When your defense is one that is weak then the transparency of that defense becomes nonexistent. This is shown in great detail during today’s hearings when this little exchange occurred: BIDEN: Thank you very much. General, how has this revelation damaged the program? I’m almost confused by it but, I mean, it seems to presuppose […]
Michael Isikoff ofNewsweek laid to rest that right wing argument that Valerie Plame was not a covert agent: But special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald found that Plame had indeed done “covert work overseas” on counterproliferation matters in the past five years, and the CIA “was making specific efforts to conceal” her identity, according to newly released […]
There is a movement going on around the blogosphere to keep copies of documents from the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray. In doing my part I am also supplying copies of these documents on my private server which can be viewed here: Telegrams (pdf) Legal Paper (jpg) These papers are written by Craig […]
An interesting story from Germany which gives us some insight into how they view our leaders and their use of rendition: German police in 2003 shielded a German national suspected of terrorism by the United States from questioning by the CIA, according to a newspaper report to be published on Thursday. Die Zeit weekly said […]
OK I think we have now seen enough of Bush to last the next decade. From his televised radio address on Saturday to his prime time speech last night I was already tired of him. Today though, I got an extra dose. Bush decided to surprise people with a press conference. He actually used this […]
Just as a computer warning to all my readers, someone is sending out mass emails across the net today in order to spread a nasty little virus/worm called Sober.Y. The email are addressed as coming from numerous sources including: Yahoo AOL CIA FBI They all contain different messages but all have the same attachment. If […]
Fitzgerald gave one of the longest press conferences I think I have ever witnessed. Saying that, it was also very interesting. He could not get into many details of the case and left many of us wondering what is still to come but he did let us in on what is known. He started off […]
Arianna Huffington has put together a cheat sheet on the CIA leak case to help people better understand what has transpired. She has coined that the leak case is worse than Water Gate, which could actually be an understatement. Watergate never actually got out of the planning cycle. It was more like a deterred terrorist […]
Raw Story has reported that Fitzgerald is in fact seeking indictments in the leak case according to their sources. Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has decided to seek indictments in the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson and has submitted at least one to the grand jury, those close to the investigation tell RAW STORY. […]
Back in August when the Valerie Plame investigation was really heating up, Robert Novak tried to say he learned that Joe Wilson’s wife was Valerie Plame through Who’s Who in America. Of course the Bush supporters jumped on that because they thought it would exonerate any wrong doing. This of course was not the case […]