Obama’s FISA opportunity
1 Jul 2008 1:14am GMT Olbermann: Sen. Barack Obama is going to suffer political attacks no matter how he votes on the FISA bill but he can still stand on principle and score a political win by promising to take advantage of a loophole in the bill allowing criminal prosecution of anyone who collaborated with the Bush administration to spy illegally on Americans.
Olbermann: McCain should know better
13 Jun 2008 1:23am GMT Sen. John McCain can complain all he wants about whether his comments have been taken out of context but when it comes to the importance of U.S. service members coming home it's McCain who's missing the larger context. The context the Senator cannot or will not grasp is that the war in Iraq is not the success he's deluded himself into thinking it is and it's a far cry from the success he promised it would be when he and the president he supports conned the nation into war in the first place.
Video: Obama-Clinton Secret Meeting Puppet Theater
7 Jun 2008 1:22am GMT June 6: Because there were no cameras present for the secret meeting between Sens. Obama and Clinton, Countdown presents a Puppet Theater version of what may have taken place. (Countdown)
Video: Bill-O's ranting remix
3 Jun 2008 3:49pm GMT Please stand well back from the screen, it's the real Billy in the "Fully tanked" remix of "We'll do it live!" (Countdown)
McClellan stands by barnburner book
30 May 2008 2:07am GMT In a Countdown exclusive, former Bush Press Secretary Scott McClellan talks to Keith Olbermann about the allegations in his book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and the Washington Culture of Deception." McClellan writes that while sincere in his defenses the administration as press secretary, he has "since come to realize that some of them were badly misguided."