When President Obama signed the bill on Wednesday creating a 10 member Pecora-style commission with subpoena power to investigate the financial crisis, he also issued a signing statement limiting the administration’s duty to comply with its requests.

NPR’s report placed Abu Gonzales at the center of the decision to torture Abu Zubaydah in the spring of 2002.

The NYT is out with another report of the Pentagon stat that 14% of those released after being held in Gitmo subsequently engaged in terrorism.

An unreleased Pentagon report concludes that about one in seven of the 534 prisoners already transferred abroad from the detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has returned to terrorism or militant activity, according to administration officials.

Please join me, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, James K. Galbraith, Dean Baker, Bill Black, Tyler Durden of Zero Hedge, Yves Smith of NakedCapitalism, US PIRG, Public Citizen, Mike Farrell, Digby, Rob Kuttner, Ian Welsh, Stirling Newberry, ANWF, Les Leopold, Mike Lux and others in supporting Alan Grayson and asking Democratic members of Congress to cosponsor the Federal Reserve Transparency Act. 

Where does your member of Congress stand?  Find out here.  And if they aren’t one of the 135 Republicans or 30 Democrats cosponsoring this bill, why not?

Sign the statement here that will be circulated to members of Congress as Rep. Grayson tries to get the 53 more cosponsors needed to pass the bill.  And be sure to check the box if you’d like to have your name publicly displayed on the page.

Bob Graham (who has a good op-ed in the WaPo today that I will try to return to) just clarified some of my questions regarding the briefing on torture he received on September 27, 2002.

I had called to ask whether his explanation that Stan Moskowitz, from the Office of Congressional Affairs, did the briefing, meant that no one from CIA’s CounterTerrorism Center was at the briefing.

• POTUS speech on Gitmo today.
• 37%? Sounds high.
• This is why we need universal coverage.
• The GOP: making the tough decisions.
• Sign of the times.
• Obama’s Catholic problem, cont’d.
• Eeeeek!
• The Democrats are going to steal your guns!
• Stay classy, Mike.

MATLOCK!!! types again

Levy: The Band performs their pissed off song about our economy.

Too bad they can’t get their stories straight.

a detainee is a terrorist because a detainee is a terrorist because a detainee is a terrorist because. . .