According to CNN, my friend Eric Alterman just got arrested outside the spin room of the New Hampshire Democratic debate. The CNN report is a little sketchy. But in their rendition of events Eric went to a private reception area, was asked to leave and then things degenerated from there. I’ll be very curious to hear his side of the story.
Late Update: Atrios has what appears to be Eric’s account of what happened. He sent it to Atrios … sniff, sniff.
Newsday: Caribbean “another region of the world that increasingly poses a terrorism threat.”
What’s the only thing we need in order to achieve success in Iraq? We survey the Sunday morning Iraq chatter in todayâs Sunday Show Roundup edition of TPMtv …
Last week we told you how Sen. Stevens (R-AK) managed to have the renovations on his house managed by a multibillion dollar oil services company whose executives have now pled guilty to bribing multiple politicians in the state. Now the contractor that Veco Corp hired to do the work on Stevens’ house has lawyered up.
Probably a good idea. Unfortunately, the lawyer told the contractor not to talk to the press anymore.
Edwards and Clinton at odds over his assertion that “war on terror” is a bumper-sticker political slogan. That and other debate news in today’s Election Central Debate Roundup.
Caribbean the new Islamic terror threat? Spencer Ackerman gives us the run-down.
Last week we noted that supporters of former Gov. Don Siegelman (D) of Alabama have come forward with an affidavit from a GOP lawyer who says she was on a conference call in which Karl Rove was implicated in getting the Justice Department to prosecute Siegelman. Here’s the story. More details from the affidavit soon.
Hmmmm. MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough asks CQ’s Craig Crawford whether he thinks Fred Thompson’s half-Fred’s-age wife, Jeri Kehn, “works the pole”.
No, I’m not sure either.
Breaking from MSNBC: Rep. Bill Jefferson (D-LA) to be indicted this afternoon.
Here’s TPMmuckraker’s coverage of the case going back eighteen months.
Late Update: It’s official. He’s indicted.
We’ve a bit more on the goofball terrorist plot to blow up a fuel tank at JFK international airport.
The FBI has apparently got the local police in Trinadad and Tobago looking to see if the plotters may have been connected to Shi’a extremists in Iraq or Iran.