On April 3, DOJ submitted a filing that argued that no citizen had the ability to sue if she had been wrongly wiretapped under Bush’s illegal wiretap program. On August 15, we learn that DOJ’s Inspector General “recently” learned of “significant misconduct” in the wiretap program. Did Holder know of that “significant misconduct” when his DOJ made those expansive claims?

Surprise surprise. The warrantless wiretapping program is still illegally wiretapping Americans.

TPMM notes that DOJ has been reluctant to turn over to the Oversight Committee the documents pertaining to its Delayed Prosecution Agreement with AIG. Here are some data points that might begin to explain why DOJ would be reluctant to reveal what they knew about AIG and when they knew it.

The Administration seems to be playing with NYT reporting to send Goldman Sachs a message that its efforts to get free of government regulation may bring regulation on other benefits it has received under the bailout.

Timmeh has decided to let us know which banks are insolvent. But he’s only doing so because the banks are so unruly they won’t listen to him.

The CIA doesn’t want the Bradbury OLC memos made public. Given the details of the ICRC report, it’s clear that it’s not because its news. Rather, if the OLC memos are made public, it’ll make it clear Bradbury gave legal cover for these actions even after they had already done physical and mental damage with them.

Ahmed Chalabi assures us that there was an implicit agreement between Iran and the US before the US took out Saddam.

Have you noticed the SEC has been busting almost more Ponzi schemes as the FDIC has eated banks?

Bob Corker has been cynically lying. He has been claiming that if GM’s Spring Hill plant is closed in bankruptcy, it will be the result of politics. But Corker undoubtedly knows that, one of the few things used as collateral for any of GM’s secured debt, Spring Hill will be one of the first things to be liquidated.

One of the biggest crisis communications firms just hired Dana “Pig Missile” Perino to do crisis communications.