Salon’s Mark Benjamin gets to Taguba, knocking back the Daily Telegraph report:
Retired Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba denied reports that he has seen the prisoner-abuse photos that President Obama is fighting to keep secret, in an exclusive interview with Salon Friday night.
Read it here.
Perhaps the roll out of Sonia Sotomayor could have gone better for Barack Obama. She could have announced a cure for cancer in her first public address, for instance, or a recently discovered stockpile of cash that will settle out the national debt. Kim Jong Il might have called from North Korea to say that he liked her so much he was …
Think Progress gives us this gem from G. Gordon Liddy’s radio show, a moment where the host contemplates the prospect of a Justice Sotomayor:
LIDDY: Let’s hope that the key conferences aren’t when she’s menstruating or something, or just before she’s going to menstruate. That would really be bad. Lord knows what we would
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What is it about Iraq that seems to trigger everyone’s Twitter impulse? First, Pete Hoekstra tweets what was supposed to be a top-secret congressional trip to Baghdad. Now we find out more about Stephen Colbert’s trip to an ostensibly undisclosed location in the Persian Gulf. And how did we learn?
Anyway, this will be one …
Through the eye of photographer Brooks Kraft, and brought to us by our White House Photo Blog.
Newt Gingrich grabbed cable news chatter all week after Twittering that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor was a “Latina woman racist.” The ensuing controversy has not moderated his opposition.
Today, Renewing American Leadership, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that he heads, sent out an email to supporters calling on them to both “send blast …
Paul Slansky is at it again, with his index of this week’s news. And, once again, he has missed some important developments such as:
Rico, Puerto:
•Part of the United States, of which both NPR and the Washington Post editorial page seemed to have been unaware.
How about it, Swampland commenters? Anthing else that …
The Daily Telegraph report yesterday about the possibility of photos showing rape at Abu Ghraib has lead bloggers to resurrect a 2004 quote from New Yorker writer Seymour Hersh alleging that photos or video of such an event existed. (A commenter mentions the Hersh quote in a recent Swampland thread, as does Zach Roth at TPM and Larisa …
From TIME national security/intel correspondent Bobby Ghosh
It was a case of cyber-hooey and cyber… who? After a 60-day review of the nation’s cybersecurity policies, followed by a six-week turf war over which department should guard the nation in cyberspace, President Obama’s speech today was disappointingly long on …
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“There’s the E-word…”
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A couple of weeks ago, the Britain’s Daily Telegraph released what seemed to be a blockbuster story, which spread like wildfire over the Internet. “New ‘Prisoner Abuse’ Photographs Emerge Despite US Bid to Block Publication” ran the headline of a story by Alex Spillius. The article went on to claim that “Graphic photographs of alleged …
It’s not a complete sentence, but a stunning quote nonetheless. Here’s Tom Tancredo, on Sonia Sotomayor’s membership in the National Council of La Raza:
If you belong to an organization called La Raza, which is, from my point of view anyway, a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses.
From their point of view, La Raza describes …
If abortion rights advocates weren’t already experiencing heartburn over uncertainty about Sonia Sotomayor’s position on the constitutionality of abortion, this should do it. Steve Waldman reports on Beliefnet.com that professional conservative Catholic Bill Donohue plans to “quietly root for” Sotomayor.
You may remember Donohue from …
