More New York Republicans Providing Material Support to Terrorists

By: emptywheel Monday January 3, 2011 6:06 am

Speaking of material support for terrorism, David Cole uses the recent trip by Rudy Giuliani and others to suck up to the Mujaheddin-e Khalq (MEK) as an opportunity to explain the idiocy of the Holder versus Humanitarian Law Project SCOTUS verdict. DID former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Tom Ridge, [...]

Marc Ambinder’s Cave

By: emptywheel Saturday August 22, 2009 6:03 am

I was going to leave well enough alone–to take Marc Ambinder’s limited apology for labeling DFHs who believed the threat level system to be politicized as “gut haters,” accept that he is at least thinking about these things, and move on. But given Ambinder’s follow-up, I’d like to use it to make a point of Village journalism methods.

But there are a couple of passages from his post that really embody the things that–as I said before-make his take on the threat levels an excellent example of what I

Why Send Andy Card and Frances Fragos Townsend to Rebut Ridge?

By: emptywheel Friday August 21, 2009 11:53 am

To rebut Tom Ridge’s confirmation that the terror alert system was politicized, the Dead-Enders have rolled out the woman who was not told about the warrantless wiretap program and the guy who rolled out the Iraq War like a new season of clothing.

Red Alert! Bush Was Going to Lose!

By: emptywheel Thursday August 20, 2009 7:46 am

Details from Tom Ridge’s upcoming tell-all.

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