WASHINGTON — The Justice Department invoked the state secrets privilege Friday to try to stop a lawsuit over Bush-era wiretapping – the fi...
L.A. Times | David G. Savage | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
Reporting from Washington - The Patriot Act -- a favorite tool in the George W. Bush administration's fight against terrorism -- may be renamed later...
Lisa Derrick | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
Courrielche has not been been forthcoming about how he came to have the recorded conversations, which may be a way of invoking his right to self-protection, since recording that call was illegal in several states.
Wall Street Journal | JOHN YOO | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
It was instantly clear after Sept. 11, 2001, that our security agencies knew little about al Qaeda's inner workings, could not detect its operatives' ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
Obama faces a steady drip, drip, drip of stories leaking and becoming public. Wiretapping stories, torture stories, and secret CIA covert stories were all in the news in the past week alone.
Michael Wolff | Posted 08.10.2009 | Media
Gossip, for Murdoch, is partly business intelligence, but Murdoch also likes to know who is sleeping with whom. It is a prurient interest, but it is also leverage.
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration insists it has no obligation to provide access to a top secret document in a wiretapping case, setting up ...
Raw Story | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
The judge who ordered former New York Times journalist Judith Miller jailed for refusing to reveal her sources has been appointed to the Foreign Intel...
CQ | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
Former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert says he learned from a CIA-connected "whistleblower" in 2006 that Bush administration officials were suppressin...
Dave Astor | Posted 05.28.2009 | Comedy
Given that the team's super-rich owners used taxpayer subsidies to help finance their gilded ballpark, it serves them right that they're losing some revenue.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.22.2009 | Media
the Times says that Rep. Harman made an effort, on the eve of the 2004 election, to keep the paper from publishing their expose.
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday that the panel would hold a hearing to get to the bottom of reports tha...
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday that the panel would hold a hearing to get to the bottom of reports tha...
New York Times | ERIC LICHTBLAU and JAMES RISEN | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- The National Security Agency intercepted private e-mail messages and phone calls of Americans in recent months on a scale that went beyo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics
The Republican Party of Virginia finds itself on the hunt, of late, for America's Next Top Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia. Why is this?...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics
Calculated Risk has some great highlights of Bill Moyers interview with University of Missouri professor William K. Black that are worth reading. Her...
Washington Post | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
First, the workers encased the room in reinforced concrete. Then came the thick wood-and-metal doors that seal into the walls. Behind those walls they...
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has lost its argument that a potential threat to national security should stop a lawsuit challenging the g...
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics
Are you frustrated by all the "we need to look forward, not backward" language from Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders? Well, now you can do something about it.
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
It would be wrong for an outgoing President who presided over disastrous... enterprises like the torture program to unilaterally slam the door on all future investigations into that conduct.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.31.2009 | Media
The drive to produce a book likely stems from these post-White House blues, something Gonzales seems to acknowledge.
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.26.2009 | Politics
Love her or hate her, you have to admit that John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin for the Republican ticket this year was without any doubt the boldest political tactic of the year.
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics
It was, perhaps, a dark and rainy day. Through a clearing in the forest the King's horsemen came upon the menacing silhouette of a distant medieval f...
Alden Loury | Posted 01.16.2009 | Chicago
Hopefully there will be more in a sixth installment of The Wire. U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich have shown us the way.
Craig Newmark | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics
There's more drama around the attempts by the current administration to protect people who might have spied illegally on everyday American citizens.
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics