The Exigent Letter IG Report
Remember how I suggested that yesterday's WaPo story on exigent letters might be an attempt to pre-empt the IG Report?
Well, here's that IG Report.
I'm working on a longer post, but MadDog can't wait, so consider this a working thread…
Outside the Courtroom: "Sassy Parody" and Cindy McCain Against Hate
Two updates on the Prop 8 fight happening outside the courtroom. First, Protect Marriage has just sued the Courage Campaign for what it says is trademark infringement. At issue is the logo (on the left) Courage Campaign is using for its trial…
Lanny Davis's Rent-a-Wisdom
Lanny Davis has wasted no time trying to spin MA voters' rejection of Obama's focus on corporations rather than people into an attack on progressives. He starts by ignoring that aspect of the liberal complaint and (as the Administration is doing)…
John Yoo: Much More, and Much Less, Than a "Mere Lawyer"
Yoo casts himself here as a mere lawyer, but he was much more (and much less).
So reads the Padilla response to Yoo's efforts to dismiss Padilla's suit against him.
Padilla's team goes on to argue why the 9th Circuit must allow Padilla's…
The FBI's Non-Emergency Exigent Letters
The WaPo has a story out describing how the FBI, from 2002 until 2006, used exigent letters to collect phone records without the proper underlying terrorist justification.
The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records…
Prop 8 Trial: A Tale of Two Lawyers
As I've been processing the three days I spent at the Prop 8 Trial last week, there's been a lot to think about: how much I learned about gay experience, both historically and psychologically; how odd a role I had as an observer (the journalists…
The Murders (?) at Camp No
I don't have time to comment at length on this Scott Horton article--revealing many details surrounding the deaths of three Gitmo detainees claimed to have killed themselves. But go read the whole thing.
Here's an excerpt--which suggests…
On Gruber: I Don't Want Apologies. I Want Independent Analysis.
Between the auto show and the Prop 8 trial and associated travel, last week was tremendously exhausting for me and it will take me several days to actually report on those two events. But it seems one thing hasn't moved on very much since last…
NY Times Admits Gruber Problem, Fails To Mention Krugman Problem
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bmazIn a full throated mea culpa by the New York Times Public Editor, Clark Hoyt, appearing in the Sunday edition, the Times officially describes the critical and material implications which arise when readers are misled by undisclosed interests of sources and authors like Jonathan Gruber in their paper of record. Unfortunately, Hoyt and the Times did not have the decency to apologize to Marcy Wheeler for previously inferring otherwise.
Divisional Playoffs Weekend Trash Talk
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bmazDivisional playoffs have arrived. Gonna be a huge weekend for NFL football.
Liveblogging the Prop 8 Trial, Friday PM addendum
Zia: In most immediate sense, it was in how our families related to us. When we first got married. We have a niece, 2 years old, only known us Auntie Helen and Auntie Leah. WHen she saw Leah and me, she gave us a big hug, said, Auntie Leah,…
Liveblogging the Prop 8 Trial: Day Five Friday PM Two (21)
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Liveblogging the Prop 8 Trial: Day Five Friday PM(20)
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Liveblogging the Prop 8 Trial: Day Five Friday AM (19)
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Liveblogging the Prop 8 Trial: Day Five Friday AM (18)
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New ACLU Torture FOIA Docs Working Thread
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bmazNew docs to comb through on the torture tape destruction!
Liveblogging Prop 8 Trial: Day Four, Thursday PM One (Sixteen)
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Liveblogging Prop 8 Trial: Day Four, Thursday AM Two (Fifteen)
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Liveblogging Prop 8 Trial: Day Four, Thursday AM One (Fourteen)
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China Google Attack and the Terrorist Surveillance Program
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bmazDoes the Chinese Google attack impinge on the top secret US Terrorist Surveillance Program? It might.