And provides this profile . Under the heading "Baggage": Her work at Fannie Mae, which had to be bailed out by the government in September as part of a $200 billion deal. Ms. Gorelick left the company just as it was co…
Manohla Dargis describes a scene in the new movie "Elizabeth: The Golden Age": Declaiming from atop her white horse, her legs now conspicuously parted as she straddles the jittery, stamping animal, she invokes God and …
1. We've cracked your intranet system. They'll have to turn it off. 2. We interrogate with waterboarding. They'll just waterboard each other until they can take it.
That's a fact I learn reading paragraph 20, on page 2 of the NYT article about Jose Padilla. Here's paragraph 3: The government’s chief evidence was a faded application form that prosecutors said Mr. Padilla, 36, filled …
WaPo reports: Jose Padilla... was convicted today by a federal jury in Miami along with two co-defendants of supporting al-Qaeda and other violent Muslim extremist groups.... They were found guilty on all three counts against the…
Steven D. Levitt -- whose Freakonomics blog is now on the NYT website -- applies his thinking skills to the enterprise of plotting terrorism! He identifies the goals: "what really inspires fear... is the thought that they c…
A divided panel of the Fourth Circuit interprets the Military Commissions Act not to apply to civilians who are seized within the United States. SCOTUSblog reports: Under MCA, Judge Motz wrote, ... enemy combatant status must eit…
This is getting bizarre! Are people really watching? Anyway... I'm going to watch. I'll try to pay more attention tonight, now that "The Sopranos" aren't on. ( It's on CNN , at what I like to call 6 Cent…
On "Meet the Press," Tim Russert confronts John Edwards with a quote from Barack Obama that pre-dates the Iraq war: [I] know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, t…
Dick Cheney faces down Wolf Blitzer: BLITZER: Here's what Jim Webb, Senator from Virginia, said in his Democratic response last night. He said: "The President took us into the war recklessly. We are now, as a nation, hel…
Condoleezza Rice responds to the substance of Bill Clinton's FOX News Sunday remarks. That link is to the NY Post article. The NYT report is, by contrast, very minimal, but it does include a line about what she thought of …
You read the transcript yesterday. You saw the clip. Now, you've seen the whole interview. Impressions? Knowing he was going to get mad, I watched him carefully before he got mad. He had a very relaxed and jovial manner as h…
Making Zarqawi look like a ridiculous bumbler. In releasing the outtakes, the American military sought to show that Mr. Zarqawi is a phony who cannot even fire a basic infantry weapon without help and who walks around the desert…
Will criminal defense lawyers find a way to challenge the administration's domestic surveillance program? [A] number of defense lawyers said in interviews that circumstantial evidence had led them to question whether the sec…