A year and a half ago, I warned that if you bought certain beauty supplies–hydrogen peroxide and acetone–you might be a terrorism suspect. I’m going to make a wildarsed guess and suggest that the Federal Government is doing a nationwide search to find out everyone who is buying large amounts of certain kinds of beauty [...]

I’m going to have a few posts on answers Eric Holder gave to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Questions for the Record submitted after his last appearance in November 2009. Two of the questions (one from John Kyl and the other from Tom Coburn) asked whether Gitmo detainees brought to the United States for civilian trial [...]

John Kyl has officially announced he intends to waste an oversight hearing on March 23 beating up Eric Holder because he did not disclose an amicus brief opposing unlimited Presidential power. Kyl told members of the committee that panel Republicans will question the Attorney General about his 2004 amicus brief that recommended the Supreme Court [...]

There’s a cynical inclusion in the new PATRIOT language that DiFi put forward the other night. It basically creates an exception in the worsened Section 215 language just for libraries

Bob Corker and his Republican buddies are pissed that the President just implemented what amounts to their very own “compromise” auto relief bill. I guess we have yet further proof they were never negotiating in good faith.

Some Republican Senator is trying to prevent anyone from conducting oversight of TARP funds.

Why do the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee give treat Powerilne Blog as more credible than Republican Governors Charlie Crist and Tim Pawlenty?

Not only did the FBI interview some of McCain’s staffers on the land deal that got Rick Renzi indicted, as of last month, McCain had not turned over some of the documents they were looking for. Since McCain has a history of involvement in this kind of land swaps for friends, don’t you think he ought to be more forthcoming?

The Administration–with the help of John Kyl–continues to fight efforts to give DOJ’s IG the authority to investigate DOJ’s lawyers.