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Sunday Is For Contact Sports (& Mo’ Open Threads) »

Football’s not the only national Sunday contact sport. (However, I am curious: Do any of you think the Patriots can (will?) lose a game this season?) Memo to the Obama campaign from the regulars at No Quarter who know what Novak is capable of and who followed every minute of “Plamegate”: CONSIDER THE SOURCE! Jesus! [...]

Electronic Politics Asks: “What Is Torture?” »

George Kenney has some strong opinions on torture — and the dirth of discussion in the MSM: [I]t seems to me that it’s newsworthy when a person in that position [Manfred Nowak, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture] says (1) waterboarding is unequivocally torture and (2) that U.S. officials must be held to account [...]

Friday Fizzle, Sizzle + WIDE OPEN THREAD »

UPDATE — A Fun Interview with Valerie Plame Wilson on Her Movie Deal: “Plame on spy movies and going Hollywood,” at Politico.com (Tidbits: “We have a powerful script.” … “[T]here’s a story of political intrigue, an espionage story and a love story. It’s about the loss of innocence, about speaking truth to power. And it [...]

Fixing Intelligence–Larry Interviews Val »

With Electric Politics providing some technical assistance, Larry Johnson interviews his former CIA classmate Valerie Plame Wilson, author of Fair Game. Click the “Audio mp3″ icon to listen or download here. Total runtime thirty five minutes (and please use the link on this page to buy the book). It’s a fascinating conversation between two seasoned [...]

Wilson Case Dismissed »

Posted by Jim Marcinkowski SECRET/NOFORN/NOMORONS/NOREPUBS/NOPOLITOCOS/NOHACKS TO: CIA STATIONS WORLDWIDE FM: LEGAL COUNSEL – LANGLEY, VIRGINIA RE: DISMISSAL OF WILSON/PLAME DISCLOSURE CASE – SUMMARY REF: Valerie Plame Wilson et al v. I. Lewis Libby, et al. As you are no doubt aware, last week Judge John D. Bates of the federal district court in WDC dismissed [...]

Wait, Wait, Tell Me, Patrick Fitzgerald! (Open Thread) »

Patrick Fitzgerald gets quizzed on today’s airing of the deservedly popular NPR show, “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me.” Reports the Progress Report: [Thursday], in a “rare public appearance,” U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald “submitted himself to questions as a guest on Chicago Public Radio’s comedic quiz show, ‘Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me.’” Although “Fitzgerald flunked the quiz, [...]

Chris Matthews’ Beatification of Judy Miller (OPEN THREAD TOO!) »

Breaking! President Bush will undergo a colonoscopy under anesthesia tomorrow during which time Vice President Cheney will assume control. I can hear the proctologist now: “That’s a rather large polyp! It’s nearly the size of a normal human brain. I am probing the polyp. Its exterior is calcified but the interior appears putrid.” During July [...]

Source Documents from Valerie Wilson Civil Suits »

by Larry C Johnson Today’s decision by one judge who dismissed the civil suit Joe and Valerie Wilson filed against Dick Cheney and others for the leak of Valerie’s covert identity is not unexpected and entirely procedural. If you are really interested you can read the opinion for yourself. I was particularly intrigued that Judge [...]

House Judiciary: Statement of Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, IV (ret.) »

Today, the House Judiciary Committee holds this hearing beginning at noon EDT: VIEW LIVE WEBCAST Wednesday 07/11/2007 – 12:00 PM | 2141 Rayburn House Office Building Full Committee Hearing on: The Use and Misuse of Presidential Clemency Power for Executive Branch Officials | By Direction of the Chairman (List of Witnesses – also listed at [...]