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Valerie Plame Added You As A Friend On Spookbook

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Spy has added you as a friend! - WonketteThink of something useless and trendy — something that wastes your time while adding absolutely nothing to your life or work while simultaneously exposing your identity and private information and whatever you’re doing at the moment to a world of sinister strangers who only want to steal your ID and rape you. Right, we are talking about Facebook, which is a sort of web-based rolodex that anybody can look at, on the Internet. IT’S A WEB 2.7 SENSATION OMFG IT’S ON THE COVER OF NEWSWEEK!!1!

Now, think about the most inappropriate possible industry to combine with a Facebook-style application. If you guessed “U.S. intelligence services” then go ahead and appoint yourself “spy czar” or whatever because you are right. And we are fucked. MORE »


Pentagon Can’t Even Give Away Its Secret War Plans

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

It's like we're going into *Wisconsin*.  - WonketteIt’s a good thing all the Iraq war plans are totally useless — otherwise our Determined Enemies might learn something from all the supposedly Top Secret documents just sitting on web servers that anybody can access. MORE »


Everybody On Earth Hacking the Pentagon For the Hell of It

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Following this week’s tragic revelation of 800 cyber-attacks on the the Homeland Security department, evil computer monsters have now attacked the Pentagon’s computer networks. Some 1,500 PCs at DoD were shut down during the latest “penetration of the system,” in the romantic wording of Defense Secretary Robert Gates. MORE »


Washington Bureaucrats: Dumb as a Box of Hair

Friday, March 16th, 2007

Wonkette’s Week in Review: We Love The Smell Of Ignorant Bigotry In The Morning

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

Iran Gradually Joining “Axis of Minor Annoyances”

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

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Daily Briefing: Tensions Between the Branches

Friday, June 30th, 2006
  • The Supreme Court strikes down the Bush Administration’s plan to try Guantanamo detainees before military commissions, as violative of both U.S. law and the Geneva Conventions. [NYT, WSJ, USAT, WP]

  • The Court’s ruling places constitutional limits on Bush’s use of executive power in the war on terror and raises questions concerning how the Guantanamo Bay detainees’ cases should now be handled. Republicans are hoping to craft a legislative fix. [WP, NYT, LAT]
  • As midterm elections approach, Senate Republicans are trying to figure out how to move forward on immigration reform and reach a compromise with their colleagues in the House. [WP]
  • The House Republicans’ aggressive stance on immigration may harm Bush’s effort to improve the GOP’s standing with Latino voters. [WP]

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Remainders: Pissin’ Edition

Friday, June 9th, 2006

* Yes! There is a God! Er, um — that stuff is gross, he’s so perverted. [AP] MORE »