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 […]
To me there could have been no better way to remember those that died in the 9/11 attacks than to take the day seriously and figure out what went wrong in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes in the future. Some what how we hear military leaders say that we need to finish the […]
Vanity Fair has a new, long piece up looking into the Niger yellow cake claim that helped lead this country to invading Iraq and the outting of Valerie Plame: The Bush administration invaded Iraq claiming Saddam Hussein had tried to buy yellowcake uranium in Niger. As much of Washington knew, and the world soon learned, […]
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 […]
Looks like old Dick my be getting into some hot water and hisshooting a hunter isn’t the cause of it: Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald should investigate Vice President Dick Cheney and others in the CIA leak probe if they authorized an aide to give secret information to reporters, Democratic and Republican senators said Sunday. Sen. […]
The White House took issue on Thursday with a claim by syndicated columnist Robert Novak that President George W. Bush knows who the source is who leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame. “I don’t know what he’s basing it on,” said White House spokesman Scott McClellan, declining to comment further. Novak said Tuesday […]
Yesterday’s explosive report in the New York Daily News (see articlehere) of George Bush having prior knowledge to of Rove’s involvement in the leak has sparked a firestorm on Capital Hill. Senator Charlie Schumer of New York has already written the President asking him to come clean to congress and the American people on his […]
FOX published an article today talking about people who previously were staunch supporters of President Bush’s war in Iraq are now become critical of decision made in it. From the article: “There are people who view themselves on the Right, who were enthusiastic supporters of the war, who are now greatly concerned that the Bush […]
In a sad farewell to diplomacy, today George Bush did what he promised. He has installed John Bolton as our ambassador to the UN. The man who not only lied to Senate but also has unquestionably been abusive to subordinates is now our man sitting at the head of diplomacy. Bush has taken the stance […]