I don’t normally make a habit of flagging stuff like this. But I really appreciate Bill Moyers’ and Co.’s highlighting our work here at TPM. So I wanted to let you know that I’ll be appearing this evening in the first regular episode of Moyers’ new show Bill Moyers Journal.
Many of you saw and have written in about the show on the press coverage of the lead-up to the Iraq War. But I guess that was technically a ‘special’ rather than one of the regular segments, of which tonight’s is the first.
If you’re interested you can find the time and station in your area.
I haven’t seen the show myself. So I can’t tell you exactly what’s included — here’s the online blurb. But I sat down for an interview with Moyers’ last week for the show. And they had a crew over here at TPM HQ filming some of what we do. So if you’re interested, tune in. Apparently the full show will be online at the Bill Moyers Journal website after it runs on tv.
The Justice Department sends Congress a list of the documents that it doesn’t want them to see.
Yesterday Mitt Romney said catching Osama Bin Laden wasn’t worth the money it would cost. The reaction from the media and winger blogospere? Take a guess.
Next up: ex-Rep. Hayworth (R-AZ) in the ever-expanding Abramoff investigation.
Patriot Act-appointee Schlozman heads back to Main Justice with another gig.
Just out from McClatchy …
Congressional sources who have seen unedited internal documents say the Bush administration considered firing at least a dozen U.S. attorneys before paring down its list to eight late last year.
The four who escaped dismissal came from states considered political battlegrounds in the last presidential election: Missouri, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Two of the four said they resigned voluntarily before the mass firings of U.S. attorneys on Dec. 7. Two continue to serve as federal prosecutors.
The big name here is Todd Graves from Kansas City who ‘resigned’ to make way for Patriot Act appointee Bradley Schlozman. This one’s important since Schlozman is a master of the ‘vote fraud’ bamboozlement.
More to come on this soon.
Don Imus has nothing on Rush Limbaugh.
Check out these new racially-charged parodies of Al Sharpton and Barack Obama that Rush is pushing right now with his multi-media empire.
Not clear what this means. But it’s the Gonzales DOJ so … well, just read (from McClatchy) …
A senior Justice Department official has resigned after coming under scrutiny in the Departmentâs expanding investigation of convicted super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to a Justice Department official with knowledge of the case.
Making the situation more awkward for the embattled Department, the official, Robert E. Coughlin II, was deputy chief of staff for the criminal division, which is overseeing the Departmentâs probe of Abramoff.
He stepped down effective April 6 as investigators in Coughlinâs own division ratcheted up their investigation of lobbyist Kevin Ring, Coughlinâs long-time friend and a key associate of Abramoff.
There appears to be a multi-scandal harmonic convergence this evening with Friday afternoon breaks in several stories. We’ll keep you posted.