As blowback from the lies that duped us into war plunges Washington into a maelstrom of investigations and counter-investigations, Ahmed Chalabi adds insult to injury by making a return trip to the Imperial City. He's staying at the ritzy-glitzy Ritz-Carlton, where...
It seems that liberals will go to any lengths in order to protect the sanctity of President Clinton's legacy, and it is getting downright aggravating. Take Joshua Micah Marshall, the Ivy-league liberal who publishes Talking Points Memo, an enormously popular online...
In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and with an ongoing war in Iraq that costs more than $1 billion per week, taxpayers might think Congress has better things to do with $21 billion than send it overseas. Yet that's exactly what Congress did last Friday,...
[Three weeks ago, Nick Turse wrote a dispatch, "Casualties of the Bush Administration," about government officials who resigned or retired in protest, or were forced over a cliff by this administration. It was, in essence, a proposal for a Wall of Honor. At the...
The Arms Control Association claims that: "Through its public education and media programs and its magazine, Arms Control Today, ACA provides policymakers, the press, and the interested public with authoritative information, analysis, and commentary on arms...
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Has U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney become so much of an albatross around his boss' neck that he will have to go? While that question may appear a bit premature at the moment – speculation about the tenure of President's George W. Bush's chief political adviser,...
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...
"President Bush has ordered White House staff to attend mandatory briefings beginning next week on ethical behavior and the handling of classified material after the indictment last week of a senior administration official in the CIA leak probe. … A senior aide...
Poor Rocco Martino – he's the ex-agent of Italy's military intelligence agency (SISMI) who's at the heart of the Niger uranium forgery scandal, and, it seems, the designated fall guy. Rocco says he didn't realize the import of the forged documents that eventually...
