So this is how our military rewards the brave troops fighting in a war of lies – by silencing them? The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is […]
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 […]
Today’s LA Times gives us one of the most detailed looks yet into this scandal: When Karl Rove and his top deputies arrived at the White House in 2001, the Republican National Committee provided them with laptop computers and other communication devices to be used alongside their government-issued equipment. The back-channel e-mail and paging system, […]
So he says: In two interviews before the Army took McCain and 60 Minutes on the heavily guarded visit to the al-Shorja market last Sunday, the senator said security had improved in Iraq. Upon his return, he also told a news conference he had just come back from a neighborhood one could walk around in […]
While all the news agencies is busy comparing the recent friendly fire deaths in Iraq to the death of Pat Tillman, Editor and Publisher has the scoop on something even more disturbing regarding the incident: One of the soldiers died just hours after arriving in Iraq — and was one of those troops rushed to […]
Robert Novak has gone after someone else this time, and it might not be who you would expect. This week, he takes none other than George Bush to the mat. Here are some great parts from it. “Gonzales never has developed a base of support for himself up here,” a House Republican leader told me. […]
More destruction of America, thanks to George Bush: President Bush has signed a directive that gives the White House much greater control over the rules and policy statements that the government develops to protect public health, safety, the environment, civil rights and privacy. In an executive order published last week in the Federal Register, Mr. […]
Remember last year when Clinton had that sit down with Chris Wallace on FOX News? He was tired of everyone saying he caused 9/11, so he let Chris know about it. The wingnuts quickly jumped on it and was calling him things like “unhinged”. Well CNN just re-aired the Wolf Blitzer interview of Dick Cheney. […]
It was bad enough when FOX kept labeling Mark Foley as a Democrat, but now the Obama shit is getting carried away. This is the latest, from a FOX affiliate of course: A news segment broadcast by Minneapolis-St. Paul’s KMSP-TV, also known as “FOX9,” shows footage of people marching with signs and placards supporting Barack […]
Remember the protests that broke out in Afghanistan after it was revealed that an interrogator at Gitmo allegedly desecrated the Koran? The right and the administration quickly blamed the media for the protests and violence that followed the story and said it was false. Well now the FBI is citing similar cases: FBI agents at […]