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...
As Amy Goodman, of "Democracy Now," pointed out on Chris Matthews' Hardball tonight, at just about the time the 2000th American soldier falls in Iraq, Patrick J. Fitzgerald's grand jury will -- by all accounts -- be indicting the War Party. This conjuncture of...
When I read ex-CIA officer Larry Johnson's account of his luncheon with someone connected to the case, I thought it might not be substantive enough to pass along, but subsequent events have changed my mind, so here goes: "Had lunch today with a person who has a direct...
Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh on "Democracy Now," debunk what Hersh calls the "urban myth" that "everybody" believed Iraq had WMD. From G.H.W. Bush to Clinton to Bush II -- as Ritter shows in his new book, Iraq Confidential, it was all about "regime change," and...
Norman Ornstein in the HuffPuff: "Americans all have to consider the implications now of a worst case scenario-- the problems of scandal and polarization result in a meltdown of the W. Administration and a collapse of governance in Washington." Since Ornstein and his...
Arianna Huffington rightly descries the New York Time''s mea culpa for excusing Judith Miller from pushng fiction disguised as journalism: Miller claims that everybody thought Iraq was hiding WMD. Er, not quite, Arianna points out: she then details a few stories from...
"Sparked by today's Washington Post story that suggests Vice President Cheney's office is involved in the Plame-CIA spy link investigation, government officials and advisers passed around rumors that the vice president might step aside and that President Bush would...
There must be some reason why Patrick J. "Bulldog" Fitzgerald's office made this announcement now. That sound you don't hear is Washington, D.C. holding its collective breath ....
The original version of my Monday column, on what I'm calling "Scooter-gate," contained a number of errors involving dates, which I have now corrected. I have also added a significant amount of new material -- so much that it is, for all intents and purposes, quite a...
We all know that every word ever posted on David Horowitz's Frontpage website is a lie, including "and," and "the," but the blogger G-Nome has the very worst liar of that crew -- Kahanist-defender Steve Plaut -- nailed to the wall but good.
