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Barack Obama has taken the lead in superdelegates! Obama has 267 to Clinton’s 265. Now he leads in popular vote, delegates, AND superdelegates! The TRIFECTA!

David Letterman had a great monologue last night: Clinton ‘has substantial lead in the state of denial’

So here is what happened on Tuesday. Hillary Clinton barely won my home state of Indiana. And she lost in the State of North Carolina. But here is the good news. She has a substantial lead in the state of denial.

I was thinking about this. And i’m no political genius. I’m no pundit but it occurred to me that Hillary Clinton has one thing in common with President Bush. Neither of them has an exit strategy.

Fighting has erupted in Lebanon. To read thorough, up-to-date and unbiased reporting, go to Informed Comment and read what Juan Cole has to say.

From OpEdNews: Special Counsel shut down probe of Siegelman case last year.

The investigation was being conducted by a task force formed at the agency a year ago to pursue high-profile political investigations in Washington,most notably whether the White House played politics in firing U.S. attorneys.It began gathering information on the Siegelman case in September and was planning to request documents from the Justice Department in October before Special Counsel Scott Bloch ordered the case closed.

More on Don Siegelman…

Remember Scott Bloch? He was the same guy that hired Geeks On Call to do a seven level wipe of his office computer hard drive, and paid for it with the agency credit card..

“Mr. Bloch had his computer’s hard disk completely cleansed using a ’seven-level’ wipe: a thorough scrubbing that conforms to Defense Department data-security standards,” the report continues, describing a process which makes it “nearly impossible for forensics experts to restore the data later. Technicians were also directed to erase laptops used by Bloch’s former political deputies, Wilke adds.

“Geeks on Call visited Mr. Bloch’s government office in a nondescript office building on M Street in Washington twice, on Dec. 18 and Dec. 21, 2006,” according the paper’s review of a company receipt. “The total charge was $1,149, paid with an agency credit card, the receipt shows. The receipt says a seven-level wipe was performed but doesn’t mention any computer virus.”

The manager of the Geeks on Call franchise involved told the Journal that the so-called seven-level wipe was not a typical remedy for a computer virus. “We don’t do a seven-level wipe for a virus,” he said.

Bloch was also the guy who was supposed to be launching a broad investigation into Karl Rove’s political activities, with particular attention on the prosecutor purge, RNC emails, and fairly obvious Hatch Act violations in which Rove’s office politicized various federal agencies.

“We will take the evidence where it leads us,” Scott Bloch, head of the Office of Special Counsel and a presidential appointee, said in an interview Monday [4/27/07]. “We will not leave any stone unturned.”

According to The Washington Post:

Bloch, appointed by President Bush in 2003 to protect government whistle-blowers and to enforce prohibitions on political activity in the federal workplace, is facing allegations of political bias, obstruction of justice and mismanagement. The inspector general at the Office of Personnel Management has investigated Bloch since 2005 over alleged mistreatment of employees and his handling of whistle-blower cases, but Tuesday’s raid was a significant escalation.

I am wondering if this also has an impact on the Sibel Edmonds case..

This could get VERY interesting..

And now for the blues…

Jammin’ The Blues 1944 – Historic Black Jazz Jam Session

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