In November 2005, I attempted to summarize the articles [Part I][Part II][Part III] about the Niger Forgeries in the Italian Newspaper, la Repubblica. Here’s what I wrote then: Towards the end of 2000, Rocco Martino, an information peddler, vaguely connected with one or another secret service groups in Italy came up with a money-making […]
Volume I Uranium from Africa and the Valerie Plame expose (Treasongate): A Synopsis Volume II Uranium from Africa: Why did the CIA completely back off from the uranium claim in 2002? – Introduction Uranium from Africa: Why did the CIA completely back off from the uranium claim in 2002? – Part 1 Uranium from Africa: […]
I was going to take the day off today – lot’s of life things. But I do have something to say. This port authority deal with an Arab Country with financial ties to Al Qaeda isn’t something I know a lot about. But I know a couple of things. We, the poeple, don’t like it. […]
Throughout the first half of 2004, Eriposte of the left coaster published a series in which he analyzed all the available documents from the Niger Yellowcake Uranium forgery. The summary of his findings was posted in August 2004. My graphic on the left is tongue in cheek. It would be almost impossible to summarize his […]
The White House has praised a plan by Sen. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) to draft legislation that would exempt the NSA program from FISA, while providing for congressional oversight. White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said that Bush "is open to ideas from Congress regarding legislation, and we’ve committed to working with Congress on a bill." White […]
Don’t miss Mary Matalin on last Sunday’s Meet the Press!
… Mora said Navy intelligence officers reported in 2002 that military-intelligence interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were engaging in escalating levels of physical and psychological abuse rumored to have been authorized at a high level in Washington. "I was appalled by the whole thing," Mora told the magazine. "It was clearly abusive and it was […]
Sometimes, things need to be formally declared dead. One of those things is the so-called Bush Doctrine. Originally proposed by Paul Wolfowitz in 1991 under the title Defense Guidance, then tabled by George Bush I, it lived in the halls of the right wing think tanks until it was revived by George Bush II […]
Boo: Several days ago, we all felt a thud when the Senate Intelligence Committee tabled a motion for a full Congressional Investigation of the N.S.A. Unwarranted Domestic Surveillance program, seeing it as underhanded political sleight of hand by chairman Pat Roberts. Yeah: Then Roberts seemed to reverse himself, agreeing with Specter’s idea of turning […]
Don’t Punish the Palestinians by Jimmy Carter is exactly right – exactly. He says, don’t mess with Hamas. They won. If it’s Democracy we’re pushing, the we have to live with the will of the people. Lord only knows, some of us have questioned Democracy over the last five years of living with George W. […]