Someone should tell Condi Rice that the game is up. With the Bush administration dissolving in illegalities committed by key officials in their attempts to protect the lies that they used to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the secretary of state is trying to ramp...
Has I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the vice president's chief of staff, made a deal with CIA leak investigator Patrick J. Fitzgerald – and turned on his boss in return for leniency? It sure looks like it. Or else how is it that Scooter suddenly discovered his notes of...
GENEVA - U.S. human rights groups have announced before the UN Human Rights Committee that there are perhaps dozens of secret detention centers around the world where Washington is holding an unknown number of prisoners as part of its "war on terror." This...
by Carlo Bonnini e Giuseppe D'Avanzo of La Repubblica [translated at the request of Antiwar.com by Azzurra Crispino] Anything found in [ ] are translator's notes and not originally in the article. For Nicolò Pollari, director of SISMI [sic Military Intelligence Agency...
On May 6, 2003, the New York Times published a column by Nicholas Kristof that included the following: "I rejoice in the newfound freedoms in Iraq. But there are indications that the U.S. government souped up intelligence, leaned on spooks to change their...
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One week after a top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell issued a blistering attack on foreign policy-making in the George W. Bush administration, Brent Scowcroft, who served as national security adviser under Bush's father, assailed neoconservatives who...
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...
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...
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...
