The story continues to develop and not in a good way for Amir Taheri, the neocons, or for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which was instrumental in giving this story its legs. I just heard about this and also received a heads up from Greg Sargent on this development. A letter received today by Wiesenthal Center [...]
Scrambling to Get the Story
UPDATE II: Breaking News! It was a “construction crew,” who tried to blame the elevator, but the Capitol Police were having none of it. Good for them. They exonerated the elevator! UPDATE: The “all clear” has been given. Evidently, after five hours, the word from MSNBC is that it was an irate elevator that made [...]
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FOR THE TROOPS: Talk Redeployment
General Wesley Clark is talking about a transition in Iraq and not for the first time. It's way past the moment to listen. But talking about having no permanent bases, well, now that's news, especially since we've got football fields of them already constructed. How Clark talks the neocons out of this one will be [...]
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Hillary and All the Gossip that’s Unfit to Spit
He’d be embarrassing upstairs at the White House. So I think she'd have a hard time. I think a woman president would have to be very conservative to get elected. – Chris Matthews (date unknown) “I love these topics,” said a salivating Matthews today on “Hardball.” Oh, but only because it has everything to do [...]
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Karl and the Prince of Darkness
UPDATE II: Jonathan Turley (of George Washington Univ. Law Center) said today on “Hardball” that, “Everything ends up at Dick Cheney's desk. His right hand man is indicted. He's intimately involved in the Niger allegation with weapons of mass destruction. He's the one who seems to have instructed Libby. The biggest question is not whether [...]
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Pelosi Gets it Right on Jefferson
Pelosi Gets it Right on Jefferson UPDATE II: Bush orders documents sealed. UPDATE: Jefferson seizure, “Breach Was More of the Spirit, Not the Letter, of the Constitution.” But the FBI had no other choice than to search Jefferson's office, Gonzalez says, because the congressman refused to provide them with documents after a subpoena was filed. [...]
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Ambulance Chaser Ann
Have cause? Will babble. Ah, yes, Ann is set. Collecting $25,000, give or take, on the college circuit, as well as having Human Events email her screeds out to the right-wing faithful. She's raking it in. That is, when she's not selling her stuff through the Young America's Foundation, along with John Stossel and David [...]
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Iranian Badge Story Follow Up
Taylor Marsh, who has done some substantial original reporting on this story from her blog, has a detailed and very interesting post today exploring the question of who bears original and ultimate responsibility for the manufacture and distribution of this false story. Be sure to follow the links to Taylor’s other posts where you can [...]
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ABC News: Hastert Under Investigation by FBI
UPDATE: “'Whether they like it or not, members of Congress, including Hastert, are under investigation,' one federal official said tonight.” – ABC News Ah, now it all fits together. Democratic slimeball William Jefferson gets caught with cash in his fridge. Now Hastert starts railing against the FBI. It's all so obvious. The Speaker of the [...]
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Clean Out the Criminal House
UPDATE: Hmmmm…. From the sublime to the absolutely ridiculous, I bring you… Joint Statement from Speaker Hastert and Minority Leader Pelosi Excuse me, but the FBI tapes Democratic Rep. William Jefferson taking $100 grand, in $100 denominations, $10,000 of which is later found in his freezer, and Speaker Hastert says the search is “unconstitutional” on [...]
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Joe Lieberman: It’s Not Just About the War
Joe Lieberman: It's Not Just About the War UPDATE: Atrios has some interesting $$$ info on Joe v. Lamont. I see you're on the bash Joe Lieberman band!!! We must concentrate on bearting REPUBLICANS and not bashing Democrats. I don't care if Joe voted for the war. It's past history, and nothing can be done [...]
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Death in the Desert
IRAQ: Death in the Desert It doesn't get any grimmer than Dexter Filkins piece this morning in The New York Times. It's wholesale slaughter, compliments of the Interior Ministry, who has a lot of help from others, with Sunnis being murdered at random. The way it's told by mothers and wives is a life of [...]
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They’re Scared of Al Gore
They're Scared of Al Gore UPDATE II: Bush's own environmental adviser says to see Gore's film. UPDATE: As an fyi, I've got a podcast up of today's news, which includes a test of new equipment, as we get ready to branch out. Still some rough edges to be worked out, but we're getting there. That’s [...]
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Containment Makes a Comeback
Bill Clinton must be cackling over this one. The president once pilloried for his containment philosophy on Iraq had to watch while spineless Democrats, eager to distance themselves from bad boy Bill, voted me too(!) for a preemptive war in Iraq. Now former President Clinton seems prescient in his patience, having adopted a philosophy from [...]
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The Times Turns Tabloid for Clinton Story
Looking in every window to see what can be found. The substance of their lives has nothing to do with it, evidently. It's all about the good old bad old days of Bubba and the wife that he done wrong. It's the National Enquirer without the goods. It's tabloid teasing without the pay off. No [...]
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J.F.K. Profiles in Courage
After watching HBO's Baghdad ER, you can't help but think about what our American soldiers are doing in Iraq. It focuses the mind on the many people who are fighting here at home to end the carnage. It's the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, written when he was a senator, which [...]
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Who Started the Iranian Badge Story?
(cross-posted at firedoglake) UPDATE: Amir Taheri has been pressured to release a statement. Regarding the dress code story it seems that my column was used as the basis for a number of reports that somehow jumped the gun. As far as my article is concerned I stand by it. The law has been passed by [...]
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More on the Debunked Iranian Badge Story
Matthew Yglesias, filling in for Josh Marshall, asked a good question this morning: Did somebody hire Benador to push this story? As I chronicled when the story broke last week, Amir Taheri is associated with Benador Associates, which is filled with neocons that have acted as the propaganda wing of the Bush administration's preemptive war [...]
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Let’s Be More Republican
Let's Be More Republican Oh, now this is a plan. Out Bush Bush. What idiot came up with this idea? Jackson Diehl needs to be reminded that the Democrats tried that on the 2002 Iraq war resolution and it didn't turn out so well. Hey, but that doesn't stop people from pimping the notion that [...]
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What Desperation Sounds Like
“Days of Rage,” quips the Wall Street Journal, talking about bloggers going after Lieberman and John McCain. Awwwwwwww. More like “Clueless, but finally confronted.” But Paul Gigot's editorial rag page still sticks up for the two falling senators. Meanwhile, Paul Krugman plays target practice with preemption Joe. It's behind the New York Times firewall, but [...]
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