Thursday was a very bad day for the control freaks at the White House. Osama bin Laden caught them completely off guard by rearing his ugly head again, after a year of silence, and ominously making a direct threat against the American people. Several facades carefully...
FBI Pressured to Gin Up Iraq-al-Qaeda Links
In the run-up to the Iraq war, FBI veterans say they were pressured by the Bush administration to come up with links, no matter how tenuous, between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda to help sell the planned military incursion. They came up empty, however, and were told to...
Smear Pattern
On July 15, 2003, ABC News aired a story about the plummeting morale of U.S. troops in Iraq. It quoted soldiers questioning the war and the judgment and candor of their commanders. One frosted GI even went on camera to call for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to...
Who Made Iraq Into a Threat?
Before he invaded Iraq, President Bush warned us that the terrorists were using Iraq as a base to attack America. After the invasion, we found out that was nonsense on stilts. Now Bush warns us the terrorists really are using Iraq as a base to attack America, and we...
The Woodward Cover-Up
What did Len Downie know, and when did he know it? And more important, why didn't he do anything about it when he knew? On Oct. 24, if not earlier, the Washington Post editor learned that his star reporter Bob "Mr. Run Amok" Woodward had held back key information...
Ever-Evolving Excuses for War
In the now-confirmed absence of any of the key reasons the administration took America to war in Iraq, officials are scrambling to come up with new ones after the fact, and some of them are quite amusing. On Sunday, a desperate Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
The Last Lie of the Iraq War Exposed
"Politicians hide themselves away. They only started the war. Why should they go out to fight? They leave that role to the poor, yeah. "Time will tell on their power minds, making war just for fun. Treating people just like pawns in chess, wait till their judgment day...
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...
The Other Liars
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 Nucleus of the Scandal
The White House still maintains there was evidence other than crude forgeries to back its prewar charge Saddam Hussein was trying to procure uranium from Niger, giving a reed of hope to loyal defenders that the whole Iraq nuke scare wasn't an orchestrated fraud...