The latest developments on health care reform this evening: Speaker Pelosi suggests a new two-track legislative strategy.
If the four would-be plumbers weren’t trying to bug Sen. Landrieu’s New Orleans office, then what were they doing?
Read the FBI affidavit in the Landrieu phone tampering case. (First rule of any plumbers operation: dress up like the Village People.)
The proposed “purity test” for GOP candidates being considered by the RNC this week ran into trouble today. It’s not dead yet, but this may signal the end is near.
The use of the filibuster has grown over the years. But a look at the history over the past forty years shows a pretty clear pattern.
One of the four young right-wingers arrested in New Orleans for trying to ‘tamper’ with Sen. Landrieu’s phone lines was Stan Dai. And it seems that Dai had actually carved out a brief career of an intelligence operative wannabe. He got a job running something he called a “defense department regional defense counterterrorism/irregular warfare program. He also claimed to be an assistant director of “Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence at Trinity Washington University”, though Trinity tells us they’ve never heard of him. In this video, Dai discusses his approach to counter-terrorism.
TPM Reader PHB points out just how over their heads O’Keefe and company were in their failed attempt to bug the offices of Sen. Mary Landrieu, not realizing that the GSA has a bunch of different security protocols meant to resist espionage, let alone twenty-something right-wing cranks … Read More
TPMMuckraker’s Justin Elliott just went on David Shuster’s show on MSNBC to discuss the James O’Keefe/Mary Landrieu story. Ironically, they teamed him with Sol Wisenberg, one-time member of Ken Starr’s Lewinsky investigation team. See the video after the jump … Read More