Anyone who has been following over the last eight years will not be surprised that Lord Goldsmith told Tony Blair that the Iraq War was illegal. On July 29, [2002, Lord Goldsmith] wrote to Mr Blair on a single side of A4 headed notepaper from his office.Friends say it was no easy thing for him [...]

I’m not much interested in the gate-crashing Salahis. But I am interested in two data-points that suggest Republicans are preparing to use the gate-crashing episode like they did the travel office attack under the Clintons. First, there’s this tweet from Karl Rove. Good question @rip120751. SS getting bad rap. Haven’t gotten to bottom of this, [...]

I’ve been complaining of late that the LAT’s stupid Republican blogger, Andrew Malcom, is so bad that he must get tons of links making the LAT think he’s great for traffic. So I wanted to be sure to link to Fox legal analyst Andrew Napolitano’s good discussion of the problems with military commissions–so the LAT [...]

Understand that–for better or worse–the new report released by John Kerry on how Osama bin Laden escaped at Tora Bora is a designed to be a political document. It offers the following “irony” to the chattering classes the weekend before Obama announces his new Afghanistan strategy, Ironically, one of the guiding principles of the Afghan [...]

Well I woke up this morning and got myself a beer The future’s uncertain and the end is always near Let it roll, baby roll, let it roll all night long. These are strange days indeed we live in. One minute it is a quiet peaceful day after Thanksgiving, not even the sound of sugar [...]

A recent ruling from the UK HIgh Court suggests that the US was using techniques approved in August 2002 for use with Abu Zubaydah on Binyam Mohamed in April and May 2002.

On Monday, the COBRA subsidy expires. That’s going to lead to a lot of people giving up their health care.

Why did both the NYT and WaPo decide to “break” the long-known facts about our black site at Bagram today?

Glenn Greenwald points to proof that the anthrax attacks contributed to the push for war on Iraq. All the more reason to review the FBI’s investigation of the anthrax attack.

One more tiny detail from the torture tape FOIA. Document 27, dated July 28, 2005, and titled, “DNI News” is described as “a one-page email with a CIA attorney’s opinion, conveyed to his client, regarding the DNI’s position [sic] the destruction of the videotapes.” We know a little bit about what the email might say [...]