Jon Eisenberg writes about the investigation into Al-Haramain - and how the Obama administration is continuing the same state-secrets stance to cover up illegal wiretapping. Gee, so much for the “professor of constitutional law” theory, in which Obama would be so sensitive to these issue...

Once upon a time, I worked for a guy who spent a lot of money on a high-priced executive coach. He and other members of upper management would attend weekly meetings in a penthouse office and role-play different scenarios under his guru’s guidance. My boss would always come back eager to test ...

Scott Horton on the nine OLC memos written to enhance the presidential powers of George W. Bush that were released this week: John Yoo’s Constitution is unlike any other I have ever seen. It seems to consist of one clause: appointing the President as commander-in-chief. The rest of the Constitutio...

Glenn Greenwald on Obama’s efforts to block a court ruling on Bush’s wiretapping....

Would anyone be offended if I called Marc Thiessen a dumb fuck?...

So much for “transparency”: The Obama Administration today announced that it would keep the same position as the Bush Administration in the lawsuit Mohamed et al v Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. The case involves five men who claim to have been victims of extraordinary rendition — includi...

Or me, or anyone else we know: A British ‘resident’ held at Guantanamo Bay was identified as a terrorist after confessing he had visited a ‘joke’ website on how to build a nuclear weapon, it was revealed last night. Binyam Mohamed, a former UK asylum seeker, admitted to having read the ‘in...

Wheeee! This is fun! Invoking President Barack Obama, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) has subpoenaed former Bush Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove about his alleged involved in the political prosecution of an Alabama governor and the firings of nine US Attorneys. The subpoena, a...

So they were tracing all our credit card transactions, too: NSA whistleblower Russell Tice was back on Keith Olbermann’s MSNBC program Thursday evening to expand on his Wednesday revelations that the National Security Agency spied on individual U.S. journalists, entire U.S. news agencies as we...

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