Remember that important NYT story from early this year describing the growing number of Americans whose sole income consists of food stamps? About six million Americans receiving food stamps report they have no other income, according to an analysis of state data collected by The New York Times. In declarations that states verify and the [...]

The discrepancy over whether an appropriations staffer attended a particular briefing or not may be no big deal. Or it may be a very big deal.

According to House Appropriations Chair David Obey, the CIA interrogation list records a Democratic Appropriations staffer attending a September 19, 2006 torture briefing, when all the staffer did was walk John Murtha and Bill Young to the briefing, but was turned away at the briefing.

In light of current controversy about CIA briefing practices, I was surprised to learn that the agency erroneously listed an appropriations staffer as being in a

Sy Hersh seems intent on pushing Democrats to start withholding funding from Cheney’s illegal war-mongering in Iran.