Teams assigned to carry out attacks in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Germany were introduced at an al Qaeda/Taliban training camp graduation ceremony held June 9.

Well gee, I see that "fight them there so we don't have to fight them here" strategy is working so</> well. Maybe if we'd actually taken out Bin Laden and company and taken out the Taliban in Afghanistan instead of stepping on the national crank wearing golf shoes in Iraq, maybe we wouldn't have this problem.

Suicide Bomb Teams Sent to U.S., Europe

Defense lawyers in a growing number of cases are raising questions about the motives of government lawyers who have brought charges against their clients. In court papers, they are citing the furor over the U.S. attorney dismissals as evidence that their cases may have been infected by politics.

Justice officials say those concerns are unfounded and constitute desperate measures by desperate defendants. But the affair has given defendants and their lawyers some new energy, which is complicating life for the prosecutors.

This is going to get worse.

U.S. attorneys fallout seeps into courts - Los Angeles Times

A Justice Department investigation into the firings of U.S. attorneys is looking at whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales inappropriately discussed the ousters in a meeting his former White House liaison called "uncomfortable."

The two Justice officials leading the probe confirmed, in a letter released Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee, that they were examining the March meeting between Gonzales and former aide Monica M. Goodling.

"This is to confirm that the scope of our investigation does include this matter,"

Oops, can you say "Obstruction of Justice?"
Obstukshin.... ummm..
hmmm... How about "Witness tampering?"
"Witness Tampering!"

Probe Looks at Gonzales' Talk With Aide - The Huffington Post

Asked how he could break out of a pack of second-tier candidates, Huckabee complained about a lack of media attention.

“One of the frustrations is that there is more attention on Britney Spears getting out of a car without underwear than there is about who is going to be the next president,”

Not true Mike! They don't care more about Brit's underwear than who the next president will be, they just know it won't be you and ignore you because of it.

CNN.com - CNN Political Ticker Huckabee: Too much attention on Britney and Paris «

An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more than was documented in a Justice Department report in March that ignited bipartisan congressional criticism.

The new audit covers just 10 percent of the bureau's national security investigations since 2002, and so the mistakes in the FBI's domestic surveillance efforts probably number several thousand, bureau officials said in interviews.

Do we need another reason to reel the PATRIOT Act back in? I'm sure they're out there, but this all by itself seems to be sufficient.

FBI Finds It Frequently Overstepped in Collecting Data - washingtonpost.com

"The notion was that a chemical that would probably be pleasant in the human body in low quantities could be identified, and by virtue of either breathing or having their skin exposed to this chemical, the notion was that soliders would become gay," explained Hammond.

Your tax dollars at work...

cbs5.com - Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb'

"I think Robert Jackson, who's the architect of Nuremberg, would turn over in his grave if he knew what was going on at Guantanamo," Nuremberg prosecutor Henry King Jr. told Reuters in a telephone interview.

"It violates the Nuremberg principles, what they're doing, as well as the spirit of the Geneva Conventions of 1949."

Pretty much sums it up I think.

Reuters AlertNet - Nuremberg prosecutor says Guantanamo trials unfair

Late Thursday, Sauer issued the order for Hilton to return to court after the city attorney filed a petition demanding that Hilton be returned to jail and to show cause why Baca shouldn't be held in contempt of court.

Oops. Paris may have some company in jail now...

Hilton Ordered Back to Court After All - The Huffington Post

Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, disclosed in an interview that the FBI asked him to preserve records as part of a widening investigation into Alaskan political corruption that has touched his son and ensnared one of his closest political confidants and financial backers.

Uh oh. Think the pipes of the internets might have a sewer line about to dump on Ted?

Sen. Stevens Told to Keep Records for Graft Probe - washingtonpost.com

And he had some choice words for Democratic candidates who have decided not to debate on Fox.

“The candidates that can’t face Fox, can’t face Al Qaeda,” said Mr. Ailes. “And that’s what’s coming.”

Way to go Roger, Fox=Al Qaeda. Dolt.

Murdoch, Ailes, Weymouth Pump Bloomberg At Breindel Awards | The New York Observer