But the problem with Rove’s account is that not only did Bush oversee the twisting of intelligence to justify invading Iraq in March 2003 but he subsequently lied – and lied repeatedly – about how Iraq had responded to United Nations inspection demands.
So, while it may be impossible to say for certain what Bush believed [...]
Is there any hope at all that the larger players in the Bush-era criminal activities – Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Perle, Feith and Wolfowitz most prominently – will be brought to justice when those two lesser lights (Yoo and Bybee) are allowed to return to a law school classroom and a seat on the federal [...]
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Millions of voters believe the GOP line about Obama’s runaway spending. It’s up to him to set the record straight…
So anyway, up jumps freshman Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas.
“You are soon to submit a new budget, Mr. President. Will that new budget, like your old budget, triple the national debt and continue to take us [...]
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Obama’s political problems stem from a broader Democratic inability to counter the infernal GOP noise machine — a failure now two decades old. Republican rejectionism ought to have been clear to the White House from the moment they voted unanimously against the economic stimulus — cynically betting that recovery would come too late for the [...]
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Also tagged Barack Obama, Budget, David Axelrod, Debt, Deficit, Democrats, Economy, George W Bush, Medicare, Recovery, Republicans
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Valerie Plame Wilson cannot publicize details of her work as a CIA operative, even though a government official already outed her as an agent in an attempt to discredit her husband, Joseph C. Wilson, a federal appeals court says.Plame Wilson, who served as chief of the unit responsible for weapons proliferation issues related to Iraq, argued [...]
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Also tagged CIA, Constitution, Courts, Dick Cheney, Intelligence, Joseph Wilson, Law, Niger Yellowcake, NOC, Nuclear Proliferation, Robert Novak, Scooter Libby, Spies, Valerie Plame
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Saturday, November 7, 2009
As Fox kept insisting, all eyes were glued on Doug Hoffman, the insurgent tea party candidate in New York’s 23rd Congressional District. A “tidal wave” was on its way, said Sean Hannity, and the right would soon “take back the Republican Party.” The race was not “even close,” Bill O’Reilly suggested to the pollster Scott [...]
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Former Bush White House adviser Karl Rove has compared President Barack Obama to former President Richard Nixon, saying the Obama administration’s feud with Fox News is proof the White House is creating a Nixonian “enemies list” that “demeans” the office of the president.
“This is the White House engaging in its own version of the media [...]
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