All told, we now know of at least seven taps and bugs that were used to monitor Rod Blagojevich in the weeks leading up to his arrest.

This time, with a judge telling them to go look again for those missing White House emails.

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia today granted the National Security Archive’s emergency motion for an extended preservation order to protect missing White House e-mails. With the transition from the Bush Administration to the Obama Administration taking place in six days, and all the records of the Bush

Susan Crawford, who’s in charge of Gitmo show trials, admits that Mohammed al-Qahtani was tortured. Why wasn’t she asked about Abu Zubaydah?

I wouldn’t have wanted to dine with the three horsemen of right wing banality. But if Obama wants to, more power to him.

Poor George Bush. Those mean Democrats are preventing him from fulfilling his duty to archive the evidence of his crimes.

Remember that OLC opinion abolishing the 4th amendment? Well, it pretty clearly provides the basis for the Administration’s illegal wiretap program.

Is here. Or rather, the Inspector General’s report describing his criminal referral for lying to Congress.

We have referred this matter to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia for a decision on whether the evidence warrants a criminal prosecution. We provided to the prosecutor the evidence we gathered in the course of our investigation, including transcripts of interviews and relevant documents and e-mails.

When Senators hold confirmation hearings for their own, it’s really more of an organized love fest than a contentious hearing.

Given that Orrin Hatch will support–and has always said he would support–Eric Holder, the big drama over his difficult confirmation must be intended to serve some other purpose. As I’ve been saying, one thing it will do is postpone the time until Obama has a working DOJ.

CRS says that the Senate can exclude Roland Burris. But that doesn’t mean they will.