Several weeks ago, VelvetRevolution.us, in coalition with a number of other accountability groups, filed bar disbarment complaints against 12 different Bush Administration attorneys in four states and the District of Columbia in regard to their approval of banned torture techniques used during detainee interrogations.

In a press conference today we (Disclosure: The BRAD BLOG is co-founder of VR) added two more to that list, both top CIA attorneys who continue to serve at the agency under the Obama Administration.

As RAW STORY's Larisa Alexandrovna reports today:

Please see Alexandrovna's coverage today for details of revelations discussed at the presser this morning (eg. the "crucifixion" of a detainee who "died from asphyxiation after having been hung by his arms, in a hood, and suffering broken ribs" and details on, and links to, the new complaints against Rizzo and Fredman, both of whom still serve in the CIA today, incredibly enough).

More information on the campaign, including all of the complaints filed, is available at VR's DisbarTortureLawyers.com campaign. A quick video of Zeese's announcement, summarizing the complaints after today's press conference follows below...

Just a quick note to formally announce my honor in being named a Fellow at the Commonweal Institute. CI is a terrific, fearless, forward-thinking Progressive organization/think-tank, and I couldn't be prouder to have been invited to join their ranks and hopefully augment their already outstanding efforts.

The rightwing has had their Wingnut Welfare Program in place for some time, so it's nice to see organizations like CI --- even if they're not funded on anywhere near the scale of the rightwing "think-tanks" --- expanding and maturing to take on so much of the disinformative nonsense coming from the extremist Right. Perhaps reality-based discourse and forward-thinking Progressivism can return someday to find it's voice welcomed again in the public square. See their recent announcement on their new Fellows Op-Ed program.

Where I can help, I'm happy and honored to do so under the auspices of CI, in good company with a number of my fine fellow Fellows. Be sure to check out Commonweal's website. Lots of good stuff to be found there, with more coming soon! And again, I'm delighted to be onboard!

[Ed Note: CI Executive Director Barry Kendall will be joining me as a guest tonight on the final night of my week-long stint guest hosting the Mike Malloy Show. Update: Interview now here, choose HOUR 3, interview with Kendall begins just after the 11 min. mark.]

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I finish up my week-long Guest Host stint on the The Mike Malloy Show LIVE tonight, Bradcasting from L.A.'s KTLK am1150 from 9pm-Midnight ET (6p-9p PT). My great thanks to Mike and Kathy Malloy for allowing me to make noise on his loud microphone from coast to coast all week!

Scheduled guests for tonight's show include:

• MARCY WHEELER, author and master blogger at the indispensable emptywheel blog, on all matters of Bush Administration corruption, whether we'll ever see accountability under Obama, and the sorry state of our mainstream corporate media. (Marcy was appropriately recognized today in Dan Froomkin's final column for WaPo for her "fine investigative blogging".)
• ELLEN THEISEN, founder of VotersUnite.org and publisher of the 'Daily Voting News' on Rep. Holt's election reform bill in the U.S. House, and other late election integrity issues.
• BARRY KENDALL, Executive Director of the progressive Commonweal Institute, on their new Fellows and Progressive op/ed program.
• SUE WILSON, filmmaker of Broadcast Blues, the new documentary on the epic fail of the corporate media, the rise of hate-speech radio and more!

PLUS: Today's breaking news (including an update from DESI DOYEN on the Climate Change battle on the House floor today), my rants, your calls (877-520-1150) and anything damn other thing we feel like!

Malloy's show is nationally syndicated on a number of air affiliates around the country, also on Sirius Ch. 146 & XM Ch. 167, or listen to the free online stream here or here!

This item will be tonight's Open Show Thread, hosted, as always, by the ever-affable "Agent 99". See ya tonight!

POST-SHOW UPDATE, AUDIO ARCHIVES: I had a great week, and a lot of fun. Thanks again Mike & Kathy! Tonight's finale, I believe, was great as well. The audio archives for all three "hours" (about :36 mins each with commercials removed, courtesy of Ben Burch at WhiteRoseSociety.org) follow below. Have fun...

As of tomorrow, the increasingly useless Washington Post will become more so. Dan Froomkin, one of the few journalists at the once-credible newspaper who bothered to do his job by investigating and asking the questions that mattered during the Bush Administration's historic gutting of America and so much of what it stands for, filed his final "White House Watch" column today. He described, today, what he does as "accountability journalism." We could use dozens more like him in the MSM.

His piece today echoes FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley's exposé on these pages yesterday, in his description of Bush as "the proverbial emperor with no clothes." He goes on to note how, after 9/11, "the nation, including the media, vested him with abilities he didn't have and credibility he didn't deserve."

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I'm Guest Hosting the The Mike Malloy Show LIVE again tonight and all week from L.A.'s KTLK am1150 from 9pm-Midnight ET (6p-9p PT) each night. Please tune in and call in!

Tonight's scheduled guests so far include:

• COLEEN ROWLEY, the 9/11 FBI whistleblower and TIME's 2002 "Person of the Year" on her attempts to warn the media (even 60 Minutes) against the rush to war in Iraq. (See her BRAD BLOG article on that today right here...)
• ANDREW KREIG, journalist and attorney on his investigation into the Siegelman prosecution, and tomorrow's D.C. press conference/forum calling for a DoJ investigation into prosecutorial misconduct.
• MARK KARLIN, creator and publisher of BuzzFlash.com on the state of the independent alternative media in the Age of Obama.
• BOB KINCAID, West Virginia host of Head-On with Bob Kincaid, on recent arrests during non-violent protests against mountaintop removal by big coal companies.

PLUS: Today's breaking news, my rants, your calls (877-520-1150) and a LIVE 'Green News Report' w/ DESI DOYEN!

Malloy's show is nationally syndicated on a number of air affiliates around the country, also on Sirius Ch. 146 & XM Ch. 167, or listen to the free online stream here or here!

Consider this an Open Show Thread, where, as always, "Agent 99" will be your cordial hostess throughout the proceedings. See ya tonight!

POST-SHOW UPDATE, AUDIO ARCHIVES: Lots of good stuff in tonight's show. Dig in. All three "hours" (about :36 mins each with commercials removed, courtesy of Ben Burch at WhiteRoseSociety.org) follow below for your archival listening pleasure...

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I'm Guest Hosting the The Mike Malloy Show LIVE again tonight and all week from L.A.'s KTLK am1150 from 9pm-Midnight ET (6p-9p PT) each night. Please tune in and call in!

Tonight's scheduled guests so far include:

• SIBEL EDMONDS, the FBI translator/whistleblower, described by the ACLU as the "most gagged" woman in the history of this country following the Bush Administration's use of the "State Secrets Privilege" in keeping her from exposing corruption learned while a translator at the FBI after 9/11. On that, her new blog, her new project "Project Expose MSM", and anything else you want to ask her about!
• DAVID SWANSON, peace activist on Thursday's "Torture Accountability Day"

PLUS: Today's breaking news (Welcome home Gov. Sanford!), my rants & your calls (877-520-1150) (Later this week: Coleen Rowley, Marcy Wheeler and more!)

Malloy's show is nationally syndicated on a number of air affiliates around the country, also on Sirius Ch. 146 & XM Ch. 167, or listen to the free online stream here or here!

Consider this an Open Show Thread, where, as always, "Agent 99" will be your friendly hostess throughout. See ya tonight!

POST-SHOW UPDATE, AUDIO ARCHIVES: I hope you'll enjoy the audio archives of tonight's show, as much as I enjoyed making them for you. All three "hours" (about :36 mins each with commercials removed, courtesy of Ben Burch at WhiteRoseSociety.org) provide some good listening, and follow below...

We've been covering this on the Malloy Show, but I haven't been able to keep up with it on the blog, unfortunately. So, this just in:

The very quick back-details:

Monday: Gov 'missing' for six days, didn't tell wife where he was, missed Father's Day with four sons. Wife says he was going off to write, staff says he was hiking Appalachian Trail.
Tuesday: Staff says Gov contacted them, was surprised at the hubbub, would return to office on Wed.
Today: Sanford caught by reporter returning from Argentina, not Appalachian Trail. Presser announced. Sanford admits affair.

All of that follows, of course, on the recent admission by the GOP's other (once) 2012 Presidential hopeful, Sen. John Ensign of Nevada, that he, too, was having an affair. If I have time to fill in more back details here later, with links, I will.

UPDATE: Fox "News" does it again! Labels Sanford as a "(D)" Democrat as he was admitting to affair! Screenshot follows below...

The New York Times just doesn't get it. You'd think, by now, they would. But they don't. And they should print a correction immediately.

In a brief, unbylined editorial yesterday, headlined "How to Trust Electronic Voting," the paper endorses this year's version of Rep. Rush Holt's election reform bill (H.R. 2894). The editorial is misleading and, even worse, blatantly (and inexcusably) inaccurate on at least one important point...

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I'm Guest Hosting the The Mike Malloy Show LIVE again tonight and all week from L.A.'s KTLK am1150 from 9pm-Midnight ET (6p-9p PT) each night. Please tune in and call in!

Tonight's scheduled guests so far include:

• ED ASNER, the legendary TV icon and progressive political champion joins us to discuss his new smash Pixar film Up and whatever else Mr. Grant has on his mind.
• ANDY WORTHINGTON, journalist and historian, and author of The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 759 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison

PLUS: Today's news, my rants & your calls (877-520-1150) and DESI DOYEN with the Green News Report! (Later this week: Sibel Edmonds, Coleen Rowley, Marcy Wheeler and more!)

Malloy's show is nationally syndicated on a number of air affiliates around the country, also on Sirius Ch. 146 & XM Ch. 167, or listen to the free online stream here or here!

Consider this an Open Show Thread, where, as always, "Agent 99" will be your very polite hostess throughout. See ya tonight!

POST-SHOW UPDATE, AUDIO ARCHIVES: We had a really interesting and fun show, if I do say so myself. The audio archives for all three "hours" (about :36 mins each with commercials removed, courtesy of Ben Burch at WhiteRoseSociety.org) follow below...

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I'll be Guest Hosting the The Mike Malloy Show LIVE from L.A.'s KTLK am1150 all this week from 9pm-Midnight ET (6p-9p PT) each night. Hope you'll tune in and call in!

Tonight's scheduled guests so far include:

• STEPHEN ZUNES, Chair of Middle-Eastern Studies at U. of San Francisco, on latest in Iran.
• ERIC BOEHLERT, Senior Fellow at Media Matters, author of new book, Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press.
• MARCY WINOGRAD, progressive Democratic primary challenger to the embattled U.S. House Rep. Jane Harman (CA-36).
• MIMI KENNEDY Advisory Board Chair of Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), Dharma's mom from Dharma & Greg, discussing all-things Progressive, including her new film, In the Loop, a political black comedy about the run-up to war.

PLUS: Today's news, my rants & your calls (877-520-1150)! (Later this week: Sibel Edmonds, Ed Asner, much more!)

Malloy's show is nationally syndicated on a number of air affiliates around the country, also on Sirius Ch. 146 & XM Ch. 167, or listen to the free online stream here or here!

Consider this an Open Show Thread, where, as always, "Agent 99" will be your rascible host throughout. See ya tonight!

POST-SHOW UPDATE, AUDIO ARCHIVES: After a technical glitch or two getting on the air for the first two minutes out of Los Angeles, all went well enough thereafter. The archives for all three hours (about :36 mins each with commercials removed, courtesy of Ben Burch at WhiteRoseSociety.org) follow below...

Wow...these guys have, indeed, outdone themselves...

It's been nearly five months since the official complaint about Ann Coulter's alleged voter fraud in 2002 and 2004 was filed in Connecticut, yet state election officials continue to refuse comment on the status of the case beyond acknowledging that it's "still pending," as recently confirmed by The BRAD BLOG.

Several charges of absentee voter fraud were alleged in the complaint against Coulter in Connecticut, where evidence shows she cast absentee ballots illegally while living in her then permanent New York City residence.

In addition to the head of the California GOP's voter registration firm pleading guilty to fraud last week (his company, Young Political Majors, is under investigation in several other states as well, and is alleged to have secretly changed thousands of registrations from Democratic to Republican, denying voters the ability to cast votes in last year's primary), and the Republican election official in Kentucky who last month pleaded guilty to participating in a massive election fraud conspiracy beginning in 2002, there still remains the outstanding official investigation into the allegations against Coulter, the GOP's storied Queen of Voter Fraud.

If all you watched was the Fox "News" Channel, however, and their increasingly bizarre --- and yet still evidence-free --- "investigation" into "voter fraud" by ACORN, you'd have no idea. That, even though Coulter herself continues to parade in front of their cameras as a regular guest without ever being asked about the official inquiry in the second state to investigate voting improprieties by the GOP superstar.

"The delay in this case is inexplicable given they need to prove two things: where she registered to vote/voted and where she lived when she registered to vote/voted," the complainant in the case, Daniel Borchers, a Christian conservative who has long opposed Coulter's behavior, told The BRAD BLOG. "Both are easily proven."...