EXCLUSIVE: Emptywheel interviews Lt. Col. David Frakt, the attorney who represented teenage Gitmo detainee Mohammed Jawad. She asks how a trial in in federal court in NYC may impact charges of material support for terrorism.

At least four of the Representatives who inserted Genentech's script into the Congressional Record have had parties thrown by Genentech lobbyists this year.

Marc Ambinder reports that it wasn't national security differences that did Greg Craig in (even though he provides evidence of that), it was Craig's inability to get people confirmed by the Senate.

John Yoo has a panicked op-ed in the WSJ trying to claim his torture will be exposed at the KSM trial. He ought to be worried, instead, that they'll manage to do the whole thing without torture.

Earlier today, I noted the curious absence of Anna Eshoo and Joe Barton in the NYT story about Genentech writing speeches for those supporting biologics in the health care reform bill.

Along with the Republican biotech-paid whores, there were a bunch of Democratic biotech-paid whores.

As the NYT reported earlier today, Genentech/Roche wrote a Republican script and a Democratic script for its parrots to enter into the Congressional Record. Here's what the Republican script looks like (I'm going to try to do the Democratic one next--but this is tedious stuff; and yes, Heath Shuler was working from the Republican script).

"I oppose this bill but love the appropriate balance it gives to monopolistic biologics"

Joe Wilson

On October 29, Jane wrote a scathing post about what Anna Eshoo's provision to give biosimilars a route to approval would do, focusing on the 12 years--and probably more--of monopoly it would grant. The following day--October 30--Eshoo responded.

I think Bob Bauer's op-ed about Scooter Libby's sentence had a few strong points, except that he was way too naive about how the Plame outing worked.