Seymour Hersh debunks the much-vaunted United Nations report that fingers Syria as the culprit in the assassination of Lebanese politician-entrepreneur Rafik Hariri: “Hersh recently got hold of a copy of the United Nations interim report by German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis on the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. The document cited “converging evidence” [...]
Special Counsel Fitzgerald’s investigation and ongoing legal proceedings are serious, and now the proceedings — the process moves into a new phase. In our system, each individual is presumed innocent and entitled to due process and a fair trial…..George W. Bush In our system of government an accused person is presumed innocent until a contrary [...]
U.S. aircraft bombed a house near the Syrian border before dawn on Monday in what the military said was a precision strike on an al Qaeda leader. A local hospital doctor in the Iraqi town of Qaim said 40 people were killed and 20 wounded, many of them women and children, and a tribal leader [...]
From Josh Marshall:The Vice President today appointed David S. Addington of Virginia to be the chief of staff to the Vice President. The Vice President also appointed John P. Hannah of the District of Columbia as the Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs. Murray Waas beat them to the punch on Addington [...]
The Christian Science Monitor rounds up all the latest on Italy, including this: “I have never been convinced war was the best way to succeed in making a country democratic and extract it from [a] … bloody dictatorship,” [Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi] says. “I tried on several occasions to convince the American president not to [...]
Time asks the question; Some observers wondered last week why a bright lawyer like Libby bothered with a cover story at all. The indictment offers scant evidence that Libby knew Plame was a covert officer, a key test in the 1982 law barring such disclosures. By that logic, Libby could have told the truth about [...]
