Let me make a rare statement: I agree with just about everything Richard Shelby said in his call for an investigation of mortgage servicers. The Federal Banking Regulators should immediately review the mortgage servicing and foreclosure activities of Ally Financial, JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America. The regulators should determine exactly what occurred at [...]

Remember that Richard Shelby hold? Where he was holding the Senate hostage so Airbus could get a tanker refueling contract? Well, given that Airbus withdrew from the competition yesterday, I thought it appropriate to see what Shelby has to say about all this… The Air Force had a chance to deliver the most capable tanker [...]

Apparently, Obama told Mitch McConnell that if the GOP didn’t start releasing their hostages, he would recess appoint the whole lot of them. And, as a result of a direct threat, McConnell and his buddies released 27 of their hostages. But Obama is calling for the Republicans to release all their hostages. Today, the United [...]

The WaPo reports, mistakenly, that Richard Shelby has released his holds on Obama’s nominees. But as Shelby’s own statement makes clear, he is still holding up some of the military nominations to benefit Airbus. The purpose of placing numerous holds was to get the White House’s attention on two issues that are critical to our [...]

There has been a lot of discussion of how foreign companies will be able to influence elections and politics given the Citizens United deal. But foreign companies are already dominating our politics. Consider Richard Shelby’s decision to place holds on all of Obama’s nominees unless some federal money that may benefit Alabama gets released. Sen. [...]

Richard Shelby just shredded his own story about the CIA briefing on torture.

In spite of the fact that it is becoming increasingly clear to the rest of the media that Porter Goss and Nancy Pelosi agree that they were not briefed that the CIA had already been torturing prisoners in September 2002, the WaPo has decided to double down on deliberately misreading events.

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

The WaPo is apparently in the business of reprinting ignorant challenges without any fact-check or context.

Bob Graham appears to go even further than Pelosi denying he was briefed on torture. There may be reasons for that. But the big point remains: the Bush Administration and the CIA did not fulfill legal obligations to brief Congress on torture.