Obama Preparing Executive Order to Allow Preventive Detention

Or maybe not. The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, is drafting an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely, according to three senior government officials...

Dan Froomkin’s Last Column

White House Watched: I started my column in January 2004, and one dominant theme quickly emerged: That George W. Bush was truly the proverbial emperor with no clothes. In the days and weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks, the nation, including the media, vested him with abilities he didn’t have and...

Death of an Icon

Michael Jackson is doing the moonwalk in heaven. R.I.P.

Why the “Neda Video” Is Important

Because her murder by Iranian government forces would not have sparked the international outrage it has sparked if we had just read about it in the paper. Obvious? Maybe. But it raises a related question, which Glenn Greenwald explores at some length, taking the last question asked at Pres. Obama’s...

Sanford: “the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself)”

Egads. I kid you not … Sanford fell in love with “a girl named Maria” and The State newspaper of South Carolina has emails from Sanford to Maria (that it states were obtained in December … huh?). Let’s just say we are now delving into bad poetry or … er … porn. ...