You know what’s really absurd? That more than four years into this war, we’re arguing about whether or not it’s safe to take a walk in Iraq’s capitol city.
The Scandal
The House of Representatives voted yesterday to kill a little-known PATRIOT Act provision which literally no member of Congress knew about until it was discovered that the Administration was using it to skip Senate confirmation for US Attorneys.
The Senate already scrapped the provision last week, and now that the House has too, it’ll go […]
You may have already heard about this story but I thought it was worth posting anyways. In New Jersey, an Army recruiter found some kid’s resume posted online and contacted him to try and recruit him for the military. The kid (who happened to be African American and gay) wrote back saying that he (like […]
The White House and the DoJ have been fairly inconsistent throughout this whole US Attorney firing scandal so far. They keep changing their story, but one thing that has been consistent is their claims that no laws have been violated, although many suspect there was improper political maneuvering behind the scenes. Yes, there may be […]
By the way, you might be interested in a new piece I just wrote for BradBlog. It’s about how some of the US Attorney firings and replacements could potentially have a big impact on the 2008 Presidential election. Here’s a preview…
When Justice Department and White House officials first tried to explain the US Attorney firings, […]
Recently it became clear that the Bush Administration fired two US Attorneys (federal prosecutors) after they refused to push for the death penalty in some cases because they believed it was morally wrong.
President Bush has a long history of being very supportive of the death penalty, so I thought I’d create a chart to show […]
Iraq
Today the Senate will take up a bill similar to the one which narrowly passed the House of Representatives last week, which will include a binding requirement for US troops to be out of Iraq by March 2008 (the House version said August 31st). Both bills are attached to funding provisons for the war, in […]
There’s really no other way to put it. Condoleezza Rice is truly horrible at her job. She’s an absolute wreck of a Secretary of State. When she served as National Security Counsel to the president before changing roles, she admitted that she was doing a horrible job and tried to resign. Bush promoted her to […]
Jeralyn over at TalkLeft flags a February 24th Washington Post article which notes that both Margaret Chiara, the fired US Attorney for Michigan– and Paul Charlton, the former US Attorney for Arizona were purged after they parted ways with the Administration over use of the death penalty. Wrote the Post in late Feb:
Chiara — who […]
From a totally overlooked USA Today article the other day:
Three of the eight federal prosecutors ousted by the Justice Department as poor performers ranked in the top 10 for prosecutions and convictions by the nation’s 93 U.S. attorneys, an analysis of court records shows.
Court records covering the last five years show large volumes of immigration […]
Just thought I’d give a quick heads up… I’m happy to share that I just had a column published over at IraqSlogger, one of the best Iraq-dedicated news websites, which is run by reporters and former military experts. The column is about how Iraqis and Amerians surprisingly agree on more than most might think, according […]
This past week, South Carolina’s state legislature (the one that still has the Confederate flag flying outside their building) permanently wrote discrimination into their state constitution by banning equal rights for gay Americans. No offense, South Carolina, but this move only strengthens your kind of shitty record on equal rights, civil rights and human rights.
Republican […]
Here’s a headline for you:
According to Cheney, the House of Representatives doesn’t “support the troops” because they voted in favor of a binding resolution to withdraw them from Iraq by August 31st, 2008. Here’s the thing. Turns out the majority of Americans disagree with the Vice President.
According to a March 14-15 Newsweek poll, when respondents […]
Politics makes for strange bedfellows, the old expression goes. That’s what I thought when I read the headline “GOP presidential candidate Giuliani questions term ‘war on terror’” and realized that I agree with him on the phrase “war on terror.” But I dislike it for totally different reasons that he dislikes the phrase.
Giuliani thinks that […]
Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), of the Senate Judiciary Committee said today “He has always been straightforward and honest with me… So, unless there is clear evidence that the attorney general deliberately lied or misled Congress, I see no reason to call for his resignation.” Okay, Hatch. You want your clear evidence that he deliberately lied and […]
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