I’ve been busy lately with local politics [in Georgia, it’s always about water – that’s our "issue"]. But I’ve kept up enough to know that "scandal fatigue" is setting in again. The destroyed C.I.A. Water-Boarding Tapes thing is just business as usual with this Administration – Blackwater, Halliburton, Gitmo, N.S.A. Spying, the War, etc. It’s […]
Justice’s voting chief steps down amid controversy The Justice Department’s voting rights chief stepped down Friday amid allegations that he’d used the position to aid a Republican strategy to suppress African-American votes. John Tanner became the latest of about a dozen senior department officials, including former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who’ve resigned in recent months […]
"It has long been understood that, in circumstances like these, that the constitutional prerogatives of the president would make it a futile and purely political act for Congress to refer contempt citations to U.S. attorneys." I’m stuck on this one. Real stuck. The Contempt of Congress Citations issued against Josh Bolten and Karl Rove […]
Panel Votes on Contempt for Rove, Bolten WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee voted for a contempt citation against presidential confidants Karl Rove and Josh Bolten on Thursday, the latest move in an inquiry into possibly politically motivated firings of federal prosecutors. The 12-7 vote sent the citation against the two to the full […]
Gentlemen First The Vice President Gets the Vapors By Ruth Marcus Dick Cheney is worried that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has shrunken the "big sticks" of the once-tough guys who were the vice president’s colleagues in Congress. Barbara Walters wants to know whether former president Clinton will organize the Easter egg hunt or fuss over […]
Big Oil to sign Iraq deals soon Big Oil’s big dreams are close to coming true as Iraq’s Oil Ministry prepares deals for the country’s largest oil fields with terms that aren’t necessarily what companies were hoping for but considered a foot in the door of the world’s most promising oil sector. Iraq’s proven oil […]
Emmylou Harris and Robert Duvall
Iran Curveball This latest intelligence fiasco is Mr. Bush’s fault. President Bush has been scrambling to rescue his Iran policy after this week’s intelligence switcheroo, but the fact that the White House has had to spin so furiously is a sign of how badly it has bungled this episode. In sum, Mr. Bush and his […]
Schooling NeoCons on Intelligence Analysis Listening to the howls and foot stomping tantrums from Newt Gingrich and John Bolton this past week as they reacted to the latest National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear weapons program, one would think that communist jihadists bent on raping Mother Teresa on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier arrived […]
Swopa writing for FDL calls our attention to this article: Plame takes on Bush policies in speech Valerie Plame Wilson, whose cover as a covert CIA agent was famously blown by top Bush administration officials, told a Brown University audience last night she is pleased that the U.S. intelligence community has released an assessment concluding […]