The big news on the blogosphere is that the Congressional judiciary committees received over 3000 pages of emails in a document dump from the Justice Department. Why is this big news on the blogosphere? Because the House Judiciary Committee put PDF scans of all those emails online, and TPM Muckraker asked their online community to go through the documents and comment on anything of interest they find. Now, that's some clever leveraging of the netroots.

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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has confessed to planning the brutal attacks on the USS Cole, the World Trade Center and the horrific beheading of Daniel Pearl. This should be a cause for rejoicing in America. We have a confession to some of the most terrible events in recent American history. High fives all around. The Bush administration has come through on one of its main goals and most sincere promises and has brought one of the great monsters in recent memory to justice. Why am I not feeling celebratory?

This week I spoke with T.G. Caraway, organizer for the SEIU and co-host of the Democrats of Texas podcast.

The U.S. attorney scandal seems to have taken up most of Sunday's news airwaves. Senator Dianne Feinstein revealed evidence that U.S. Attorney Carol Lam had, indeed, been fired for political reasons (a pattern that Jonathan at MyDD traces), Senator Chuck Schumer accused Attorney General Alberto Gonzales of lying under oath, and Senator Patrick Leahy said that he's "sick and tired of getting half-truths" and his committee will be voting to subpoena Karl Rove, Harriet Miers, and deputy White House counsel William K. Kelley on Thursday.

Boy, I bet Alberto Gonzales is pretty thrilled that the MSM has shifted some of their focus to Karl Rove's role in the attorney affair. I doubt the administration is quite as happy about it, though. In light of the emails that emerged connecting Rove to the U.S. attorney firings, the White House is having to backpedal real hard from their earlier attempts to pin the blame on Harriet Miers.

Chairman of the House Corrections Committee, Hon. Jerry Madden (R-Plano) has filed HB 1678, which would change probation terms and sentencing for non-violent offenders.

It was only a matter of time before Congressional Democrats were able to nail something to Rove, and it looks like the US attorney scandal is where everything it going to start. An administration is spoiled by a lack of oversight when it operates for so long within unified government, and the skill with which the Bush administration is handling its political problems since Democrats took over Congress could only be called negligible in polite circles. They don't call it "death by a thousand cuts" for nothing, and the inability of the White House to control the slow, steady leak of emails can only indicate that their problems are only going to get worse.

This bill amends our current identity theft bill. HB 460 would create a third degree penalty if the crime were committed against a deceased natural person, including a stillborn infant or fetus. The bill also adds an additional element necessary to prosecute this offense. Under this bill, a person commits the offense if the person does so with the intent to harm or defraud another.

This week I spoke with Howard Watt, Chair of the Advisory Board of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of North Texas.