The other day, I was reading the TRUTHOUT article by Jason Leopold, and noticed that Hadley volunteered to write an oped in an attempt to strengthen the Niger Uranium Hoax. It reminded me of Condi’s oped rah-rah about the Aluminum Tubes in 2003. Looks like there’s another one of those Administration directed opeds today. It […]
Certainly, I think all the violence in the Islamic countries over cartoons is uncalled for, and probably fueled by anti-Western sentiment that is longstanding and deeply ingrained. But it does seem to me that the western reaction does betray a striking misunderstanding of Islam – and its basis. The Islamic belief is that God has […]
Looks like a standard set of ‘photo-op with President’ photos to me. Bush says they hadn’t met. Not true. Aramoff says they were close. Not true. So, two fabricators… Whoops. Getting closer! [Abramoff smiling by the window]
But in making this defense, the White House also inadvertently pointed out the real problem: intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs did not drive its decision to go to war. A view broadly held in the United States and even more so overseas was that deterrence of Iraq was working, that Saddam was being kept […]
Cheney Spearheaded Effort to Discredit Wilson Ex-CIA Official Faults Use of Data on Iraq: Intelligence ‘Misused’ to Justify War Cheney ‘Authorized’ Libby to Leak Classified Information Where’s My Subpoena? Valerie Plame, Scooter Libby, and me Fitzgerald Eyes Plame-Niger Conspiracy: Prosecutor Probing Niger Forgeries, Possible Conspiracy in CIA Leak It’s been kind of sliding out in […]
I thought the appointment of John Bolton during a Congressional Recess was the height of arrogance, but putting Tom Delay on the Oversight Committee for the Justice Department just takes the cake. It just takes the cake!
One of the reasons to write a journal is to clarify over time what you really think or feel about something. I started with nothing political in mind, but gradually became very tangled up with the Valerie Plame case. I hadn’t known much about it, but when the Judith Miller jailing came up, I started […]
David Ignatius has a very interesting oped piece in today’s Washington Post, The Wrong Wiretap Debate. Here’s a long quote: The surveillance issue will test whether America really is a nation of laws. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican who is one of a handful of legislators refusing to play the partisan game, argues that the […]
Republican Who Oversees N.S.A. Calls for Wiretap Inquiry The lawmaker, Representative Heather A. Wilson of New Mexico, chairwoman of the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence, said in an interview that she had "serious concerns" about the surveillance program. By withholding information about its operations from many lawmakers, she said, the administration […]
I’m surprised at the right wing press responding to Coretta’s funeral as they seem to be reacting. They are saying that the "Democrats" "used" her funeral for political attacks on Bush. I’m certainly not surprised at what Reverend Lowery said. We Atlantans would have been stunned if he hadn’t carried the message he and Dr. […]