Statement of Attorney General Eric Holder on the Resignation of U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona Dennis Burke 08/30/2011 01:01 PM EDT
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True "Resilience" Would Help Prevent the Next 3,420 Climate-Related Deaths, Too
This article--showing how many stupid projects have been funded in the name of homeland security in the last decade--has been making the rounds. Everyone has been pointing to its details on how few people have died in terrorist attacks.
"The…
How Are Americans Feeling about Their Own Circumstances Now, David Plouffe?
Perhaps I'm getting tiresome with this point, but sorry, I'm going to make it again.
Two months ago, David Plouffe dismissed the possibility that the unemployment rate would have any effect on Obama's reelection chances. He (correctly) noted…
Links, 8/29/11
Mr. EW took this picture this weekend of a teeny frog living in a hole in a picnic table (that's his index finger in the picture, giving you a sense of how small this fella was).
While he doesn't use the word "lie" (he lists "reasons…
The Auto Industry and America's Future
I wanted to point to four different discussions as a way to situate a larger discussion of where the auto industry is at:
This LAT story on how the auto rebound is driving what little recovery we're having in the US
NYT Magazine asking…
Paying for Climate Change by Gutting Programs to Deal with It
Brian Beutler has a post predicting that Eric Cantor will do the same thing with Irene disaster aid he did with hypothetical aid to his own constituents after the earthquake: demand budget cuts to pay for any aid.
Now, in the wake of Hurricane…
Rule of Law, Food Safety Edition
We talk a lot about the decline of the rule of law on this blog: about how the MOTUs get away with torture, wiretapping, financial fraud, lying to Congress, ruining the environment, and the like. The problem, it seems, is that the government…
Trash Talk: Belgian Grand Prix A Trip To The Spa
Well, as Rosalind helpfully pointed out on the Gone Fishing thread, I am a bit of a late tease with the Trash Talk thread this weekend. Sorry about that,things got a bit catawampus yesterday. Today is my daughter Jenna's sweet sixteen birthday…
Gone Fishing to the Most Beautiful Place in America
Mr. EW and McCaffrey the MilleniaLab and I are off for the weekend--apparently, with a horde of others who take their travel tips from Good Morning America, which voted Sleeping Bear Dunes the most beautiful place in the US.
Between you…
The Government Still Doesn't Say Whether or Not It Has Recordings of James Risen
There's an interesting passage in this government filing to get Judge Leonie Brinkema to reconsider her guidelines regarding James Risen's testimony in the Jeffrey Sterling suit. It seems to address Brinkema's suggestion in her ruling that there…
Eric Cantor's Nuclear Failure
As I noted last week, the VA earthquake last week happened in Eric Cantor's district, just miles from a nuclear power plant. I reported then that the plant had lost power and switched to backup diesel generators.
But it turns out that…
