Neither and or I, and obviously, I can’t really speak for Andy, but I’m confortable saying that neither Andy or I would have gone there to take advantage of someone who was sick. Um, Andy and I both, in fact, talked about the importance of satisfying ourselves as we talked with General Ashcroft that he was in fact competent.

Jane Mayer’s latest piece describes how much work went into last week’s Executive Orders ending the use of torture. Which offers key lessons about the work we need to do to make sure he also ends warrantless wiretapping.

Add Gitmo files to the long list of scandals that the Bush Administration kept no meaningful records of.

Russell Tice basically confirmed, once again, our suspicions: that the warrantless wiretap program was basically the government operating TIA under a new name. Strangely enough, Jello Jay Rockefeller (of all people) already told us that–and he told Dick Cheney too. Maybe that’s why Jello Jay was acting so squirrely about the program the other night.

Russ Feingold will introduce a Constitutional Amendment designed to prevent the clusterfucks of the Caroline Kennedy and Rod Blagojevich sort: mandating popular elections to fill mid-term Senate seats.

Man oh man, Greg Craig is not doing Obama any favors as White House Counsel. In this installment, he apparently told (probably) Senator Whitehouse or Feingold that he believes in Pixie Dust.

To dismiss the concern that Obama has not yet weighed in on the al-Haramain case, the dead-enders asking for an appeal claim that that appeal has nothing to do with issues that Dawn Johnsen and Eric Holder have raised about the warrantless wiretap program. But to do so, they misrepresent both their appeal and Judge Walker’s order.

Three items of note in the Blago trial: Edward Genson, Blago’s attorney, has quit after Blago repeatedly ignored his advice. Blago’s wife Patti was fired from her day job. And Fitz has gotten four tapes from his investigation released to the IL state senate for use in the impeachment trial.

Obama’s EO may give us access to evidence Bush has been withholding. But it won’t give us everything we need to ensure proper oversight of any and all presidential administrations.

Much of this is Greek to me–and it’ll take a while to upload it all–but I’m sure MadDog and WO can make some sense out of what the Bush Administration says is proof they’re complying with requirements to save their emails.

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