Hank Greenberg will testify before the Oversight Committee today. I suspect it'll be a dog and pony show designed to exonerate Greenberg, not a useful hearing to learn what happened at AIG.

Shoot, they snuck in and restarted the hearing while I was vomiting after the FISA vote.

The surveillance state we occupy today is the festering, mature result of the acts of cloying politicians and barons of power to serve their own political and financial goals by declaring themselves

For so long now we have been eagerly awaiting the results on the DOJ IG/OPR investigation into the curious and unprecedented firing of nine US Attorneys by the Bush Administration. Heh, but will it ever really arrive?

As BayStateLibrul pointed out in threads, SCOTUS denied the Wilsons cert today in their lawsuit against Dick Cheney and his band of leakers. As bmaz points out, the news is unsurprising. The die was cast by John Bates’ exploitation (and to some...