There’s a current post by emptywheel on The Next Hurrah that’s a real mind bender. It’s about ‘Scooter’ Libby’s defense. He gives two contradicting stories about his leaks of the classified [declassified] National Intelligence Estimate to discredit Joseph Wilson. On the one hand, he says that it was a part of a broad Administration Strategy, […]
lib·er·al (lbr-l, lbrl) adj. Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded. con·ser·va·tive (kn-sûrv-tv) adj. Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change. […]
What did July 4th, 2006 do for me? Two big things: First: I’ve been kind of discouraged since Karl Rove walked away from Plamegate. I guess I understand why he walked, but I don’t think for a minute that he is innocent of lying to the Grand Jury, and probably more. But as I reviewed […]
A senior government official who has spoken to the president about the matter said that although Bush encouraged Cheney to get information out to rebut Wilson’s charges, Bush was unaware that Cheney had directed Libby to leak classified information… Christie at Firedoglake emphasizes the senior government official in Murray Waas‘ atricle, speculating about who that […]
early bloggers John Adams to Abigail Adams 3 July 1776: The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of […]
Joseph Wilson was wrong in his assessment: Did the Bush administration manipulate intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs to justify an invasion of Iraq? Based on my experience with the administration in the months leading up to the war, I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq’s nuclear […]
A year ago on the 4th of July weekend, Lawrence O’Donnell said that Matthew Cooper’s source in the leaking of Valerie Plame’s C.I.A. identity was Karl Rove. For me, that announcement was a Tsunami. I had been depressed since Bush was reelected, and had spent six months on something I called "news restriction." I just […]
Spy Agency Sought U.S. Call Records Before 9/11, Lawyers Say The U.S. National Security Agency asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, lawyers claimed June 23 in court papers filed in New York federal court. The allegation is part of a […]
In the summer of 1963, "Freedom Summer," people flocked to the South to register black voters. At least three of them died in Mississippi at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan. It wasn’t a question of campaigning for anyone particular, it was just getting them registered to vote. In the end of the 1990’s, […]
Over time, various pieces of the nightmare in the White House become clearer. The obsession with Iraq seems to have come from the American Enterprise Institute shepherded by Laurie Mylroie, but then carried as a banner by Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfield to the Project for the New American Century, then imported directly […]