I haven’t really wandered into this subject yet but all the energy being poured into the Rove/Plame/Novak/Miller story in the blogs contrasts with the much more casual coverage of the major media in a way I find quite fascinating. During the Clinton years, the media’s fascination with every minute detail they could dredge up, [...]
A rant worthy of the term, and it hits a bullseye too. Compliments of Markos Moulitsas on Sunday.
It is quite instructive and shocking, even with this administration, that the outing of a CIA agent, her front company, and god knows how many other agents and operations, is met with a collective shrug from wingnut [...]
OK, so you won’t ever see that headline anywhere in the newspapers of this country. But had Eric Rudolph been named Muhammed al-Hamdi you can guarantee that “Islamic Terrorist” would have blared from the tops of newspapers everywhere.
Here’s a bit of the article from the NYTimes:
Eric Rudolph, who has confessed to the [...]
You know, there’s a lot of speculation on the detention of Judith Miller by the Special Prosecutor for supposedly refusing to reveal her sources for an article she never actually wrote. Journalists, and wannabe journalists are wringing their hands and decrying the downfall of freedom of the press in this latest threat to free [...]
As interesting and viscerally seductive as this whole Rove affair might be, Frank Rich has a column in today’s NYTimes that reminds us to focus on the real problem.
This case is about Iraq, not Niger. The real victims are the American people, not the Wilsons. The real culprit - the big enchilada, to borrow a [...]
From TheWar forum today. Two posts from edandbunkie and Kyla.
{NeverGiveUp.TheWar.8.4840}: {edandbunkie} Sat, 16 Jul 2005
see how young these poor kids are and what the wars are doing to them. peace, bunkie.
Iraq War Veteran Speaks Out On Why He Became A Conscientious Objector
My name is Aidan Joshua Delgado, I’m 23 years old, I’m a [...]
This article just appeared on the CNN website. At least 60 dead and certainly many more than that wounded. Coordinating these attacks appears ridiculously easy for the resistance/insurgents, the propane tanker involved in this attack had just passed through a checkpoint and all it took to turn it into a massive firebomb was [...]
Coming as it does on the heels of Karl Rove’s comment that “Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments” and the oft repeated mantra of the wingnuts that you can’t fight terrorists with police work, the rapid success of the Brits in identifying the those responsible for the bombings [...]
Interesting article in today’s NYTimes. Seems there’s a memo involved, along with Ari Fleischer (remember Ari the Liar?), Colin Powell (I wonder if this is one of the things they were holding over his head?), and the cast of characters on Air Force One.
The entire article is worth a read, but here’s a taste:
The [...]
An interesting commentary by John Dean (of Watergate fame, or infamy…depending) on whether Rove might have actually violated the law, not just the specific one being bandied about in the press lately.
There is no solid information that Rove, or anyone else, violated this law designed to protect covert CIA agents. There is, however, evidence suggesting [...]
From Riverbend:
Prayers for Khalid…
Raed of Raed in the Middle has some very bad news. His brother Khalid of the blog Tell Me a Secret has been abducted by the new Iraqi mukhabarat.
We’re all praying he’ll be alright and that Allah/God gives his family the strength to make it through this.
Nid3eelek bil salameh wil rijoo3 ila [...]
There was an excellent commentary in Asia Times Online recently. I highly recommend this as a news source for a number of reasons. First, we ignore Asia and the Pacific at our peril, the rising nations of the next century are all clustered here and the news and information from this region is [...]
posted by texlib in Currents.
Some very interesting revelations coming out that by raising our terror alert last year around the time of the national political conventions, our government may have revealed an operation that ultimately led to last week’s London bombings.
CNN in August 2004 stated….The effort by U.S. officials to justify raising the terror alert [...]
OK, I know this is more pop culture (though due consideration as a news show) but I just watched last night’s The Daily Show on the afternoon rerun. John Stewart had Bernard Goldberg, the whiny righty who blames liberals and/or “The Left” for everything including making his milk curdle, on the show to talk [...]
From Dori at Talk Nation Radio, the transcript of her interview with Stephen Schlesinger of the World Policy Institute. The audio file containing both the interview with Bill Israel (transcript) and this interview with Stephen Schlesinger can be downloaded here.
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When corporate TV channels like CNN rebroadcast segments of the grilling of Scott McClellan at [...]
50 USC 421(b)
Whoever, as a result of having authorized access to classified information, learns the identity of a covert agent and intentionally discloses any information identifying such covert agent to any individual not authorized to receive classified information, knowing that the information disclosed so identifies such covert agent and that [...]
posted by edandbunkie in TheWar.
i just received this info from monica. remember the soldier emailing from Iraq against the war, Leonard Clark? he was arrested. whether you support the troops or not, you all must help this man NOW. do what you can and please pass on. peace, bunkie.
Antiwar Soldier Arrested in Iraq
Leonard Clark, [...]
I’m becoming more and more convinced that this whole dance being done between the Special Prosecutor appointed by the bush Justice Department to look into the Plame affair and a couple of reporters from Time and the NYTimes is a rather lame attempt to forestall the creation of another Deep Throat within this adminstration. [...]
posted by Sandy47 in TheWar
Lucky Sweden
Blair’s Alliance with Bush Bombed
By ROBERT FISK
“If you bomb our cities,” Osama bin Laden said in a recent videotape,
“we will bomb yours.”‘ —
It’s no use Blair telling us, “They will never succeed in
destroying what we hold dear.” They are not trying to destroy “what we
hold dear.” They are trying to [...]
It is interesting to juxtapose the rantings of the bush administration, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the accompanying chorus of Foxistas who want us all to believe that we’ve “turned the corner” in Iraq, or that Iraq is stable, democratic and being rebuilt even as we speak with the words of Iraqis living under the guns of [...]