About That FBI Investigation of the Benghazi Attack...
The NYT's Eric Schmitt reports that JSOC is preparing target packages for those who attacked the Benghazi consulate.
The American military’s top-secret Joint Special Operations Command is preparing detailed information that could be used…
Winter™ -- Property of The Weather Channel®
With a lot of self-justifying, back-patting hoopla today, The Weather Channel announced it's decided unilaterally to assign names to winter storms.
During the upcoming 2012-13 winter season The Weather Channel will name noteworthy winter…
That Pico de Gallo Mitt Had for Lunch?
It may have been made from dirty tomatoes.
The Denver press made a big deal out of the fact that Mitt chose to eat lunch at Chipotle today.
Mitt Romney, in Denver to prepare for Wednesday's debate, stopped in at a Chipotle on Tuesday. He…
Why Can't Darrell Issa Read the Wall Street Journal?
In addition to the rather amusing fact that Darrell Issa is conducting an investigation that Mike Rogers should be conducting, there's another oddity about his "investigation." The answers to the questions he asks Hillary Clinton have been available…
Why Is Darrell Issa Doing Mike Rogers' Job?
In his latest of a series of posts on the Benghazi strike, Eli Lake reveals that Darrell Issa and Jason Chaffetz have written a letter to Hillary Clinton suggesting State ignored intelligence about terrorists in Benghazi.
In the five months…
Confusion Rules in Afghanistan
Still steadfastly refusing to admit publicly that its Afghanistan strategy has failed completely and that a new, more rapid timetable for withdrawal must be developed before the November election, the Obama administration and its Department…
Why Is Jose Rodriguez Hanging Out John Brennan NOW?
I'm no fan of either Jose Rodriguez or John Brennan. So I take no pleasure that the former is blaming the latter for a big intelligence scam carried out against the CIA back in the day.
As head of the multi-agency Terrorist Threat Integration…
Meet the Guy Who Picks Up 15 Tons of Trash Mitt Is Trying to Shortchange
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AFSCME has launched a fascinating campaign, introducing people to the current sanitation worker, a former one, and the firetruck maintenance guy who service Mitt's La Jolla home.
It's a great campaign for…
We Still Don't Entitle Presidents
Steven Pearlstein collects a slew of things the plutocrats believe they're entitled to. The whole list is worth reading.
But I'm interested in the way he invokes Mitt Romney with them. (These are taken from the second half of Pearlstein's…
The Joy of Real Referees For the NFL Trash Talk
The real refs are back, and the scabs are gone. This is a very good thing for the integrity of the sport; the cockup that cost the Packers the game in Seattle was just too much. After that, how in the world could the NFL send a team of scabs…
I Don't Think Luddite Means What CNN Thinks It Means
CNN's Security Clearance blog thinks it has exposed Janet Napolitano as a Luddite.
Napolitano said she does not use email "at all."
"For a whole host of reasons. So, I don't have any of my own accounts and that, you know, I'm very secure,"…
Behind the Humble Blue Pickup Scott Brown Has Been Working for Banks with Ties to Home-Stealing Forgers
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Remember when Scott Brown used his old GMC pickup to promise he'd change business as usual in Washington?
In a bid to force Elizabeth Warren to reveal her clients going back decades, Brown made this admission.
“I…
Rebecca Solnit's Mirror
I've been laughing my ass off at the number of lefties who have linked to--or republished--this Rebecca Solnit piece scolding her "dismal allies" for being such grumps.
It's not so much I mind someone trying to persuade progressives of the…
Panetta, DoD Use Semantic Games to Claim Joint Operations Nearly Normal Again in Afghanistan
Late Thursday, Leon Panetta contributed even further to his diminishing credibility by trying to claim that joint missions between US and Afghan troops are returning nearly to normal levels. From the Washington Post:
Most U.S. and NATO…
Steven Bradbury's Revenge
Since I noted in August 2011 that Mitt had named two torture architects to his legal advisory committee (Tim Flanigan and Steve Bradbury), I have had zero doubt that Mitt would embrace torture if he were President. So Charlie Savage's story--reporting…
Maybe Congress Doesn't Want Constituents to Know Surveillance Has Spiked Under Obama?
The ACLU sued the government to get it to release the reports on how much DOJ has used Pen Registers and Trap and Trace devices to get criminal suspects' phone and email call records.
The records show a sharp increase in the use of PR/TT…
No Easy Day, WikiLeaks, and Mitt's 47%: Three Different Approaches to Illicitly-Released Information
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Last week, DOD issued a guidance memo instructing DOD personnel what they are--and are not--permitted to do with the Matt Bissonnettte book, No Easy Day, that they claim has sensitive and maybe even classified…
How Many Ways Out of Afghanistan?
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Ain't but one way out baby, Lord I just can't go out that door.
The long-stated "mission" for NATO forces in Afghanistan has been to train Afghan security forces so that they…
The Mushroom Cloud Thinking Fostered By Our War on Terror
Foreign Policy has a must read article describing how much more support for torture there is now than there was when it was the affirmative policy of our country.
Respondents in 2012 are more pro-waterboarding, pro-threatening prisoners with…
Jay Bybee Wrote Memo Permitting Broad Sharing of Intelligence-Related Grand Jury Information
In March 2011, I noted a previously unreleased OLC memo mentioned in Jack Goldsmith's May 6, 2004 illegal wiretapping memo seemingly giving the President broad authority to learn about grand jury investigations.
For example, this Office has…