This is really amazing and really stupid: Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) has announced that he is heading down to Honduras to encourage those who helped fund and supported the coup against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to resist American pressure to return Zelaya to office. The US Department of State has begun to revoke the visas […]
Pleosi has released the following statement: Today’s guilty verdicts are not solely about the acts of one individual. This trial provided a troubling picture of the inner workings of the Bush Administration. The testimony unmistakably revealed – at the highest levels of the Bush Administration – a callous disregard in handling sensitive national security information […]
Today’s New York Times has a great write up about Jane and the rest of the Libby bloggers over at Firedoglake. The perjury trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr., former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, has drawn every major news organization in the country to the federal courthouse in Washington. But none has […]
The New York Times has an editorial today on the Scooter Libby leak and it deserves a very good read. President Bush says he declassified portions of the prewar intelligence assessment on Iraq because he “wanted people to see the truth” about Iraq’s weapons programs and to understand why he kept accusing Saddam Hussein of […]
Well the Plame case has taken a very interesting turn: A former White House aide under indictment for obstructing a leak probe, I. Lewis Libby, testified to a grand jury that he gave information from a closely-guarded “National Intelligence Estimate” on Iraq to a New York Times reporter in 2003 with the specific permission of […]
Tuesday during the Senate shut down that Harry Reid caused, the Situation Room had James Carville on talking about the leak investigation. During his statements they were discussing the need for the vice-President to come clean on his involvement in the leak. I thought it was interesting when Carville said “we need the President to […]
The New York Times has just broken the story that it was Dick Cheney who told Scooter Libby about plame. WASHINGTON, Oct. 24  I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, first learned about the C.I.A. officer at the heart of the leak investigation in a conversation with Mr. Cheney weeks […]