U.S. escalating covert operations against Iran - Reuters (6/29/08):
U.S. congressional leaders agreed late last year to President George W. Bush’s funding request for a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilizing its leadership, according to a report in The New Yorker magazine published online on Sunday.
The article by reporter Seymour Hersh, from […]
Democrats have begun to worry that if the Clinton-Obama nomination contest lasts till the Democratic convention at the end of August, the survivor will limp into the McCain battle with a badly depleted campaign war-chest.
What they do not realize, of course, is that McCain too will have a badly depleted campaign war-chest. […]
It has to be true that if someone digs around deep enough they will find people on John McCain’s campaign staff whose sole job it is to help McCain piss in the pot, so that he doesn’t walk around with piss-stained trouser cuffs all the time. (And you never wondered all this time what […]
When Bush kept saying he listens to his generals, many of us laughed. But, of course, in hindsight, the fact was that we just didn’t understand what he meant.
His generals, though, always knew what he meant. And most of them were careful not to say anything worth listening to. And the ones […]
US Protests Iran Harassment of US Ships - AP (1/10/08):
The United States on Thursday lodged a formal diplomatic protest with Iran over an incident last weekend in which Iranian speedboats harassed U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf.
The protest repeats U.S. complaints about Sunday’s “provocative” action in the Strait of Hormuz and was sent to the […]
So many of us have always held that it would be big news if the Bush White House were to ever tell the truth about anything.
Well, they did. And it is.
After lying through their teeth for more than 48 hours — said lies being repeatedly uttered by President George Bush, National Security Adviser Stephen […]
It’s really depressing how so many progressive blogs rushed to embrace and propagate the unsupported assertion WaPo made yesterday:
President Bush got the world’s attention this fall when he warned that a nuclear-armed Iran might lead to World War III. But his stark warning came at least a month or two after he had first been […]
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According to National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, he doesn’t know (or doesn’t remember) when President Bush first became aware that “We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program“:
QUESTION: Steve, what is the first time the president was given the inkling that something? I’m not […]
Nobody can accuse Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell of trying to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes. He has spelled it all out as clearly as the English language allows. When it comes to National Intelligence Estimates, McConnell believes there should be a certain amount of appropriate cherry-picking. He does, of […]
White House Press Secretary Dana Perino (10/1/07):
Q: …This weekend the New Yorker magazine came out with an article claiming that this summer the President, or at least the White House in general, asked the Joint Chiefs to redraw plans to attack Iran. Is that true?
MS. PERINO: Look, you know, I’m glad you brought it up. […]
