For junior high and high school, I went to an all-girls’ school, and occasionally rumors of a student being lesbian would float through the classrooms. I was included in those whisper streams, having already pushed the boundaries of our school uniform with heavy black eye shadow, rhinestone earrings and glittered oxford shoes. The words didn’t really bug me too much, since my friends were my friends and didn’t care, and I was secure in what I was doing and with whom. I was lucky.

The Warren Report is a clear demonstration of how to think about public policy matters, data driven, respectful of the lessons of the past, and focused on the public interest. Congress could learn something if it weren’t stuffed into silence with bankster money.

One aspect of the Jane Harman/AIPAC/Gonzo/wiretap scandal that could be cleared up very quickly by a player still slightly outside the frame: did AIPAC lobby Nancy Pelosi on behalf of Jane Harman’s ascension to chair the House Intelligence Committee?

It was late and welcome news Friday afternoon when Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision in the al-Haramain case came in. The seminal importance of Walker’s decision to allow the matter to proceed against the fierce efforts to dismiss it by the government simply cannot be overstated.

I was trying to figure out why Marcy’s post on Khalid Sheik Mohammed went nuclear on Digg, but we weren’t seeing any traffic from it. Turns out there’s a reason. . . .

Remember how Alberto Gonzales made notes of the March 10, 2004 Gang of Eight meeting so he could blackmail members of Congress on the warrantless wiretap program? Well, it seems to have worked.

This again.

On NBC’s “Today” show, Gingich warned, “Everywhere in Latin America, enemies of America are going to use the picture of Chavez smiling and being with the president as proof that Chavez is now legitimate that he is acceptable.”

It’s almost quaint. McPalin (and Hillary, for that matter) loudly and repeatedly criticized Obama for saying he’d meet with Hitler Ahmadinejad and Castro during the campaign.

Bruce Fein is a former official with the Reagan Justice Department, an ideological conservative who has been a rigorously honest and consistent critic of those who attempt to violate consitutionally guaranteed civil liberties, regardless of parties. As Glenn Greenwald noted when Bruce was here with his book Constitutional Peril:

While most of his fellow conservatives were defending anything and everything George Bush did, and most establishment Democrats were running away

Jane Harman: wiretapped by NSA. But not in THAT way

According to NSA intercepts, Jane Harman agreed to help AIPAC avoid criminal charges in exchange for AIPAC’s help getting the HPSCI Chairmanship.