In a lot of the criticism of trying Abdulmutallab in the criminal courts, conservatives seem to be having a hard time dealing with the fact that Abdulmutallab reportedly sang like a bird about his plot, who he was working with and a lot more.
Normally I wouldn’t bother you with news that an anti-Muslim crank has started her own Youtube show where she promises to reveal the truth about various terrorists conspiracies. Only in this case, it’s a top member of Congress.
Rudy, on TV this morning: “We had no domestic attacks under Bush; we’ve had one under Obama.”
I guess he just remembers 9/11 when it suits him, like when he’s running for President. Here’s one of my favorite TPM reels from the 2008 election: Rudy and his constant 9/11 refrain.
Chuck Schumer reportedly trying to back Harold Ford away from a Senate run in New York. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
One of the most stunning aspects of the Gitmo story is this issue of the recidivism rate.
Not of Gitmo detainees going back to terrorism, but the recidivism rate of the New York Times repeatedly going back and getting re-bamboozled by the DOD recidivism statistics story and then later having to issue corrections.
Is true rehabilitation a forlorn hope?
For weeks TPMMuckraker’s Zack Roth has been reporting on the increasingly bizarre and outlandish abuses of power by Maricopa County, Arizona’s high-profile Joe Arpaio and the evidence of a federal investigation into those abuses. Tonight comes word that two top county officials have been subpoenaed to testify next week before a federal grand jury investigating Arpaio and his office.
From TPM Reader JY …
I haven’t seen any mention of how quickly the administration tried to release as much info as it could to the public vs. Bush’s endless stonewalling when it came to releasing any info that could prove politically damaging. Could you imagine Bush offering up this kind of report to the public without a subpoena?
Ed Koch: Hundreds of millions of Muslims are terrorists.
The declassified report on the intelligence failures leading up to the Flight 253 incident doesn’t offer much in the way of new details, though there does appear to have been a misspelling that caused the State Department to miss the fact that the suspect did have a U.S. visa.