Niger Uranium Forgery Mystery Solved?I solved that mystery a long time ago. Why did nobody, nobody in the government, ever say that Niger was a "bad" country? According to the evidence, Niger was selling uranium to Saddam Hussein, who was going to make a nuclear bomb...
Let Justice Be Done
Fiat justitia, ruat coelum. "Let justice be done, though the heavens fall." The above Latin quotation – usually attributed to Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, a Roman statesman and Julius Caesar's father-in-law – succinctly summarizes both prosecutor...
Putting the Plame Case in Perspective
As many now know, Patrick Fitzgerald, the special counsel in the Plame case, set up an official Web site last week. Something tells me he isn't planning on going anywhere soon. While we await the indictments to come, consider the strange history of the 1982 CIA shield...
Whistleblower Has Elite Interests Running Scared
If people know of Sibel Edmonds at all, they know her as an FBI whistleblower. Since mid-2002, her face has graced newspapers across America; she's testified before numerous senators and had her deposition subpoenaed by family members of 9/11 victims; as late as...
Media, Democrats Complicit in Rush to War
While President Bush and his War Cabinet bear full moral responsibility for Iraq, they could not have taken us to war without the complicity of the "adversary press" and "loyal opposition." Today, this town is salivating over the prospect that Karl Rove and "Scooter"...
Disinformation in the Terror War
Our terrorist foes are practicing a technique employed by the great Confederate cavalry leader Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. It worked for him, and it's apparently working for the terrorists. Forrest, on several occasions, would arrange for a Northern prisoner to...
Fitzgerald Expands Probe to Prewar Intel
As Antiwar.com readers found out on Wednesday, prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald’s investigation into the Plame leak case has broadened to include a probe into the catalyzing event that set off the "outing" of CIA agent Valerie Plame to begin with: the Niger...
Two Years Later, U.S. Still Can’t Keep the Lights On
The reconstruction of Iraq is failing rapidly despite repeated claims of progress by the George W. Bush administration, according to a number of U.S. officials and reports released here this week. Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman issued a report that found...
Media at a Huge Crossroads, 25 Years After Reagan’s Triumph
By a twist of political fate, the Oct. 28 deadline for special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to take action on the Plamegate matter is exactly 25 years after the only debate of the presidential race between Ronald Reagan and incumbent Jimmy Carter. How the major media...
Stifling Neo-Crazy Media Sycophants
Judith Miller has just spent 85 days in prison for refusing to tell Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald what her neo-crazy "handlers" in the Bush-Cheney administration told her to do next, following her service as their "embedded" media sycophant in...