Republicans turn the outrage up to 11 after Susan Rice’s appointment.
Muslim group holds event on Muslim faith and 1st Amendment in Manchester, Tennessee. It doesn’t turn out well.
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.”
[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
The vice president cracking wise during his eulogy today for Frank Lautenberg: Read More
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
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.
The key quote this morning from Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), the ranking member on the Senate Intelligence Committee, on The Guardian’s big story:
This is nothing particularly new. This has been going on for seven years under the auspices of the FISA authority, and every member of the United States Senate has been advised of this.
That essentially confirms that the order obtained by The Guardian was not a one-off, isolated order. Rather, it was one of many such orders, approved by a series of FISA court judges, directed to multiple telecom carriers over many years. Seven years, as Chambliss says.
TPM Reader WL tells me that whatever nonsense Steven Seagal is involved in now, whatever warlords he’s chilling with and whatever reincarnated Lama he is, when it comes to pure martial arts, the guy was the real deal …
As an old martial artist, I followed the career of Steven Seagal from the beginning. He is actually a pretty elite talent, having been the first American ever to be certified to teach Aikido in Japan; this is a pretty big deal in the martial arts.