Where 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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