Why Tom Davis Shouldn’t Be Obama’s Cyberczar

By: Saturday June 20, 2009 12:06 pm

Reportedly, Obama is considering former GOP Congressman Tom Davis to be his new cyberczar. It strikes me as the height of stupidity to put a guy with a history of politicizing email in charge of the nation’s cybersecurity.

Tom Davis Supports Waxman’s Demand for Cheney’s Interview Materials

By: Tuesday October 14, 2008 9:17 am

Tom Davis supports Waxman’s report that Bush improperly invoked executive privilege to protect the Cheney interview materials. But I think he was just helping the Bush Administration sustain its firewall protecting Bush’s involvement in the outing of Valerie Plame.

Virginia and Tom Davis’ Plan to Save the GOP Brand

By: Saturday May 17, 2008 8:06 pm

Tom Davis has some interesting things about how to save the Republican party. But as I read it, I kept thinking about how Davis retired this year because he couldn’t risk running in his suburban DC district filled with a bunch of defense contractors and other government employees.

Enron Accounting at the NRCC

By: Wednesday February 27, 2008 6:55 am

The Politico fleshes out the NRCC accounting story–and it sure looks like they had a scheme ripe for money laundering.

Waxman Hearing on White House Emails

By: Tuesday February 26, 2008 7:23 am

Already a sqabble over whether the interrogatories from McDevitt, the guy who said 473 days of email were missing, should be entered into the record.

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