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An FBI interview from the Plame case. They are relying on a Bush torture lawyer’s argument. I can think of more than one possibility here, one is that Holder thinks this is a good legal strategy and truly wants to hide Cheney’s interview from public release, where it will “end up on the Daily Show” (actual quote). Another possibility is that since Bush’s lawyers were so terrible, they are letting Bush, by proxy, defend the censorship of the FBI interview, and they expect the judge to reject that defense.

Husband and former staffer of Republican Nevada US Senator John Ensign sent this letter to Fox News five days before the Senator held a rushed press conference to admit to an affair with the former staffer’s wife, who also was one of the Senator’s staffers at time of the affair. This means that Fox News had a major Lewinsky-style scandal on its hands as a “scoop” for at least five days, but the accused politician was Republican, so they did nothing. They now even deny receiving the letter.  Oh, and Tom Coburn, the fearless scourge of teenage lesbians in rural Oklahoma school bathrooms, seems to have been involved as well.

Smearing a guy that did not in fact, try to blackmail him? Truly making a bad situation worse, and if I were the man whose former boss had had an affair with my wife, then accused me falsely of blackmail, I’d be ready to sue his ass.

You can always count on an Oklahoma Senator to attack trains and the people who ride them.  Boren, Kerr, they have all done it.  Oklahoma City is so sprawling that the first time I ever went there, there were cows grazing in the middle of downtown.  Oil companies love this, they planned it that way.

Americans such as Bill Clinton. Is that “domestic” enough for you?

Since April, when it was disclosed that the intercepts of some private communications of Americans went beyond legal limits in late 2008 and early 2009, several Congressional committees have been investigating. Those inquiries have led to concerns in Congress about the agency’s ability to collect and read domestic e-mail messages of Americans on a widespread basis, officials said. Supporting that conclusion is the account of a former N.S.A. analyst who, in a series of interviews, described being trained in 2005 for a program in which the agency routinely examined large volumes of Americans’ e-mail messages without court warrants. Two intelligence officials confirmed that the program was still in operation.