This really is sort of a bad joke. A judge has thrown out a verdict against a corrupt defense contractor who swindled the CPA (the US occupation government of Iraq) because, he says, the plaintiffs hadn’t adequately demonstrated that the CPA was an “instrumentality of the US government.”
Basically the CPA was too multinational in character for the contractors who swindled it to be sued in American courts.
I hope you get a chance to read Josh Kovensky’s trial report from yesterday. He gets at a really good…
I’ve been having an ongoing exchange with a TPM Reader and friend about the simple question: Why is Mike Johnson…
Today’s Morning Memo prompted some reader reflections:
12:57 a.m.: It’s hard to know the precise significance of Israel’s retaliatory strike or how Iran might respond. So far…
