More details revealed about the tension between CIA and the Department of Justice during June 2004.

The Democrats in the House Judiciary Committee sure looked more like Democrats in Wednesday’s PATRIOT Act hearing than most Democrats on the Senate side.

Follow along at home here. Dan Lungren: NSL minimization. Deals with section of bill bc they did it on the Senate side. Strikes 2008 which calls for establishment of minimization procedures obtained pursuant to NSLs. If there are tangible problems that have arisen, let’s create new procedures. Problem is we’re trying to apply concept of [...]

Wasting no time in paying off Ralph Marra for politicizing a bust of a bunch of Democrats this summer, Chris Christie has already indicated he will name Marra to be his Attorney General. (h/t Main Justice) Knowledgeable Republican sources say that newly-elected Gov. Christopher Christie will name U.S. Attorney Ralph Marra as New Jersey’s new [...]

Howard Fineman

Go here to watch the live stream of the House Judiciary Committee mark-up of the PATRIOT Act renewal and a new bill on State Secrets. Right now they’re in a quorum call, with very few Dems present. (16 members present–I guess no one much cares about this stuff??) Conyers starting out attacking abuses, mentions hospital [...]

If you put Eliot Spitzer and Digby together, I think you get one of the best reads on yesterday’s election: it’s time to focus on breaking up the banks.

The government has agreed to pay Richard Horn–who was illegally wiretapped when working as a DEA agent in Burma–$3 million to settle his suit.

Comparing the versions of the Cheney CYA document suggests that the version Cheney wanted was targeted towards those who wanted to sustain the torture program.

We’ve got a proposal seeking to overturn the dead tree requirements on the city’s public notice law.