* Karl should’ve been doing Scotty’s job this whole time. Way to stonewall’em Karl! [Think Progress] MORE »

* In a simple twist of fate, Michael Moore may now begin funding anti-Michael Moore website MooreWatch, just so someone will pay attention to him. [The Mayor of Simpleton] MORE »

Today has really turned into “pick on the Pentagon” day around here, hasn’t it? MORE »

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Last week’s guessing game involved the anonymous sources quoted in Jane Mayer’s New Yorker article about Alberto J. Mora and the stand he took against torture. Earlier today, we shared some guesses with you about two of the three sources mentioned. This item remains outstanding: MORE »

Last week, we asked for your guesses about the identities of the anonymous sources quoted in Jane Mayer’s intriguing New Yorker article about Alberto J. Mora, the former general counsel of the U.S. Navy who took a stand against what he viewed as torture of detainees. We received some interesting speculation — some of which appears after the jump.

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No sooner had the House’s reauthorization of the Patriot Act then we encountered this nifty bit of federal synergy, news of which comes courtesy of NBC News’ investigative team: The Pentagon has been conducting wide-ranging, data-mining surveillance on U.S. antiwar activists and anyone else it might whimsically designate a “person of interest.” The domestic spying intitiative comes under the jurisdiction of a little-known Pentagon agency called Counterintelligence Field Activity. Here are a few of its lovelier contracts, as characterized by NBC investigative reporters Lisa Myers, Douglas Pasternak and Rich Gardella: MORE »