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09 Jan 20 : 47 | John Brennan Is Set to Be Really Powerful Everyone in the blogosphere — Glenn, I’m looking in your direction — who may have thought that John Brennan was kneecapped just because he didn’t become CIA director should check out what President-elect Barack Obama had to say about Brennan during the Blair/Panetta rollout: I’m pleased to... Source : The Washington Independent 2 hours ago |
09 Jan 17 : 52 | Newly-released OLC Memos Support Critics’ Claims The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel today released another slew of previously-classified legal memos, setting forth the department’s justifications for everything from the legality of the use of military commissions to try suspected terrorists to the authority of the president to... Source : The Washington Independent 5 hours ago |
08 Jan 00 : 31 | Tom Price is Right The conservative vanguard at the Republican Study Committee blasted out a statement announcing that Rep. Tom Price (R-Georgia) had officially taken the helm. No surprise—he’d been elected in November. But it’s worth remembering that Rep. John Campbell (R-California), a certified public... Source : The Washington Independent 46 hours ago |
09 Jan 14 : 56 | Fear Factor and the Obama Stimulus Plan John Judis at The New Republic joins a growing chorus of voices wondering if President-elect Barack Obama’s stimulus plan goes far enough. We’re talking about a massive spending works plan here, and everyone from Judis to contributors to the Wall Street Journal’s Real Time Economics blog say... Source : The Washington Independent 8 hours ago |
09 Jan 00 : 03 | Obama Defense Picks Hint at Gates’ Influence Richard Danzig (Navy.mil) Thursday’s announcement of the new senior subcabinet leadership at the Dept. of Defense was conspicuous for a name it didn’t include: Richard Danzig. Danzig, a former secretary of the Navy, has been one of President-elect Barack Obama’s chief defense advisers for over... Source : The Washington Independent 23 hours ago |
08 Jan 19 : 10 | D.C. Federal Judge Orders Bush Administration to Produce Evidence About... After hearing arguments on whether prisoners held indefinitely without charge at the U.S.-controlled prison at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan have the right to challenge their detention in American courts, Judge John D. Bates of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia late Wednesday... Source : The Washington Independent 28 hours ago |
08 Jan 17 : 57 | Strike Two for Cornyn Following up on the news of Sen. Kit Bond’s (R-Mo.) retirement — that’s two Senate seats in one week for which the GOP has lost its preferred candidate. The first was Florida, now wide-open (possibly even leaning Democratic) with former Gov. Jeb Bush out of the race. Perhaps Sen. John Cornyn... Source : The Washington Independent 29 hours ago |
08 Jan 15 : 17 | The Inscrutable RNC Race While the people in the room at Monday’s RNC chairman debate were bearish on Michael Steele—a judgment I’ve heard from a lot of race-watchers—Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post sees Steele near the front of the pack, right behind incumbent Mike Duncan. Steele is running as the insider’s... Source : The Washington Independent 32 hours ago |
01 Jan 00 : 00 | Best of The Streak: What Worked In Iraq Must Work In Afghanistan, Right? First appeared December 24, 2008 In October, Gen. David McKiernan, commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan expressed skepticism over the prospect of signing up tribal militias, Anbar Province-style, to fight the Taliban. Over the last several days, it’s become increasingly clear that a... Source : The Washington Independent |
08 Jan 12 : 00 | GOP Senators Letters Give Anti-Obama Activists Hope President-elect Barack Obama (WDCpix) President-elect Barack Obama’s victory on November 4 launched a crowd-sourced, talk radio-driven effort on the far right: a campaign to deny him the White House by legal means. Prodded by conservative outlets like Plains Radio, WorldNetDaily, and the... Source : The Washington Independent 35 hours ago |
07 Jan 20 : 32 | Epic RNC Fail Less than 48 hours after a Republican National Committee chairman candidates’ debate, during which contenders sang the praises of high tech and Twitter, the RNC held a meeting that was closed to non-members and electronic media. GOP tech guru Patrick Ruffini tried to enter right after giving a... Source : The Washington Independent |
07 Jan 18 : 41 | Obama Announces New Government Efficiency Post President-elect Barack Obama today announced the creation of a new position to work in conjunction with the Office of Management and Budget to increase the “efficiency, transparency and accountability” of federal agencies. During a news conference at the Obama-Biden transition office in... Source : The Washington Independent |
07 Jan 18 : 06 | Don’t Be So Sure About Haass, Holbrooke and Ross Marc Ambinder reported this morning that three top diplomats — Richard Haass, Richard Holbrooke and Dennis Ross — will be President-elect Barack Obama’s envoys to various global hellholes: Iran, Israel/Palestine, and Afghanistan/Pakistan/India. He says it’s “confirmed,” but I’ve heard... Source : The Washington Independent |
07 Jan 14 : 43 | District Court to Hear Detainee Case Wednesday Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan (army.mil) Almost six years ago, while on a business trip in Thailand, Amin Al Bakri was abducted on his way to the Bangkok airport. For months, his wife and three children at home in Yemen had no idea where he was. Then one day they read in a local newspaper that... Source : The Washington Independent |
07 Jan 15 : 03 | The Continuing Republican Campaign For Black Justice The conservative CNS News site gets Michael Steele (about whom you can find more here) on record, telling Democrats to seat Roland Burris as the junior senator from Illinois. Now, the Democrats have got their hands full, because they can seat him or not seat him, and the reality of it for them is... Source : The Washington Independent |
07 Jan 00 : 41 | Hah! I Totally Blocked Your Fist With My Face! This Benjamin Sarlin piece on right-wing delight at Al Franken’s Senate win in Minnesota is … strange. “Al Franken is a very tempting target because he is so outrageous,” said Republican strategist Brad Blakeman. “It’s similar to Joe Biden—we hope that Al Franken is the gift that keeps... Source : The Washington Independent |
06 Jan 22 : 27 | Restoration Denied! According to the speaker of Florida’s state House, Jeb Bush is passing on a 2010 Senate run. “He said it just wasn’t the right timing,” [Marco] Rubio said, recounting a phone call he received this afternoon from the former Florida governor and presidential brother. Bush, who left office in... Source : The Washington Independent |
06 Jan 21 : 38 | RNC Chair Frontrunners Say Shoot the Messenger Candidates for the RNC chairmanship held a debate on Monday. (David Weigel) Chip Saltsman has put the “magic negro” story behind him. The news that the ex-Mike Huckabee campaign manager and candidate for chairman of the Republican National Committee had sent RNC members a CD of parody songs that... Source : The Washington Independent |
06 Jan 20 : 37 | Feingold Is Pro-Panetta Sen. Russ Feingold, like Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.), has a tendency to get questions of national security and human rights, you know, right. Here’s what the Wisconsin Democrat who’s on both the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary Committees has to say about President-elect Barack Obama’s reported... Source : The Washington Independent |
06 Jan 17 : 19 | My Ann Coulter Story Four and a half years ago I was working for a certain national newspaper when my bosses had a brainstorm: hire two controversial pundits of the right and left to cover the Democratic and Republican conventions. They chose Michael Moore for the Republicans—which led to that moment when all of... Source : The Washington Independent |
06 Jan 15 : 50 | A Foreclosure’s Final Chapter The house that former Manassas homeowner Julio Angulo lost in a foreclosure eviction chronicled by TWI is back on the market. Haymarket Realtor Keith Elliott Jr. said Angulo’s former home is listed for $84,900. Think about that for a minute. Angulo bought the townhouse, in a working class... Source : The Washington Independent |
06 Jan 12 : 00 | Franken, Burris Pose Dilemma for Democrats Al Franken (WDCpix) In the first week of the 111th Congress, Democrats already have themselves in a pickle. Party leaders hoping to block the appointment of Roland Burris to replace President-elect Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate are pointing to the same legal technicality that Republicans hope to... Source : The Washington Independent |
06 Jan 01 : 47 | Intel Community Sees Potential in Panetta Leon Panetta (National Marine Sanctuary Foundation) The surprising news that former congressman and White House chief of staff Leon Panetta will be tapped to head the CIA represented an about face for President-elect Barack Obama’s early effort at putting an intelligence veteran at the top of the... Source : The Washington Independent |
15 Dec 14 : 52 | ‘Yeah, That’s Right. So What?’ My friend Richard Smith at VetVoice has a great catch from George W. Bush’s exit interview with ABC’s Martha Raddatz after getting shoes thrown at him in Baghdad. One of the things that Muntader al-Zaidi, a 28-year Iraqi journalist, yelled at the disgraced outgoing president as he threw his... Source : The Washington Independent |
05 Jan 19 : 36 | RNC Debate: Round II The lightning round begins: Who is everyone’s favorite Republican president? Reagan. Reagan. Reagan. Reagan. Reagan. And finally, from Ken Blackwell: “Ronald Reagan, who brought me into the Republican party.” “Good,” says Norquist. “Everyone got that one right.” Who’s everyone’s... Source : The Washington Independent |
05 Jan 16 : 30 | Keeping Hayden At CIA: Are You Kidding Me? The holiday blahs haven’t let up when it comes to who’s getting what job in the new Obama-run intelligence community. No news today on that front, according to the Obama transition. So, as day follows night and pain follows dehydration-inducing New Year’s revelry, it appears that speculating... Source : The Washington Independent |
05 Jan 15 : 07 | That’s What I Call Reporting! Michelle Malkin, taking umbrage at Matthew Yglesias’s assertion that there aren’t many conservative bloggers with reporting skills (”Bullcrap.”), suggests the work of Bay Area-based Zombie. Internet journalist/blogger and Little Green Footballs regular Zombie (not “conservative” per se,... Source : The Washington Independent |
05 Jan 12 : 58 | New at TWI: David Weigel 2009 is poised to be a big year for the Democrats, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to overlook the GOP here at TWI. I’m pleased to announce that David Weigel has joined our staff to cover the Republican Party and the remaking of the right. David is formerly of the libertarian magazine... Source : The Washington Independent |
04 Jan 23 : 44 | Detention and Torture Cases Demand Fast Action from Obama DoJ As Adam Liptak wrote in The New York Times on Saturday, the President-elect Barack Obama’s Justice Department is going to have to quickly figure out what positions it will take in some thorny legal cases involving the indefinite detention and torture of “war on terror” detainees. The Al-Marri... Source : The Washington Independent |
02 Jan 19 : 45 | Let the Blago Showdown Begin So does Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich have the right to appoint Roland Burris as the next senator from Illinois or doesn’t he? A helpful analysis from CNN.com notes the following: Article 1, Section 5 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to be “judge of the elections, returns and... Source : The Washington Independent |
02 Jan 15 : 59 | ‘Flying While Muslim,’ the New ‘Driving While Black’ The Washington Post reports that a large group of Muslim travelers were removed from a flight Thursday at a Washington-area airport after one of them made a comment about airline safety. Officials ordered nine Muslim passengers, including three young children, off an AirTran flight headed to Orlando... Source : The Washington Independent |
01 Jan 14 : 30 | Congress Plans Overturning Bush Medical Rule Democratic policymakers vowing to overturn a controversial new Bush administration rule that could limit women’s reproductive health options have several tools at their disposal to do so– but party leaders aren’t revealing which they favor. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) (WDCpix)... Source : The Washington Independent |
31 Dec 16 : 00 | Best of The Streak: ‘I Don’t Work For You No More’ First appeared March 14, 2008 Jon Michael Turner’s tattoos cover his arms almost entirely. They peeked out under the rolled up sleeves of his crisp blue shirt, on which were the medals and ribbons he earned as an automatic machine gunner with the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines in Anbar Province in... Source : The Washington Independent |
30 Dec 19 : 50 | The Downside of Being President-Elect When you go on vacation and an international crisis breaks out, you get hounded by protesters. From a pool report today: About a half dozen demonstrators had assembled near the security checkpoint fronting the entrance to the $9 million rental home where [President-elect Barack] Obama and his family... Source : The Washington Independent |
30 Dec 14 : 42 | Progressive Jewish Groups See Test in Crisis Dec. 30, 2008 -- A Palestinian stands on the wreckage of a mosque damaged by Israeli airstrike, at the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza Strip. (Zuma) As the Israeli bombardment of Gaza enters its fourth day, there are no shortage of tests. The wisdom of Israeli strategy is being tested. The resilience... Source : The Washington Independent |
29 Dec 15 : 55 | Barack Obama on Gaza This is the Obama transition’s official statement on Gaza as of right now, courtesy of chief transition national-security spokeswoman Brooke Anderson: “President-elect Obama is closely monitoring global events, including the situation in Gaza, but there is one president at a time.” The current... Source : The Washington Independent |
29 Dec 09 : 11 | Lawsuit Targets Banks With Novel Tactic Some Cleveland neighborhoods have a message for banks that abandon their foreclosed houses or unload them at fire sale prices to speculators: Stop dumping your trash on us. Illustration by: Matt Mahurin Using a novel legal technique that could be copied elsewhere, the Cleveland Housing Renewal... Source : The Washington Independent |
26 Dec 12 : 00 | Are Iraq Contractors Subject to U.S. Law? Earlier this month, the Department of Justice announced to great fanfare that it had indicted five guards employed by the private security firm Blackwater Worldwide for their role in a Baghdad shooting that left 17 Iraqis dead last year. A sixth guard had pled guilty to manslaughter and weapons... Source : The Washington Independent |
23 Dec 23 : 15 | Donilon, Blinken Join The White House Foreign Policy Staff The Obama transition formally announced Jack Lew and Jim Steinberg as deputy secretaries of state just now. On Lew, my pal Mark Kleiman, who knows the guy, remarks, “He’s just one of those people who aren’t even tempted to cut corners, or at least that’s the way he comes across.”... Source : The Washington Independent |
23 Dec 14 : 22 | The Coming Military-Civilian Resource Shift, Cont’d Remember about a month ago, when President-elect Barack Obama announced his foreign policy team, and it looked as if there was going to be a shift of emphasis from the military to the civilian agencies of government, in terms of money, attention and influence? Secretary of State-designee Hillary... Source : The Washington Independent |
17 Dec 12 : 00 | The Case for Spending More Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) (WDCpix) Though it pains me to say this, back in 1981 Ronald Reagan got it right. He got Congress to pass a massively excessive tax cut – and then spent five years taking it back. Spurred by stimulus, the economy recovered. And no one remembers those tax hikes now.... Source : The Washington Independent |
15 Dec 17 : 07 | Throw Your Shoes At Larry di Rita For years, at the Pentagon press podium, Lawrence di Rita helped Donald Rumsfeld lie to the American people. Now, I see via Abu Muqawama that he’s taken to the Washington Post to continue to attack the legacy of a much better man, ret. Gen. Eric Shinseki, who told the truth about the force... Source : The Washington Independent |
09 Dec 15 : 22 | How Terrorists Recruit Westerners Counterterrorism experts and analysts have worried for years about the appeal of jihad to Muslims in the West, particularly in Europe, which has a complicated relationship with assimilation and frequently treats Muslims as second-class citizens. The Los Angeles Times has an excellent story about why... Source : The Washington Independent |
