Just in case you haven’t been following Balkinization since Marty Lederman went to work at DOJ, I wanted to link to this Jon Hafetz* post, which hits on a lot of the points that powwow and Mary raised in this thread yesterday. But at Guantánamo, the road to justice remains the road less traveled. Holder [...]

NC US Attorney George Holding is publicly bitching about Obama’s choices for judges in the Fourth Circuit.

Marc Ambinder reports that it wasn’t national security differences that did Greg Craig in (even though he provides evidence of that), it was Craig’s inability to get people confirmed by the Senate.

Steven Clemons warns Obama that by tolerating an economy of leaks, he signals he will accept the same during upcoming policy fights.

Is Obama’s DOJ charging the 9/11 conspirators in civilian court to make sure they’ll be able to use Material Support for terrorism charges against the two financiers?

According to Shane Harris, a cyberwar attack in early 2007 was as important to turning around the Iraq war as was the conventional surge.

John Yoo has a panicked op-ed in the WSJ trying to claim his torture will be exposed at the KSM trial. He ought to be worried, instead, that they’ll manage to do the whole thing without torture.

Along with the Republican biotech-paid whores, there were a bunch of Democratic biotech-paid whores.

As the NYT reported earlier today, Genentech/Roche wrote a Republican script and a Democratic script for its parrots to enter into the Congressional Record. Here’s what the Republican script looks like (I’m going to try to do the Democratic one next–but this is tedious stuff; and yes, Heath Shuler was working from the Republican script). [...]

Turns out that Anna Eshoo and Joe Barton’s former staffers were among those writing scripts for the 42 Representatives parroting Genentech’s words.