Crooks & Liars has videotape of CNN’s Soledad O’Brien nipping at Sen. Russell Feingold’s heels while questioning him about his “crazy” proposal to censure the president for his NSA spying initiative. In addition, his Democratic Senate colleagues beat a hasty retreat from him as well. I called it “pulling a Murtha.”
But just like [...]
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) published a revealing article heralding AIPAC’s upcoming national conference. This is THE event every year when 6,000 of AIPAC’s top Jewish leaders come to DC to hobnob with the political elite, which seemingly delights in paying obeisance at AIPAC’s feet. By the way, I note that this year [...]
Read full post...Kudos to Congressmember Christopher Smith for chairing today’s hearing at which he summoned Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco to answer for their collusion with Chinese authorities in censoring their offerings. In the case of Yahoo, the company even provided crucial information leading to the arrest and imprisonment of two online dissidents.
Internet executives defend censorship [...]
For weeks, we’ve been reading that the Justice Department is investigating Rep. Bob Ney’s (R., OH) relationship with Jack Abramoff. The Washington Post writes:
source: R.J. Matson, Roll Call
Prosecutors have already told…Rep. Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio), and his former chief of staff that they are preparing a possible bribery case against them, according to two [...]
All hail the Senate Six! Just when it looked like a House-Senate conference committee had a signed, sealed and delivered deal on renewing the USA Patriot Act, a courageous group of three Republicans and three Democrats has thrown a spanner in the works.
In July, the Senate passed its version of the bill placing restrictions [...]
In case anyone needed an illustration of what’s wrong with the national Democratic Party they got it in spades today when the Washington Post reported that John Murtha, a 37 year combat vet and 31 year House veteran, boldly called Bush’s Iraq policy a failure saying U.S. troops should return home within six months:
John Murtha [...]
Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street says the coldly amoral line: “Greed is good.” Well, I think greed is funny. It’s also sad when its uncovered and faces the light of day.
Lobbyist as a fat-cat(credit: Thomas Butler/The Hill)
Take the sorry plight of Jack Abramoff, former K Street powerhouse lobbyist and Tom DeLay [...]
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