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“Media Bias” Revealed

Two hilarious videos from CNN. First, we have Jack Cafferty ranting about the revelation that GOP House Leader Boehner has a lobbyist for a landlord; he solicits e-mails from the audience about it. Later, he reads some of these e-mails and Blitzer unfairly accuses him of bias while doing so. Pricelessly funny.

FISA Warrants Corrupted; Bush Lied to FISA Judges

Double-Naught Spy

Washington Post – this is a very, very important story. The 2nd page is more important than the first. More on this, and the Monday hearing, later. Bush absolutely knowingly and intentionally broke the law, and the FISA Court chief judges thought he was breaking the Constitution. He tried to corrupt two […]

$10,000 Bribes for FEMA Meal Fraud

New York Times, thanks to reader Allen.

FEMA Helps Iraq-Style Contractor Ripoff

Times-Picayune-Corruption still reigns in FEMA to this day, unstopped. We get the bill.

Katrina Evacuees Evicted

New Orleans Times-Picayune

As he moved out his belongings, Melvin Robinson, 40, said he did talk to a FEMA representative by phone and was told he didn’t qualify for an extension of his hotel stay because the agency is paying apartment rent for his family in Dallas, and wouldn’t support two residences for the family. […]

Wounded? Pay for Your Body Armor

Once again, more Pentagon mistreatment of brave Americans fighting for their country. When is this going to stop? It’s a disgrace.

Multi-Scandal Updates

Almost too much to keep up with here. In no particular order, first we have new GOP House Leader Boehner living in a “Duke Stir” style sweetheart arrangement with a lobbyist. Then you have John Dickerson at Slate describing how he was urged to help out Valerie Plame at the exact same moment in time […]

Nothing to Hide

NSA Program Utterly Ineffective

Definitive, smashing, crushing blow to Bush’s illegal domestic spying by the Washington Post.

Bush has recently described the warrantless operation as “terrorist surveillance” and summed it up by declaring that “if you’re talking to a member of al Qaeda, we want to know why.” But officials conversant with the program said a far more common […]

The Intelligence Committee Hearing produced this interesting exchange:

A similarly revealing sparring session came when Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, pressed the intelligence officials about whether a controversial Pentagon data-mining program called Total Information Awareness had been effectively transferred to the intelligence agencies after being shut down by Congress.

Mr. Negroponte and the F.B.I. […]