A Man of Mystery Richard Hohlt is the heavy hitter you’ve never heard of. Asked by one of Libby’s lawyers if he had talked about Plame with anybody else before outing her in his column, Novak said he’d discussed her with a lobbyist named Richard Hohlt. Who, the lawyer pressed, is Hohlt? "He’s a very […]
Several days ago, I mentioned that Steve Clemons of The Washington Note had advertised that the story of Iran’s attempts to connect with Washington in 2003 was about to get a lot more complicated. Today, he reports on how the connection was made, linking to an article posted on antiwar.com: Rove Said to Have Received […]
A year or so, I gave the graduation talk for several of our Psychoanalytic Candidates. My talk was about Skepticism [from a Greek noun, skepsis, which means examination, inquiry, consideration], the philosophy of Pyrrho of Ellis, and his opposition to the prevailing philosophy of Dogmatism. The Dogmatists of ancient Greece were on a search for […]
Senate gridlocks on Iraq war resolution The Senate gridlocked on the Iraq war in a sharply worded showdown on Saturday as Republicans foiled a Democratic attempt to rebuke President Bush over his deployment of 21,500 additional combat troops. The vote was 56-34. That was four short of the 60 needed to advance the measure, which […]
The "Scooter" Libby Trial and Uranium from Africa, Part 7: The Under-Reported War on Joseph Wilson – Part II 7. Conclusions When former Ambassador Joseph Wilson returned from Niger in early 2002, he narrated an incident conveyed to him by one of his sources, the former Nigerien PM Ibrahim Mayaki. Wilson told the CIA that […]
What the CIA Leak Case Is About By Byron York At the end of each witness’s testimony in the perjury and obstruction trial of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, after prosecutors and defense attorneys examined and cross-examined, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton asked jurors to write down any questions they had. Walton would then look through […]
The trap is set. Bush has declined to define an exit strategy in Iraq, even when handed one by the Iraq Study Group – the now forgotten Commission tasked to evaluate the Iraq War. Instead, Bush has gone with something called a surge – shorthand for escalating the War rather than ending it. In order […]
House Passes Measure Opposing Troop Surge Capping four days of passionate, often angry debate, the House delivered President Bush its first rebuke since the Iraq war was launched nearly four years ago, voting 246 to 182 to oppose the administration’s planned deployment of 21,500 additional combat troops to Iraq. Seventeen Republicans joined 229 Democrats to […]
These are various ways of displaying the results of the 2004 Presidential election results from the Physics Department at the University of Michigan [of all places]. Here’s an approximation of how they were generated: Upper Left: This is the vote by states with the usual Red for Republicans and Blue for Democrats. Upper Right: This […]
Like a lot of people, I focused on the document Theory of Defense before the Libby Trial. I even recall thinking that the colored phrases below were odd. was confident was kind of a wishy-washy way to claim he didn’t leak to Novak. And had not disclosed classified information sounded like a Rovian parsing that […]