Authoritative Misinformation

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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Cheney Under Siege

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,...

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Disturbing Questions Raised by Cover-Up Timeline

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...

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Ethics for Dummies

"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...

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Blame It on Rocco

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...

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Engagement: An Exit Strategy

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...

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Bush’s Bad Business Empire

The Bush administration, with its crony corporations in tow, essentially sallied forth into the world with the collective mentality of a plunderer, ready to strip mine the planet. While its plans for global – and energy – domination (as well as the military...

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Anatomy of a Disaster

The problem with some books is that in place of a review you simply want to reprint long excerpts. George Packer, who has written for the New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine is a graceful and sometimes eloquent writer who has interviewed or tagged along with...

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Big Lies and Little Lies

Scooter Libby has been indicted for lying. Many suspect Libby, and perhaps others, deliberately outed Joe Wilson's wife as a covert CIA agent. This was done to punish and discredit Wilson for bringing attention to the false information regarding Iraq's supposed...

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