Leonard points out that Congress needs to amend the National Security Act if it wants to get serious about forcing the executive to inform Congress of covert activities.

Remember how I said that if you went after the torturers, they would implicate the architects of the torture? Here’s an example.

Ostensibly, DOJ is trying to withhold Dick Cheney’s interview materials for the following three reasons (in order of their centrality to the argument):Law enforcement privilege: If DOJ turns over Cheney’s interview, it will make future Vice Presidents unwilling to cooperate in investigations. This argument fails given the evidence that it has long been routine to release interview materials from high ranking White House figures, going back to the era of Cheney’s

Among other stupid claims DOJ made in its latest effort to hide Dick Cheney’s interview report was that, in spite of CREW’s list proving that the public release of investigation materials has always been routine, if a high level White House official thinks it will be routine, he won’t cooperate.

There are inherent First Amendment and equal protection issues with any “hate crime” legislation as I pointed out when Eric Holder started aggressively pushing Congress. That said, if you are going to enact such laws, they must be targeted, rational and designed to effect the result desired and not any other. The Senate just violated that with their Hate Crimes Bill passed last night.

Tim Russert may be gone. But his craven ways have not ended at Meet the Press. Like Russert, David Gregory allows his guests to control the show when they appear.

Reyes announces an investigation into both the reported assassination squads and more generally, whether CIA has withheld information from Congress.

Will Miguel Estrada face Sonia Sotomayor in one of her early cases on SCOTUS, as Estrada tries to defend John Yoo’s crappy lawyering?

Aside from MSNBC’s squeamishness about blowjobs (but not about the murder of teenagers or slobbering racism), here’s why, according to Chuck Todd, we cannot have an investigation of the crimes Dick Cheney committed because the media is incapable of learning the facts on a story well enough to present it as anything but a partisan fight, and because of that, any investigation would be a show trial of ideology rather than facts.

If I were the wife of one of the boys shacking up at C Street who had not yet admitted an extramarital affair, I’d be getting nervous about now.

Former Congressman and C Street resident Chip Pickering’s estranged wife has filed a lawsuit against Pickering’s alleged mistress. Leisha Pickering is suing Elizabeth Creekmore-Byrd for alienation of affection.