Crazy Pete Hoekstra: Obama Must Torture

By: emptywheel Friday September 25, 2009 11:37 am

Crazy Pete Hoekstra lives up to his nick-name with this op-ed today in the right wing Washington Times.

Breaking! Crazy Pete Hoekstra Wants to Refuse New Jobs for Michiganders

By: emptywheel Sunday August 2, 2009 8:27 pm

Michiganders need jobs. Gitmo detainees need a new home. But Crazy Pete Hoekstra doesn’t want to bring Gitmo’s detainees to Michigan.

Crazy Pete Hoekstra’s Pre-Emptive Disavowal of C Street

By: emptywheel Sunday July 26, 2009 6:15 am

Is Crazy Pete Hoekstra named in Chip Pickering’s chronicle of his hypocritical affair?

Bill Leonard: Congress Is Responsible for CIA Not Informing Them

By: emptywheel Sunday July 19, 2009 7:35 am

Leonard points out that Congress needs to amend the National Security Act if it wants to get serious about forcing the executive to inform Congress of covert activities.

Was Porter Goss Briefed on Things Pelosi and Harman Weren’t?

By: emptywheel Friday July 10, 2009 8:04 am

Porter Goss was in early Iraq War meetings, alone among Congressmen. Was he also at other meetings that the Bush Administration points to to claim notification to Congress?

Silvestre Reyes: CIA Lied to Congress

By: emptywheel Wednesday July 8, 2009 8:37 am

Silvestre Reyes says that CIA lied to Congress. But Crazy Pete Hoekstra wants to politicize that rather than deal with the lies themselves.

The Hill’s Campfire Games on Intelligence Briefings

By: emptywheel Friday June 5, 2009 6:13 am

Crazy Pete Hoekstra finds a journalists to help him manufacture political controversy again.

Victory Is Mine!!!!

By: emptywheel Thursday May 21, 2009 6:21 pm

Finally, a TradMed source who can read the English language!!!

Scrapple and Pelosi

By: emptywheel Wednesday May 20, 2009 4:04 pm

Yes, I’m glad that Arlen “the Scrapple formerly known as Haggis” Specter has come out in support of Nancy Pelosi’s suggestion that CIA misled her in her September 2002 briefing.

“The CIA has a very bad record when it comes to — I was about to say ‘candid’; that’s too mild — to honesty,” Specter, a former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a lunch address to the American Law

Crazy Pete Hoekstra Flip-Flops on Congressional Notification

By: emptywheel Friday May 15, 2009 9:26 am

Crazy Pete Hoekstra wrote a very good description, in 2006, about how serious is the obligation to inform Congress of CIA’s activities. He seems to have forgotten that description now.

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