12.03.2008 2:40 pm

News round-up: Another pirate edition

Dangerous waters.

Blackwater has a new business (via ThinkProgress).

Condi gives Pakistan the business.

Wall Street Journal says existing “intelligence policy to stay largely intact” under Obama administration. Change? Perhaps we should have seen this coming with his FISA vote.

We all knew this was coming, and…

Tags: black friday, Blackwater, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, intelligence, national intelligence, pirates, Senate, somalia, wal-mart

06.24.2008 4:35 pm

Like the raging river, it’s back: The Open Thread

By Jamie Riley

The telecom immunity bill surfaces again. Sens. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., vow to filibuster. That’s a promise we’ve heard before. Read it here, via Huffington Post.

And she returns like royalty. Politico reports on HRC’s return to the Senate.

Meanwhile, Bill…

Tags: 2008 election, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, national intelligence, national security, Open thread, ron paul, telecom immunity

News round-up: Another pirate edition

Like the raging river, it’s back: The Open Thread

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