Jose Padilla

Padilla vs. Yoo: First of Many Such Cases to Come?

Nick Schou blogged last week about a San Francisco federal judge having ruled that John Yoo, the UC Berkeley law professor who just finished a stint as a visiting professor at Chapman Law School, can "be held personally responsible for the indefinite military detention and alleged torture of an Amer ... More >>

Awesome Criminal of the Week, Pt. Douche

Yoo, Douche.This tale of crime and no punishment has gone back and forth so many times that it's tempting to ignore this latest development, but John Yoo, Orange County's favorite torture enabler, may be back in deep doo-doo over his role in providing the legal justification for the Bush administrat ... More >>

Recruiting Timothy Leary for the War on Terror

Over at TPMmuckraker.com, Justin Rood is shouting "Hey Mabel!" Old-fashioned journalists have a term for bizarre, interesting and/or disturbing little articles -- "Hey Mabel" stories, they call them. And the New York Sun's Josh Gerstein had a doozy of a "Hey Mabel" in yesterday's paper. In a new co ... More >>

Don't Gloat Yet

A bad year for Bush is bad for all of us

The Partially Informed Alarmist

NEW COLUMN!

Ashcroft Hypes a Dirty Bomber