This is how incompetent the Republicans in Senate are: When angry Democrats briefly shut down the Senate last year to protest the slow pace of a congressional investigation into prewar intelligence on Iraq, Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) claimed a rare victory. Republicans called it a stunt but promised to quickly wrap up […]
Whenever someone brings up the intelligence failures that lead to 9/11, they always point the finger at “intelligence sharing”. The administration has done the exact same thing. Now Bush has had the tools to correct those problems, yet he has failed to implement them: A House subcommittee has concluded that the Bush administration has been […]
How many more people must come forward before people start to listen? Here is the latest- A CIA official who had a top role during the run-up to the Iraqi war charges the White House with ignoring intelligence that said there were no weapons of mass destruction or an active nuclear program in Iraq. The […]
Colin Powell has to be getting tired of the flip flopping: On Monday, former Secretary of State Colin Powell told me that he and his department’s top experts never believed that Iraq posed an imminent nuclear threat, but that the president followed the misleading advice of Vice President Dick Cheney and the CIA in making […]
When it smells or sounds like Bushit chances are it is Bushit: WASHINGTON — Several U.S. intelligence officials are playing down the relative importance of an alleged al-Qaida plot to strike the West Coast after Sept. 11, 2001, cited by President Bush Thursday in defense of his campaign against terrorism. Bush, under pressure from Congress, […]
Yesterday Russell Tice, the former NSA whistleblower who said he would testify before Congress, admitted to being one of the source’s for Risen’s article which exposed the wiretapping story in last month’s New York Times. Tice also appeared on Nightline last night. During his interview on Nightline, he described the NSA program. According to Tice, […]
From the National Journal: Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence […]
Here is an interesting story from the Israeli newspaperHaaretz Israelis evacuated from Amman hotel hours before bombings By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent A number of Israelis staying on Wednesday at the Radisson hotel were evacuated before the bombing by Jordanian security forces, apparently due to a specific security alert. They were escorted back to Israel […]
During his weekly radio address, President Bush talked about the immigration problem. While he talked about his plans he did not bring any thing new to the table. You can read the entire transcripthere. There was one sentence that caught my eye and I think is pertinent to the atmosphere in the White House right […]
Well I had to have some fun today. I saw the following post on Crooks and Liars: Lunatic Fringe on Valerie Plame From: “[email protected]” <[email protected]> Sent: Jul 23, 2005 9:02 PM To: LCJohnson Subject: Valerie Plame is just another CIA scumbag. You really shouldn’t shoot your mouth off about Valerie Plame. She’s no angel. She’s […]