The only consistent, unapologetic critic of Eric Holder and the Obama Administration deserves a bigger platform.

Facing a tenacious primary challenge from progressive Marcy Winograd, Jane Harman tried to use Peace Action’s published voting records to claim that she is a progressive rather than a pro-war hawk.

If you were mad at all about Bush’s violations of civil liberties when he was president, this will get you fuming:

In a rare legal action against a government employee accused of leaking secrets, a grand jury has indicted a former senior National Security Agency official on charges of providing classified information to a newspaper reporter in hundreds of e-mail messages in 2006 and 2007.

The official, Thomas A. Drake, 52, was also accused of obstructing justice by shredding documents, deleting computer records and lying to investigators who were looking into the reporter’s sources.

“Our national security demands that the sort of conduct alleged here — violating the government’s trust by illegally retaining and disclosing classified information — be prosecuted and prosecuted vigorously,” Lanny A. Breuer, the assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department’s criminal division, said in a statement.

This is not just a single instance of outrage. It is a microcosm of the Obama presidency, the political success of corporate America, and the failure of its opposition.

A ruling on the Bush administration’s use of wiretapping makes apparent the need for the new state secrets law.

There are crimes which are bad in and of themselves, then there are crimes which enable other crimes. The politicization of the DOJ is one of the latter.

This may not be news to some, but the Dog had a real epiphany about it last night. Sometimes a new piece of information changes your view of events. It now looks like the Bush Administration was so driven by fear they trampled the Constitution and started wars, committed war crimes all to keep themselves safe.

Remember when all the papers were insisting that Pelosi’s decision to pass Jane Harman over for the House Intelligence Committee constituted a “catfight”? The worm has turned …

A hearing has been scheduled for February 9 on the goverment’s appeal of District Court Judge Ann Aiken’s September 2007 ruling that declared FISA unconstitutional; and

The first order of business for Obama is to undo the damage to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, isn’t it?