Prosecutor’s Firing Was Urged During Probe Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said in a television appearance yesterday that Lam "sent a notice to the Justice Department saying that there would be two search warrants" in a criminal investigation of defense contractor Brent R. Wilkes and Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, who had just quit as the CIA’s top […]
I said something earlier today that’s been rolling around in my head ever since. I want to try again, because it feels important – at least to me. First, the facts: We invaded Iraq on false pretenses. The Bush Administration took us there based on cooked up intelligence that they knew was both fallacious and […]
President Says Saddam Hussein Must Leave Iraq Within 48 Hours Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation March 17, 2003 8:01 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: My fellow citizens, events in Iraq have now reached the final days of decision. For more than a decade, the United States and other nations have pursued patient […]
Lessons of War The fighting in Iraq enters its fifth year. Unfortunately, none of this provides bright guidelines to make the next decisions easier — not even those facing the nation right now in Iraq. It’s tempting to say that if it was wrong to go in, it must be wrong to stay in. But […]
Last night I was at a dinner, in a conversation, or at least listening to a conversation at the table. Something came up about George Bush. The guy to my left said, "Those [explitive deleted] Liberals think…" in a tone of voice that transcended the words – disdain, contempt, snarl, words aren’t good enough to […]
It’s different this time – very different. Back in 1967, it was another place in history. Some of us were mad at War itself. Some of us were mad at our System. Some of us were mad at the Warriors. Some of us were mad at our Parents. And some of us were mad at […]
I. U.S. Attorney Firings More Smoke From White House On Attorney Firings Don’t be surprised if the new narrative on the United States attorney (USA) firings is that it was the Justice Department that was culpable for misleading Congress, not the White House. A story in tomorrow’s New York Times [see below] indicates that the […]
There’s no brass plaque on the various restaurants where Richard Hohlt‘s Off the Record Club meets periodically for food and a chance to chat and rant with each other over a nice meal. According to Michael Isakoff, the only known rule is that the meetings stay off the record. They’re just a group of very […]
Why Victoria Toensing was called to this hearing is unclear to me. She was involved in the drafting of the original legislation for the law that covers such leaks in the 80’s. But other than that, she’s something of a loudmouth Republican Operative. On the eve of the Libby Trial, she wrote a Washington Post […]