Biotech Industry Needs 42 Representatives to Try to Refute Jane Hamsher

By: emptywheel Sunday November 15, 2009 7:08 am

After Jane started calling out the biosimilars provision in the health care bill, Genentech recruited 42 Representatives to blindly repeat its talking points to refute Jane.

Germany: US Data-Mining Violates European Human Rights

By: emptywheel Sunday November 15, 2009 5:13 am

The Germans are about to save us from our data-mining selves.

Trash Talk: When NESCAC Offers the Best Game

By: emptywheel Saturday November 14, 2009 11:24 am

BREAKING:From BSL in comments: Final, Jeffs 26, Ephs 21: That will do it from Williamstown as the Jeffs finish off their perfect season at 8-0. Woot!! Here it is Saturday, mid-day, trying to catch up on Trash Talk, with some of the best games already played for the week and one NESCAC game–in progress–that might [...]

Bob Bauer and Scooter Libby Justice

By: emptywheel Saturday November 14, 2009 8:20 am

I think Bob Bauer’s op-ed had a few strong points, except that he was way too naive about how the Plame outing worked.

FAA and NORAD Changed Records to Accord with Cheney Lies

By: emptywheel Saturday November 14, 2009 7:51 am

The 9/11 Commission’s Senior Counsel reveals that FAA and NORAD changed their records to accord with Dick Cheney’s and Paul Wolfowitz’s narrative of heroism and leadership on 9/11.

Eric Holder on Greg Craig’s Departure

By: emptywheel Friday November 13, 2009 12:47 pm

Eric Holder certainly seems to suggest that Greg Craig was ousted by those who didn’t like his plan to close Gitmo.

Mayor Mike: NYPD Can Handle the 9/11 Trial

By: emptywheel Friday November 13, 2009 12:31 pm

Mike Bloomberg’s as confident as Jerry Nadler that NY can manage a trial of the alleged 9/11 plotters: I support the Obama Administration’s decision to prosecute 9/11 terrorists here in New York. It is fitting that 9/11 suspects face justice near the World Trade Center site where so many New Yorkers were murdered. We have [...]

The Bazaar for Deals at Gitmo

By: emptywheel Friday November 13, 2009 11:35 am

Dafna Linzer reports that the evidence against some Gitmo detainees is so thin prosecutors are frantically trying to get them to plead to whatever charge they can charge them with.

Nadler Responds to the Fear-Mongerers on NYC Trials

By: emptywheel Friday November 13, 2009 10:54 am

There are a lot of Dems–particularly from NY–telling fearful Republicans that we can try the 9/11 murderers at the scene of the crime. Among those is Jerry Nadler: I thank the Department of Justice and Attorney General Eric Holder for their diligent efforts to bring to justice those who have committed acts of terrorism against [...]

DOJ/DOD Press Conference on the Gitmo Decisions

By: emptywheel Friday November 13, 2009 10:39 am

A rough transcript of DOJ/DOD’s press conference to explain the Gitmo announcement today.

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