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George Washington's Blog (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Evidence which has come out over the last couple of years makes it clear that top Bush administration officials knew that Saddam didn't have weapons of mass destruction and knew that Saddam had no connection with 9/11. It is now reasonably obvious that the Bush administration was looking for an excuse to oust Saddam, and - in the words of the Downing Street Memo - “the intelligence and facts...
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Misblog (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Originally Published January 01, 2008: Last Updated and Republished November 30, 2009: Bob Dorgin’s new book Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War , Random House, 2007 furthers our understanding of how Curveball’s 1 data were used, misused, and manipulated by our Executive to mislead both Congress and the public. However, it is absurdity blurring into fantasy to imply...
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American Power (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
The New York Times has the main story, " Dubai Debt Troubles Push Down Stocks in U.S. and Asia " (via Memeorandum ). And Max Boot's account of the crisis is worth a look, " The Middle East Needs Dubai ." But check, " Obama Administration Closely Monitoring Dubai Debt Outlook ." And it should be too, considering how administration's helped stir Dubai sharia finance scam....
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George Washington's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Everyone knew the WMD claims were fake. For example, Tony Blair - the British Prime Minister - knew that Saddam possessed no WMDs. If America's closest ally Britain knew, then the White House knew as well. And the number 2 Democrat in the Senate -who was on the Senate intelligence committee - admitted that the Senate intelligence committee knew before the war started that Bush's public statements about...
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The Blue Voice (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
We all remember how a former President failed to respond to the threat of terrorism until after 9/11. Although George Tenet's hair was famous for being on fire the summer of 2001, he failed to gain the attention of either Bush or Condi. There was a complacent attitude then that could not be shaken, even by intelligence briefings warning that bin Laden planned to strike us here, at home. In some ways,...
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Flopping Aces (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed always wanted a show trial in New York! When the CIA captured arch terrorist KSM in Pakistan in 2003 he refused to talk when questioned. “I’ll talk to you guys after I get to New York and see my lawyer,” he said, according to former CIA Director George Tenet. He must have been [...]
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Preparing for the year’s end, Newsweek’s web site is now carrying a video of "The Decade In Seven Minutes." Unsurprisingly, the historical memory is sharply partisan and liberal. It’s a very self-serving first draft. On how many events is Newsweek biased? Let us count the ways. (MRC's Mike Sargent did the transcript.) 1.Elian Gonzalez (no gun in Elian’s face photo,...
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is undoubtedly one of the most murderous people in U.S. custody today, a self-proclaimed terrorist "to the bone." He masterminded the 9/11 attacks and the 2002 Bali bombing. He has confessed to a number of crimes, and will go on trial in federal court for 2,973 counts of murder as well as terrorism and conspiracy charges, the Justice Department announced today. But...
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Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
According to former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet, when 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was apprehended in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, in March 2003, his first response to his captors was to sneer "I’ll talk to you guys after I get...
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Think Progress (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
In 2008, Tim Shorrock reported for Salon that while “working inside America’s ’shadow’ spy industry, George Tenet, Richard Armitage, Cofer Black and others are cashing in big on Iraq and the war on terror.” Now, the Financial Times reports today that even more Bush administration officials are eyeing profits in Iraq: Senior Bush administration figures including [...]
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A Tiny Revolution (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Deal opium and don't do what the U.S. government tells you to do? Instantaneous death from above! The Obama Administration has also widened the scope of authorized drone attacks in Afghanistan. An August report by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee disclosed that the Joint Integrated Prioritized Target List—the Pentagon’s roster of approved terrorist targets, containing three hundred...
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Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
— By Nick Baumann | Fri October 30, 2009 MotherJones blog Notes from former Vice President Dick Cheney's interview with the FBI about the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's covert CIA identity were finally released on Friday afternoon after a lengthy legal battle. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sued the Justice Department last year to obtain the interview notes; a judge finally...
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TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
The FBI today released notes (pdf) of former Vice-President Dick Cheney's FBI interview on the leak of Valerie Plame's identity. In the interview, Cheney is critical of the CIA . Cheney could not recall 22 things, including, whether he had ever told Scooter Libby about Valerie Plame. Via Mother Jones , A list is below: [More....] Whether the Wilson trip was discussed during any of the visits he made...
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The Liberal Doomsayer (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
This post from John Hannah at Irrational Spew Online points out the following… As a way of repudiating past U.S. policies toward Pakistan, (Secretary of State Hillary) Clinton told the students "there is a huge difference" between the Obama administration's approach and that of former President George W. Bush. "I spent my entire eight years in the Senate opposing him," she...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
The disappointing records of 10 US presidents in Middle East affairs are put under the spotlight When President Obama addressed the Muslim world in a speech in Cairo earlier this year, his aim was to recalibrate the relationship between the US and Islam after eight years of the Bush administration. The President suggested that the era of the US treating the Middle East with suspicion was over, but...
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