Peter Swire at Think Progress finds some 2006 Gonzales testimony regarding the NSA wiretap program that’s looking a tad, um, inconvenient at the moment: GONZALES: Senator, here is a response that I feel that I can give with respect to recent speculation or stories about disagreements. There has not been any serious disagreement, including — [...]
Why do I have the feeling that all those pundits who swooned over Giuliani’s ferret moment last night (with Ron Paul, fittingly, in the role of the ferret) will wake up sometime this afternoon and hurriedly search for their high heels and party dress, hoping to slink unnoticed past the RA’s room before someone catches [...]
Today on the Trail is a compendium of notable campaign events. It is pulled together by the faceless Swampland Intern in exchange for scraps of bread. Almost-candidate Chuck Hagel discusses “America’s Role In The World” at the Center for National Policy in Washington. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards & Bill Richardson meet with the [...]
This just in* from the conservative guru who pioneered direct-mail fundraising: “If the Republican Party nominates Rudy Giuliani as its candidate for either president or vice president, I will personally work to defeat the GOP ticket in 2008,” says Richard A. Viguerie, author of Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans [...]
This is all too believable, but it needs some further explanation. First, as many of you may be aware, I favor the NSA’s data-mining operation. As I understand it, it works like this: it’s a front-end computer program that is used to detect patterns of phone calls or emails coming into the US from known [...]
