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Blackwater’s Nay-Sayer in HPSCI: Crazy Pete Hoekstra

You know how Crazy Pete Hoekstra has led the chorus of those who claim Leon Panetta should never have briefed Congress on the secret assassination squads? To his credit, he’s doing it even now that Blackwater’s role has been revealed.

“I think there was a little more drama and intrigue than was warranted,” said Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee.

Um, yeah.

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Joe Klein, Do You Really Think Crazy Pete Is Credible?!?!?!

Mr. emptywheel and I have a running joke about “English Day”–where your dog, for one day only out of his entire life, can speak and understand English. What would we learn in that one day, we speculate, when McCaffrey the MilleniaLab could tell us precisely what he was thinking?

Which gives me another cool idea–“Source Day”–where for one day, we can see all of the sources that journalists use and consider credible.

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How Does a Competent Jihadi Act after 21 Months of Solitary Confinement?

I would be shocked if, after today’s appeal hearing in Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s trial, he were granted a new trial on competency grounds. On the panel, David McKeague seemed completely skeptical on legal grounds, Jane Branstetter Stranch seemed skeptical on the central competency issue, leaving Curtis Collier (a District Judge on loan from E TN) with […]

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Pete Hoekstra Mocks His Asian-American Neighbors

[youtube]kxw4uZAezaI[/youtube] When I first saw Crazy Pete Hoekstra’s racist ad, I thought the woman in it–who is supposed to depict a Chinese woman who speaks English well–looked more Thai or Laotian than Han Chinese. And while Hoekstra claims that her parents are “100% Chinese” there are unconfirmed reports that the actress is actually Laotian-American. Which […]