[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,...
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...
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...
The huge gap between Tehran and Washington has widened in recent months. Top officials of Iran and the United States are not even within shouting distance. The styles of rhetoric differ, but the messages in both directions are filled with hostility. While visiting...
President Bush went to Congress in September 2002 seeking "specific statutory authorization" to invade Iraq. Bush based his case on a National Intelligence Estimate of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs prepared the month before by the Director of Central...
One day late in the Vietnam war, a Senator called his defense staffer into his office. Like too many Senators (though neither of the two I worked for), the distinguished legislator depended entirely upon his staff but treated them like peons. Although the end of the...
