Kind of sounds like it: The CIA official who gave the command to destroy interrogation videotapes apparently acted against the direction of his superiors, the top Republican House Intelligence Committee member said Wednesday. “It appears he hadn’t gotten authority from anyone,” said Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., speaking to reporters after the first day of closed […]
Because losing in court means nothing to him: The White House yesterday sought to overrule a federal court’s decision limiting the Navy’s use of sonar in training exercises, exempting the service from complying with two major environmental laws. Environmentalists who sued to limit the use of loud, mid-frequency sonar — which can be harmful to […]
9:15 15 minutes in and everything is about race. I thought we had more issues than just this one. Of course the media is trying to spark another news cycle. 9:20 Hard to make it out but someone was yelling something from the audience about race based questions. It will be nice if someone can […]
This is from a press release that went out this afternoon from The Heritage Forests Campaign: The Bush administration today released documents announcing its intention to remove protections for more than six million acres of roadless areas in the national forests of Idaho. Idaho’s roadless backcountry areas are some of the nation’s last intact national […]
It looks like it might be more smoke and mirrors from the administration: The Bush administration, in its last so-called Iraq “benchmark” report, used questionable financial data to assert that the Baghdad government was making progress in managing its budget, a new study says. The study released Tuesday by the Government Accountability Office focused specifically […]
Here we go again! National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is drawing up plans for cyberspace spying that would make the current debate on warrantless wiretaps look like a “walk in the park,” according to an interview published in the New Yorker’s print edition today. Debate on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act “will be a walk […]
You got to love it when the man who ran the White House for six years debunks the man who ran the President for six years: SCARBOROUGH: We have to start with something that we all are talking about a couple of days ago where Karl Rove went on Charlie Rose and he blamed the […]
From the NYT: But the president did personally telephone Mr. Gore to extend the invitation, and the White House changed the date of the event so Mr. Gore could attend. Mr. Bush’s press secretary, Dana Perino, told reporters the president is willing to let bygones be bygones. “This president does not harbor any resentments,” she […]
When you follow Bush so closely, your country will kick you out of office: Kevin Rudd’s Labor Party won Australia’s election, ending John Howard’s 11-year rule after promising to tackle climate change, restore workers’ bargaining power and withdraw Australian troops from Iraq. Labor won 83 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives, gaining […]
Even after Scooter got his “get out of jail free” card from Bush, the case continues to get more interesting. Scott McClellan is set to have his memoirs hit the shelves in April and it includes juicy information like this: “I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in […]