Julian Assange says that corrupt members of the Russian government are now in his crosshairs.
Utah state legislator pushes for a law to make sure that studying the mining and oil industries are part of state school curricula along with Reading, Writing and the other stuff.
Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) says he’s gotten a clean bill of public corruption health from the Department of Justice.
Sen. Kyl (R-AZ) tells Dems and the White House, give in on taxes or forget about the START Treaty.
Amazon has terminated the account of Wikileaks and apparently the site has been down most of the day. Joe Lieberman has issued a statement on Amazon’s decision. Amazon has not commented directly on what happened to Wikileaks account. But they appear to have told Lieberman — or that’s the clear import of Lieberman’s statement — that they unilaterally terminated the account.
[Update: Wikileaks has reportedly moved the documents back to its original Swedish hosting service, though that is unconfirmed. They seem to be back up online. — 3:00 pm.]
Most consumers aren’t aware of this. But in addition to the Amazon retailer you know, Amazon has also become a big, big player in the ‘cloud’ web hosting market. I assume they’re the largest. But I do not know that last point for certain. Regardless, they’re a huge player in the market. A few parts of TPM, though not the whole site, is hosted in the Amazon cloud.
When I’d heard that Amazon had agreed to host Wikileaks I was frankly surprised given all the fish a big corporation like Amazon has to fry with the federal government.
Two lawyer/investigators on the House Ethics Committee were suspended last month, after the chief committee investigator tried to fire them. This happened on the same day the committee announced an indefinite delay in the hearing into the conduct Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA). Politico broke the story and here’s our follow-up report.
I’ve heard a couple accounts of what happened here. And we’re actively trying to nail down just what happened. But I’m pretty confident there’s a big story here. We just don’t know what it is yet.
Turkish PM threatens to sue US diplomats over Wikileaks cables.
I think Barack Obama once told us something about not bringing a knife to a gun fight.
When asked why Sen. McCain incorrectly stated that Sec. of Defense Bob Gates never served in the military, the senator’s office released the following statement to TPM: He “simply misspoke.”
Sometimes you have to step back and just marvel at the madness of it all.
Congressional Democrats, clinging to the last vestiges of their power, are tied in knots over how to pass middle class tax cuts in the face of Republicans howling that the wealthy deserve tax cuts, too.
The White House meanwhile announces that it is undertaking good faith negotiations on tax cuts with those same Republicans who have made clear that they will never support raising taxes on anyone. Ever. Read More