Whether big time or small potatos, we bloggers have spent several years on a unified trajectory, defining the problem in the United States right now. That problem is now clear, and in the news. That problem is George W. Bush and his administration. Rarely have we had such a combination to deal with – both […]
When I look back at my own posts about the Bush Administration’s ignoring the F.I.S.A. Courts, I find references to Bush, Rove, Cheney, Gonzales explaining to us how the important it is to ignore the courts. There are assurances that the Patriot Act, the N.S.A. Surveillance, won’t be abused. Here’s Karl Rove in his January […]
The glut of Talking Points about the Libby Verdict has been truly amazing. In medicine, we have a term TNTC – "too numerous to count." O’Reilly said that we don’t even no she was couvert [shortly after Fitzgerald announced it as a "fact" on the courthouse steps], calls for pardon, WSJ editorial calling it the […]
Robert Novak is not someone I ever read before the Joseph Wilson/Valerie Plame Affair. He’s almost always touting one or the other of the Talking Points du jour. And, frankly, he is a boring writer. He’s very adept at sneering with words, and I don’t care much for sneers – from either side. But today’s […]
I respectfully request that you meet with me and the Committee’s Ranking Member, Tom Davis, to discuss the possibility of testifying before the Committee and other means by which you can inform the Committee about your views and the insights you obtained during the course of your investigation. The thing we’ve all loved about Patrick […]
Václav Havel’s "The Trial" … the thought of a bunch of people launching "a play" that they thought they controlled, but one that ended up entangling them in totally unexpected ways. I see Libby, refusing to flip on Cheney, going through the "embarrassing spectacle" to the end. And David Addington, totally honest in his unfiltered […]
As the dust settles and the air begins to clear, refined questions come into better focus. What we’re hearing from the Principals is "poor Scooter and his family" and "blah, blah…ongoing investigation…blah, blah." So we’re still on our own out here. As I look at my little tables from the other day, a number of […]
Speaking of blogger scoops!
After Libby Something is rotten in the heart of Washington; and it lies in the vice-president’s office. The salience of this case is obvious. What it is really about – what it has always been about – is whether this administration deliberately misled the American people about WMD intelligence before the war. The risks Cheney […]