Inmates Take Swipe at Toilet Paper Cuts (AP):
Toilet paper is becoming a sought after commodity at the Hutchinson (KS) Correctional Facility after officials began limiting inmates to one roll at a time to trim costs.
Officials say the prison has long had a limit, but they learned recently that it hadn’t been enforced. Increased enforcement began […]
The NYT has a follow-up story today on the Bush administration’s continuing search for a War Czar.
One startling detail emerged. The job description of the War Czar is that she
…would brief Mr. Bush every morning on Iraq and Afghanistan, then prod cabinet secretaries into carrying out White House orders.
Bush’s cabinet is populated by […]
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In July 2001, two months before 9-11, then CIA Director George Tenet and his aide Cofer Black held a briefing for Condi Rice, in which they tried to get her to understand that al Qaeda constituted an urgent threat requiring immediate attention. Condi spent much of the last quarter of 2006 lying about this […]
The Bush administration took quite a few dumps late on Friday afternoon. News dumps, that is. Their scandal and bad news minimization team was working overtime. By my just concocted index of the Bush Administration’s Admitted Skullduggery and Shame (henceforth BAd ASS), they had one of their worst Fridays ever. The […]
I cannot say it came as a great surprise that Condi Rice struck back as strongly as she knows how (i.e. with a meaningless blather of words) at George Tenet’s charge “that the Bush administration, before the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, never had a serious debate about whether Iraq posed an imminent threat or […]
It was on March 27 that Dana Perino decided that life as stand-in White House Press Secretary wasn’t nearly fun enough if you didn’t just totally make up things from time to time. That’s when she was asked how many White House staffers had used RNC email accounts, and as she later confessed, she […]
Now (4/19/07):
Military planners have abandoned the idea that standing up Iraqi troops will enable American soldiers to start coming home soon and now believe that U.S. troops will have to defeat the insurgents and secure control of troubled provinces.
Now (4/26/07):
Army General David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, said the war there may […]
The Deborah Jeane Palfrey client list doesn’t just promise to be an equal opportunity scandal, it also offers us a great little controlled experiment.
She turned over her phone records to ABC News. They have been diligently going over them, uncovering names. ABC News is going to tell all on May 4, on […]
On March 9, we brought you the story of how the Bush administration was protecting what we chose to describe as hooker-f***ers.
ABC News‘ The Blotter has unmasked one of these hooker-f***ers:
Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias submitted his resignation Friday, one day after confirming to ABC News that he had been a […]
As matters stand now, a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.
This is Lt. Col. Paul Yingling, an active-duty Army officer, an Iraq veteran who is deputy commander of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, in an article titled “General Failure” to be published today in the […]
