CNN just reported that Patrick Fitzgerald will hold a press conference at 2 PM Eastern time. "Scooter's" indictment UPDATE: USDOJ Office of Special Council Media Advisory UPDATE: MSNBC reporting that at noon, there will be a release of documents.(via ReddHedd at...

This should make the next Iraqi elections interesting. You could almost call it an anti-Iranian, anti-occupation coalition. Undoubtedly the Americans will back the pro-Iranian Shiite slate. More at Lenin's Tomb

More fake "documents" used to push Bush's war on Iraq, Newsweek reports:The new report is only the latest chink in the armor of the alleged Saddam-Al Qaeda connection. Last year, the September 11 Commission found there was no "collaborative" relationship between the...

Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber has translated part of today's La Repubblica piece:La Repubblica has another story today on the role of Italian intelligence in feeding bogus evidence on Niger to Hadley and others in the US and elsewhere. There’s one key piece of new...

I'm not sure exactly what the provenance of this Richard Sale (intelligence correspondent for UPI) article is, but it's posted by Pat Lang on his blog, Sic Semper Tyrannis and referred to here by Larry Johnson and here by Patrick Doherty of Tom Paine.com. Some...

Laura Rozen has just posted a blockbuster article on the La Repubblica Niger forgery series:In an explosive series of articles appearing this week in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, investigative reporters Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe d'Avanzo report that Nicolo...

The confirmation that Patrick Fitzgerald is indeed investigating the forged Niger uranium documents introduced to the Bush Administration through Italy, first broken by AntiWar.com's Justin Raimondo is now appearing in multiple "MSM" reports. On October 19, 2005,...

Via The Editors at The Poorman, this post at The Tattered Coat is a must read....Daniel has been silenced, against his will. And not only has he been silenced — he has been forced to publicly declare himself “a supporter of the administration and of her policies.” A...

Newsweek, in an article highlighting the animosity of many NY Times staffers to Stenographer to Power Judith Miller, ends the short piece with this intriguing little insight into Miller's reaction to her pariah status:But Miller is, for now at least, standing firm....

This poll result:Forty-five percent of Iraqis believe attacks on U.S. and British troops are justified, according to a secret poll said to have been commissioned by British defense leaders and cited by The Sunday Telegraph. Less than 1 percent of those polled believed...