Priceless: “In discussing with the American people his approach to the stimulus of our economy, he has first really used some dangerous words,” said Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, the No. 2 Republican. Mr. Kyl added, “It seems to me that the president is rather casually throwing out some careless language.” Kyl sure didn’t complain […]
MissLaura pointed out this interesting paragraph from a Washington Post article: Vice President Cheney today repeated his charge that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s approach toward the Iraq war would benefit al-Qaeda, saying that he was not trying to impugn the speaker’s patriotism but instead hold her accountable for the consequences of her policies. O.K. I’ll […]
Not the person who told us about WMD’s in Iraq and constantly said the smoking gun for Iraq would come as a “mushroom cloud”. Certainly not the person who told Americans yesterday that they never received any information from the Clinton administration or Richard Clarke on the Osama threat. Oh wait. Damn those archives of […]
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 […]
Murray Waas has exposed a new hole in the pre-war intelligence in his latest article. The first report, delivered to Bush in early October 2002, was a one-page summary of a National Intelligence Estimate that discussed whether Saddam’s procurement of high-strength aluminum tubes was for the purpose of developing a nuclear weapon. Among other things, […]
One question that has haunted people following the Valerie Plame leak case has been “Why was Judith Miller jailed if she did not write an article?” Well further reading into Raw Story’s explosive new report sheds some light on that very question. The group relied heavily on New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who, after […]