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As Adam Serwer notes, one of the most interesting things about this long story on how Peter King came to split with a Muslim community close to his district as he increasingly attacked Muslims in general after 9/11 is the description of the way a novel of his tied al Qaeda, Long Island Muslims, and […]
DOD won’t let Ramzi bin al-Shibh’s lawyers know what drove him crazy.
Silvestre Reyes says that CIA lied to Congress. But Crazy Pete Hoekstra wants to politicize that rather than deal with the lies themselves.
Crazy Pete Hoekstra finds a journalists to help him manufacture political controversy again.
Porter Goss and Crazy Pete Hoekstra want to claim (and some commentators are buying that claim) that Democrats are complicit in torture and that’s why Obama isn’t supporting a truth commission. But a review of the known briefing shows that they’re not as complicit as Republicans.
The Chair of the VA GOP just on-upped Crazy Pete Hoekstra in his Twitter idiocy: He botched an attempt to flip the Senate by tweeting about it first.
It’s always disconcerting when a big paper like the WaPo agrees with Crazy Pete Hoekstra on substantive issues. But that’s particularly true when the paper is doing so on a subject they have massive conflicts on.
Crazy Pete Hoekstra says we can’t have federal whistleblower protection because it would expose sources and methods. Does that suggest to you that they’re doing stuff with TARP and stimulus that they shouldn’t be?
I’m all in favor of holding the several people in the White House who intervened to destroy evidence responsible for their actions.
But as we begin to hear about Jose Rodriguez considering immunity it might be well to remember what I pointed out when Rodriguez was first floating the idea of immunity.
In the hands of a less than shrewd majority and a politically reliable minority leader, immunity can be counter-productive. In the case of Monica Goodling, the Dems basically gave Monica a get out of jail card for nothing in exchange. Until I see that Crazy Pete Hoekstra’s heart is in the right place on this issue (which would, frankly, astound me), then I’d suggest we want to be very careful before we give Rodriguez something for nothing.
The reaction of members of Congress to news that the torture tapes were destroyed mystifies me. Crazy Pete Hoekstra’s on the same side as the Democrats. Porter Goss has a phalange of spokespeople but is apparently in hiding. Jello Jay Rockefeller seems to have taken cues from the CIA. For once, Jane Harman looks like she did the right thing! And I’m thinking of putting out an APB for Pat Roberts, who seems to have left the country.