According to Leslie Cauley in USAToday, the NSA has a massive database detailing calls and e-mails sent domestically — to and from US citizens — all saved in a massive warehousing of information.  All obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment.  In violation of FISA and other laws and regulations.  All in violation of our notions [...]

I don’t know about everyone else, but I am sick and tired of being told that I can’t handle the truth of what is being done in my name by the Bush Administration and the Rubber Stamp Republican Congress.  Here’s some truth for you:  our government was set up by our Founders to have a [...]

  We’ll leave aside for now the high hilarity of George Stephanopoulos having Tom DeLay on to talk about ethics, and letting him blather on about corrupt Democrats virtually without challenge (I can think of 20 things a good journalist would’ve started hammering DeLay about on the spot, but obviously DeLay took the gig because [...]

I’d like to know why, exactly, in his professional judgment, Gen. Hayden believes that the illegal NSA domestic spying without a warrant could have detected 9/11 hijackers. "Had this program been in effect prior to 9/11, it is my professional judgment that we would have detected some of the al-Qaida operatives in the United States," [...]

Newsday reports that domestic spying by the Bush Administration increased by nearly a fifth in one year’s time. The federal government increased its domestic surveillance in pursuit of terrorists and spies last year in part because it had more lawyers working on applications for eavesdropping, searches and records requests, a Justice Department official said yesterday. [...]

Who’s that knocking at my door? Where were you in 1992?  Right Said Fred scored a big campy hit with I’m Too Sexy.  Lotus 1-2-3 was the most popular spreadsheet program.  Bill Clinton distinguished himself from the sclerotic Democratic Party by criticizing a comment by a mostly unknown African American rapper to signal to the [...]

Perhaps it is just my post-Disney vacation hangover, but I think someone has been sprinkling me with karmic pixie dust.  Just a sampling of the news today: – George Bush sinks to a 24% approval rating in a statewide poll in Connecticut.  (As Atrios says, feel the Joementum.)  (UPDATE:  And what does it say when [...]

(guest blog by Taylor Marsh) President George W. Bush is the Republican Party’s Vietnam. When I interviewed John Dean about Abu Ghraib, his book had already gained steam. When I saw Senator Lindsay Graham so unabashedly ignorant as to the true history of Watergate during the recent Judiciary Committee hearings, taking the time to insult [...]

UPDATE:  I’m pulling the video links up to the top so everyone can find them more easily:  **You can watch the video of our stamp delivery to Sen. Arlen Specter at Crooks and Liars and at PoliticsTV.** Our first Rubber Stamp Republican Congress stamp delivery went well.  And we have the video to prove it! We [...]

When you see Ali here at FDL, you know it’s time to awaken the grassroots for action. So what is it this time? Guess who’s coming to your home town (or maybe close to it)? That’s right:  it’s your senator.  And like FDL heroes of yore, it’s time for you to pay them a little [...]