Shorter the Neocons: Let Our General Go!
Neocon scribes Eli Lake and Josh Rogin published a piece asserting that the man whose COIN theories failed in 3 different war theaters is making a comeback undermined only by his extramarital affair....
View ArticleLanny Breuer’s Conflicts
NYT has a story based off a CREW FOIA for details of FBI’s investigations into John Ensign’s efforts to buy off his mistress’ husband. While the details show Ensign was even more sleazy than we knew,...
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Yes, Eric Holder Does Do the Intelligence Community’s Bidding in Leak...
The second-to-last witness in the government’s case against Jeffrey Sterling, FBI Special Agent Ashley Hunt, introduced a number of things she had collected over the course of her 7.5 year...
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David Petraeus Gets Hand-Slap for Leaking, Two Point Enhancement for...
Cross posted from ExposeFacts. As a supine Congress sitting inside a scaffolded dome applauded Benjamin Netanyahu calling to reject a peace deal with Iran, DOJ quietly announced it had reached a plea...
View ArticleLeon Panetta: Sheep Dipping Secrets
POGO has a story that adds a new twist to an old story. The old story is Leon Panetta, leaking classified info, in this case, leaking info on the Osama bin Laden raid to a Zero Dark Thirty executive....
View ArticleBREAKING: CIA Admits to SSCI Millions of Its Official Records Are Badly...
As I noted in this post, today John Brennan will try to convince Dianne Feinstein and Saxby Chambliss that their (well, really McCain and the Democrats’) 6,000 page report documenting that torture...
View ArticleOperation Stall
McClatchy has now posted an update to the tale of the CIA-SSCI spat. It appears the following happened: Sometime around August, SSCI staffers working on a database at CIA discovered the internal CIA...
View ArticleJohn Kiriakou’s Prosecution Is an Important Precedent to CIA – Senate...
On several occasions, I have pointed to the arbitrary system our classification system constructs. It asks government employees to spy on their colleagues. It permits agencies to conduct fishing...
View ArticleWhere the Bodies Are Buried: A Constitutional Crisis Feinstein Better Be...
In a piece at MoJo, David Corn argues the Senate Intelligence Committee – CIA fight has grown into a Constitutional crisis. What Feinstein didn’t say—but it’s surely implied—is that without effective...
View ArticleState’s Funny View of Our Democracy
In addition to its story about the State Department talking points it “accidentally” got (see my post on that), the AP included the talking points themselves. The talking points are particularly...
View ArticlePutting the Torture Back in the Torture Whistleblowing Case
Kevin Gosztola has suggested and Josh Gerstein has confirmed that, along with Matthew Cole and Scott Shane, John Kiriakou has subpoenaed the Washington Post’s Julie Tate to give a deposition in his...
View ArticleEric Holder Rewards the Teams that Gave Torturers and Mortgage Fraudsters...
As TPM’s Ryan Reilly noted yesterday, among the awards Attorney General Eric Holder gave out at yesterday’s Attorney General’s Award Ceremony was a Distinguished Service Award to John Durham’s...
View ArticleThe US Attorney for CIA Scrambles to Cover-Up CIA’s Torture, Again
Bmaz just wrote a long post talking about the dilemma John Kiriakou faces as the government and his defense lawyers attempt to get him to accept a plea deal rather than go to trial for leaking the...
View ArticleRemember Larry Franklin…
I’m not a fan at all of what Larry Franklin did–leaking documents to help drum up a more hawkish policy on Iran. But amid the news that John Kiriakou’s lawyer, Plato Cacheris, has docketed a change of...
View ArticleWill Michael Vickers Now Be Subjected to Forced Nudity?
If you’ve been following the Bradley Manning case at all, you know the government treats alleged leakers by inventing reasons to take away their clothes away. So I wonder whether they’ll now subject...
View ArticleBlabby Brennan to Replace Publicity Petraeus at CIA?
“He is a horrendously political animal, and there will be a tendency to politicize information to put the best spin for the administration on it.” –An anonymous CIA officer, speaking of John Brennan,...
View ArticleWill NYT’s Ombud Encourage a NYT Pre-Sentencing Memo for Bradley Manning, Too?
When I first read Scott Shane’s long profile of John Kiriakou, I thought, “how interesting that the NYT is doing a piece that exposes the government’s double standards just in time for the sentencing...
View ArticleOK, But Can We Also Fire Lanny Breuer?
I’ve lost count of how many White House petitions are seeking some kind of vengeance for the harsh treatment of Aaron Swartz. Fire Carmen Ortiz. Fire Stephen Heymann. Pardon Swartz. Commute John...
View ArticleCIA’s Torturers Get Their Scalp
With the news that John Kiriakou will head to prison for 30 months, it’s worth remembering how he got sent there. It started when CIA officers claimed that when Gitmo defense attorneys provided photos...
View ArticleJohn Brennan’s Kangaroo Court
Congratulations to Barack Obama, whose invisible hand censor has made Gitmo even more of a kangaroo court than it was under Bush. As Jim laid out, over the last two days of Gitmo hearings, we saw...
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