Recent high-profile whistleblowers say the DOJ’s new leak probe has no credibility.
Unless there’s a last minute clamber from the ledge, the House oversight committee seems set to vote later this morning on holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress over what Darrell Issa says is DOJ’s refusal to fully cooperate with his investigation into the botched gunrunning operation Fast & Furious.
Get up to speed on what is largely a political ploy here.
Following up on my ask below, TPM Reader GR reports in on the latest on the Massachusetts senate race and Brown’s demand that Ted Kennedy’s widow stay neutral in the race …
You asked what the response here in Massachusetts has been about Scott Brown’s refusal to take part in the exact same Kennedy Institute debate that he participated in back in 2010. First, full disclosure, I am low level Democratic Party official, a Warren volunteer and convention delegate, as well as a working class guy who actually drives a pick-up truck for work rather than campaign ads. That said, I am also a relatively objective guy whose nose is glued to the political goings-on in our area (except when I screw up the early life-details of a certain Arizona sheriff. I’m still really embarrassed about that. [cringe] Seriously.)
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The TPM Electoral College Scoreboard just moved to Obama 269, Romney 224.
George Zimmerman has mainly been out of the news of late. And it’s true that evidence of unrelated bad acts in most circumstances aren’t allowed as testimony when you’re on trial for someone else. But you can’t close people’s ears to the abundant news coverage that now shows in painfully — sometimes comically — that Zimmerman and his wife repeatedly lied through their teeth to the judge in his case. (This is their lying about how much money they had access to during his bail hearing.) Zimmerman’s entire defense will have to rest on his own testimony about events no one else alive witnessed. So his credibility is central to his defense.
I’d be curious to hear from litigators how much or whether they think this will be relevant to the jury’s deliberations.
Call me crazy. But I’m a little surprised that Scott Brown hasn’t been hit with an avalanche of ridicule for his demand that Vicki Kennedy, Ted Kennedy’s widow, not endorse his opponent as a condition of his debating Elizabeth Warren. Read More
Wes Clark, Todd Palin and other minor celebs to star in new NBC reality show.
CNN is reporting that former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was declared “clinically dead” shortly after arriving at a military hospital in Cairo.
We’re seeing different reports and it’s not entirely clear what is meant by saying he’s “clinically dead.” More information as we get it.
Jamie Dimon gets a frostier reception in a House hearing than he did during last week’s Senate hug-a-thon.