Steve Clemons is telling us -- "from a highly placed source, and in the right place to know" -- that would-be UN ambassador John Bolton is one of jailed New York Times reporter Judith Miller's major sources for WMD and national security issues. Yet more evidence that...
Would-be UN ambassador John Bolton's connection to the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame was first broached in my July 15 column on Plame-gate: "After the War Party met in solemn conclave, and the command went out from Cheney: "Bring me the head of Joe Wilson!", there...
The phone rang quite early this morning -- my sister on the East coast telling me about the London Tube incident. Okay, so I knew this was going to be a long day, but little did I suspect ... Anyway, about two minutes ago a policeman rings my bell and tells me that a...
It looks like there has been another attack on London: three underground stations -- Warren Street, Shepherd's Bush, and Oval -- appear to have been hit by explosions of some sort. While information is sketchy, at the moment, these three Tube stations have been...
The controversy continues over an Associated Press story detailing the remarks of a “senior Israeli official” who claimed that Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in London for an economic conference, was warned by Scotland Yard “minutes” in advance of the terrorist...
Four of the London bombers have been identified: they are Hasib Hussein, 19, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, "Rashid Facha, a British-born Pakistani in his twenties; and Jacksey Fiaz, about 35." Juan Cole tosses us this interesting lead from Al-Sharq al-Awsat: "There are reports...
To all the partisan Democrats who are screaming "Why didn't they prosecute Bob Novak while poor little Judy Miller sleeps on a mattress in jail?" -- well, here's your answer: "Columnist Robert Novak provided detailed accounts to federal prosecutors of his...
Regular readers of my "Behind the Headlines" column on Antiwar.com will perhaps recall this account and this one of the curious case of Israel's intelligence service "harvesting" New Zealand passports by stealing the identities of the disabled, notably a house-bound...
To those who doubt that an evolving fascist ideology motivates the War Party, here is wing-nut extraordinaire David Horowitz on why the antiwar movement, and more specifically "the left," has to be "watched": "This is the lesson of London: Take the hostile force...
The Financial Timesreports that British Prime Minister Tony Blair has rejected calls for an official inquiry into the London bombings, "insisting such a move would distract from the task of catching the perpetrators." Move along -- nothing to see here .... Nothing but...
