Will Al Gore finally weigh in, now that Hillary Clinton is openly race-baiting?

margieburns — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:10:00 -0400

Given Hillary Clinton's open espousal of 'white Americans,' if the official Democratic Party is indeed concerned to avert a disaster at the polls, surely this would be a good time for some of the remaining bigtime neutrals to weigh in.

How can John and Elizabeth Edwards, and Al Gore, and others keep silence on the (nonexistent) 'race' for the Democratic nomination, at a time like this?

Come to think of it, is Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean really somehow obligated to let this kind of thing--Clinton's open and explicit race-baiting--pass without any comment?

If they want their party to ...

Clinton touts support from 'white Americans'

margieburns — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:30:00 -0400

I would not have believed it possible that Hillary Clinton's remarks could become much more ghastly, but she has now managed to plumb deeper:

CNN.com reports that Clinton is now openly touting her support from 'whites' :

"In what appear to be the New York senator's most blunt comments to date regarding a racial division in the Democratic presidential race, Hillary Clinton suggested Wednesday that "White Americans" are increasingly turning away from Barack Obama’s candidacy.

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," Clinton said in an interview with USA TODAY."

It only gets worse:...

How long is the Clinton campaign going to run gun ads against Obama?

margieburns — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:03:00 -0400

How long is the Clinton campaign going to run gun ads against Obama?

--As long as it takes?

Following Sen. Barack Obama’s large win over Sen. Hillary Clinton in the North Carolina primary and Clinton’s hairline win over Obama in Indiana with help from Rush Limbaugh dittoheads, come news reports of vandalism incidents and bomb threats at Obama offices in Indiana.

MSNBC reports that

The bomb threats were made in a call to a Terre Haute television station. Lewis Robinson of the Secret Service's Indianapolis office said the caller made threats against Obama offices in Terre ...

House Judiciary Committee, tomorrow: Rep. Nadler to Examine Legal "Basis" for Bush Interrogation Techniques

margieburns — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:11:00 -0400

Passed along from House Judiciary Comm.
I wish I could attend this hearing. One of the panelists, Philippe Sands, has written a dynamite-sounding book.

ADVISORY: Rep. Nadler to Examine Legal "Basis" for Bush Interrogation Techniques
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Roussell, Melanie <Melanie.Roussell@mail.house.gov>

Mon, May 5, 2008 at 2:15 PM

CONGRESSMAN

JERROLD NADLER

8th Congressional District of New York

Rep. Nadler to Examine Legal “Basis” for Bush Interrogation Techniques

Lawmakers to Also Consider Subpoenas to Compel Testimony from Key Witnesses

FOR PLANNING PURPOSES: Monday, May 5, 2008
CONTACT: Shin Inouye, 202-225-5635 (Nadler)
Melanie Roussell, 202-226-5543 (Conyers)
Jonathan Godfrey, 202-226-6888 (Conyers)

WASHINGTON, D.C. – ...

Fox News, Barack Obama, and Ignorance of Religion

margieburns — Sun, 04 May 2008 10:10:00 -0400

Fox News Sunday today is relentlessly flogging the Reverend You-know-who. In its quest to bring down Barack Obama, Fox has shifted tactics somewhat, allowing some negative questions about Hillary Clinton into interviews—asking Terry McAuliffe, for example, about several prominent members of the Clinton administration who now support Obama. (McAuliffe’s answer: I cd give you a list of thousands of former Clinton people who still support Hillary Clinton. Fair enough.) Fox seems to be moving away from its relentless Hillary-boosting, gradually.

Chris Wallace harped on the Reverend throughout his interviews with DNC chair Howard Dean, McAuliffe, and Rep. Joe Andrew, ...

Leading to Iraq: High crimes and misdemeanors. September, 2005.

margieburns — Sun, 04 May 2008 07:22:00 -0400

135th in continuing blog series on the administration push to war. With official Washington back in town after the August hiatus, official investigations into the lead-up to the war gain a little headway, although slowly.

September, 2005:

Sept. 9, 2005 – Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, requests that the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the Defense department investigate whether the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy [generically called ‘office of special plans’ but not the official OSP] conducted “unauthorized, unlawful or inappropriate intelligence activities.”

Sept. ...

The sad suicide of Deborah Jeane Palfrey

margieburns — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:52:00 -0400
The news yesterday that Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called 'DC madam,' hanged herself in a shed on her mother's property, was sad and rattling.

I did not cover her trial in DC, did not sit in on any of it or follow it particularly closely. But somehow her suicide feels closer to me than it rationally, objectively is. That may be partly because I did write about her famous client list a few times, earlier. My main interest was what effect, if any, the attacks of September 11, 2001, had on her business patterns. Answer: if anything, the burgeoning defense ...

House Judiciary Committee Investigates Rising Gas Prices

margieburns — Thu, 01 May 2008 08:20:00 -0400
Too bad May 6 [correction] will not be the date on which the public hears from former Attorney General John Ashcroft, Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff David Addington, and former Office of Legal Counsel attorney John Yoo. But there are other pressing issues besides the torture memos, and May 7 the House Judiciary Committee will commence hearings on gas prices.

From the House Judiciary Committee:

House Judiciary Committee Investigates Rising Gas Prices for Americans and Rising Profits for Oil Companies

(Washington, DC)- House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) announced today that the Committee's Task Force on Competition Policy ...

Secret opinions and letters issued by White House Office of Legal Counsel

margieburns — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:20:00 -0400
Following is the list of non-public, i.e. secret, products from the Office of Legal Counsel in our White House, included as an appendix to the letter from Reps. John Conyers and Jerrold Nadler just posted. It is a good thing for the public that at least the torture memoranda cited these products:

APPENDIX LISTING NON-PUBLIC OFFICE OF LEGAL COUNSEL

OPINIONS AND LETTERS CITED IN THE YOO MEMORANDUM

1) Memorandum for Alberto R. Gonzales, Counsel to the President, from Patrick F. Philbin, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Re: Legality of the Use of Military Commissions to Try Terrorists ...

Conyers And Nadler Ask for Justice Department Secret Opinions

margieburns — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:17:00 -0400

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 29, 2008

Contact: Melanie N. Roussell (Conyers) 202-226-5543

Jonathan Godfrey (Conyers) 202-226-6888

Shin Inouye (Nadler) 202-225-5635

Conyers And Nadler Ask for Justice Department Secret Opinions

(Washington, DC)- House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) today asked Attorney General Michael Mukasey for a list of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel's "secret" legal opinions issued during the Bush Administration as well as copies of the unclassified opinions. The Administration has based decisions on the ...

Margie Burns

Will Al Gore finally weigh in, now that Hillary Clinton is openly race-baiting?

Clinton touts support from 'white Americans'

How long is the Clinton campaign going to run gun ads against Obama?

House Judiciary Committee, tomorrow: Rep. Nadler to Examine Legal "Basis" for Bush Interrogation Techniques

Fox News, Barack Obama, and Ignorance of Religion

Leading to Iraq: High crimes and misdemeanors. September, 2005.

The sad suicide of Deborah Jeane Palfrey

House Judiciary Committee Investigates Rising Gas Prices

Secret opinions and letters issued by White House Office of Legal Counsel

Conyers And Nadler Ask for Justice Department Secret Opinions