Murray Waas to Join Yearly Kos Plame Panel
Wed May 17, 2006 at 02:45:04 PM PDT
by Jane Hamsher
I'm proud to announce that Murray Waas has been added to the Yearly Kos panel on the CIA leak investigation that will be held in Las Vegas on Friday, June 9. I'll be moderating the panel that already includes Ambassador Joe Wilson, Emptywheel of The Next Hurrah, Larry Johnson, Dan Froomkin of the washingtonpost.com and FDL's own Christy Hardin-Smith.
As a journalist for the National Journal and blogger at his blog Whatever, Already!, Murray Waas has owned the Plame story from the start. As emptywheel has written before, he is the "gold standard" by which all other journalists covering the story are judged. Typically Murray will make some bold new revelation about the story (see Exhibit A), then someone like Michael Isikoff will go crawling to some administration-friendly attorney to print the official spin (see Exhibit B).
Can Fitzgerald's Inquiry Extend to Include Katrina?
Wed Sep 14, 2005 at 07:05:48 PM PDT
You don't even have to be a confirmed bed-wetting lefty serial skeptic to raise an eyebrow at the thought of Preznit Supreme Buck Passer
conducting his own investigation into the Katrina response. Now that Senate Republicans have
taken turns pissing all over Hillary Clinton's attempt to establish an independent, bipartisan panel to inquire into the matter, it looks like the fox who has appointed himself Lord Mayor of the Henhouse will skirt any sort of criminal accountability.
But maybe not.
Red State Senior Citizens Unite
Sun Aug 21, 2005 at 04:42:19 PM PDT
So on my dad's crazy Southern side of the family, there are only a few liberals -- the oldest members of the family including my Uncle Dee who's in his 80s and lives in Texas, my cousin Larry in Tennessee and cousin Wendell in Kentucky who are both I believe in their 70s, and me, who is pretty much the youngest -- and about a hundred angry, armed redneck wingnuts in between. We lone lefties send stuff amongst ourselves to kind of keep the faith. Used to be they'd send me things that circulated endlessly in emails, but lately I've been noticing that their stuff is remarkably up to date.
So last night I'm copied on an email from Larry to Uncle Dee who says "in case you missed this on THE BLOG." It's a post about Terry Rodgers, the wounded vet who refused to meet with Bush. And I'm like, what's THE BLOG? So I go to the link, and find these guys are sitting around reading Kos.
No shit. A bunch of red state senior citizens tired of being the only liberal in town have found their crew.
My cantankerous old Uncle Dee with his two steel hips hanging out on the night shift with Armando. I just can't stop laughing.
BREAKING: Gonzalez Says Fitzgerald Will Keep His Job
Mon Aug 08, 2005 at 06:38:18 PM PDT
cross-posted at
http://firedoglake.blogspot.com
In a press conference in Chicago today, Alberto Gonzalez says that when his term as US attorney expires in October, he sees no reason why Patrick Fitzgerald would be out of a job:
The US attorney general, Alberto Gonzalez made it clear in Chicago Monday that a controversial and high-visibility justice department subordinate, US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, will probably be reappointed by President Bush when his four-year term expires in October.
"You'll have to ask the president as to whether or not he intends to find a new US attorney for this district. I will say from my vantage point as the attorney general, I have great confidence in Pat Fitzgerald," said Alberto Gonzalez, attorney general.
Catholic Anti-War Activists Persecuted by BushCo.
Wed Jun 15, 2005 at 09:00:59 PM PDT
The Catholic Church gets the good Bushkeeping Seal of Approval when the leadership are oppressing women and molesting children, but the marks are not so high when the rank-and-file are true to their faith and
oppose the war-mongering death machine in Iraq:
On March 17, 2003, in protest of the impending U.S. invasion of Iraq, Danny Burns, Peter DeMott, and sisters Clare and Teresa Grady poured small bottles of their own blood on the walls, floor and an American Flag in the foyer of a military recruiting center in Lansing, N.Y.
Charged with criminal mischief, the activists, who have been dubbed the St. Patrick's Four, spent four days in jail and in April 2004 were tried at the Tompkins County Courthouse. During their weeklong trial, the defendants, all of whom have children, said they carried out their protest as Catholics and parents who wanted to warn members of the military and potential recruits about the illegality and immorality of the war in Iraq.
In Defense of the Compromise
Mon May 23, 2005 at 08:55:55 PM PDT
I'm quite a bit to the left of Harry Reid on almost everything and I'm not a member of his cheering section when it comes to ideology, but like many others I've admired the leadership he's shown being outnumbered in the Senate by 10 members. And you can call me a sell-out if you want, but when push comes to shove I am pretty much of a pragmatist and I think the current compromise on judicial nominees was a smart move for the following reasons:
1. The Democrats didn't have the votes. If they did, I have no doubt Reid would've pushed it. The alternative was having the Repugs vote away their right to filibuster when Rehnquist vacates the Supreme Court this summer (which he will almost assuredly do) AND jam all of their Circuit Court nominees through. The only option open to the Democrats at that point would be to bring the Senate to a grinding halt. (Which I'm certainly in favor of -- I just don't think now's the time.)
