Romney: “I wish the hurricane hadn’t happened when it did because it gave the President a chance to be presidential and to be out showing sympathy for folks.” Watch.
It’s easy to say that this makes Romney some sort of massive egotist who only sees the world through the prism of his own self-interest. I don’t think we can say that. What I do think we can say is that Romney has a deep predilection to say stupid or clueless things that was always gonna make the president thing a tough sell.
Barton Gellman talks about his Washington Post story on PRISM and his source’s expectation that s/he will ultimately be exposed: Read More
How did I miss this ad? It’s from the House race in South Dakota in 2012. I’m not sure how to describe it. You just have to watch. After the jump … Read More
Palantir Technologies, the big data mining company, says they have nothing to do with the government’s ‘PRISM’ program.
RNC Chief Reince Priebus praises crazy Virginia Lt Gov candidate as ‘dynamic’ and ‘articulate’.
I hope this will be helpful to some of you. If you are having a personal feud with your spouse or professional rival or just somebody who you’re in some weird spy v spy type feud with, I need to tell you something. If you try to frame them for sending a ricin letter to the President, you’re going to get caught. Read More
I hope this will be helpful to some of you. If you are having a personal feud with your spouse or professional rival or just somebody who you’re in some weird spy v spy type feud with, I need to tell you something. If you try to frame them for sending a ricin letter to the President, you’re going to get caught. Read More
[Jonathan Alter, author of the new book “The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies”, is joining us as a guest blogger this week in the Editor’s Blog highlighting and discussing some key findings and revelations in his new book. – jmm]
DAY FIVE
It’s always tricky predicting how historians of the future will react, but my guess is that they will be surprised by how a small group of rightwing extremists were able to wield so much power in a political system where the vast majority of the public didn’t share their views. Grover Norquist and Roger Ailes are among the Obama enemies I profile. Read More
Amazingly we seem to have a second case of someone allegedly sending ricin-tainted letters and trying to frame somebody else as the culprit.
I want to stress this is a reader email, not TPM reporting. But I’m sharing it because after reading it through and doing some googling of my own there’s little doubt that Palantir is doing stuff like what the government is doing with those tech companies, even if they’re not part of ‘prism’ itself. Give this a read.
From an anonymous reader …
I don’t see anyone out there with this theory, and TPM is my favorite news source, so here goes:
“PRISM” is the government’s name for a program that uses technology from Palantir. Palantir is a Silicon Valley start-up that’s now valued at well over $1B, that focuses on data analysis for the government. Here’s how Palantir describes themselves: