Colin Powell is wanting answers: Ex-secretary of state Colin Powell called on the CIA and Pentagon to explain how he was given unreliable information which proved key to the US case for invading Iraq, the Guardian reported Wednesday. Powell’s landmark speech to the United Nations on February 5, 2003, cited intelligence about Iraq leader Saddam […]
Even after Scooter got his “get out of jail free” card from Bush, the case continues to get more interesting. Scott McClellan is set to have his memoirs hit the shelves in April and it includes juicy information like this: “I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in […]
Think Progress has this: A new Justice Dept. document dump appears to “clearly show that [Gonzales’ ex-chief of staff Kyle] Sampson attempted to mislead Congress by proxy — that is to say, he gave false information to DOJ officials who were preparing to provide information to Congress.†That’s illegal. But Sampson says it isn’t true, […]
Remember a couple of weeks ago when there was all this talk that Canada was using coins with radio transmitters to spy on us? The Defense Department put out a warning about them and everything. It was something that sounded so James Bond(ish). Well now we have the Defense Department issuing their own mia culpa […]
Senator Grassley has just said he can not understand why their is no outcry over the leaking of this program as compared to the outcry of the Valerie Plame leak. Can this guy be serious or is a member of the judiciary committee that blind to the law? He also said that if hypothetically the […]
Yesterday’s lock down of Senate by Democrats has resparked an old, but not forgotten controversy – the Downing Street Memos. Republican’s have repeatedly tried to dismiss the DSM as false information saying that it was addressed in phase one of the intelligence report. Now that Democrats have forced phase two to be complete, which will […]