John Yoo attempts to explain why he has been ignoring Ex parte Milligan all these years. In essence Yoo claims that, when the courts try to impose law on the Executive branch, both the President and Congress will respond by disenfranchising and enfeebling the courts, so if courts know what is good for them, they’ll butt out.

As interesting as the news that FBI has asked William Webster to review the analysis of Nidal Hasan before the Ft. Hood killing are some other details from the story.

I didn’t even know the League of Women Voters advocated on political issues. But here they are, spanking Sanctimonious Joe. (h/t joejoejoe) The League of Women Voters will launch a anew advocacy campaign next week that asks Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) to reconsider his recent threats to oppose any health care reform bill that includes [...]

Seton Hall has a new report out today on the purported suicides of three Gitmo detainees–Yassar Talal Al Zahrani, Mani Shaman Turki Al Habardi Al Tabi, and Ali Abdullah Ahmed–who all died on June 10, 2006. The report catalogs the many reasons to doubt that these men engaged–as the government claimed when they died–in asymmetrical [...]

Chris Soghoian, whose post on 8 million times the government has used GPS tracking on Sprint’s customers in the last year, has apparently flushed out the spying policies of many of the nation’s telecoms. Cryptome has them posted–though (as Mary points out) Yahoo has freaked out and initiated take-down proceedings. Yahoo isn’t happy that a [...]

Howie Klein linked to this ad trying to pitch products made in China as being “Made in the World.” (Apparently, it has yet to supplant all the frigging diamond ads during football, so I haven’t seen it.) Made in China with American sports technology Made in China with European styling Made in China with software [...]

Last night I went to bed before I looked at the new SWIFT Agreement giving the US access to all of Europe’s finance data to track for terrorists. Here’s that agreement and here’s a Q&A document about what the agreement does. The agreement is instructive both for what it suggests about the negotiations between the [...]

Remember how the Germans were trying to delay agreement on a deal giving the US access to European bank data until there was time for a debate? They caved.

Lamar Smith thinks it’s more important to investigate lead tests for low income people than torture.

Max Baucus takes a walk on the wild side, shags his aide, fluffs her with government perks and hilarity ensues.