We are indeed proud of the job the emissaries from Firedoglake did both with the trial and for the cause, but frankly, I’d have preferred "for brigade of patriotic bloggers, the Libby Trial is fun and fodder." I’d have settled for "for brigade of bloggers, the Libby Trial is fun and fodder." Maybe I’m just […]
Levin’s Pursuit of Douglas Feith by Robert Scheer Someday, you are going to read a whole lot about the shenanigans of one Douglas J. Feith and an elaborate scheme to get the United States to invade Iraq. That is because Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., has been determined to get to the bottom of this sordid […]
The commentators are all buzzing about the Libby Trial, and there’s plenty to buzz about. The advent of "live blogging" by the people at Firedoglake.com provides a ready-transcript to pore over and think about. The legal haranging part was a mammoth pain, requiring a legal correspondant to explain what in the hell they we’re talking […]
Wells: The defense rests. 4:05 … Kedian: The government rests. Okay, I do have something to say after all. There’s a lot of speculation about why Ted Wells didn’t put Scooter Libby and Dick Cheney on the stand. Some think it was too dangerous to subject them to the rigors of Patrick Fitzgerald’s cross-examination. Some […]
Douglas Feith made my day with Tough Questions We Were Right to Ask in the Washington Post. It’s like opening a time capsule on those days back in 2002 and 2003 when they were planning the invasion of Iraq. Even the title sounds like an early Bush sound-byte – "Tough Questions." Then, it was, "answering […]
I woke up this morning fretting. There were two things on my mind. One was Iran – a residue from the must-read Vanity Fair article [see below]. But the other worry was from something Cathie Martin said in her testimony in the Libby Trial: Fewer people paying attenion on Friday evening, and fewer people paying […]
Well, the Libby Trial has become a real yawner. It’s come down to a defense that might be called "the kitchen sink" defense – random attacks on the people who testified that Libby talked to them about Valerie Plame in his period of The Great Amnesia: Cheney and Libby wimped out, leaving Ted Wells to […]
Some years back, I read an article about a researcher who returned the small town where she’d grown up, interviewed all the old teachers that were still around, and compiled the names of several generations of "bullies." She ran them down to find out what came of them. As adults, they were a lonely bunch […]
From the Wonderful Folks Who Brought You Iraq The same neocon ideologues behind the Iraq war have been using the same tactics — alliances with shady exiles, dubious intelligence on W.M.D.—to push for the bombing of Iran. As President Bush ups the pressure on Tehran, is he planning to double his Middle East bet? by […]
We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! T.S.Eliot, Hollow Men 1925 It’s over. Scooter Libby and Dick Cheney aren’t going to face the jury. They aren’t going to face us. They avoided the Draft, but started a War. They lied to a Grand Jury investigating […]