Profiles in cowardice: "A close ally, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, was anxious to open a second axis of attack on Iraq—and was aware of his growing antagonism toward the war. The two met and agreed that he would make his case in private to the party conference....
It looks like Patrick J. Fitzgerald isn't quite done: "Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said in court filings that the ongoing CIA leak investigation will involve proceedings before a new grand jury, a possible sign he could seek new charges in the case. "In...
Laura Rozen lays into Dick Cheney, and it isn't pretty: "The guy supports torture. He hides out in bunkers. He conspires with big oil to deceive the Congress. His chief of staff has been indicted for covering up that office's role in outing a CIA officer to the media...
Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Nebraska), in a November 15 speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, in Washington, D.C. "The Iraq war should not be debated in the United States on a partisan political platform. This debases our country, trivializes the seriousness of war...
This headline has got to be the stupidest ever: "Bush, Schwarzenegger Flee to World's Biggest Red State"! So who is ridiculous enough to be red-baiting (albeit semi-humorously) the nation's two top Republicans? Who else but Arianna Huffington? She's plastered it in...
The new Evil Empire spreads its tentacles over the world: "...Fearful of future terrorist attacks and frustrated by the slow progress of intelligence-gathering from prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Pentagon officials turned to the closest thing on their organizational...
Chalabi will visit wounded U.S. soldiers at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Is there no limit to the absurdities visited upon us? Senator Dick Durbin came out today for the FBI picking up this scamster for questioning: after all, we raidedhis headquarters last year looking...
Michael Ledeen is whining about reports that supposedly accuse him of forging the fake Niger documents. There's just one problem, though: no one that I have read on the subject is making any such accusation. The La Repubblica series by Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe...
Laura Rozen's "war and piece" weblog is one of my favorite stops on the internet: that's because she is incredibly well-informed and her interests roughly approximate my own. And she's been all over the Niger uranium forgery story. However, I must take issue with her...
A report from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on the latest developments in the AIPAC spy case notes that "defense sources say they have reason to believe that the defendants’ relationship with a New York Times reporter might have been monitored." Could this possibly...
