From my colleague Adam Zagorin (Hey-doesn’t he work for Jay Carney?) on TIME.com. The House Judiciary Committee is taking its investigation into the White House.
Raw Story has this development. Update to commenters: Okay, I should have said POTENTIAL Swift Boat Problem. (It’s Friday, cut me some slack.) But don’t forget, the SBVFT started out with almost no money. A relatively small ad buy became a big problem for Kerry. The point is, as the election sets itself on fast-forward, [...]
In his comment to my earlier post, Cfaller96 had some good questions regarding just how the Justice Department was given this new, broader power to replace US attorneys, which it got as part of the renewal of the Patriot Act: Something’s always bothered me about that PATRIOT act provision that was slipped in by a [...]
As predicted, David Petraeus is refusing to play along with the administration’s scenario regarding the surge. The only thing we are likely to know about the new tactics by August is if they’re not working. My guess is, the reports will be inconclusive: some quieter neighborhoods in Baghdad, but continued violence–especially in the ring of [...]
Big stories on the front pages of the NY Times and the Washpost suggest the FBI was, to put it charitably, incredibly sloppy with the extraordinary powers granted it after 9/11 to look into people’s personal records without having to get permission from a judge or a grand jury. This, of course, comes on top [...]
