Leaker in Chief is Readying to Hit Iran? (and other stories) Iran is next? Court papers filed late Wednesday by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald quote Libby as telling a grand jury that Bush, via Cheney, authorized him to reveal the key judgments of a National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction to New [...]
Washington Journal Sunday Clips
Washington Journal Sunday Clips Washington Journal –all the clips in Windows Media format– clip 1 clip 2 clip 3 Well, we've got some clips for you from last Sunday's show on C-SPAN. Here's the scoop on the Washington Journal interview. My opponent was Rick Moran of RightWingNuthouse. Steve Scully interviewed us. He was terrific. As [...]
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Illegal Immigration Bill Collapses
Illegal Immigration Bill Collapses The do-nothing, get nothing done Republican Congress strikes again. Less than 24 hours after senators celebrated a bipartisan breakthrough on immigration policy, the effort to pass broad new legislation collapsed today in a partisan and procedural meltdown that threatened to derail the issue for the year. Architects of a proposal that [...]
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Joseph Wilson NEVER Said Cheney Sent Him to Niger
Joseph Wilson NEVER Said Cheney Sent Him to Niger Stretch blows the story. GREGORY: Right. Let's go back—first of all, we're talking about July 2003. That's when Wilson writes the op-ed in the “New York Times” and then of course later, I believe July 14, is when Bob Novak's column comes out in the “Washington [...]
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Iraq Goes BOOM Again
Iraq Goes BOOM Again Suicide attackers wearing women's robes blew themselves up Friday in a Shiite mosque, killing 79 people and wounding more than 160, police said. It was the deadliest single attack in Iraq this year and the second major bombing of a Shiite target in as many days. Police Lt. Col. Falah al-Mohammedawi [...]
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Another Pedophile Busted
Another Pedophile Busted updated Homeland Security Department, Operation Predator, and now DoD IT. A high-ranking Defense Department IT official has been arrested and indicted on child pornography charges. Charles Lynch, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Internet Protocol version 6 transition program, was arrested March 8 and indicted in the U.S. District Court for [...]
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Classified Information as Political Tool
Classified Information as Political Tool Leaker in Chief Condemns LeakstranscriptSee Scotty squirm at TPM Muckraker! Legal experts say that President Bush had the unquestionable authority to approve the disclosure of secret CIA information to reporters, but they add that the leak was highly unusual and amounted to using sensitive intelligence data for political gain. “It [...]
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We Need Censure Now
We Need Censure Now Photo: Chuck Burton/Associated Press “… Obviously, we have a commander in chief who believes that anything in the name of fighting terrorism, he has the authority to do. I would remind people who don't feel concerned about that that nation that loses control and a check on its commander in chief [...]
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Iraq and Kerry’s Ultimatum
Iraq and Kerry's Ultimatum This one is bad, really, really bad. Clueless Commander in Chief … The Bush administration's preferred response to increasing disintegration is to act as if it has a strategy that is succeeding. “More delusion as a solution in the absence of a solution,” said a senior state department official. Under the [...]
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Bush Leaked Classified Information for Political Gain
Bush Leaked Classified Information for Political Gain The Leaker in Chief. It started early. It started at the top. In fact, it started with the boss. It started by the president of the United States leaking classified, national security information for his own personal and political gain. Meanwhile, our troops died in the desert for [...]
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Must See Panicked President TV
Must See Panicked President TV Want to see President Bush in a panic? Via Think Progress, we've got just that, our president caught on tape stammering and stuttering, when he gets a question he isn't expecting. I saw the clip this morning on CNN. Read and watch our dissembling president in action, as he says [...]
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Republicans Screw Immigrants and Americans
Republicans Screw Immigrants and Americans Feckless Frist and the weak-kneed Republicans strike again.They make sure their rabid right-wing radio base has the send 'em home bone. As outlined by Senate Republicans late Wednesday, the compromise would place illegal immigrants in three categories: ¶Those who have lived in the country at least five years would be [...]
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President Bush Authorized the Libby Leak
President Bush Authorized the Libby Leak –updated– The president thinks he's above the law. A former White House aide under indictment for obstructing a leak probe, I. Lewis Libby, testified to a grand jury that he gave information from a closely-guarded “National Intelligence Estimate” on Iraq to a New York Times reporter in 2003 with [...]
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Republican Action Comes Way Too Late
Republican Action Comes Way Too Late Another one bites the dust. Once in charge of Operation Predator, pleads no contest to… ewwwww. Figueroa, once one of Florida’s highest-ranking federal law enforcement officers and the former head of a national program formed to target child sex predators, was arrested Oct. 25 at The Mall at Millenia [...]
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Evangelicals Split on Illegal Immigration
Evangelicals Split on Illegal Immigration What will Dobson do? More than 50 evangelical Christian leaders and organizations voiced their support yesterday for an immigration bill that would allow illegal immigrants to become U.S. citizens without returning to their native countries. The statement marks a deepening split among evangelicals over immigration. It was signed by a [...]
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Tom Delay to File Ethics Charges Against McKinney
Tom Delay to File Ethics Charges Against McKinney The Fall of the Hammer Soon-to-retire Rep. Tom DeLay (R.-Tex.) said today he would file an ethics complaint against Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D.-Ga.) for striking a Capitol Police officer should no other House member do so first. DeLay’s comments came during a wide-ranging interview at his Capitol [...]
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Couric to CBS Evening News
Couric to CBS Evening News Couric to cover serious news at night. Ms. Couric announced formally what has been predicted for several months, that she will jump to CBS, where she will become the first woman ever to lead an evening newscast on her own. CBS was expected to announce a long-term deal with Ms. [...]
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The Boy, the Pedophile, and My Story
–updated– The sexual exploitation of children on the Internet is a $20 billion industry that continues to expand in the United States and abroad, overwhelming attempts by the authorities to curb its growth, witnesses said at a Congressional hearing on Tuesday. The witnesses, who testified at a hearing of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, part [...]
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Bush Official Arrested for Soliciting 14 Year Old
Bush Official Arrested for Soliciting 14 Year Old UPDATE: BUSTED! (compliments of reader pax) Fox News just reported that Brian Doyle has been arrested for soliciting a 14 year old, who was actually an undercover agent. There's no link yet, but this is disgusting in the extreme. Doyle is assistant public relations head or spokesperson [...]
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Chris Matthews Gets the Call
Chris Matthews Gets the Call Despite the heads-up, I was taken aback when the former Majority Leader came on the line Monday night. “This is Tom DeLay.” “Hi Tom,” I responded before reverting to protocol. The Congressman then told me the stunning news he was dropping out of his race for re-election. As I grabbed [...]
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