The phase 2 report into the pre-Iraq war intelligence failure is still being stonewalled by Senate Intelligence chairman Pat Roberts: Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), who chairs the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said he wants to divide his panel’s inquiry into the Bush administration’s handling of Iraq-related intelligence into two parts, a move that would […]
First up – what about Scotty? A Bush administration shake-up continued Wednesday, with White House press secretary Scott McClellan announcing his resignation and a source saying that adviser Karl Rove would shed some duties. Appearing with Bush on the White House South Lawn just before the president boarded a helicopter at the start a trip […]
My post earlier today showed how even a senior official in the Iraqi government is calling the tensions there a “civil war”. Ironically CBS is still sucking up to the Bush administration’s talking point by avoiding that term. This is a shot from their web page today: “Civil Conflict”. 80 people died yesterday (which is […]
Well after 9 hours of shuffling files and backing up/restoring databases, I finally get some time to blog again. Wow what a bad day to do this. I missed it all. Domenech decided to resign from the Washington Post and I just got done reading Howard Kurtz’s article regarding the entire ordeal and what can […]
The Planet of Unreality Bush Sees Progress in Iraq, Challenge in Iran Bush: US will not abandon Iraq This is not good. The people running this country sound convinced that reality is whatever they say it is. And if they’ve actually strayed into the realm of genuine self-delusion — if they actually believe the fantasies […]
Think Progress has the video up from this compelling interview done on 60 Minutes last night: Yesterday, 60 Minutes aired a powerful segment documenting how the Bush administration has muzzled the government’s top global warming researcher, James Hansen. Watch an excerpt: Go and check it out.
Another sort-of terror threat ‘No credible intelligence’: FBI expresses vigilance for upcoming tournaments Could something happen? Of course. Am I sick and tired of this administrations games with scaring the hell out Americans when serious threats don’t really exist? Definitely. Maybe that’s why the US public is turning away from the Bush administration and their […]
Raw Story has uncovered some very serious information regarding the government spying on people: Documents released today by the American Civil Liberties Union reveal that the Federal Bureau of Investigations has indeed monitored political groups solely on the basis that they opposed a U.S.-led war. According to a memo written in 2002, the FBI launched […]
Yesterday, Dubai Ports World announced that it would sell operation of US ports to a “US entity,” thus bringing the ballyhoo over this controversial sale to a close. The hype surrounding this issue was mostly manufactured. Security, the only concern, is not outsourced and would not have been. Politicians created the furor for their own […]
So today Gale Norton, the Interior Secretary, resigned abruptly from Bush’s cabinet today. For those who are not familiar with her ties to Abramoff, I thought it would be time to highlight some of them. First up is this nice article from the Boston Globe on 11/4/2005: WASHINGTON — Investigators have unearthed e-mails indicating that […]