Haiti’s prime minister is now saying that he expects there to be “hundreds of thousands” of people killed in the earthquake. We’ve got running updates on the latest developments in the aftermath of the historic temblor in the Haiti Quake Wire.
We don’t know if it came into play specifically in the Abdulmutallab case. But many wondered why the debrief from the father didn’t generate more concern within the intel community. One issue we came across in our reporting is the fairly serious problem of so-called ‘poison pen’ reports — in most cases family members make false terrorism reports either to settle scores, prevent relatives from traveling or something else. Justin Elliott reports.
The notion of Harold Ford, a couple year or so resident of New York, running for Senate against a sitting Democratic senator, albeit an appointed one, is a pretty outlandish one. But often, when someone comes up with something so outlandish and improbable, you figure they know something that maybe you don’t. So does Harold Ford have some angle that makes his possible senate candidacy not seem so ridiculous? Does the alleged support of Michael Bloomberg and his team of funders and associates make the difference? Read More
The “National Tea Party Convention” just lost one of its big sponsors amid concerns about the financing mechanism for the event.
A frustrated Jon Stewart laments his interview with John Yoo: “He got me.”
Boston-based Democratic consultant James Boyce tells TPM that the Massachusetts Senate race is a harbinger of November for Democrats: “The fact that we’re even discussing the possibility of a relatively unknown state senator filling Ted Kennedy’s seat shows me they are underestimating the problems they are facing in 2010.”
We’re putting together some of the most compelling video emerging from Haiti in the immediate aftermath of the quake. Watch.
The photos emerging from the devastation of Haiti are themselves devastating:
Sarah Palin’s debut as an “analyst” on Fox News last night consisted of her defending herself against the recent charges about her dreadful lack of preparation for the 2008 campaign.
Pelosi and Reid head to the White House this morning for some high-level negotiations with the President on health care reform. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.