Petraeus Pleads For An Endless Occupation General Petraeus did his job over the weekend to reveal the Bush Administration Plan B. Petraeus said yesterday that he wouldn’t know anything in September except that it is too early to withdraw troops or change the mission. Petraeus said that it would be another 1-2 years before the […]
Pressure mounts for Libby clemency White House loyalists have begun arguing that clemency for I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby — either a pardon or a commuted sentence — would be a way for an embattled President Bush to reassert himself, particularly among conservatives. The White House has not ruled out a pardon for Libby, sources say. […]
The General’s Report Seymour M. Hersh The New Yorker How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties. On the afternoon of May 6, 2004, Army Major General Antonio M. Taguba was summoned to meet, for the first time, with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in his Pentagon conference room. […]
Talking Points Memo The last time we checked in on the controversy, a federal appeals court swiftly rejected the prosecution and admonished Biskupic for filing the charges in the first place. Thompson was released, but the imprisonment and wrongful prosecution has left quite a scar on her career. Given the circumstances, it’s not surprising that […]
Bill Moyers: Begging his pardon You would have thought their man had been ordered to Guantanamo, so intense was the reaction from his cheerleaders. They flooded the judge’s chambers with letters of support for their comrade and took to the airwaves in a campaign to "free Scooter." Vice President Cheney issued a statement praising Libby […]
"I’m sure senators on both sides of the aisle are being pounded by these talk-radio people who don’t even know what’s in the bill," Lott said. The Republican whip, Trent Lott of Mississippi, who supports the bill, said: “Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.” Trent Lott, the Minority Whip, […]
Bush blasts Democrats over budget spending, threatens veto During his weekly radio address Saturday, President Bush attacked Democrats for proposing excessive budgets, and threatened to veto "irresponsible tax-and-spend" budgets." "The American people expect us to spend their tax dollars wisely, or not at all, and to pursue pro-growth economic policies that will allow us to […]
FBI investigated Ga. gov in old lynching Newly released files from the lynching of two black couples more than 60 years ago contain a disturbing revelation: The FBI investigated suspicions that a three-term governor of Georgia sanctioned the murders to sway rural white voters during a tough election campaign. The 3,725 pages obtained by The […]
I’ve been obsessing for days about how they [the Administration] could have made such a huge error – going ahead with their U.S. Attorney Plan in spite of all the danger in implementing it after they lost the midterms. I keep thinking there’s something we’re missing. Some reason they made such a blunder. Duh! These […]
In that strange world that the DoJ has become, there’s another casualty – Michael Elston, the Chief of Staff to the Deputy Attorney General. He wasn’t a very nice guy – threatening people, generally acting like a bully and Administration Operative. They set out to get rid of U.S. Attorneys who wouldn’t play ball, and […]