Paul Sperry

Thursday was a very bad day for the control freaks at the White House. Osama bin Laden caught them completely off guard by rearing his ugly head again, after a year of silence, and ominously making a direct threat against the American people. Several facades carefully constructed by the White House were instantly shattered with … Continue reading “Counterspinning McClellan”

In the run-up to the Iraq war, FBI veterans say they were pressured by the Bush administration to come up with links, no matter how tenuous, between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda to help sell the planned military incursion. They came up empty, however, and were told to redouble their efforts, scraping the bottom of the … Continue reading “FBI Pressured to Gin Up Iraq-al-Qaeda Links”

On July 15, 2003, ABC News aired a story about the plummeting morale of U.S. troops in Iraq. It quoted soldiers questioning the war and the judgment and candor of their commanders. One frosted GI even went on camera to call for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign. It was a devastating report, and the … Continue reading “Smear Pattern”

Before he invaded Iraq, President Bush warned us that the terrorists were using Iraq as a base to attack America. After the invasion, we found out that was nonsense on stilts. Now Bush warns us the terrorists really are using Iraq as a base to attack America, and we have to stay there to defeat … Continue reading “Who Made Iraq Into a Threat?”

What did Len Downie know, and when did he know it? And more important, why didn’t he do anything about it when he knew? On Oct. 24, if not earlier, the Washington Post editor learned that his star reporter Bob “Mr. Run Amok” Woodward had held back key information about the CIA leak scandal for … Continue reading “The Woodward Cover-Up”

In the now-confirmed absence of any of the key reasons the administration took America to war in Iraq, officials are scrambling to come up with new ones after the fact, and some of them are quite amusing. On Sunday, a desperate Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld grasped for excuses in a tough interview with CNN’s Wolf … Continue reading “Ever-Evolving Excuses for War”

“Politicians hide themselves away. They only started the war. Why should they go out to fight? They leave that role to the poor, yeah. “Time will tell on their power minds, making war just for fun. Treating people just like pawns in chess, wait till their judgment day comes, yeah.” – Black Sabbath, “War Pigs” … Continue reading “The Last Lie of the Iraq War Exposed”

At the heart of the obstruction case against Scooter Libby is a cover-up involving co-conspirators from the White House Iraq Group. And they’re hiding something far more damaging than the vindictive outing of a war critic’s undercover wife, as this chilling timeline reveals: Sept. 8, 2002: Vice President Dick Cheney and then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza … Continue reading “Disturbing Questions Raised by Cover-Up Timeline”

The White House is spinning Scooter Libby’s indictment for systematic lying under oath as an isolated affair. But the special prosecutor’s probe has made a liar of more than just Libby. Indeed, it’s exposed a far broader pattern of deceit involving almost all the president’s men, starting with the vice president. "I don’t know Joe … Continue reading “The Other Liars”

The White House still maintains there was evidence other than crude forgeries to back its prewar charge Saddam Hussein was trying to procure uranium from Niger, giving a reed of hope to loyal defenders that the whole Iraq nuke scare wasn’t an orchestrated fraud begging for cover-up. But when pressed, the White House defers to … Continue reading “The Nucleus of the Scandal”