Bill Frist strikes again:
An FBI raid on the Capitol Hill office of a congressman under investigation in a bribery scandal did not violate the constitutional separation of powers, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said on Sunday.
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“I don’t think it was a separation of powers question. I’ve looked at it very carefully,” Frist, a Tennessee Republican, […]
At some point you have to ask yourself how the “investigators” who conducted the first “investigation”, in the immediate aftermath of the slaughter at Haditha, were able to produce a “report” which accepted the story the marines had fabricated:
The military’s initial report stated that (Lance Corporal Miguel (T.J.) Terrazas) and 15 civilians were killed in […]
Reuters reported on Saturday that, as expected, the Bush administration has invoked the state secrets privilege to ask for the dismissal of two lawsuits that challenge the constitutionality of the NSA warrantless wiretapping program.
The report was reading pretty much as expected. The government had asserted that allowing the cases to proceed
…would jeopardize secrets […]
If you find yourself without a calendar, here’s How to Tell When it’s an Election Year.
Get a load of this nugget, from the Daou Report Blog (aka The Grit), about the mistakes President Bush admitted during last week’s Bush-and-Blair press conference. (They go together almost like a horse and carriage, don’t they? For all practical political purposes, they are Siamese twins. Still undetermined, though, being a […]
Why have a Treasury Secretary when you can have A Parrot in the Cabinet Room?
FEMA trailers are poisoning their residents. Next They’ll Tell Us That Formaldehyde is a Vegetable.
The Haditha massacre incident occurred on November 19, 2005. Since then the truth has been slowly fighting its way to the surface.
The horrifying aspect of this reluctantly emerging truth is that it looks very much like had it not been for Time nudging the military by turning over documentary evidence that – […]
4/13/04:
Q: Thank you, Mr. President. In the last campaign, you were asked a question about the biggest mistake you’d made in your life, and you used to like to joke that it was trading Sammy Sosa. You’ve looked back before 9/11 for what mistakes might have been made. After 9/11, what would your biggest mistake […]
The Senate Majority Project caught Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn doing what he does best during Tuesday’s immigration debate. And it wasn’t arguing pro or con.
Unfortunately for his constituents back home, this isn’t the first time Coburn opted for a crossword puzzle over his professional responsibilities.
Last time it was during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings […]
