Broadwell's Denver Appearance: Did She Cover Petraeus' Bad Briefs?
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Update: Sadly, it appears that the University of Denver has become cowardly and withdrawn the video, but I'm leaving the embed language in the post just to show the folly of their…
Why Would a Whistleblower Go to Eric Cantor?
The NYT reports that in late October, a "whistleblower" approached Eric Cantor to tell him about Petraeus' affair.
Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, said Saturday an F.B.I. employee whom his staff described as a whistle-blower told him…
Blowback: Stuxnet and the Ongoing Risk to Manufacturing Worldwide
Dear Chevron: Thanks for letting us know you’ve been infected with Stuxnet. It’s difficult to muster sympathy for your management or shareholders, because you were warned.This guy quite clearly warned your industry, as did other firms specializing…
Petraeus Knew of FBI Investigation During Benghazi Pushback
I'm supposed to be packing to move today, so I may not get to my post on how Big Brother and the Obama Administration's assault on leakers doomed Petraeus' career (though Josh Gerstein and Jesselyn Raddack hit on some of the issues).
For…
Chicago Style Trash Talk
Well, now that the little Le'Affaire du Patraeus thing is over (just kidding, Pete Hoekstra promises more to come!), we can now get back to the important stuff: Trash Talk. This edition is served up Chicago Style because no city has had a better…
SCOTUS Prepares to Decide 2016 Election
One of the unsung heros of this election is Thomas Perez, head of DOJ's Civil Rights Division. By aggressively challenging states trying to disenfranchise people of color, he prevented states from tipping the scale for Republicans.
Apparently,…
General Petraeus Heads Out to the Pineapple Fields
Multiple news outlets are reporting that General Petraeus just resigned as Director of CIA because of an extramarital affair.
Update, From his statement:
Yesterday afternoon, I went to the White House and asked the President to be allowed,…
As Predicted, Government "Finishes" Latif Autopsy after Election
Thirty-five days ago, I predicted the government would hold Adnan Latif's body on ice until after the election.
So are they going to hold Latif on ice until the election? Is that the idea?
Not long after, Jason Leopold revealed they did, indeed,…
The 2nd Richest County in the Country "Can't" Find Enough Qualified Poll Workers
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has completed its preliminary report about how pathetic our elections are (though it is not as critical as that). I'll have more to say about the report, but I got hung up on this passage:
In…
Miami-Dadistan Finishes Absentee, Provisional Ballot Counting, Media Still Doesn't Call Floriduh
Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections Penelope Townsley took great joy in pointing out to the Miami Herald that her county beat three other large Florida counties in finishing counting absentee and provisional ballots on Thursday, the third day…
Did Michael Hayden Pick the Contractor for Mitt's Voter Turnout Website?
A lot of people are laughing at this account of Mitt Romney's ORCA--and automated GOTV tracking system. Rather than the efficient new system that would leapfrog Obama's turnout machine, the system crashed even before the evening rush started.
The…
First a Leak (or Rumor) about Secret Bilateral Peace Talks, Then a Leak about a Drone-Plane Standoff
CNN is reporting that two Iranian jets shot at--but did not hit--a Predator drone flying in what their report says is international airspace (though see Max Fisher and Steve Hynd on the location).
Two Iranian Su-25 fighter jets fired on an…
The Top Unmentioned Obama Replacement: Robert Mueller
A slew of second-term cabinet speculation articles have come out (National Journal, first posted before the election, and NYT and USAT today).
And while they seem to indicate Jack Lew is likely to replace TurboTaxTimmeh Geithner and Secretary…
Missing White Women
There are several interesting pieces of analysis cementing the logic that Obama won and Republicans will continue to lose because there simply aren't that many angry old white men anymore. The WSJ surveys the demographic trends--including the…
Update From Miami-Dadistan: Vote Counting Continues into Third Day
Despite a claim from Grover Norquist Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez that "This is not a Third World country", his intentionally small government has now entered into its third day of attempting to count ballots from Tuesday's general election.…
500,000 Uncounted Ballots in Maricopa County AZ With Elections In the Lurch
A great deal of the country breathed a sigh of relief and assumed finality and normalcy in the election after last night. And, at first, such was the case in Maricopa County, Arizona. But then it was revealed there were uncounted ballots, a…
The Day After the Election, Mike Rogers Finally Decides To Do His Job
On October 2, 26 days ago and over a month before the election, I asked why Darrell Issa, rather than House Intelligence Chair Mike Rogers, was leading an investigation into the Benghazi attack.
Issa's subsequent investigation worked out…
"We are running out of angry old white men in this country"
Last we heard from the top leadership of my local Democratic Party in this blog, it was telling women at a women's political event that they had to support 61-year old (though not particularly angry) Steve Pestka because "he's with us on everything…
GOP Pays the Price for Authoritarianism--Will They Respond?
As a number of people--particularly conservatives--started to realize last night, Gary Johnson may have played spoiler for Mitt Romney in FL. Here are the current results from FL:
Mitt: 4,096,439
Obama: 4,143,534
Difference: 47,095
Johnson: 43,673
Johnson's…
Matty Moroun's Bridge to Nowhere
There was a lot of chatter last night about how unsuccessful millionaires and billionaires have been at buying political seats for themselves, with Linda McMahon now having spent $100M to lose two elections in Connecticut. The exception--Mike…