Random things

Judge to FBI: You've got some 'splainin' to do! Who, exactly, was the FBI illegally wiretapping, anyway?

Pro-Bush is pro-business: Bush will veto the newest Homeland Security Dept. funding bill because it will require DHS contractors to pay fair wages, hire more border security agents, improve seaport and airport security, and restore cuts Bush wanted to make to the training of first responders. Whose side is Bush on anyway - ours, or the terrorists?

"I thought I was in the Mafia": Maj. Gen. Taguba, who produced the report that showed the horrendous torture occurring at Abu Ghraib, fought too hard, apparently, against the use of torture on detainees at the prison, and disliked that leadership was willing to let the enlisted soldiers take the fall for their horrific policies! He reveals some stunning insights into just how involved the leadership was in the Abu Ghraib scandal to Seymour Hersh at the New Yorker!

After further review: John Yoo, one of the legal architects of Bush's detainee policy, has decried a court's ruling that the policy of detaining subjects indefinitely cannot stand as an attempt "to deny what happened on 9/11."

Rescuing truth from the memory hole?: Turns out there was a LOT of emailing "outside the system" being done by the White House staff, and it was an "open secret" in the Bush administration. Not only that, but many of those emails have been purged, forcing those who seek the truth behind this administration's crimes to dig deeper and deeper to find out just who knew what and when.

Checks and balances: Tony Blair got Britain involved in Bush's war because he felt he could be the voice of reason that could prevent Bush from "nuk[ing] the shit" out of Afghanistan in the days after 9/11.