Remember all the rage from the right a couple of months ago when Nancy Pelosi aid the CIA mislead Congress? Well according to the head of the CIA, Pelosi may have just been telling the truth: The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon E. Panetta, has told the House Intelligence Committee in closed-door testimony […]
Breaking news from the Washington Post: Former top White House official Karl Rove will be interviewed tomorrow as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the firing of U.S. attorneys during the Bush administration, according to two sources familiar with the appointment. Rove has remained in the news as a commentator and political analyst since […]
Yesterday Dick Cheney restated his claim that “Obama has made us less safe”. Today we have seen the right defending Cheney’s comments. This morning while watching Morning Joe, Scarborough kept defending the comments by saying “well Clinton was out bashing Bush right after Bush took office”. As usual with Joe he is in another attempt […]
Boehner admits that we torture: While cable news outlets and major newspapers continue to use euphemisms such as “harsh interrogation tactics” to describe the Bush administration’s approach to intelligence gathering, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) used a more succinct term Thursday: “torture.” “Last week, they released these memos outlining torture techniques. That was clearly […]
The Obama administration is in trouble. Public anger over these AIG bonuses appear to be the final straw: The Obama administration is increasingly concerned about a populist backlash against banks and Wall Street, worried that anger at financial institutions could also end up being directed at Congress and the White House and could complicate President […]
I was checking out Gallup’s site and saw this: No Mandate for Criminal Probes of Bush Administration Most favor investigations into controversial terror techniques, possible abuse of Justice Dept. Sounds like America just doesn’t want to see Bush punished – doesn’t it? Well now, let’s have a quick gander at the actual poll results:{[}]lt;/p> HMMM […]
Bob has found a couple of interesting articles. It turns out back during the last census, the Bush administration made decisions involving the decision that made it so the Census Bureau no longer had the authority to adjust the count. This was after this: [Bush Commerce Secretary Don Evans] Friday issued a rule that makes […]
When banks abuse their bailout funds, the Obama administration takes action: A Treasury Department official on Monday called Citigroup, which has received $45 billion in bailout capital from the government, to protest plans to accept delivery on a luxurious $50 million corporate jet made in France. [SNIP] The Treasury official called the bank to complain […]
Here we go: HOMELAND SECURITY ISSUES STATEMENT ON POTENTIAL OBAMA THREAT — 1030 AM ET — Statement from a Department of Homeland Security spokesman: “The FBI, the Department of Homeland Security (including the USSS) and the intelligence community are coordinating with other law enforcement authorities to investigate and analyze recently received information about a potential […]
This is a Bush administration official with direct knowledge admitting that we torture detainees: The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial has concluded that the U.S. military tortured a Saudi national who allegedly planned to participate in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, interrogating him with […]