Just out from the ACLU: a redacted list naming 645 detainees held by the U.S. at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan.

Isn’t it funny how conservatives are suddenly all about privacy now? They don’t believe in any kind of right to privacy when it comes to abortion or gay sex or warrantless wiretapping, but God forbid that anyone should ever want to see what they’re up to.

A January 8 release of documents in the ACLU FOIA lawsuit seeking materials related to the CIA’s destruction of videotapes of interrogators using “enhanced interrogation techniques” has revealed the first evidence of a precise instruction for the destruction of those tapes.

FDL News has obtained the text of an email sent by Billy Tauzin, head of the trade group PhRMA, to his board members, wherein he basically announces that they would oppose the final bill if their exclusivity period were to be shortened.

Max Brantley at the Arkansas Times is reporting that seven-term congressman Vic Snyder has dropped out of his 2010 race in Arkansas-02.

Why would anyone want to move from a large employer plan to the new exchanges? I honestly don’t know. My strong suspicion is that there is another very important part to this provision we currently don’t know about; I get the sense that there is much more to this moving-to-the-exchange provision than we know right now.

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There’s a major push by House leaders today to judge the health care bill a fait accompli and ensure everyone that the deal put together by both chambers of Congress and the White House, which could be topped off in the next few days, will have no problem passing the House. Expect to see a run on words like “perfect,” “enemy” and “good.”

I’ve heard some chatter that the reason the House wants to delay passage of a health care bill is to get past many of the primary filing deadlines out of fear that a vote for these provisions will be unpopular and trigger enthusiasm for primary challenges. I didn’t put much stock in it at the time, but looking at these figures it may well be true.

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