Packed and ready with time on my hands. So, emptywheel is still at it. She’s on the Tatel Opinion about whether Judith Miller and Matt Cooper have Privilege that was just released. In her last piece, she points to Novak telling the Grand Jury: According to Novak, when he “brought up” Wilson’s wife, “Mr. Rove […]
The Cheney Vice Presidency Barton Gellman Washington Post National Reporter Monday, June 25, 2007; 1:00 PM Preston, Minn.: I have seen patients that have had startling and profound personality changes following coronary events and other life threatening health problems. Has there been any evidence Cheney has had such an effect? I remember reading a quote […]
TITLE V—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS This one covered Montana’s rarely present U.S. Attorney, Bill Mercer, so he could live in Washington D.C., SEC. 501. RESIDENCE OF UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS AND ASSISTANT UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS. (a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (a) of section 545 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new […]
Iraq, al-Qaeda and Tenet’s Equivocation By Christina Shelton On Aug. 15, 2002, I presented my part of a composite Pentagon briefing on al-Qaeda and Iraq to George Tenet, then CIA director. In his recent book, "At the Center of the Storm," Tenet wrote that I said in opening remarks that "there is no more debate," […]
This week’s Washington Post series and the Rolling Stone article document amazing pieces of political skullduggery on the part of Vice President Cheney – stuff that ought to be enough to heave him out of office. But, the Bush Administration has over and over proved itself to be non-self-regulating. George W. Bush isn’t goingto do […]
Justice Department official resigns A Justice Department official who was eyed as a possible replacement for one of several fired U.S. attorneys announced her resignation Friday. Rachel Brand, the assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Policy, will step down July 9, the department said in a statement. The statement did not give a […]
Their Confidence is Meaningless Bush and Vice President Cheney’s optimistic predictions about the Middle East in general and Iraq in particular have proved to be almost completely and consistently wrong for years now. ("Last throes," anyone?) Before the 2006 election, White House political guru Karl Rove was supremely self-assured in his public predictions of Republican […]
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Lonely Dick The following item was written by Matthew Blake, a Nation magazine intern: This past week The Washington Post ran a four-part, as much-depth-as-you-can-take series on Vice President Dick Cheney. It unflinchingly documents Cheney’s unprecedented power and secrecy. His wide-ranging influence stretches from encouraging the use of torture during interrogations of suspected terrorists to […]
A friend sent me a summer mystery she thought I might enjoy. It was a murder mystery built into Freud and Jung’s trip to America in 1909. She was right. Though the plot was tortured, the history was accurate, and I did enjoy the book. But the part that stuck with me was the opening […]