That is exactly what the CIA has done: The CIA destroyed videotapes it made in 2002 of two top terror suspects because it was afraid that keeping them “posed a security risk,” Director Michael Hayden has told agency employees. Hayden’s revelation to the CIA employees became public Thursday and it caused a commotion on Capitol […]
Another “war” we are losing thanks to George Bush: State Department report on terrorism due out next week will show a nearly 30 percent increase in terrorist attacks worldwide in 2006 to more than 14,000, almost all of the boost due to growing violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. officials said Friday. The annual report’s […]
This is really ridiculous. The Hill gives us the latest from the Soap Opera called Capital Hill: Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) believes it is his right as a Muslim to be sworn into Congress with the Quran. But apparently, the freshman lawmaker doesn’t believe it’s Rep. Tom Tancredo’s (R-Colo.) right to smoke a cigar in […]
Lying to get us into war is no problem. Executing a war in such a poor fashion is no problem. Violating the civil rights of millions of Americans – ehh it’s ok. Violating the Constitution by vigorous use of “signing statements” – well they will give him a pass. All that doesn’t matter, but immigration […]
So these people can be sent to fight and die for Bush’s failed war, yet they aren’t allowed to voice their concerns? This is really disturbing: The pictures were just what the White House wanted: A teary-eyed President Bush presenting the Medal of Honor posthumously to a slain war hero in the East Room, then […]
Drudge is trying to spin FoleyGate so bad that he is looking more like and idiot than people already knew. He is now saying that the pages conducted these email and IM exchanges with Foley as a “prank”: Faced with claims by the conservative political website The Drudge Report on Thursday that lurid instant message […]
And they keep on falling: The chief of staff for Republican Congressman Tom Reynolds, Kirk Fordham, resigned after questions were raised about his role in the handling of the congressional page scandal, according to Republican sources on Capitol Hill. Those sources said Fordham, a former chief of staff for Congressman Mark Foley, had urged Republican […]
And give a Power Point presentation of all these secret nuclear facilities in Iran? In an echo of the intelligence wars that preceded the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a high-stakes struggle is brewing within the Bush administration and in Congress over Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program and involvement in terrorism. U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism officials […]
And it is going to be good! Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Ney has agreed with the Justice Department to plead guilty to at least one criminal charge in a deal that could be announced as early as Friday, Capitol Hill sources said Thursday. The Justice Department and Ney’s attorney would not discuss whether a deal […]
This is very interesting and should demand an immediate investigation: Yet the black officers say that McKinney was targeted because she wrote a letter on behalf of their black officer’s association demanding the ouster of the counsel of the Capitol Police, John Caulfield, for racist remarks and for contributing to and supporting a hostile environment […]