Gavin Dahl

Even though a Bush-era request to conduct blanket searches of computer files was rebuked by judges, the Obama administration is now pushing to have the decision reversed, according to court documents filed the week of Thanksgiving.
U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan, an Obama appointee, and twenty other government attorneys submitted a brief to the Ninth US [...]

One of the very first actions Barack Obama took after swearing in as President of the United States in January was signing an order to eliminate “black sites” run by the CIA. According to a new report, a detention camp in Afghanistan run by military Special Operations forces was not closed.
The New York Times is [...]

Tony Blair covered up British military plans for a full Iraq invasion throughout 2002, claiming at the time that Britain’s objective was “disarmament, not regime change.” This and many other damning details are revealed in hundreds of pages of secret government reports obtained by The Sunday Telegraph.
Full transcripts include classified interviews with frustrated British Army [...]

Conservative columnist David Brooks just went public again with his criticisms of Sarah Palin. “She’s a joke. I can’t take her seriously,” he told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.
The question other members of the press are asking is whether he will codify his statements in print at The New York Times this time around.
A month before [...]

Vice President Joe Biden, played by Jason Sudeikis, told the Saturday Night Live audience he was going to solve one of three major problems while his boss is gone. President Barack Obama embarked on an nine-day trip to Asia Thursday, “so for the next week, Joe’s running things.”
He said he is not worried about [...]