I had a feeling the news of Cheney’s saying he is not part of the executive branch would start a fire storm. I just had no idea it would be this big. Rahm Emanuel is showing a pair and ready to really go after Cheney in a way that sounds perfectly legal: Following Vice President […]
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 […]
When news broke of the attempt on Dick Cheney’s life this week, the Huffington Post had a few reads make comments that they were upset that the attack missed Cheney. Arianna has responded to the right wing smear which has since emerged: On Tuesday morning, The Huffington Post linked to an AP news story on […]
Cheney made a surprise visit to Pakistan to tell them to get tough on al Qaeda. What is interesting is exactly what he said to them: Vice President Dick Cheney made an unannounced trip to Pakistan on Monday to deliver what officials in Washington described as an unusually tough message to Gen. Pervez Musharraf of […]
The media was reporting yesterday that if Lieberman switched parties it would throw the majority control into the Republicans court. Now we find out that this is actually wrong. The Democrats will retain control of the 110th Senate until the 111th Senate is convened: If Lieberman were to caucus with the Republicans, they would still […]
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 […]
There are other stories that the media has just totally ignored: David Addington, chief legal adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, says he was taken aback when the White House started making public pronouncements about the CIA leak investigation. In the fall of 2003, President Bush’s press secretary was categorically denying that either Karl Rove […]
The Libby leak trial is really getting to be fun now: White House anxiety is mounting over the prospect that top officials-including deputy chief of staff Karl Rove and counselor Dan Bartlett-may be forced to provide potentially awkward testimony in the perjury and obstruction trial of Lewis (Scooter) Libby. Both Rove and Bartlett have already […]
Condi is out doing the tough talk on North Korea, but is she making promises she can’t keep? U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reassured Japan on Wednesday that Washington would stand by a commitment to protect its Asian ally, trying to temper concerns of an Asian nuclear arms race after North Korea’s atomic test. […]
Leave it to Cheney to find a way to exploit the devastation in the Middle East: Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday pointed to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah as fresh evidence of the ongoing battle against terrorism that underscores the need to keep President Bush’s Republican allies in control of Congress. “This conflict […]