By GottaLaff My pal JasonLeopold is not only the go-to guy for all things Plame/Rove/Cheney , he also conducts interviews with newsmakers. Here's a Q and A from 2007 that he had with Valerie Plame Wilson herself that deserves more attention, especially in light of the newest revelations about what a big fat liar Dickless McHeartstent is: Valerie Plame Still Wants to Know ... By Jason...
By GottaLaff My friend JasonLeopold interviewed Ralph Nader a few days ago. You can read the rest of Jason's post over at Truthout: Ralph Nader will always be remembered by his critics as the man whose bid for the White House in 2000 gave us eight years of George W. Bush. The disdain many liberals have for Nader still runs deep nearly a decade later. But there's no denying the...
by: JasonLeopold, t r u t h o u t | Report, November 14, 2009 Blood on the floor and walls of a cell at Abu Ghraib. Defense Secretary Robert Gates invoked his new authority to block images like these from being released under the Freedom of Information Act. (Photo: Wikicommons) Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has blocked the release of photographs depicting US soldiers abusing detainees...
By GottaLaff ( via ) My dear friend JasonLeopold has an exclusive (which has since made its way into the media) that is making my blood boil: Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has blocked the release of photographs depicting US soldiers abusing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, using authority just granted to him by Congress to circumvent the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to keep...
... Tap Iraq's Vast Oil Reserves, Industry Execs Suggested Invasion Truth Out, Friday 03 July 2009 by: JasonLeopold, t r u t h o u t | Report Two years before the invasion of Iraq, reports suggested invading to end Saddam Hussein's control of the oil. Two years before the invasion of Iraq, oil executives and foreign policy advisers told the Bush administration that the United States...
By GottaLaff Thank you, David Shuster, for tweeting the link to this. I've been looking everywhere for it: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy Dickless McHeartStent: Big fat old, white, tattered bag of amnesia. For more details, read JasonLeopold's excellent piece here.
By GottaLaff My friend JasonLeopold wrote up a piece on Dickless McHeartstent's 2004 interview with the special prosecutor in the Valerie Plame case. As usual, Jason's reporting is well worth a read : A month before Valerie Plame Wilson's covert status as a CIA operative was revealed, Vice President Dick Cheney told his then-chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby,...
I was delighted to hear, via my colleague JasonLeopold (Truthout, The Public Record), that Technorati, one of the leading analysts of the blogosphere, has recently revamped its appraisals of the blogging community, introducing Top 100 lists, and that this site, Andy Worthington, now features in the Top 100 World Politics Blogs (as I write, [...]
By GottaLaff A one-two punch by my pal JasonLeopold. First, this major disappointment, now this ObamAdministration backtrack: The Obama administration indicated in court papers it may appeal a federal judge’s ruling ordering the Justice Department to release portions of the transcribed interview between former Vice President Dick Cheney and Patrick Fitzgerald , the special prosecutor...
By GottaLaff My bff JasonLeopold has written up another well-researched, thorough piece over at Truthout, his new digs. This one is about how President Obama is close to signing, sealing, and delivering a lock on the torture photos he had earlier agreed to release: The Obama administration will likely drop its Supreme Court petition challenging the release of photographs showing US soldiers...
By GottaLaff Fayiz al-Kandari, a Kuwaiti, still held in Guantanamo, who has maintained for nearly eight years that he is an innocent man.(Photo: International Committee of the Red Cross) What would we do without people like Lt. Col. Barry Wingard, JasonLeopold, and Andy Worthington to tell this very important, ongoing story until somebody listens : However, although Fouad al-Rabiah regained...
