Following up on Henry Waxman’s attempt to gather information, Jello Jay has started seeking info on the insurance industry as well.

DOD has changed their policies on detainees, which at least on paper means detainees can be kept in Special Operations camps for just two weeks before they will be identified to the Red Cross.

If you follow me on twitter, you know that I’ve been anticipating the Republican attack on the Obama vacation by pointing out what Bush was doing 8 years ago (ignoring the PDB) or Cheney was doing 7 (claiming Iraq was close to having nukes). So I want to give Andrea Mitchell kudos for–as I hoped reporters would do yesterday–calling out this bogus attack.

While Rahm has been loudly flailing in his attempts to push through health care, Henry Waxman has been preparing for battle.

I was going to leave well enough alone–to take Marc Ambinder’s limited apology for labeling DFHs who believed the threat level system to be politicized as “gut haters,” accept that he is at least thinking about these things, and move on. But given Ambinder’s follow-up, I’d like to use it to make a point of Village journalism methods.

But there are a couple of passages from his post that really embody the things that–as I said before-make his take on the threat levels an excellent example of what I

I’ve been saying for over 18 months that the IG Report was the precipitating factor in the CIA’s decision to destroy the torture tapes. It looks increasingly like I was right.

Why does the Republican party keep paying its leaders to have affairs?

It was bad enough that the Bush Administration did away with attorney-client privilege via their warrantless wiretap program. Now the Obama Administration appears to be trying to intimidate lawyers defending Gitmo detainees by threatening them with prosecution for trying to ascertain the identities of those involved in abusing their clients.

To rebut Tom Ridge’s confirmation that the terror alert system was politicized, the Dead-Enders have rolled out the woman who was not told about the warrantless wiretap program and the guy who rolled out the Iraq War like a new season of clothing.

In 2001, terrorists capitalized on George Bush’s inattention and extended vacation to strike at America. Now, Rich Scott’s Conservatives for Patients’ Rights believes it can adopt al Qaeda’s tactics by attacking the President and our country while he’s on vacation. “Even on vacation, the President will get no quarter on the public option from Conservatives for Patients’ Rights.” And they’re running an ad that somewhat bizarrely tries to mock Obama’s vacation.

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