A short look at some of the CIA’s discussions of the Mowhoush and al-Janabi killings.

Obama on Al Punto.

Back in January 2008, the CIA’s OIG claimed it did not launch its investigation into torture in response to an allegation of wrongdoing. But that’s not what the IG Report itself said.

Hi there Wheelies and Lugnuts, we have reached the end of another weekend. So now the fun starts! Marcy and I kind of have a lot of the same interests, that is how I came to be here. Today she wrote about the Ambinder Atlantic article on top spooks caterwauling about the lame ass to start with Holder “preliminary review” on the beyond the criminal guidelines, set out by even

Seven DCIs request that Obama interfere in the workings of DOJ to stop the torture investigation. Interestingly, Poppy Bush is not among them.

It appears that Obama is appearing on Univision’s Sunday show, Al Punto, instead of Fox News Sunday not just because Latinos are a more important demographic than white racists, but because Al Punto is actually a more successful Sunday show.

The MaxTax is largely a Medicare bill attached to 39 pages of private health care reform. To show you what I mean by that, here’s roughly how many pages MaxTax spends on each topic:

Health care exchange and other means to make private care available to the uninsured: 39 pages (including several on preventing tax dollars from being spent on undocumented workers or abortions)

Extending access to the poor and underserved (including expanding

The reason I objected so strenuously is that there is a long growing problem in this country with the militarization of, and militancy by, police officers. Courtesy of an opinion piece in the Washington Post we have a pwerful reminder of what this means for citizens.

Ceci Connolly says her Pay2Play pals in the health care industry love Max’s bill.

Ezra has posted the CBO’s initial estimates on the costs of MaxTax–some of the assumptions for which seem to pretend that insurance companies will not react in any way to the new rules imposed by MaxTax.

But before I get into what CBO’s assumptions, here’s what CBO thinks of Baucus’ crappy co-op option.

(The proposed co-ops had very little effect on the estimates of total enrollment in the exchanges or federal costs because,