Just waiting for the next roadblock.
Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have subpoenaed notes of an FBI interview with George Bush and Dick Cheney in the Oval Office on June 24, 2004, about their role in the unmasking of a CIA anti-WMD [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · National Security
Make a mental note for Friday. Scott McClellan spills his political guts before a House committee. And there’s some squirming going on already…
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s testimony [...]
Categories: Bush Administration
At first, I was beginning to go along with the President’s oil drilling idea, unveiled this morning. I was figuring we really do need to go looking for every little bit of crude oil we might have hidden away under American soil or water. I can’t avoid looking at the signs at every gas station I drive by, I guess it’s the same thing as looking at a car crash or a train wreck. Who would have thought that we’d be seeing $4 a gallon gas? Somebody, somewhere, should have seen this coming. And something should have been done to ward it off. But, there was no anticipation, no planning, no changes. And, here we are, talking about something that, apparently, isn’t going to make a bit of a difference.
This morning in the White House Rose Garden, President Bush called on Congress to “pass good legislation as soon as possible” that would lift the federal ban on exploring the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and allow states to permit offshore oil drilling. Bush said in order to relieve the “painful level” of gas prices, “our [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Economy · Oil Prices
It’s always refreshing to see a television journalist who’s not afraid to buck the establishment and speak out about an issue. CBS’s Lara Logan has always been outspoken about what she perceives as a lack of real reporting out of Iraq. Take a couple of minutes and watch her appearance on The Daily Show last night, via Crooks and Liars:
Lara Logan is a big C&L favorite because she’s been in a war zone and not backed down from right wing narratives. She joins Jon Stewart and rocks the house down with this astute observation of the American media…Stewart: Do you watch the news that we’re watching? Logan: No Stewart: …in the [...]
Categories: Iraq War
I’ve been busy elsewhere, so posts have been a bit sporadic. Here’s to trying to get back on track!
Read this incredible article by Warren Strobel of McClatchy Newspapers ‘The U.S. military hid the locations of suspected terrorist detainees and concealed harsh treatment to avoid the scrutiny of the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to documents that a Senate committee released Tuesday. “We may need to curb [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Military · Torture
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