Posts filed under “Dismantling Bushworld”
Alberto Opens His Mouth And Removes All Doubt
(1) Ever since Alberto “Buttercheeks” Gonzales started to disgrace the office of the Attorney General of the United States — preening himself every time someone called him General Gonzales — there has been active speculation exactly how stupid the man really is. Buttercheeks, it seems, finally tired of the debate, and decided to settle the [...]
Financing The Costs Of War (Or Not)
For years, Democrats have complained about how George Bush and his band of merry men put two wars on the national charge card. About how, far from raising taxes or cutting non-military spending to cover the cost of his wars, Bush actually cut taxes and introduced a massive new domestic spending program, Medicare Part D. [...]
Holder Will Still Hold Two Dozen Guantanamo Detainees Indefinitely Without Charge
Attorney General Eric Holder‘s announcement last Friday that Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four co-defendants will be tried in civilian courts in New York City produced the predictable barrage of fulminations from Republicans (about how the sky will absolutely fall on our heads). But what has attracted next to no comment is just how few of [...]
Cheney Loses Another One
Batten the hatches. Gird your loins. Circle the wagons. The sky is about to fall on our heads. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan has just ruled that most of the FBI’s interview with Dick Cheney during the Valerie Plame investigation must be made public: A federal judge says the FBI must publicly reveal much of [...]
St. John The Ashcroft’s Other Cheek
Back when news of the dramatic hospital bed story broke in May 2007, John Ashcroft took over from John McCain as the reigning St. John of American politics. Some news that appeared late Friday evening, and got buried over the holiday weekend, shines a light on the other side of John Ashcroft. A three-judge panel [...]
Secrecy Is The Best Policy, Isn’t It?
Once again, the Obama administration has chosen to hew closely to the Bush administration’s line on a controversial aspect of The War Against Terror. This time it’s about supporting the CIA as it invokes national security as a reason for drawing an invisibility cloak around the CIA’s “defunct detention and interrogation program”. The Central Intelligence [...]
Buttercheeks’ Lapse Of Memory Failure
Alberto “Buttercheeks” Gonzales has had a sudden lapse of memory failure. That is to say, he now recalls things again. He was clearly better off, I think, being unable to recall anything and everything of any significance. Because what he remembers now does not uniquely comport with what actually happened. Or what he himself said [...]
The Very Definition of Idiotic Fatuous Ass
Joe Lieberman is one of the more idiotic fatuous asses in the Senate. Strong evidence in support of that proposition comes from the statement he produced yesterday in condemnation of the very narrow investigation Attorney General Eric Holder has authorized into detainee abuse by CIA interrogators. The terms of the investigation are that a special [...]
The Disinfectant Properties Of Sunlight
Here’s a little word collage, made largely by re-arranging chunks of a BBC article: A heavily censored version of (a) 2004 internal Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) report was released last year but in an almost meaningless form because so much remained classified. A federal judge ordered more details to be released on Monday, after a [...]
Obama’s Justice Department Strikes Again
The Washington Post has a strange story in today’s paper suggesting that defense attorneys of high-value Guantanamo Bay detainees may have illegally provided classified information to their clients. Except that it’s far from clear that that’s what actually happened. What is clear is that Obama‘s Justice Department has created the appearance of intimidating Guantanamo defense [...]