Monthly Archives: February 2013

President Obama’s nomination of Valerie Caproni, who left the FBI in 2011, to be a judge in the Southern District of New York has reopened the issue of FBI abuses of intelligence-gathering tools during the Bush Administration — raised anew … Continue reading →

MSNBC today published a “white paper” by the Department of Justice — undated by clearly written during the Obama Administration — providing the legal framework for U.S. drones to kill U.S. citizens suspected of involvement in terrorist activity.  (Click here … Continue reading →

Major papers report today that the Democratic Party — asleep at the switch while the Republicans cooked up ways to block voter access to polls — is now going to fight back.   Several studies show that laws passed by … Continue reading →