Just not enough time left on the calendar. Makes you wonder if Conyers waited until he was sure the clock WOULD be run out.

I surely hope not.

Jake

For us. Although not, of course, for them:

TSA officials will not reveal specific behaviors identified by the program — called SPOT (Screening Passengers by Observation Technique) — that are considered indicators of possible terrorist intent.

But a central task is to recognize microfacial expressions — a flash of feelings that in a fraction of a second reflects emotions such as fear, anger, surprise or contempt, said Carl Maccario, who helped start the program for TSA.

If we ran that TSA program on Dana, what would we find, I wonder?

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

I’m asking you because if I remember correctly, you said you’d done FOIA reporting before.

This is making me scratch my head. It seems important, but made my eyes glaze over.

that’s the beauty of “signing statements” and the unitary executive and a compliant, silent press. sign a law, fuhgeddaboudit later on. it’s not like he’s ever been held in meaningful contempt by oh, i don’t know, i’m sure someone could do it. if they wanted to.

FOIA has been under assualt since he took office. still don’t have those energy meeting notes, do we? for effective purposes, republicans have realized they don’t have to release anything if they don’t want to. so yes, it’s dead, but then again it has been for some time.

looking at it