MoJo reports that CREW and the White House may be close to a settlement on the missing White House email.

Sports mascots are ubiquitous. College mascots are a tradition I suppose, irrespective of redeeming value, but pro mascots – with the exception of the San Diego Chicken, the Phoenix Suns Gorilla and, maybe, the Philly Phanatic are totally lame. Seriously. Then there are those big headed sausages the Milwaukee Brewers have. Are those even mascots? [...]

Tony Blair explains he had to get rid of Saddam to change the region.

Max Baucus’ then State Director and now girlfriend, Melodee Hanes, helped arrange Baucus’ separation from his then-wife in 2007.

Harry Reid is fooling you when he says he had to eliminate lifetime caps to keep premiums down. What he meant is that–having gutted the public option and taxed health care–he needs another means to keep premiums low.

ABC has now caught up to Jeremy Scahill. In this Blackwater installment, they describe sketchy details of two Blackwater operations in Afghanistan/Pakistan, one in 2003, and one in 2006. CIA officials acknowledge that two private contractors were killed in Afghanistan in 2003 when they and other members of a CIA paramilitary team were in a [...]

Holdovers from the Bush Administration appear to be in control of defining our biodefense strategy.

James Risen has the next installment of slowly leaked details about Blackwater’s involvement in all things illegal.

Did the government not produce a videotape of the al-Adahi hearing because the detainee argued so much more effectively than the government?

As Fatster noticed, the Ninth Circuit has ruled against Brandon Mayfield on his attempt to hold the PATRIOT Act declared unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment. Mayfield was a former suspect in the 2004 Madrid train bombings. After the Madrid bombings, the Spanish National Police (“SNP”) recovered fingerprints from a plastic bag containing explosive detonators. The [...]