An anonymous TPM Reader gives us a look from the inside …
In your post, you ask “why wouldn’t [they] go back during the plot itself?” in regards to phone records.
I guarantee they did just that. I’ve worked for AT&T for close to 15 years now, spending most of my time in the network engineering side of the house. Call records on our network can be pulled for many, many months in the past. Getting these call records is probably one of the first things they did in the investigation so they probably weren’t part of this later
NSA request.
Everyone’s reading Glenn Greenwald and Spencer Ackerman’s big scoop on the secret court order compelling Verizon to turn over to the NSA basically all its call record data – so not what was said but times of calls, caller and callee, locations and various other metadata of that sort. Here’s what jumped out at me. The order comes immediately after the Boston Marathon bombing. Read More
The vice president cracking wise during his eulogy today for Frank Lautenberg: 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 Three:
A great pleasure of the book for me was getting to know the bartender who videotaped Romney making his comments about the 47 percent. I was fascinated by his motivation for his historic act. In September of 2012, TPM dug up an old TV ad from 40 years ago that had an uncanny relevance to the class-based arguments of 2012. Read More
Protestor: “I feel like [these Muslims] are attempting to intimidate people with the freedom of speech and that bothers me.”
Protestor: “I feel like [these Muslims] are attempting to intimidate people with the freedom of speech and that bothers me.”
Muslim group holds event on Muslim faith and 1st Amendment in Manchester, Tennessee. It doesn’t turn out well.
Republicans turn the outrage up to 11 after Susan Rice’s appointment.
I’d noticed in recent months that one-time action star Steven Seagal was helping members of Congress investigate the Tsarnaev brothers in Russia, chillin’ with various warlords and also some sort of Deputy for Sherif Arpaio down in Phoenix. In addition to now maybe become the pitchman for the Russian weapons industry. So I asked Hunter Walker to find out what was up and whether Seagal was losing a sense of where his movies ended and reality starts. Here’s what he came up with.