eriposte strikes again. In his encyclopedic analysis of the Niger forgeries, eriposte of the left coaster has become the world resource on the topic. There have been some documents from the Niger forgery story released as part of the Libby Trial. eriposte has compared them to the previous versions of same documents in the Phase […]
By the opening of the C.I.A. Leak Investigation, Judith Miller was already becoming tarnished. She’d followed up her dramatic pre-war reporting of dire Iraqi treachery with a wild ride across the desert in a Hummer looking for the fabled evil weapons, but found only sand. Shortly after she returned, federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald called her […]
Well. It’s a start towards getting things back to normal. At least I’ve got my theme sort of reinstalled. Something to pass the time tomorrow [rebuilding the site] while I read more live Libby Trial on firedoglake.com… UPDATE: Oh, look! I’m back…
I think that on this day, someone made history. That someone was Marcy Wheeler – or emptywheel as she is known at The Next Hurrah. Her live blogging of the Scooter Libby Trial was one of the most exciting media events ever. It reminded me of the console radio days of my childhood, or the […]
"Here she comes. White shirt, big lapels. No glasses. Checks her counsel, puts glasses on (they’re on a fancy string around her neck), is nodding. She doesn’t seem like she’s breathing." Marcy Wheeler, on Firedoglake Oh, she’s breathing all right [See the small wisps of smoke coming from her nostrils?]. She’s on the stand right […]
“Live Blogging” the Libby Trial is historic. Marcy Wheeler’s posts on Firedoglake updated every 15 minutes kept me transfixed all day, in between adding logs to the fire, on this coldest of days in the mountains. After Cathie Martin finished, Ari Fleischer got up and told the truth – the truth that Libby told him […]
Well off I went on a post-holidays camping trip for a couple of weeks, and the blog migration to another server didn’t go so well. It’s been dead for a couple of weeks. Now it’s picked a theme all on its own that isn’t quite up to snuff. “Winging” migration isn’t the best plan – […]
So, TNTHD had the Lord of the Rings Trilogy on today – a real undertaking, but well worth the investment. Tolkein started it while he was in the trenches during World War I, and the metaphorical connections are obvious throughout the film version. He later said he began creating his fantasy world of Middle Earth […]
Kissinger Says Victory in Iraq Is Not Possible Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, who regularly advises President Bush on Iraq, said today that a full military victory was no longer possible there. He thus joined a growing number of leading conservatives openly challenging the administration’s conduct of the war and positive forecasts for […]