While we’re rarely clear about it in our writings, there are separate threads in our questioning of the Bush Administration – competence, idealology, and integrity. The unwarranted N.S.A. domestic surveillance is an example. It doesn’t work – F.B.I. agents have been chasing rainbows, finding nothing, and in spite of the rhetoric, it’s clear that there’s […]
How Gonzales Plans to Defend Eavesdropping is something of an amazing article. Gonzales is the Attorney General of the United States. His 42 page brief is the only government exhibit they want to release. So essentially, the Attorney General, in charge of the Department of Justice, is coming out as the principle witness for the […]
Gallup: More Than Half of Americans Feel Bush Deliberately Misled Country on Iraq WMD A new Gallup Poll, conducted in late January, reveals that just 39% of Americans approve of the way President Bush is handling Iraq, with 58% disapproving. Over half (53%) now say the administration "deliberately misled the American public about whether Iraq […]
How easy it is to forget the timeline of what is called Plamegate, but what is really about a White House Conspiracy to cover up some dark dealings. Who knows if the President and Vice President every really believed that the Intelligence actually supported their claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction? They came […]
Okay. I’ve put it off as long as I can. This is from President Bush’s State of the Union Speech: A hopeful society has institutions of science and medicine that do not cut ethical corners, and that recognize the matchless value of every life. Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most […]
Brad Friedman [the Bradblog] has a telling post on the T-Shirt war at the State Of The Union Speech. He quotes the Washington Post: [Capitol Police Chief Terrance W.] Gainer said he also would ask that charges against Sheehan — she was arrested; Beverly Young left before it came to that1 — be dropped. "It […]
You know what’s great these days? What’s great is that people everywhere, even in the so-called Main Stream Media, are picking up on "spin" as it happens. In the living room, my wife is howling as John Stewart has a field day with the State of the Union Speech, but even the L.A.Times is calling […]
ACLU & AFSC Seek Surveillance Records Iraq, Niger, And The CIA Revealed: Bush and Blair discussed using American Spyplane in UN colours to lure Saddam into war Court filings shed more light on CIA leak investigation Specialists doubt legality of wiretaps After a period of diversions, it seems like things are refocusing on the important […]
I wrote, then discarded, a post analogizing the Bush Administration to a stage play in which what we see is carefully orchestrated, and the truth is "backstage." I discarded it because it didn’t quite say what I was feeling. This morning, a better analogy occurred to me – "the iron curtain." Wikipedia discusses the iron […]
I’ve been ignoring the sporadic reports of Libby’s lawyers requests for documents from Patrick Fitzgerald, sort of thinking that it was the usual pretrial jockeying, maybe a bit irritated that it’s preoccuppying Fitzgerald and keeping him away from God’s calling – nailing Karl Rove. But it’s beginning to look like there may be things to […]