TST and I realized we’ve been changing our tag line often, but not explaining why or what the line means. We’d made a conscious decision to use Wordpress’s easy content management to cycle tag line’s often. Variety is the spice of life. We still have our old standbys and when we reintroduce them, we’ll make […]

Since our rights to confidentiality are protected just like journalists, I’d like to issue an open invitation to all government employees to leak information to Emboldened. If you think the your FBI or NSA or Justice Department colleagues are out of control, don’t go to the Post or the Times, come to us!
A state […]

This week, amid bipartisan uproar about the separation of powers, President Bush ordered all evidence removed from Rep. Jefferson’s Congressional office sealed for 45 days. Publicly, the files were sealed so that Congress and Justice could settle the constitutional issues at hand, namely whether the Executive Branch had finally crossed the line by literally […]

Michael Weiss of Slate linked to my post on faux anger in Congress and the insanely easy confirmation of Michael Hayden as DCI. Well, he links to my crosspost at Team BIO, but nonetheless I think stands out as both the biggest linking I can think of (though I still heart Froomkin) and the most […]

AJ, Americablog’s newest contributor, starts his career there with a bang. He’s a former Department of Defense Intelligence Officer and has expertise in US military strategy and policies. Yes, the US military still has strategy and policies.
He starts his AmBlog career with a hard-hitting indictment of the shift in how the Pentagon is stationing […]

BBC News has a story up on a Danish study about the effects of alcohol as a protection from heart disease in men and women. Read past the title, there’s actual information in the study.
A daily drink ‘only good for men’
A study of 50,000 people found that men who drank daily had a 41% reduced […]

Updated below twice thrice below - includes Hayden confirmation roll call
Congress is angry. You can tell because you’re hearing the loudest kerfuffle of the last six years over the FBI’s raid of dirty Congressman William Jefferson. Jefferson was caught on tape accepting $100,000, then $90,000 was found in his freezer, then his office was searched. […]

The Drum Major Institute has published an open letter to Lou Dobbs at DMIBlog. DMI has done a fantastic job framing the immigration issue in the context of how it affects the middle class; they’re report “Principles for an Immigration Policy to Strengthen and Expand the American Middle Class” has been a defining document […]

It’s happening again. For the second time this month a major investigatory effort by the government into the legality of the Bush administration’s domestic spying policies has been stymied on the grounds that they do not have proper security clearance to investigate the NSA.
On Monday, Kevin J. Martin, the F.C.C. chairman, sent a letter to […]

Via Matt Stoller and will from Blogging Liberally:
If there is a single cause that bloggers from across the partisan divide can unify around, it’s keeping the Internet free. Today the House takes up a bill that will have a real effect on the citizens of this country who use the web to level the […]