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Diaries published: 25 (910 days since last diary on Mon May 30, 2016 at 07:17 AM PDT)
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Dan Metcalfe “spent more than thirty years working at the U.S. Department of Justice, at which he served from 1981 to 2007 as director of the Office of Information and Privacy, where he was responsible for overseeing the implementation of the FOIA...
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767 comments on Mon May 30, 2016 at 07:17 AM PDT with 142 Recommends |
Exclusive from Newsweek:
A retired senior State Department military advisor claims that Hillary Clinton’s “sloppy communications with her senior staff” when she was secretary of state may have compromised at least two counterterror operations.
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56 comments on Wed May 25, 2016 at 11:58 PM PDT with 10 Recommends |
I don’t want to write a lot of words trying to convince you of my opinion regarding this report. I want to simply quote what I think is the most relevant part of the report, and encourage people to read it for themselves (as well as the entire report):...
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28 comments on Wed May 25, 2016 at 01:00 PM PDT with 4 Recommends |
From The Hill, Dems discuss dropping Wasserman Schultz:
“There have been a lot of meetings over the past 48 hours about what color plate do we deliver Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s head on,” said one pro-Clinton Democratic senator.
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“I don’t...
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106 comments on Tue May 24, 2016 at 06:48 PM PDT with 20 Recommends |
Clinton team doesn’t like Bernie’s “tone”:
“We kicked his ass tonight,” a senior Clinton aide told me Tuesday night. “I hope this convinces Bernie to tone it down. If not, fuck him.”
Perhaps “fuck Hillary” is more the tone they would...
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95 comments on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 10:52 AM PDT with 29 Recommends |
Politico has an interesting report, especially in light of the constant refrain that Hillary has raised 10s of millions for downballot Dems while Bernie is all about himself.
First of all, this “Victory Fund” is usefully structured as a cozy...
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54 comments on Sun Apr 17, 2016 at 11:02 AM PDT with 43 Recommends |
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- So. What’s all this then? First: Some humble brag. I thought the best case scenario for this diary would be a couple dozen recs with comments topping out at around 100. Middle case scenario was the tip jar quickly hidden followed by my banishment....950 comments 268 Recs
- The diary that has spent the better part of today atop the Rec list sure sounded good: Paul Ryan Reported to FBI for Fraud and Obstruction HEY! Paul Ryan has been reported to the FBI! (Whatever the fuck that means.) As of this moment,...800 comments 554 Recs
- 538 Sacrifices Integrity to Go After Sanders on Independents By Jim Naureckas Fair.org Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting May 29th, 2016 I used to be an admirer of Nate Silver and his empirical approach to covering elections. Not that...425 comments 255 Recs
- After Hillary Clinton recently reneged on her promise to debate Bernie Sanders in California, it was assumed that the matter was put at rest. The Sanders campaign refused to back down. In February, when the six debates sanctioned by the Democratic...341 comments 94 Recs
- Disclaimer: I wrote this yesterday evening with a rather, shall we say, “copious” quantity of a gin and ginger ale cocktail (my beloved wife calls this concoction a “gin-gin”) in my system, so I apologize in advance for any non-sequiturs or...400 comments 197 Recs
- You can start at 6:22 Andrea Mitchell "can't say" if HRC is lying. But her story "doesn't hold up, including her response" No shit. She lied her ass off when she denied being in trouble. The server was NOT allowed by the State Department....243 comments 39 Recs
- All of the Sturm und Drang here of late has been entertaining. kos has felt the need to go after Sanders and his most rabid supporters hard, unloading everything in the kos arsenal on the guy who won’t be the Democratic nominee. You know it. I know...1079 comments 355 Recs
- Mika, Andrea, Chuck Todd, et al all flabbergasted. “it doesn’t hold up” “non credible argument” “she’s hunkered down and runs from reporters” “I dont think she could be confirmed Attorney General right now” “Secretary Clinton...127 comments 13 Recs
- I won't stay at a site whose owner redbaits Bernie Sanders, accuses him of condoning violence/racismIn a nasty bit of political character assassination, Markos Moulitsas (kos) published a hit piece on Bernie Sanders at The Hill yesterday that retailed a number of his recent attacks on Democratic Party presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. In its...1481 comments 588 Recs
- Have you read this WaPo story? Please do. It’s important. It reveals a surprisingly sloppy, undisciplined Hillary Clinton while she served as the head of the State Department. The IG report reveals that Hillary Clinton violated agency rules (read:...198 comments 23 Recs
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