With his closest aide for the past five years facing arraignment in federal court Thursday on five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney appears to be hunkering down with a familiar cast of faces. His choices to replace his...
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...
The George W. Bush administration is citing the formation of a coalition of Sunni political organizations to run candidates in Iraq's December parliamentary elections, and high Sunni turnout in the recent referendum, as evidence that its policy of attracting Sunnis...
The March 2005 report of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction contained a scathing chapter on the "intelligence" President Bush used to justify Operation Iraqi Freedom: "As war...
A lot of media outlets are now scrutinizing some of the lies told by the Bush administration before the invasion of Iraq. Yet the same news organizations are bypassing their own key roles in the marketing of those lies. A case in point is the New York Times. On...
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The strategic decision by the United States to nuke Iran was probably made long ago. Tactics adjust to unpredictable events as they unfold. There was such an event last week, when Iran's president declared that Israel must be "wiped off" the map. The surprise was not...
Lewis "Scooter" Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Richard B. Cheney and assistant to the president, has been indicted for a cover-up. As U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald made clear at the Oct. 28 press conference announcing Libby's indictment,...
I. Lewis ("Scooter") Libby, immediately praised by the president ("Scooter has worked tirelessly on behalf of the American people and sacrificed much in the service to this country"), his resignation accepted with "deep regret" by the vice president ("He has given...
Echoing recent comments by White House officials, a U.S. government report submitted to the United Nations last Friday bears a message that the brutal treatment of people held in U.S. military custody abroad is and should be legal. The report, which was submitted to...
