As devoted viewers of the West Wing know, White House Communications Director Toby Ziegler did a bad thing: he leaked top secret information to a reporter. The West Wing is a pretend show. And on the...
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The Walrus and the Wurm
More from the indictment (hat tip to Josh Marshall): On or about May 29, 2003, in the White House, LIBBY asked an Under Secretary of State (“Under Secretary”) for information concerning the unnamed...
Run, Chickenhawk, run!
The real Presiding boss in D.C.'s number one capo gets charged with five federal crimes and resigns. This same capo is also a National Security Advisor to Little George. And what does the Boy Emperor...
Official A and Other Officials
From the indictment itself: On or about July 10 or July 11, 2003, LIBBY spoke to a senior official in the White House (“Official A”) who advised LIBBY of a conversation Official A had earlier that...
Bye-bye, Irvin!
Unmitigated, unremitting liar, traitor to his nation, Irvin L. Libby, the grown man named Scooter, is indicted. And not just for perjury and false statements, but also obstruction of justice. So...
And the pre-Fitzmas indictments just keep coming
So now we can add Tom Noe to the growing list of power Republicans being indicted, which includes already Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff and will soon, one hopes, include Irvin L. Libby, Karl Rove, and...
Political Criminals
Murray Waas has yet more on Cheney (and his major-domo, Irvin L. "Scooter" Libby (let's just start calling him by his first name, Irvin. It's fun.)) lying and breaking laws at the same time. This...
The RepubLIEcan party
It's getting downright exhausting to keep track of the sheer volume of mendacity spewing forth from the mouths of the GOP power elite and their media shills. Bush, Cheney, Rove, Libby, Hadley, Condi...
Dr. Lie-Enstien fesses up (albeit lamely, of course)
From the Tennessean: Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist acknowledged yesterday that he could have been "more precise" two years ago when he told the public in a televised interview that he wasn't sure...
All roads lead to Dick and Rome.
More confirmation from veteran journalist Richard Sale that Heart-Attack Dick is in Fiztgerald's crosshairs, that the Italian Job is a big piece of the puzzle, and that Fitzgerald is just getting...
Little George vs. Big George
Jane Hamsher has a great piece over at Huff Post about the House of Atreus-like struggle and meta-patricidal behavior of Little George the Boy Emperor in regards to TraitorGate. Jane makes a pretty...
Fitzmas: the gift that keeps on giving
The extremely smart Lawrence O'Donnell has some news at the Huffington Post about the coming indictments and the length of the grand jury: Experienced federal prosecutors are saying today that they...
Spycraft 101
Laura Rozen has a tremendous piece in the American Prospect that lays out yet more details about the Italian Job via the Italian paper La Repubblica. It's a real life spy story, but it's not James...
Dr. Lie-enstien Implodes in Washington
Memo to Bill Frist: shut-down the 2008 presidential campaign office. From the lyin' Leader's home state paper, the Tennessean: Senate records show Frist had been notified for years that he continued...
The Italian Job II: The Dick Is In
An update on the "All roads lead to Dick" post below comes via the most excellent Josh Marshall, in which he appraises us of the explosive news coming out of Italy and its implications about Team...
Memo to NYT shareholders: sell
Arianna has her usual brilliantly insightful blog today on the continually imploding New York Times and it's internal mad bomber, Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger. To summarize: Judy Miller is the symptom...
2,000
2,000. Yes, we've hit the dreaded marker. 2,000 American lives stolen. Every one of them was someone's child. Many, many of them were someone's spouse, someone's parent. And they are gone. And the...
The Domino effect
Swopa comments at firedoglake are worth consideration: "If Cheney goes down with Scooter and Karl, I'm not sure how Dubya survives -- it would be tantamount to admitting he's just an empty suit they...
Rosa Parks, American hero, passes on
Rosa Parks has died in Detroit at the age of 92. She had more fortitude and courage than the combined personell of the White House and both houses of Congress. If you have children, tell them who...
Oh, you big lying Dick
So Jane Hamsher thinks, based on the NYT article just out (and read it, it's a doozy), that Dick "Big Time" Cheney perjured himself. And who am I to argue with Jane Hamsher? Well, of course Dick...