Though the international laws and treaties surrounding missions like the one President Barack Obama sent a group of Navy SEALs on Sunday when they killed notorious terrorist Osama bin Laden are unclear at best, some in the media are already questioning how Obama went after bin Laden. (more)
A key watchdog group issued a legal filing Thursday demanding e-mails and other documents from Education Department Sec. Arne Duncan and his top aides under the Freedom of Information Act relating to the influence of Wall Street short sellers on a controversial new regulation governing for-profit or “career” colleges. (more)
For House Democrats, 2011 is likely to be the year of the progressives. (more)
Lawrence O’Donnell is a socialist. (more)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15: Surprising news: Olbermann is mad at Rupert Murdoch. Turns out he gave some money to the Republican Governors Association. “Unfortunately,” as Keith put it, “he also runs a TV network that purports to cover news.” (more)
It turns out that the left-wing commentator Glenn Greenwald doesn’t like me (who knew?). In a rather long posting, he accuses me of many different sins, mainly, though not exclusively, having to do with my early support for the Iraq war, and for my reporting from pre-invasion Iraqi Kurdistan. (Greenwald has always been vehemently opposed to the invasion.) (more)
“Nothing is a better fit for this administration than a blank slate… loyal, seemingly principle-free, (a) careerist who… as the Obama Administration’s lawyer vigorously defending every one of his assertions of extremely broad executive authority.” That heads-up comes from Glenn Greenwald, a hard-left blogger on none other than Salon.com, who happens to a constitutional lawyer. (more)
Political writers and thinkers on the left have criticized Barack Obama for considering a SCOTUS nominee who’s not sufficiently to the left. This morning, as word spread that Elena Kagan would indeed be Obama’s choice for the Supreme Court, liberals weighed in. (more)
Liberal legal scholars and experts stepped up their attacks Friday on Elena Kagan as a potential Supreme Court nominee, hoping to dissuade President Obama from selecting her in the last few days before an expected announcement early next week. (more)
President Obama’s is at odds with his Democratic base on who he should pick to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court. (more)
News that the Obama administration may revert to a military tribunal to prosecute the mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks was roundly denounced by the left on Friday, with liberals voicing their frustration at the White House’s willingness to embrace the same strategy for trying suspected terrorists as the Bush administration. (more)
