Last Monday, I noted two particular details of the Obama Administration’s response to news of spiked investigations into General Rashid Dostum’s massacre of up to thousands of prisoners in 2001. First, DOD said it didn’t need to investigate because there was no evidence American personnel were involved.

There’s DOD, which bases its opposition to an investigation on the claim that there’s no evidence US forces were involved in the massacre.

One of the indignities of Walter Cronkite’s death on Friday was that CBS ignored his passing in favor of their regular crappy Friday night lineup. At the time, I hoped Rather would soon get discovery to expose CBS in its cravenness. And today, Rather got that discovery.

Obama’s DOJ is still inventing an “embarrassment exemption” for FOIA, to prevent us from learning what Dick Cheney said to Patrick Fitzgerald as part of the CIA Leak investigation.

Dick Cheney not only just got six more months of taxpayer paid protection from having to hear from taxpayers, but his friends suggest he’s going to ask for such protection indefinitely.

Royce Lamberth really smacked down Leon Panetta’s declaration in the Horn v. Huddle case. That probably going to make it a lot easier for other plaintiffs to question his good faith going forward.

There is a new case causing a stir on the state secrets front today. The case is Horn v. Huddle et. al, is filed in the DC District, and has been quietly going on behind the scenes since 1994. From Del Wilber at the Washington Post:A federal judge has ruled that government officials committed fraud while defending a lawsuit brought by a former DEA agent who accused a CIA operative

The CIA explains away its Vaughn Index sampling gaps by claiming documents listed on its index as cables are derivative, not original reporting on the torture.

It’s funny how numbers have a way of changing as the need for different spin arises.

We need to get beyond looking at individual communities and start solving our big economic problems as a nation.

The government is complaining that the Taliban is using a video of a captured soldier as propaganda. Unfortunately, the last Administration not only did the same, but bragged of it.