Just saw this tweet from Chuck Todd: Goss: “What we’re now seeing is that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has not made one iota of improvement.” So Goss is saying that his successors haven’t fixed the mess he left behind. That also goes along with what I have been saying – the […]
Tonight Ed Schultz had Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY-29) and while talking about Cheney’s typical fear-mongering response, Massa decided it was time to call Cheney out. He challenges Cheney to a debate. When Ed told Massa Cheney would only do it on Fox, Massa said “so”. This was great and I wonder if Cheney will take […]
Can we have more of this please? There are numerous other such public statements that explicitly state we are at war. The difference is this: President Obama doesn’t need to beat his chest to prove it, and – unlike the last Administration – we are not at war with a tactic (“terrorism”), we at war […]
It’s time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be the commander in chief for three more critical years and that in matters of war we undermine presidential credibility at our nation’s peril. –Joe “the faux” Lieberman in 2005. Funny how he felt that way then and now he is one […]
Jim DeMint is on the losing end of an argument and instead of saying “oops, sorry”, he is down right determined to dig in and continue his crusade to keep this country less safe: A Republican senator who has been blocking President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration complains that Democrats are […]
We knew it was only a matter of time before Dick Cheney would crawl out from his undisclosed dungeon of torture and make some really absurd statement: “As I’ve watched the events of the last few days it is clear once again that President Obama is trying to pretend we are not at war. He […]
Here is an interesting fact the internet has pulled up. On December 28, 2009, President Obama made his first public comments about the attempted bombing on Christmas day – 3 days after the incident. On December 28, 2001, President Bush made his first public comments about Richard Reid’s failed bombing attempt. That was 7 days […]
Erroll Southers, the nominee to head the TSA, has been in the news a lot lately because of the attempted airline bombing on Christmas Day. As I pointed out yesterday, Southers nomination has been held up in the Senate because of Jim DeMint. But DeMint isn’t the only one to blame here. We also must […]
To keep the record straight on the details about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, I want to do a quick recap: In 2007, under Bush, two of Abdulmutallab co-conspirators were released from Gitmo and sent to Saudi Arabia. (source) Abdulmutallab was given a visa to the United States in June 2008, despite being on the terrorist watch […]
I am really curious to hear how the wingnuts spin this one: Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November, 2007, according to American officials and Department of Defense documents. Al […]