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GUANTANAMO BAY -- The first surprise of the first full-blown hearing of the military commissions under President Obama? The presence of David Iglesias, the

Yesterday, TWI’s David Weigel appeared on MSNBC’s The Ed Show to talk about his reporting on this past weekend’s How to Take Back America conference in St.

After digging through the newly-disclosed Office of Legal Counsel memos, my friend Marcy Wheeler of Firedoglake discovered that CIA interrogators waterboarded

Since my story a few weeks ago on the Jeppesen Dataplan case, there’s been growing pressure on the Obama administration to reverse course and stop asserting

Kerry asks about Iran. Sounds surprisingly hawkish. What are the big carrots and the big sticks that the Obama administration will use to get Iran in

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota (Pic via Facebook) The Bradenton Herald is reporting that the federal Department of Justice has launched an investigation into Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota

I reported yesterday that Gen. Stanley McChrystal will probably testify next week about Afghanistan war strategy. It’ll be interesting to see if he faces

LA CROSSE, Wisc.-- Sen. Barack Obama didn’t spend much time in this small town Wednesday, but the locals will keep drinking Obama cocktails long after the

Just in from ABC: An award-winning Iranian nuclear scientist, who disappeared last year under mysterious circumstances, has defected to the CIA and been

Justin Hart tweets from the off-the-record weekly meeting of conservatives hosted by Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform. Holy Crap! Larry Craig is

U.S. Rep.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- At the University of Maryland Thursday, President Obama tried to sell the Democrats’ plans for overhauling the health care industry. The

DAYTON, Ohio -- It’s a gray, rainy morning in central Ohio, and both presidential nominees are trying to brighten up the mood with visits here today. Sen.

Richard Danzig, considered a likely pick for deputy secretary of defense, was conspicuously missing from a list of Defense Dept. leadership positions today, suggesting Defense Sec. Robert Gates is not just a place holder.

The Wall Street Journal has a piece today on the challenges facing Democrats because of the dire economy they inherited, and the slow pace of job growth. The

Leading defense wonks call the move ridiculous, completely inappropriate and politically motivated.

Everybody has an opinion about Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Denver and the Occupy movement as a whole. And while well over half of all Americans approve of the multi-city protest , it certainly has it detractors as well. Count the right-wing religious group Family Research Council as one of the detractors

The Awake the State Summit logo (Pic via summit.awakethestate.com) Awake the State is organizing and mobilizing Floridians who are against Gov.

By now you’ve probably heard that the Supreme Court has decided to hear the case of the sole legal U.S. resident detained indefinitely -- yes, that means

The headline reads, Feeling flush: Virginia’s budget surplus doubles. The article notes: Virginia closed its fiscal 2010 budget with a $403.2 million budget