Picking up from Christy’s earlier posts (Part I and Part II).

I just found an interesting article by Walter Pincus tucked away in the lower half of the website. It contains no new or breaking news, but is an interesting description of just how far the government has run amok in their over-classification and demand to control information flow to the American people and the world.

It probably wasn’t a good idea for Ceci Connolly to write a puff piece relying heavily on her Pay2Play invites.

John Yoo appeals Padilla’s lawsuit against him.

I was on a panel in 2007 with Joe Lockhart and Todd Purdam to talk about political news. We talked a lot about how the press’ insistence on covering the Lewinsky scandal–when the bulk of the country was pretty happy with the President regardless of who had given him a blow job–led to the crisis of legitimacy that let blogs arise.

The ACLU just submitted a letter in the CIA IG case–pointing out that Judge Hellerstein had given the government until August 31 to produce the rest of the documents in the FOIA request with the implicit assumption that it produce the IG Report by June 19 June 26 July 1.

The key part of the letter, however, is the note Judge Hellerstein wrote by hand on the ACLU letter, saying:

The Court will

ATTENTION all Wheelhouse and FDL members, Ms. Marcy Wheeler will be on MSNBC TeeVee with David Shuster during the 3:00-4:00 pm Eastern time hour. She is at the studio now and will be helping to explain details behind the much discussed “secret program”. For more background, see these recent posts here and, to a lesser extent, here.Watch along with us and comment away!

Liz BabyDick Cheney’s efforts to protect her Daddy are getting more and more desperate.

The Obama Administration stance on an investigation of the Rashid Dostum massacre and cover-up seems to have as much to do with who is speaking as whether such an investigation will happen in the first place.

Siobhan Gorman reports that the big secret Panetta revealed to Congress is an assassination squad. But there’s got to be more to it than that.