ITCS VI: Who Did Cheney Meet With And Why Is He Concealing It?
"A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to release information about who visited Vice President Dick Cheney's office and personal residence, an order that could spark a late election-season debate over lobbyists' White House access. While researching the access lobbyists and others had on the White House, The Washington Post asked in June for two years of White House visitor logs. The Secret Service refused to process the request ... The Secret Service can still try to withhold the records but, in a written ruling Thursday, Urbina questioned the agency's primary argument — that the logs are protected by Cheney's right to executive privilege ..."

Happy Habeus Corpus Day: A Sorry State of Affairs

Jonathan Turley on Keith Olbermann:

"Well, this is going to go down in history as one of our greatest self-inflicted wounds. And I think you can feel the judgment of history. It won‘t be kind to President Bush.

But frankly, I don‘t think that it will be kind to the rest of us. I think that history will ask, Where were you? What did you do when this thing was signed into law? There were people that protested the Japanese concentration camps, there were people that protested these other acts. But we are strangely silent in this national yawn as our rights evaporate."

Howard Fineman later in the segment:

"But I think the silence of the Democratic Party generally is stunning and speaks volumes about that party. You heard from Ted Kennedy, you heard from Russ Feingold, you heard a smattering of voices elsewhere... When they realize that it applies to American citizens also, Keith, that‘s the key to it, the notion that the president or some group that he sets up can declare any American citizen to be a, quote, “unlawful enemy combatant,” that‘s outside the bounds of American history, and I think it will eventually be very controversial."

Knowing Who You've Picked a Fight With

3 years on and they still havent figured it out...

"Do you know the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite?" A "gotcha" question? Perhaps. But if knowing your enemy is the most basic rule of war, I don't think it's out of bounds. And as I quickly explain to my subjects, I'm not looking for theological explanations, simply the basics: Who's on what side today, and what does each want...?

ITCS, Part V: Former Bush FDA Chief Faces Criminal Charges
"Lester Crawford, the former U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner who resigned after two months on the job, was charged in federal court for conflict of interest and making false statements related to his investments."