On May 11, 1973, charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the Pentagon Papers case were dismissed by Judge William M. Byrne, who cited government misconduct. The "misconduct" was revealed by White House Counsel John Dean (under questioning in the Senate...

Tuesday afternoon I spoke with former CIA analyst and founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, Ray McGovern, about his confrontation last Thursday with "Defense" Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about his lying us into war with Iraq, Lt. Gen. Hayden's...

I'm a little sick of hearing how Iran is to blame for rising oil prices. This week we've gotten a crystal clear indicator of the true cause, and it can be summed up elegantly over the past two trading days. Yesterday: Iranian President Ahmadinejad sends a...

Monday afternoon I spoke with Aaron Glantz, author of How America Lost Iraq, reporter for Pacifica Radio and contributor to Antiwar.com, about the situation in Iraq with particular attention on Kurdish separatism. Also discussed were the border clashes with Iran, oil...

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Really."Douglas J. Feith, the former Pentagon policy chief who was an architect of the administration's war on terrorism, is joining the faculty of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. In an announcement Monday, the university said Feith will teach a...

Afghans and Iranians head to the florists.

Tim Gillin over at my blog, Stress, has pointed out this interview of economist Joseph Stiglitz (of this war will cost 2 trillion dollars fame) about the effect of the Iraq war on the price of gas. (Hint: It's a hell of a lot more than they've been saying.) Can't wait...

Leon Hadar excerpts his new Reason piece on Iraq.

Clark Stooksbury's intelligence-gathering at FreeRepublic.com yields evidence of the chilling fate we avoided by deposing Saddam.