Who Accessed the Rove Email Search on July 26, 2005?

By: emptywheel Saturday June 20, 2009 3:43 pm

Still more questions about the email searches revealed in the latest document dump.

Why Was the White House Searching for Plame-Wilson-Novak Emails Dated May 1, 2003?

By: emptywheel Saturday June 20, 2009 2:19 pm

William Ockham made a really important discovery. One of the files turned over to CREW has search files from September 2004 relating to the Plame investigation. Look at pages 44-46 for Rove and Cooper searches and page 49 for Plame Wilson Novak searches.

Of particular interest, here are the days on which they were apparently searching for Plame Wilson Novak emails dated:

May 1, 2003
May 9, 2003
May 16, 2003
May 27, 2003
June 2, 2003
June

Why Tom Davis Shouldn’t Be Obama’s Cyberczar

By: emptywheel Saturday June 20, 2009 12:06 pm

Reportedly, Obama is considering former GOP Congressman Tom Davis to be his new cyberczar. It strikes me as the height of stupidity to put a guy with a history of politicizing email in charge of the nation’s cybersecurity.

Meddling

By: emptywheel Saturday June 20, 2009 9:40 am

People are debating whether we ought to meddle in Iran or not. But we already have.

Trash Talk – The Hitched and The (Potentially) Unhitched Edition

By: bmaz Friday June 19, 2009 5:38 pm

First off, we’re gonna be moving a little fast here, because it is a classic Circus weekend; the lads are in Silverstone this weekend for the British Grand Prix. I’ll return to that in a minute, but there is also the issue of the continued existence of F1. There is a potential divorce in the making. There is also a beautiful wedding.

CIA Stalling on the IG Report

By: emptywheel Friday June 19, 2009 2:12 pm

The CIA is stalling on the release of the IG report. More offensive, they actually suggest there might not be anything new they can release!!

Did the Ensign Confrontation over His Affair Take Place at a “Family” Gathering?

By: emptywheel Friday June 19, 2009 12:05 pm

Tom Coburn and John Ensign both at least used to live at a home owned by the secretive “Family” organization. Is that where the confrontation about Ensign’s affair last year took place?

Fox’s Non-Denial Denial

By: emptywheel Friday June 19, 2009 10:35 am

Fox News says they didn’t receive the letter from John Ensign’s cuckold. By that, they mean they didn’t get it in the mail, they got it attached to an email.

Ensign’s Senate Colleagues Confronted Him about His Affair in February 2008

By: emptywheel Friday June 19, 2009 6:53 am

The Las Vegas Sun has posted the letter John Ensign’s cuckold, Doug Hampton, sent them not long before Ensign admitted his affair. In it, he reveals there was a confrontation over the affair in February 2008 that Tom Coburn attended.

The unethical behavior and immoral choice of Senator Ensign has been confronted by me and others on a number of occasions over this past year.

Ibn Sheikh al-Libi IDs Others

By: emptywheel Friday June 19, 2009 5:53 am

Andy Worthington reports more details of Ibn Sheikh al-Libi’s movement as a detainee. He also considers the reports that al-Libi was forced to personally ID other detainees. Was he one of the people who IDed Hassan Ghul?

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