Newt Gingrich Flip Flops on Iraq Newt and the flip flopping Republicans are dancing as fast as they can. They want out of Iraq, so they're following Democrats who actually have a plan. Newt Gingrich, the former Republican Speaker of the House, told students and faculty at the University of South Dakota Monday that the [...]
Dishing the Dirt with Deadeye
Dishing the Dirt with Deadeye What will happen next? Will Dubya be able to convince the country that a leak isn't a leak even when he leaked? Will Deadeye be found out? Will the country discover they dished the dirt about Joe and Val, then plotted to out the spook as payback for blowing their [...]
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Leaker in Chief Declassified
Leaker in Chief Declassified A senior administration official confirmed for the first time on Sunday that President Bush had ordered the declassification of parts of a prewar intelligence report on Iraq in an effort to rebut critics who said the administration had exaggerated the nuclear threat posed by Saddam Hussein. But the official said that [...]
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Republican Assault on the American Family
Republican Assault on the American Family Republicans are scared and they're turning their fear into an anti-immigrant campaign.flier via Michelle Malkin In churches, shops and sidewalks across the Washington region yesterday, thousands of people bustled in preparation for a rally that immigration advocates say could be a pivotal moment for Latinos and other groups seeking [...]
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Bush Wages Propaganda Campaign to Boost Zarqawi
Bush Wages Propaganda Campaign to Boost Zarqawi The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to internal military documents and officers familiar with the program. The effort has raised his profile in a way that some military intelligence officials believe may have overstated [...]
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A Former Marine General Lets Rip
A Former Marine General Lets Rip In 1971, the rock group The Who released the antiwar anthem Won't Get Fooled Again. To most in my generation, the song conveyed a sense of betrayal by the nation's leaders, who had led our country into a costly and unnecessary war in Vietnam. To those of us who [...]
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Bush Legacy is a Fractured Military
Bush Legacy is a Fractured Military Young Army officers, including growing numbers of captains who leave as soon as their initial commitment is fulfilled, are bailing out of active-duty service at rates that have alarmed senior officers. Last year, more than a third of the West Point class of 2000 left active duty at the [...]
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Leaker in Chief Gets Some Help from the Post
Leaker in Chief Gets Some Help from the Post –updated– Joe Wilson on “This Week.”Also… Attacks on Fitz begin. … Bush, it appeared, was not above the old leaking game after all. The president who, as a younger man, once played the role of loyalty enforcer in his father's White House had not forgotten how [...]
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Kerry Comes Out for Censure
Kerry Comes Out for Censure Would you vote to censure President Bush? Transcript Yes. … The penality is the censure itself. Is the reprimand by the United States Congress for action that is inappropriate. … He violated the law. … Now censure for inappropriate behavior is appropriate. – Senator John Kerry In case you haven't [...]
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IRAN: Republicans are Crazy
She had probably done this a dozen times before. Modern digital technology had made clandestine communications with overseas agents seem routine. Back in the Cold War, contacting a secret agent in Moscow or Beijing was a dangerous, labor-intensive process that could take days or even weeks to arrange. But by 2004, it was possible to [...]
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Leaker in Chief is Readying to Hit Iran?
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 [...]
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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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