We Just Made Torture Prosecutions The Top Question at Change.Gov (Ari Melber)
As many DailyKos readers know, a whopping 70,000 questions poured into Change.gov over the past week, in response to the Obama transition team's call for citizen queries. After votes from about...
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Morning Feature: Blago does Eastwood? (Thriller Thursday)
Welcome to another Thriller Thursday, where artist nonnie9999 and I offer the Kula Krew a place to gather for Koffee, Kuddles, and Konversation around a news event from the past week that really,...
View ArticleBurris: IOKIYAR
Roland Burris spoke to Rod Blagojevich! Name a Politician in Illinois who hasn't? We all knew he was lying...but in the matter of lies...this was a tiny one.Heck Bill Clinton lied too and he got...
View ArticleLooking in Mirror, Carlson Calls Jon Stewart Partisan Hack
Jon Stewart's demolition Thursday of CNBC's Jim Cramer may pale in importance to Edward R. Murrow's historic 1954 take-down of Joe McCarthy, but those who most likely would have backed the red-baiting...
View ArticleVan Susteren Joins Carlson with Conflict of Interest
This has been a busy week for journalistic conflicts of interest. Over the weekend, former MSNBC host Tucker Carlson blasted Jon Stewart as a "partisan hack," a charge made without noting either his...
View ArticleJust Wait It Out
[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster.]John Cole of Balloon Juiceobliquely glanced off my primary question about the current torture uproar yesterday by asking how does he (Cheney) get away with it? ,...
View ArticleWe need Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate torture
Things are inching towards the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate torture. My concern all along has been that we need to ensure that the investigations don't derail important...
View ArticleTorture and Obama: Let the Law Work
President Barack Obama seems awfully conflicted about the continuing debate over what to do about the torture of U.S. prisoners during the Bush Administration. There are increasing calls for a special...
View ArticleBlatant lies: Iraq-WMD-9/11 timeline
Dick Cheney recently decided to link Iraq/9-11/WMDs. I decided that this couldn't go unchallenged. So my friend Michael (who is amazing) and I incorporated timelines from the Plame outing, Iraq WMD...
View ArticleBlatant lies: Iraq-WMD-9/11 "link" timeline
This is a repost. I've been asked repeatedly to post it again. If I'm not supposed to and an administrator wants me to delete it I will.Dick Cheney recently decided to link Iraq/9-11/WMDs. I decided...
View ArticleThe Wreck of the Patrick Fitzgerald
Why is Patrick Fitzgerald threatening to sue HarperCollins for publishing the re-issue of Peter Lance's "Triple Cross"? Well, here are some actual reasons that a big-time player like Fitzgerald would...
View ArticleIt's Fitzmas!!!!
Pat Fitzgerald Named Interim Chairman of AG Advisory CommitteeIn his new role, Fitzgerald will be the lead voice for the U.S. attorney community. It’s the latest high-profile assignment for America’s...
View ArticleCheney Turns to Sgt. Schultz Defense in Plame Case
During the controversy over the Bush administration's prosecutor purge in 2007, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales raised selective amnesia to an art form. In one single day of Congressional...
View ArticlePaging Patrick Fitzgerald: "Missing" White House Emails Found
Remember those 22 million White House emails that the last Bush Administration "lost" while Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation into Plamegate was underway? Well, they've been found, according to the...
View ArticleHow about a Booster shot for Cheney's Failing Memory
Exhibit A: Cheney Knows Nothing!http://www.youtube.com/...Melanie Sloan: In his FBI interview He [Cheney] says, 'I don't recall.''I don't remember.''I don't know.'well over 75 timesWhy is it Cheney...
View ArticleCheney to FBI: I don't recall, I don't remember -- I Know Nothing!
Exhibit A: Cheney admits it He Knows Nothing!http://www.youtube.com/...Melanie Sloan: In his FBI interview He [Cheney] says, 'I don't recall.''I don't remember.''I don't know.'well over 75 timesWhy...
View ArticleGoldman, Sachs starts talking
The joys of existence in and around Wall Street continue as before.Madness reigns: Goldman, Sachs has issued a formal statement.No one here at DKOS will be shocked. However the language, together with...
View ArticleAmerican Torture Trials Finally Begin - but not where you'd expect
It's been a long time waiting for someone to held accountable for the torture and human rights violations we all know have been going on for some time. And today an actual torture trial is beginning,...
View ArticleJon Burge: N-----, you're going to tell me what I want to know
From the Chicago Tribune: Anthony Holmes, 63, said that on May 29, 1973, Burge and other officers burst into the South Side home, arrested him at gunpoint and took him to the old Area 2 headquarters....
View ArticleIs Scooter Libby Tucker Carlson's Own Journolist Scandal?
On Thursday, Daily Caller editor Tucker Carlson ratched up his assault on Journolist, the liberal email list managed by the Washington Post's Ezra Klein. In a letter to his readers, Carlson suggested...
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