Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling: guilty
The Associated Press is reporting:
Justice Dept. denies Hastert is under investigation
Lots of rumors swirling around today about the rumor that House Speaker Denny Hastert (R-Ill) is under investigation for alleged ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. The Justice Dept is denying it:
New meaning to the term ‘cold hard cash’
I blogged yesterday about the new revelations concerning Democratic Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) being caught on tape accepting bribe money from a FBI investigator and included it in with news about New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin’s re-election victory this weekend – but the story on Jefferson deserves a post all its own so here it is. Via the NYT:
Memo to the NYT/IHT: Trying to detect unusual calling patterns is not “eavesdropping”
Our media continues to get it wrong on the topic of the NSA warrantless wiretaps/datamining program that was kicked into high gear after the 9-11 attacks. Check out the following headline:
Special interest junkets: Massachusetts lawmakers exposed
A reader sent this link to a Boston Herald piece that talked about the free rides some Massachuetts lawmakers have rec’d courtesy of special interest groups:
NSA ‘scandal’ leak fallout continues – AT&T and Verizon being sued
There have been many fallouts from the NYTimes original ‘revelations’ regarding the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program, fallouts that I’ll remind everyone of at the end of this post. Today, we learn that as a result of the USAToday’s rehashing of an old NYT story about NSA datamining, that Verizon is being sued. Via AP: