alberto gonzales

The American Spectator discusses the former reviled Attorney General’s prospects for getting picked by John McCain to serve as Veep:

The reaction of top Bush Administration officials to the ICRC report, from what I can gather, has been defensive and dismissive. They reject the ICRC’s legal analysis as incorrect.

... but I think Karl Rove's exit of the country supposedly on the date of his Subpoena to Appear before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee is telling.

Years of intentional deception and illegal actions from the White House were ignored and then embraced as good policy by the U.S. Congress with the passage yesterday of the FISA legislation. Unchecked power from the Executive branch of government continues to grow - at the expense of all else.

It’s hard to believe any of the creeps, perverts, and sadists who connived at and then defended torture by the US military and intelligence services under the Bush administration can still maintain their dismissive and amoral charade. Over and over we have heard the reality of waterboarding and other shameful abuses.

Frank Cagle has a must read column on the nature of the First Amendment and how it should apply to journalism and how some corporate newspapermen would prefer that it didn’t:

Huge congratulations go out to Josh Marshall for this write up in the NY Times.

Of the many landmarks along a journalist’s career, two are among those that stand out: winning an award and making the government back down. Last week, Joshua Micah Marshall achieved both.