Thanks to Bryan from the comments, we now have some new government documents from Alaska showing the priorities of Sarah Palin. She decided to pay $50,000 for new carpet in the Governors mansion, yet when she was faced with a growing number of returning National Guard suffering from PTSD, the wallet wasn’t open. All the […]
Bush’s administration not only rewrites history, they also try to erase it. Something from 35 years ago would seem like old news, but not today. The following chart was declassified in 1971. It shows the number of U.S. nuclear missiles during the Cold War. 35 years later and the Donald Rumsfeld administration has decided to […]
Earlier while watching CNN I was shocked when I heard the same old line being used. Tori Clark, the former Pentagon spokeswoman turned CNN contributor was complaining about the reports of Haditha and how they are overshadowing the good that is being done in Iraq. She is still spewing out the same old rhetoric that […]
So where is Scooter’s defense trying to go? This could give us some insight: A federal judge dealt a setback to I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s defense in the CIA leak case yesterday, telling the former vice presidential aide’s attorneys that he is likely to deny their request for a vast trove of government documents. At […]
The domestic spying debate is no stranger to Washington. As matter of fact, the same argument took place thirty years ago: An intense debate erupted during the Ford administration over the president’s powers to eavesdrop without warrants to gather foreign intelligence, according to newly disclosed government documents. George H.W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney […]
Now that Michael Brown has resigned as head of FEMA, more questions must be asked about the failures of the Katrina response. Was the failures caused by the former FEMA head or were they just compounded by other failures? Is Michael Brown becoming a fall guy for higher ups in the Department of Homeland Security? […]