Posted on September 26th, 2006 by Pamela Leavey
A couple of AP reporters, Katherine Shrader and Jennifer Loven, blasted Bush’s assertion that the “formerly classified” NIE classified assessment of global terrorism supported the Bush administration’s arguments that the “world is safer because of the war.” Their headline tonight, “Iraq is ’cause celebre’ for extremists,” caused at least a couple of right wingnut bloggers [...]
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Posted on September 26th, 2006 by Pamela Leavey
According to the journal Nature, the Bush administration is up to their usual tricks with blocking scientific reports again. This time they have blocked the release of a report that “suggests global warming is contributing to the frequency and strength of hurricanes.” The possibility that warming conditions may cause storms to become stronger has generated [...]
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Posted on September 26th, 2006 by Pamela Leavey
Did George W. leak some of the NIE? After the New York Times “disclosed some of the findings” of the NIE over the weekend, the Bush administration felt compelled to combat that by ‘leaking’ more of it. There’s some wierd logic in this. Bush accuses the media of ‘leaking’ parts of the report and then [...]
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Posted on September 26th, 2006 by Pamela Leavey
Late last night I posted about the Saints coming home to the Superdome last night. I’m not a football fan, but I love U2, and they were there at the Superdome last night with Green Day to welcome the Saints back to New Orleans and the Superdome. There’s a video online of their performance, with [...]
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Posted on September 26th, 2006 by Pamela Leavey
Dan Froomkin said on the WaPo today, “President Bush’s all-important terror-fighting credentials are taking a bruising this week.” That may be a bit of an understatement, Bush is getting a serious come-upence from all corners of the Democratic party and it’s sheer pleasure to watch the fireworks, as he tries to wriggle out of yet [...]
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Posted on September 26th, 2006 by Pamela Leavey
Raw Story reports that a memo received by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice “shortly after becoming National Security Advisor in 2001 directly contradicts statements she made to reporters yesterday.” “We were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight al Qaeda,” Rice told a reporter for the New York Post on Monday. “Big pieces were missing,” [...]
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Posted on September 26th, 2006 by Pamela Leavey
Yesterday, in his first major policy speech on Iraq since his loss in the primary election to Ned Lamont, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman called “for the number of United States troops embedded with Iraqi forces to be doubled or tripled, to speed up the training of the Iraqis and help hasten the withdrawal of the [...]
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Posted on September 26th, 2006 by Pamela Leavey
From FinancialTimes.com: On Thursday, John Kerry, answers your questions live on FT.com on national security, US foreign policy and the war on terror. The former Democratic presidential candidate will outline the “5 Rs” that he believes will make the US a safer place, in a keynote address and forum in Washington. Senator Kerry will be [...]
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