Did Evan Bayh Quit Because Reid Refused to Give Paris Hilton a Tax Break?
In his statement explaining why he was quitting, Evan Bayh named the Harry Reid’s decision not to let MaxTax Baucus and Chuck Grassley hold the jobs bill hostage as one of the reasons he does not like...
View ArticleThe Chuck and Huck Show
Say, have you noticed how often Chuck Schumer has been nuzzling up to Lindsey “Huckleberry” Graham lately? There’s their plan on immigration reform which, among other things, calls for a national...
View ArticleDems Not Only Call for National ID, but for Anti-Democratic National ID
As DDay reported, the Reid-Schumer-Menendez draft on Immigration Reform calls for a national ID card (which they call a “biometric” or “fraud proof” social security card). Perhaps in a move to placate...
View ArticleGoodwin Liu To Get Senate Floor Vote On Cloture Thursday
News broke this afternoon that Harry Reid might file for cloture on a floor vote on Obama’s nominee for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Goodwin Liu: Goodwin Liu’s bid for a federal judgeship may be...
View ArticleReid and Republicans Tee Up Another PATRIOT Extension
This is the disrespect in which our Congress holds our Constitution: they will continue to chip away at the Fourth Amendment, by passing yet another extension of the PATRIOT Act without addressing the...
View ArticleThe Un-Patriot Acts of Harry Reid
As you undoubtedly know by now, the furious rush to extend the Patriot Act is once again in full swing. The Patriot Act is an odious piece of legislation that was birthed by fearmongering and the...
View ArticleClapper: We Need to Pass PATRIOT to Make Sure Apple Continues to Track Your...
I’m very sympathetic to what Glenn and bmaz and Spencer and Julian have to say about the stupid fear-mongering around today’s PATRIOT extension. Julian’s explanation of how the grandfather clause would...
View Article“Robo-signing” the PATRIOT Act
Chuck Todd tweeted last night: WH announced that POTUS ordered the Patriot Act renewal to be signed by the “autopen”; so, yes, it was robosigned Reason given for robosigning via autopen: Patriot Act...
View ArticleDiFi’s Secret Law
Steven Aftergood linked to this colloquy on the PATRIOT Act which reveals a lot about Ron Wyden and Mark Udall’s efforts to force the government to admit how it’s suveilling Americans. The colloquy...
View ArticleWhen One Mormon Gossips about Another Mormon Not Paying His Taxes
For the record, I think Mitt has multiple reasons to hide his tax returns. I think it’s largely about what his returns would say about his business practices, it’s partly about his tax shelters, and,...
View ArticleIn Describing CIA’s Attempted Intimidiation of Senate Intelligence Committee,...
Back when Mark Udall first hinted about the CIA’s efforts to intimidate the Senate Intelligence Committee, he said CIA had taken “unprecedented action.” That’s language Harry Reid repeats in a letter...
View ArticleIn Defending Dianne Feinstein, Ron Wyden Reminds that Michael Hayden Lied to...
Like Harry Reid and Mark Udall, Ron Wyden has defended Dianne Feinstein against Michael Hayden’s suggestion that she’s too “emotional” to investigate torture. But unlike Reid and Udall — who attack...
View ArticleCISA Overwhelmingly Passes, 74-21
Update: Thought I’d put a list of Senators people should thank for voting against CISA. GOP: Crapo, Daines, Heller, Lee, Risch, and Sullivan. (Paul voted against cloture but did not vote today.) Dems:...
View ArticleDay Six: Our First Purge
The big news from the Trump transition this morning is that Mike Rogers — who had joined Trump as an advisor on national security close to the end of the campaign — has been ousted. Former House...
View ArticleSeven Democrats Write Obama Asking Him to Declassify More Information on...
Ron Wyden, five other Democrats, and Dem caucusing Independent Angus King just wrote Obama a cryptic letter. The entire body of the letter reads: We believe there is additional information concerning...
View ArticleUnpacking the New CIA Leak: Don’t Ignore the Aluminum Tube Footnote
This post will unpack the leak from the CIA published in the WaPo tonight. Before I start with the substance of the story, consider this background. First, if Trump comes into office on the current...
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Last Fall’s Efforts against Russia: Influence versus Tamper
NYT has a story — citing “former government officials” and eventually citing Harry Reid — that’s attracting a lot of attention. It explains the CIA had evidence in August that Russia was affirmatively...
View ArticleThoughts on the NYT Comey Blockbuster
The NYT has a big piece on Jim Comey’s involvement in the election you should definitely read. Rather than share my thoughts in a tweet storm I thought I’d share here so we can all gab about it....
View ArticleJohn Brennan Denies a Special Harry Reid Briefing
This passage from John Brennan’s testimony about Russia to the House Intelligence Committee yesterday has gotten a lot of attention: Through the so-called Gang of Eight process, we kept Congress...
View ArticleThe Compartments in WaPo’s Russian Hack Magnum Opus
The WaPo has an 8300 word opus on the Obama Administration’s response to Russian tampering in the election. The article definitely covers new ground on the Obama effort to respond while avoiding making...
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