Think Progress reminds us that today is the fifth anniversary of Colin Powell’s big speech to the U.N. about Iraq’s (non-existent) WMD program. What I find interesting is how Powell seemed to have changed his tune about a year ago saying he should have never made that speech. When I saw Powell speak a couple […]
Here are a few things I am sure Bush won’t mention during his speech tonight. Worried CIA Officers Buy Legal Insurance CIA counterterrorism officers have signed up in growing numbers for a government-reimbursed, private insurance plan that would pay their civil judgments and legal expenses if they are sued or charged with criminal wrongdoing, according […]
Here is the shape of campaigning with only a few weeks left before the mid-term elections: President Bush urged Congress Thursday to give him “additional authority” to continue his administration’s warrantless eavesdropping program. The speech was his latest effort in several days to mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by framing […]