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Obama Holding Off on Declassification Order Bush Made

Development of a new executive order on classification of national security information is now proceeding at an accelerated pace in order to preempt a deadline that would require the declassification of millions of pages of historical records next ...

From EMPTYWHEEL, Emptywheel,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush

The Iraq War Files

Tony Blair, the former prime minister, misled MPs and the public throughout 2002 when he claimed that Britain’s objective was “disarmament, not regime change” and that there had been no planning for military action. In fact, British military planning ...

From EMPTYWHEEL, Emptywheel,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Tony Blair

NY Post Floats Dimon to Replace Geithner

Talk about unclear on the concept! The NY Post claims that “a number of policy makers” have proposed ousting Geithner and giving the position of Treasury Secretary to one of the MOTUs who was effectively Geithner’s “client” at both the NY Fed and ...

From EMPTYWHEEL, Emptywheel,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  Washington Mutual, Inc.,  Peter DeFazio,  CNBC

How Dick Cheney Cowed Obama

April 17: Greg Craig moves to release Uighurs in US April 20: Dick Cheney says mean things about Obama April 23: Administration says it will release torture photos Mid-May: Obama flip-flops on military commissions and release of Uighurs May 21: Obama’s ...

From EMPTYWHEEL, Emptywheel,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

EFF FOIA Working Thead, Three

Note: EFF has added one more set of documents–from the Civil Division. So if you think you’re done, you might not be, yet. The two sets of documents are: And here’s the Vaughn Indices DOJ earlier submitted on these documents to help you figure out what ...

From EMPTYWHEEL, Emptywheel,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Steven Bradbury,  George W. Bush,  House Intelligence Committee,  National Security Agency,  Al-Qaeda

Why Do Comey and Goldsmith Hate America Military Commissions?

I realize that Eric Holder couldn’t really have told the squawking Republicans that military commissions are much riskier a place to charge alleged terrorists than civilian courts. Which is why I’m grateful that Jim Comey and Jack Goldsmith did. In ...

From EMPTYWHEEL, Emptywheel,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Eric Holder,  Osama bin Laden,  George W. Bush,  Richard Reid

Crazy Pete Hoekstra’s NSA Dirty Work and Nidal Hasan

It’s basically an email from Chris Donesa, a Republican HPSCI staffer, to a bunch of people at DNI, DOJ, and NSA who had been involved in the Protect America Act passage, followed by a letter Crazy Pete Hoekstra sent to NYT’s Bill Keller. He includes ...

From EMPTYWHEEL, Emptywheel,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Security Agency,  Pete Hoekstra,  U.S. Republican Party,  Bill Keller,  New York Times Company

Studs Terkel, Terrorist

No, I’m not really claiming that Studs Terkel was a terrorist. But, after reading his FBI file, you get a renewed sense of what the FBI’s files on Muslims and DOD’s files on peace activists must look like. It’s worth a gander, if only for a reminder of ...

From EMPTYWHEEL, Emptywheel,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Studs Terkel,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  U.S. Congress,  George W. Bush,  White House

Dana “Pig Missile” Perino to Help Oversee TV Marti

Awwwwww … isn’t this just so nice & cute — so post-presidential? And what a boost for the perinosphere: the divine Miss Piggymissile given an actual-for-god real reason to search for a missing link between the connubi of her encyclicalic knowledge base ...

From EMPTYWHEEL, Emptywheel,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Planned Parenthood,  George W. Bush,  Barack Obama

Republicans Refuse to Hear Holder’s Claims about Civilian Trials

If you suspended disbelief in yesterday’s DOJ oversight hearing and pretend this wasn’t about demagoguing and protecting torturers, the Republican attacks on Eric Holder’s decision to try five of the 9/11 detainees raise good points. They argue: The 9/1 ...

From EMPTYWHEEL, Emptywheel,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Eric Holder,  Al-Qaeda,  Mary Jo White,  Chuck Schumer

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