Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show, I'll be talking with one Justin Raimondo, who knows a thing or two about Scooter-gate, and former CIA analyst and author Michael Scheuer about the future of the Global War on Terror. Listen Live 6-8pm EST Archives
The Fitzgerald Website!
When I read ex-CIA officer Larry Johnson's account of his luncheon with someone connected to the case, I thought it might not be substantive enough to pass along, but subsequent events have changed my mind, so here goes: "Had lunch today with a person who has a direct...
Scott Ritter: He Spoke Truth to Power
Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh on "Democracy Now," debunk what Hersh calls the "urban myth" that "everybody" believed Iraq had WMD. From G.H.W. Bush to Clinton to Bush II -- as Ritter shows in his new book, Iraq Confidential, it was all about "regime change," and...
Norm Ornstein and the Heat Death of the Universe
Norman Ornstein in the HuffPuff: "Americans all have to consider the implications now of a worst case scenario-- the problems of scandal and polarization result in a meltdown of the W. Administration and a collapse of governance in Washington." Since Ornstein and his...
Iraq’s Nonexistent WMD — Who Knew?
Arianna Huffington rightly descries the New York Time''s mea culpa for excusing Judith Miller from pushng fiction disguised as journalism: Miller claims that everybody thought Iraq was hiding WMD. Er, not quite, Arianna points out: she then details a few stories from...
Judy Miller: WHIG charter member?
Holy cow, who's leaking to the Daily News today? Here's another shocker they just broke: It was called the White House Iraq Group and its job was to make the case that Saddam Hussein had nuclear and biochemical weapons. So determined was the ring of top officials to...
Cast fails to show for show trial
What if they have a trial and no witnesses come?THE chief judge trying Saddam Hussein and seven others on charges of crimes against humanity said today the main reason why the trial has been adjourned was because many witnesses were too afraid to turn up. Judge Rizgar...
Antiwar.com: You Read It Here First!
"Sparked by today's Washington Post story that suggests Vice President Cheney's office is involved in the Plame-CIA spy link investigation, government officials and advisers passed around rumors that the vice president might step aside and that President Bush would...
The “Afghanistan Model” for success
Condoleeza Rice is telling Congress today that the Bush strategy for Iraq is the "successful" one they used in Afghanistan. Here's Condi:"Our strategy is to clear, hold, and build," she said. "The enemy's strategy is to infect, terrorize, and pull down." I couldn't...
Saddam Hussein trial begins
Saddam Hussein's trial has begun. As of 7am EST Wednesday, you can tune into any news channel and see idiots say "spider hole" repeatedly over near-silent tape-delayed footage. Doofus on MSNBC explains that the tape delay is "in case there's a outburst or something......
