Jon Corzine’s campaign wants some more information about just what Chris Christie was doing at the US Attorney’s office while he was handing out multi-million dollar deals to his friends.

So the Corzine campaign has submitted 18 FOIA requests for information on Christie’s tenure as US Attorney. They have submitted them, each time, to the Executive Office of US Attorneys, which keeps kicking the FOIAs down to the NJ US

Cash for Clunkers will, on Monday at 8 PM, have silica liquid injected in its engine and stopped.

The U.S. government will shut down its cash-for-clunkers program at 8 p.m. Monday, in a bid to avoid car dealers and shoppers from claiming more than the $3 billion set aside for the program.The decision means that the program originally expected to generate 250,000 vehicle sales over three months will have likely triggered more

Why does Andy Stern sound like he has been in the veal pen too long?

Scahill argues that the Blackwater revelations mean Blackwater had a more integral part in building the Bush era counterterrorism strategy than did Congress.

Maybe I’m just getting tired of Ambinder’s concern trolling. But his recent post excusing himself for being a chump on terrorist alerts really encapsulates what is wrong with journalism.

Details from Tom Ridge’s upcoming tell-all.

An attempt to weed through the latest on the assassination squads.

You know how Crazy Pete Hoekstra has led the chorus of those who claim Leon Panetta should never have briefed Congress on the secret assassination squads? To his credit, he’s doing it even now that Blackwater’s role has been revealed.

“I think there was a little more drama and intrigue than was warranted,” said Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee.

Um, yeah.

Literally generations of politically active American citizens have been motivated to study and participate in the process by the men, and women, in the Kennedy family (I am one). The last of a kind is nearing the end, and he is thinking of his constituents until his last breath.

Buzzy Krongard’s company, Blackwater, was the ginnick behind the secret program.