According to Josh Marshall at "Talking Points," Senator Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee wants a commitment to turn over all of the documents Gonzalez refused to turn over involving the firings of nine U. S. Attornies. And, he wants that commitment before Mukasey's nomination is considered. Let's hope Leahy sticks to his guns on this and doesn't just sit there looking incredulous...and impotent like he has done so many times before.
Posted by PretzelsOne at September 17, 2007 10:01 AMI see you agree with me on Greenspan. He is responsible for the mortgage crisis but he didn't realize it would happen. Clueless.
Posted by JohnT at September 17, 2007 10:07 AMNice weekend wrap up Steve thanks...I noticed "Easy Al the Broker Pal" was backsliding in true repug form...another POS that wants to sell books to both sides of the political spectrum...I was wondering Steve if you craftily neglected the OJ story...but judging from the tapes on CNN, this will fit so they can't acquit. Good riddens to that a**hole.
Posted by Goyo at September 17, 2007 10:13 AMGreenspan's book: "...it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil."
But today Greenspan says oil wasn't Bushco's motivation. Apparently Bushci didn't "know" what "everyone knows".
God, what a freakin' cringing coward Greenspan is. But I'm glad to have his foolish candid statement before he was required to "recant". Alan, baby---you can't "take back" such comments. Duh.
Posted by euzoius at September 17, 2007 10:52 AMPerhaps someone pointed out to Mr. Greenspan HOW politically inconvenient his comment could be for Mrs. Alan Greenspan?
Posted by at September 17, 2007 11:05 AMThat Greenspan, the Shill of all GOP Shills, would write a book and call Bush on a variety of bad things is hilarious. Greenie has carried Bush's water all along, now he wants no blame. See, all these guys know Bush's ideas and Devine Plans are crazy schemes with no valid policy direction or even sensible applications beyond his pure whim....but it is clear that the My Way or Else mentality of both Bush and Cheney have simply bulled people into going along with a myriad of stupid and frequently illegal acts. Some, like Greenie, needed only a little pushing, others like (amazingly) Ashcroft needed lots. But the vast majority did not have the guts to say "this is wrong". And now they all want to write books to bail out their sorry place in history....screw them all.
Posted by T2 at September 17, 2007 12:34 PMnow on to Blackwater...Bets are being taken on how long it will be before Al Maliki declares the Blackwater murders are a big misunderstanding and certainly, they are still welcome in Iraq, helping to bring Return on Success. I'm sure Bush has already made the call. I'll say the recant will be made by tomorrow, 9 am EDT.
Posted by T2 at September 17, 2007 12:39 PMTPM's Spencer Ackerman is reporting that Blackwater does not have an Iraq contract and therefore nothing can be revoked.
However, it's unclear how the Interior Ministry would expel Blackwater. Unlike other private U.S. security firms in Iraq, as of May, Blackwater hadn't registered with the Iraqi government to operate in Iraq. The Coalition Provisional Authority -- the now-defunct occupational government -- issued a decree in 2004 (pdf) immunizing security contractors from Iraqi prosecution and placing their operations under the jurisdiction of U.S. authorities.
In other words, Blackwater isn't going anywhere.
Posted by Seven of Six at September 17, 2007 02:42 PMI see that interesting and informative Pincus article is in its usual place buried way back on page A17 of WaPo. The irony of this reportage is just highlighted by this WaPo script at the bottom.
National security and intelligence reporter Walter Pincus pores over the speeches, reports, transcripts and other documents that flood Washington and every week uncovers the fine print that rarely makes headlines -- but should. ...
Yup....buried buried buried.
Posted by emal at September 17, 2007 03:37 PM