Preventative Detention and Our Crimes
When I think of indefinite detention, I think of all the reasons the government might prefer to use it with Zubaydah rather than admit the colossal mistakes the Bush Administration made with its torture program.
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WaPo Doubles Down on Conflict Over Truth
/71 Comments/in Torture/by emptywheelIn spite of the fact that it is becoming increasingly clear to the rest of the media that Porter Goss and Nancy Pelosi agree that they were not briefed that the CIA had already been torturing prisoners in September 2002, the WaPo has decided to double down on deliberately misreading events.
Trash Talk – The Axe Starts To Fall Edition
/77 Comments/in emptywheel, Football, Trash Talk/by emptywheelThree weeks left in the season, it’s go time baby. There are teams that are going to solidify their hold on a playoff position, and there are teams that are going to start falling victim to the axe. Here’s the rundown.
Live Blog of Auto Hearings: Senate Banking Committee
/31 Comments/in automobiles/by emptywheelChris Dodd’s committee invites the Big Two and a Half and UAW to visit.
Who Let The Dogs Out? The Hounds Of Hatfill and the Federal Rules of Evidence
/21 Comments/in Bush Administration, emptywheel, Law, Misc, Science, Terrorism/by emptywheelOkay, earlier I made a mostly flippant comment on the dogs in the Hatfill case. Despite it being mostly in jest, that comment had what I consider to be a critical, if not the critical, point in it. From what it appears, the only bit of “evidence” (and I use that descriptor loosely here, and in the generic sense, because I don’t think there was any proper evidence at all) against Hatfill that served as the basis for identifying him was that the dogs had alerted. How well does the dog scent evidence hold up to scrutiny? Not so well it turns out.
Gold Standard Gate, an Update
/43 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelGolly, I just remembered that people beyond Eliot Spitzer are facing political troubles–the WaPo has a story that slightly advances the NRCC story, including the CYA that the Republicans considered Christopher Ward, the treasurer at the center of the scandal, the “gold standard” in campaign finance compliance.
In the tiny world of people who keep the books for Washington’s multitude of political committees, Christopher J.
Iran-Contra 2.0
/55 Comments/in Foreign Policy/by emptywheelDavid Rose provides a detailed look at how screwed up our Gaza policy is.
More Funny Business with Record-Keeping?
/in emptywheel/by emptywheelHoly Shit. Remember TALON and CIFA? Here’s a description I wrote in April:
It was designed to gather intelligenceon threats to defense installments in the United States–to try tocollect information (in the TALON database) on threatening peoplescoping out domestic bases. But it ended up focusing on peace activists and the lefty blogosphere’s own Jesus’ General.