Hey, Patrick Fitzgerald!

You're going to indict Michael Ledeen and his CIA buddies for forging those Niger uranium documents, right? As quoted in the Wikipedia entry for Yellowcake forgery:In an interview on July 26, 2005, Cannistraro's business partner and columnist for the "American...

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WH Lie Factory under scrutiny

Your one stop shop for analysis of the denouement of Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury investigation is Jane Hamsher's blog firedoglake. ReddHedd has been a posting machine the last few days.The news is flying fast and furious this evening: Raw Story has an excerpt from...

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Torture, War Crimes and Dubya’s friend Harriet

Publius is making sense, here:For now, the question across the political spectrum is why Miers? Or more precisely, why not someone from the farm team? I think the answer is simple: torture. Of all the scandals and junkets and leaks and what have you, the one that...

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Moving Up

After almost five years of Thursdays, Balkan Express (est. October 19, 2000) is moving - by a day. From this week onward, it will appear on Wednesdays. It may be five years since the 'revolution' in Serbia, and ten since the Bosnian War ended, but the Empire is still...

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US Death Toll in Afghanistan Tops 240

Misleading headlines were abound today: 200 US deaths in Afghanistan U.S. death toll in Afghanistan hits 200 The real total casualty count for Operation Enduring Freedom has been above 200 since late June of 2005. The discrepancy lies in a qualifier lacking in every...

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The Return of Antiwar-Daily

We have finally got a new mail program working after the demise of our third-party email list vendor. Many of you may have been inadvertently dropped from the daily reminder mailings, set to resume tonight. If you need to sign back up, go to this form and fill in your...

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Intern Michelle Malkin?

Not yet, but you had better keep an eye on me, she says:The safety of the president and the country was put at risk, and it may have been due in part to the blinders of political correctness and complacency. If it means now that the White House will be applying extra...

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Arthur Chrenkoff Does the Weather

Tony Blair's government, its mendacity slipping the surly bonds of earth, embarks on a campaign against meteorological defeatism:It is goodbye to those miserable showers and isolated storms. Prolonged sunshine is expected under new “positive” forecast guidelines...

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