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If we had to whittle the Bush Administration’s “war on terror” down to its core dilemma, I would suggest that it’s this—I quote from Michael Yon today in the National…

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The Kansas City Star reports that federal prosecutors handling a case against a former local Democratic official have filed a motion seeking a court order which would preclude the defense…

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Today’s Washington Post offers a story reviewing the central role that the Republican Party’s voter suppression project played in the decision to cashier a dozen or more U.S. attorneys. Not…

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National Public Radio reported yesterday on the Department of Homeland Security’s use of drugs in connection with deportation. It cites the case of Rev. Raymond Soeoth, a Christian minister who…

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Last summer, the Associated Press and New York Times each did stories on the detention facilities operated by the United States inside of Iraq. The conclusions of each investigation were…

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The Sea. The June issue of Harper’s is now in the mailboxes (and will be on the website by Tuesday), and among its real gems is a newly discovered poem…

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U.S. Attorney Carol Lam was fired by White House direction when her investigations resulted in the indictment of a prominent GOP congressman and took down the newly installed leadership of…

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The McClatchy Newspapers report today that in the final weeks before the midterm Congressional elections of November 2006, presidential political advisor Karl Rove orchestrated a large-scale effort to suppress voter…

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Anthony Trollope was a very great novelist, a man who in a sense is a far better surveyor of English society in the Victorian Age than Charles Dickens. His works…

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Vic Gold, whose career in Republican politics got launched with his service as Barry Goldwater’s press secretary, delivers a blistering assessment of the status of the GOP under George W.…

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During his recent testimony, former Deputy Attorney General James Comey described the former U.S. Attorney in Las Vegas, Daniel G. Bogden, as “straight as a Nevada highway and a fired-up…

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Hot on the heels of news about the closing of a voter fraud case targeting Ann Coulter following the unsolicited intervention of a senior FBI figure come reports out of…

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Many things are formidable, and yet nothing is quite so formidable as man. Over the gray sea and the storming south wind, Through the foam and welling of the waves,…

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“Bush resigns” read the shocking banner flashed last week by CNN. But it turns out to have been a simple gaffe. They meant to write “Blair resigns.” But how to…

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Citizen, enemy, mama’s boy, sucker, utter garbage, panhandler, swine, refugee, verrückt; a scalp so often scalded with boiling water that the puny brain feels completely cooked. Yes, we have dwelt…

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Today the New York Times’s Eric Lipton takes a close look at the role played by Department of Justice White House liaison Monica Goodling and the program to subvert the…

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During his testimony on Thursday, one of the questions to which Gonzales offered the most downright weasely answers was simple: so how many U.S. attorneys were fired as a part…

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Cross Burnings, Medicaid Scams and “Voter Fraud” Fraud A great deal more information is now emerging about the struggles between former Kansas City U.S. Attorney Tom Graves and main Justice,…

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For the past two months, we’ve seen in various reports how under acting Attorney General Karl Rove, the Department of Justice pressured U.S. attorneys across the country to commence frivolous…

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For several weeks now, reports have been circulating in Washington that, bracing for an onslaught of investigations from the new opposition-oriented Congress, the Bush Administration had been giving lessons to…

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George Washington was an avid theater-goer, and he was very clear about his favorite plays – Thomas Brinsley Sheridan’s “School for Scandal” (1777), for instance, was a work he prized…

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At the close of a lengthy dispatch today by the Department of Defense, we find this risible assertion: Military commissions are regularly constituted courts, affording all the necessary judicial guarantees…

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Given the damage done to the reputation of U.S. forces in Iraq by the detainee abuse scandal and the currently pending court-martial coming out of the Haditha incidents, General David…

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Dahlia Lithwick offers a brilliant analysis of Fredo’s appearance today before the House Judiciary Committee. One interchange really sums the whole thing up: The most revealing moment, perhaps, is when…

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It’s popular in America to view the rise of Cardinal Ratzinger and his ascension to St Peter’s throne as Benedict XVI as the ultimate act of triumph of a traditional,…

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Take a second this morning to look at the Washington Post’s editorial page, and particularly to Richard N. Perle’s “How the CIA Failed America.” This may be the most profoundly…

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As noted previously, after Minneapolis U.S. attorney Tom Heffelfinger was purged, Kyle Sampson and Monica Goodling installed their good friend, 33-year old Rachel Paulose, in his place. Paulose’s intemperate conduct…

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Alberto Gonzales isn’t leaving. But evidently many of his best career staff are planning to do exactly that if he hangs around. Speaking at a conference at Seattle University Law…

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