More Archiving Headaches for the Poor Bush Administration
This time, with a judge telling them to go look again for those missing White House emails.
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia today granted the National Security Archive’s emergency motion for an extended preservation order to protect missing White House e-mails. With the transition from the Bush Administration to the Obama Administration taking place in six days, and all the records of the Bush
What about Abu Zubaydah?
Susan Crawford, who's in charge of Gitmo show trials, admits that Mohammed al-Qahtani was tortured. Why wasn't she asked about Abu Zubaydah?
One Night of Indigestion for Obama
I wouldn't have wanted to dine with the three horsemen of right wing banality. But if Obama wants to, more power to him.
Those Evil Dems Are Preventing Bush from Archiving Properly
Poor George Bush. Those mean Democrats are preventing him from fulfilling his duty to archive the evidence of his crimes.
The OLC Opinion Eliminating the 4th Amendment (and "Justifying" the Warrantless Wiretap Program)
Remember that OLC opinion abolishing the 4th amendment? Well, it pretty clearly provides the basis for the Administration's illegal wiretap program.
Shorter Schloz' Criminal Referral
Is here. Or rather, the Inspector General's report describing his criminal referral for lying to Congress.
We have referred this matter to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia for a decision on whether the evidence warrants a criminal prosecution. We provided to the prosecutor the evidence we gathered in the course of our investigation, including transcripts of interviews and relevant documents and e-mails.
Hillary Confirmation Hearings Open Thread
When Senators hold confirmation hearings for their own, it's really more of an organized love fest than a contentious hearing.
Orrin Hatch to Support Holder Yet the Delay and Kabuki Continues
Given that Orrin Hatch will support--and has always said he would support--Eric Holder, the big drama over his difficult confirmation must be intended to serve some other purpose. As I've been saying, one thing it will do is postpone the time until Obama has a working DOJ.
The Congressional Research Service Says the Senate Can Exclude Burris
CRS says that the Senate can exclude Roland Burris. But that doesn't mean they will.
TARP, the Consumer-Driven Version?
Larry Summers assures Congress that Obama will use TARP to get money in the hands of small businesses and consumers. That's good--because we already have proof that doing so will help the economy.
Oh Noes! Lobbyists Standing in Line with Labor Leaders!!
The business lobbyists who used to run the White House are complaining about the treatment they're now getting. I know that will make you sob for them.
The Reid/Durbin Fabrication On Burris
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bmazIllinois law and the Constitution have always been contra to Reid and Durbin's intransigence on Burris, but the disingenuous duo have always fallen back on their precious ancient Senate Rule II. But not only is their fallback claim that Senate Rule II is mandatory completely false, there is clear precedent of deviation from the Rule six years ago in the nepotistic Murkowski appointment in Alaska.
We're All Detroit, MI Now
A while back, I wrote a post called We're all Flint, MI now. Mitch Albom just wrote a story that might as well be called We're all Detroit, now. It's long--so to induce you to read it, I'm going to give you an almost-spoiler.Because we may be a few steps behind the rest of the country, but we're a few steps ahead of it too.
Trash Talk: The Return of the Hubcap!
Sorry, no music for this week's trash, but we've got hubcaps!!
Democrats Trying to Reverse Bush's Attempt to Dismantle UAW by Fiat
It looks like Barney Frank is trying to reverse the really punitive aspects of the auto rescue plan snuck into the loan terms by Bush.
Abu G's New Book
Alberto Gonzales is writing a book. Honest--he'll set the record straight. He says.
The Method to Blagojevich's Sam Adam's Madness
On reflection, it's just really neat the way the Blagojevich offer to Burris ended up in an offer--certainly picked up by wiretaps--that emphasized Burris' qualifications for the office.
Lon Monk and Roland Burris
Roland Burris' admission that he spoke with Lon Monk about the Senate seat is interesting for several reasons--not least because Monk is centrally tied to the allegations against Blago.
Blago's Dog and Pony Presser
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bmazOkay EW is tied up and will be along in a bit, but Rod Blagojevich just had a fascinating press conference. Like a demented king (there is that Elvis parallel again) holding forth in his court. Probably not for long, but the guy knows how to play a room, you have to give him that.Blago rambled around about how he has brought healthcare to the poor, which he actually did
Oh, Now They're Trying to Insist on Their Responsibility to Archive
Sounds like John Bates wants to make sure his order giving HJC the documents pertaining to the US Attorney firings goes into effect sooner rather than later.