Moral scold Tom Coburn still doesn’t want to talk about the fact that he knew an adulterer was living with him in “the Family’s” home on C Street. And the rest of the moral scolds in the Senate telling us teh gays are ruining marriage were, nevertheless, very supportive of John Ensign when he returned yesterday.

From the time a bunch of “men who are close” to John Ensign confronted him about his affair until his mistress was fired, she did the books for his PAC. Is that why her reported payoff didn’t get reported to the FEC?

The auto industry has a key role in funding local media. While earlier cutbacks have definitely hurt local media ad sales, the more recent bankruptcy-related moves have not.

Siobhan Gorman reports that the satellite domestic surveillance program has–finally–been killed.

The CIA appears to have gotten its upper limit for sleep deprivation from the number any human had been recorded to stay awake.

As BayStateLibrul pointed out in threads, SCOTUS denied the Wilsons cert today in their lawsuit against Dick Cheney and his band of leakers. As bmaz points out, the news is unsurprising.

The die was cast by John Bates’ exploitation (and to some extent contortion) of glaring and gaping holes in the pleading by Plame/Wilson.

In this post, I reviewed the known contents of the CIA IG Report’s 6-page section on torture for those who seem to forget we’ve seen substantive bits from that in the Bradbury memos. In this post, I’ll look at what else shows up in the Bradbury memos. In a follow-up post, I’ll look at what IG Report contents we haven’t seen (and therefore are all but guaranteed not to see).

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Here’s what the IG Report on Effectiveness has to say.

Obama made the connection between the failed auto industry and the failed new industry the other night. While his journalist audience didn’t care for the joke, it’s an apt point.

Did Stephen Hadley tamper with the PST files for his emails before Fitzgerald subpoenaed them after Rove testified in October 2004?