The full text of Omar Khadr’s letter to his attorney from Guantanamo, with commentary. “Dennis you always say that I have an obligation to show the world what is going on down here and it seems that we’ve done every thing but the world doesn’t get it….”

Republicans Troske and McWatters made the key point, that Warren is seemingly being avoided for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau job because as someone conducting oversight of TARP, she was critical of the Treasury Department who was implementing it.

We learned Wednesday from The Hill that many Democratic Senators don’t actually support all the great things they claim they have “fought for.” They lied to voters; they refuse to take the small step that would actually allow them to become law.

The White House wants to add just four words to the law that empowers the government to collect information on you w/o a warrant. But it would represent a huge expansion of the what the government could (legally) collect on you.

Meanwhile, back on planet Earth…

The old saying that it is always the right time to do the right thing, doesn’t apply to the wealthy nor their servents in Congress.

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If you’re like me, and I know I am, when you hear the term “Journo-List Scandal,” you yawn like someone’s just got tequila in your Nyquil, or Nyquil in your tequila. But this intensely tedious kerfuffle has nevertheless given Our Right Wing Friends yet another excuse for squawking and preening and fondling themselves about how [...]

As Josh Rogin and Marc Ambinder note, James Clapper is scheduled to get a vote tomorrow in the Senate Intelligence Committee on his nomination to be Director of National Intelligence. Ambinder reports that Kit Bond is most dissatisfied with Clapper at this point, the rest of the committee really ought to join in Bond’s dissatisfaction given his answers to their post-hearing questions.

With the HAMP program clearly failing, in fact beyond expectations, government officials have closed in on two strategies to react to the problems. First, they’ll try to bury the data, and second, run an ad campaign. Yeah, that’ll make things all better, right?