Scooter Libby
Convicted In CIA Leak Case
March 6, 2007
Lewis
“Scooter” Libby, former chief of staff to Vice
President Dick Cheney, has been convicted on four of
five felony counts related to his attempts to cover-up
his involvement in the outing of CIA agent Valerie
Plame. The Vice President’s office orchestrated the
disclosure of Valerie Plame’s identity after her
husband, Joseph Wilson, contradicted Bush
Administration claims that Iraq was seeking
“yellowcake” uranium from Africa. Wilson was sent by
the administration to Africa to investigate the
claim. Wilson reported that the allegations were
unsupported, but administration officials continued to
repeat the claim as evidence of Iraq’s attempts to get
weapons of mass destruction. When Wilson publicly
challenged the “yellowcake” claims in July 2003, the
administration made Valerie Plame’s name public. At
the time, Plame was a covert CIA operative working on
dealing with Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald investigated
whether the release of Plame’s identity violated any
laws, but ultimately charged Libby with obstruction of
justice, perjury and making false statements for lying
to his investigators and the grand jury. Fitzgerald
charged that Libby deliberately misled investigators
in order to deflect political damage away from the
Vice President. According to prosecutors, Libby
falsely claimed that he learned Plame’s identity from
reports, not the other way around. This was
contradicted by witnesses including Tim Russert, host
of NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Libby’s defense was
that he simply misremembered events because he is very
busy.
Libby was acquitted
on one charge
of making a false statement.
Bush Approval Nears
Record Lows
March 6, 2007
Congress To Investigate Administration Firing OF U.S.
Attorneys
March 5, 2007
Giuliani
Family Values
March 5, 2007
"I got my values from
my mother," says Andrew Giuliani, son of the GOP
frontrunner. Andrew's mother is Donna Hanover. Rudy
Giuliani divorced Hanover after announcing their
separation at a press conference.
Romney Wins
Conservative Straw Poll
March 5, 2007
Cheney Has Blood Clot In Leg
March 5, 2007
Edwards Sends Video To 70,000 Iowa Homes
March 5, 2007
Journalists Censored By U.S. Military In Afghanistan
March
4, 2007
U.S. Attorney Fired
After Pressure From GOP Congressmen
March
4, 2007
Army Secretary Resigns Over Conditions At Walter Reed
March 1, 2007
Swiss Troops
Accidentally Invade Liechtenstein
March
2, 2007
GOP Senate Leader Views To Block Labor Bill
March
2, 2007
Republican Support For
Bush Sinking
March
2, 2007
Killer Storm Hits
Alabama
March
2, 2007
Stephen Hawking Going To Space
March 1, 2007
McCain Stumbles Into
Presidential Campaign
March 1, 2007
It’s a good thing that Arizona Sen. John McCain plans
to do several “announcements” of his campaign for the
GOP nomination, because the first one was a
dud. McCain tried to reach out to the younger crowd by
announcing his candidacy on Late Night with David
Letterman, and immediately demonstrated that he was up
past his bedtime. McCain, a little too tired to
remember the politically correct words, said about the
war in Iraq:
"Americans are very frustrated, and they have every
right to be. We've wasted a lot of our most precious
treasure, which is American lives." Today, McCain
apologized.
Commander at Walter
Reed Hospital Fired
March 1, 2007
Anti-Kerry Group Hit
With Biggest Ever Election Law Fine
March 1, 2007
Obama Defends Wounded
Vets
March 1, 2007
McCain Announces White House Bid On Letterman Show
March 1, 2006
New Iraq Ambassador Calls Post-War Plan “Incompetent,
Foolish”
March 1, 2006
Gore Uses Green Power
February 28, 2007
A
“non-partisan” think tank claimed this week that Al
Gore’s home energy bill is twenty times the national
average, challenging Gore to “Walk the walk” when it
comes to home energy use. The Tennessee Center
for Policy Research, headed by an alumni of the
right-wing American Enterprise Institute, failed to
disclose that Gore pays nearly 50% more for his energy
because it comes from renewable energy sources like
wind and solar power.
Pentagon Documents
Suggest Ending War Before 2008 Election
February 28, 2007
Right Wing Panic Over
Giuliani’s Lead In Polls
February 28, 2007
Daley Wins Sixth Term
As Chicago Mayor
February 28, 2007
Cheney Targeted In Assassination Attempt
February 27, 2007
Poll Shows Obama Gaining On Clinton, McCain Fading
February 26, 2007
Abramoff Strikes
Again: GOP House Aide Pleads Guilty In Bribery
Scandal
February 26, 2007
Gore's Oscar Win Fuels Campaign Buzz
February 26, 2007
Juror Dismissed In CIA
Leak Trial
February 26, 2007
Slavery Links Al
Sharpton and Strom Thurmond
February 26, 2007
Vilsack
Drops Presidential Bid
February 23, 2007
The former
Iowa governor abandoned his presidential bid today,
citing an inability to raise enough money to compete
with Clinton and Obama. According to CNN, in
1976 Jimmy Carter spent $55 million winning the
presidency, which is $199 million when adjusted for
inflation. By comparison, George Bush spent $447
million in 2004.
Carter Endorses Gore
For President
February 23,
2007
Lieberman Downplays
Talk Of Joining GOP
February 23,
2007
California Lawmaker
Drops Effort To Ban Spanking
February 23,
2007
Kerry
Drops 2008 Presidential Bid
January 24, 2007
GOP Senators Block Minimum Wage Increase
January 24, 2007
Newsweek: Webb Steals State Of The Union Spotlight
January 24, 2007
New US Air Strikes In Somalia
January 24, 2007
Watergate Burglar Hunt Dies At 88
January 24, 2007
Former Panama Dictator Noriega To Be Released From
Prison
January 24, 2007
Iraq’s “Do-Nothing” Parliament
January 24, 2007
"Nearly
every session since November has been adjourned
because as few as 65 members made it to work, even as
they and the absentees earned salaries and benefits
worth about $120,000."
Cheney’s Daughter Attacks War Critics
January 23, 2007
By Keith Crane @ 4:40 p.m.
Although most of this has been said by columnists and
reporters, I thought perhaps it might help if just an
ordinary person took issue with the statements made by
Liz Cheney in her
Op Ed piece in the Washington Post. It must be
comforting to Vice President Cheney to know that “the
acorn does not fall far from the tree.” While it is
not comforting for the rest of us to know that the
Cheney family arrogance and willingness to deceive is
being passed to another generation, it is important to
examine Ms. Cheney’s assertions for what they really
are.
Continued...
Libby
Defense Blames Karl Rove
January 23, 2007
Bush Approval Rating At New Low
January 23, 2007
President Bush Will Call For Americans To
Cut Consumption Of Gasoline By 20 Percent In 10 Years
January 23, 2007
80 Die In Baghdad Bombings
January 22, 2007
Bush Approval Rating Lowest Since Nixon
January 22, 2007
Hillary
Makes It Official: She's Running For President
January 20, 2008
US Helicopter Crash North Of Baghdad
Kills Thirteen
January 20, 2007
China Shows Off Satellite-Killer Missile
January 19, 2007
House Votes To End Oil Company
Subsidies
January 19, 2007
Ex-Rep. Ney Sentenced For Abramoff Bribes
January 19, 2007
Obama and McCain Lead New Hampshire
Poll
January 18, 2007
Iraq
Prime Minister Blames US
January 18, 2007
Iran Offered To Negotiate In 2003
January 18, 2007
According to
Colin Powell’s former chief of staff Lawrence
Wilkerson, Iran sent a letter to the US in 2003
offering to cut off their support for Hezbollah and
Hamas, and offering full transparency of its nuclear
program. In exchange, Iran requested an end to hostile
American behavior and the abolition of all sanctions.
In addition, Iran sought the repatriation of members
of an Iranian opposition group that fought for Saddam
Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war. The State
Department, then headed by Colin Powell, was
optimistic, but Vice-President Cheney’s office
scuttled any attempt at negotiations under the “we
don’t talk to evil” theory of diplomacy. The Bush
administration’s response was to criticize the Swiss
government for passing along the communication.
Sen. Hagel To Bush: This Is Not A
Monarchy
January 18, 2007
2008 Hopefuls Hiring In New Hampshire
January 18, 2007
Iowa Voters Prefer Edwards, Giuliani
January 17, 2007
GOP
Sen. Hagel Co-sponsors Anti-Escalation Resolution
January 17, 2007
Bush Makes U-Turn On Warrantless
Wiretapping
January 17, 2007
White House Denies Flip-Flop On Global
Warming
January 17, 2007
Clinton
Calls For More Troops In Afghanistan, Opposes Iraq
Increase
January 17, 2007
100 Iraqis Die In Baghdad Violence
January 17, 2007
Bush Opposes Dem Plan To Reduce Student
Loan Rates
January 17, 2007
Virginia Lawmaker Tell Blacks To “Get
Over” Slavery
January 17, 2007
Frist Considering 2010 Tennessee
Governor Contest
January 17, 2007
Virginia
Sen. Webb To Give Dem Response To State Of The Union
Address
January 16, 2007
Hunter Beats McCain In Arizona Straw
Poll
January 16, 2007
Support For Amnesty May Derail Bush
Pick To Head GOP
January 16, 2007
Immigration Foe Trancredo Considering
White House Bid
January 16, 2007
Obama Launches Presidential Exploratory
Committee
January 16, 2007
Iran Buys US Army Gear
January 16, 2007
Jury Selection Begins In CIA Leak Case,
Cheney Expected To Testify
January 16, 2007
Castro
In Serious Condition
January 15, 2007
Gore
Says He Will Not Run In 2008
January 15, 2007
GOP Incumbent To Retire From Colorado Senate Seat
January 15, 2007
Saddam’s Half-Brother Accidentally
Beheaded
January 15, 2007
Rev. Dobson
Says “No Way” To McCain
January 14, 2007
New GOP Minority Divided
January 14, 2007
Clinton Meets With Musharraf
January 14, 2007
Murtha
Plans To Cut Off Funds For Gitmo
January 12, 2007
McCain Defends Iraq Escalation
January 12, 2007
Texas Congressman To Seek GOP
Nomination In ‘08
January 12, 2007
Reporters Prevented From Interviewing Soldiers After
Bush Speech
January 12, 2007
Do They Get To Pre-Board? TSA Sets Screening Rules For
Monkeys
January 12, 2007
Bush Plans Veto Of Stem Cell Bill
January 12, 2007
AP Poll Shows 70% Oppose Bush War
Escalation
January 11, 2007
Dems
Choose Denver For 2008 Convention
January 11, 2007
Iraqi Judge Claims Militias Have Infiltrated Baghdad
Green Zone
January 11, 2007
Condi: I Love Fox News
January 11, 2007
US Raids Iranian Consulate In Iraq, Arrests Five
Workers
January 11, 2007
Somalia Strikes Missed al Qaeda Targets
January 11, 2007
Romney Video From 1994 Worries Conservatives
January 11, 2007
Recently
discovered footage from Mitt Romney’s 1994 Senate
campaign against Ted Kennedy is giving the Romney
campaign fits. While discussing abortion in the
televised debate, Romney said
"I believe that abortion
should be safe and legal in this country.” He
continued, "I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been
the law for 20 years, that we should sustain and
support it, and I sustain and support that law and the
right of a woman to make that choice."
Romney also said, "I was
an independent at the time of Reagan-Bush," and "I'm
not trying to return to Reagan-Bush." Hoping to
minimize the video impact on his 2008 presidential
campaign, Romney dismissed the video as “ancient
footage,” saying "I'm grayer, I'm a little heavier,
and I hope I've grown a bit wiser as well” and "of
course, I was wrong on some issues back then. I'm not
embarrassed to admit that. I think most of us learn
with experience. I know I certainly have."
Bush
War Plan Divides GOP
January 10, 2007
The “surge”
plan for increasing troops in Iraq is fracturing the
GOP, including the leading candidates for the 2008
presidential nomination. John McCain wants even more
troops. CNN reported late today that Giuliani
announced his
support for the escalation, as did
Mitt Romney. But while traveling in Iraq, Kansas
Sen.
Sam Brownback said "I do not believe that
sending more troops to Iraq is the answer.” Two
North Carolina Republican
lawmakers Tuesday criticized President Bush's proposal
to send 20,000 more U.S. troops to Iraq. Minnesota’s
Norm Coleman took to the Senate floor today to
announce his opposition to the Bush plan.
Troop Surge Already Under Way
January 10, 2007
$5.6
billion for 21,500 new troops
Dodd To Enter 2008 Presidential Race
January 10, 2007
Giuliani Silent On Bush War Escalation Plan
January 10, 2007
GOP Senate Leader Says Congress Has No Power To
Restrict Spending In Iraq
January 10, 2007
By Rob @ 1:29 p.m.
Newly elected Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
seems to have a very short memory. Apparently he
doesn’t remember
voting to preclude President Clinton from spending
money in
Somalia after November 1993 and
Bosnia after 1998.
In
voting to prevent funds from being spent on military
activity, McConnell said:
This is about how
America should operate in the post-cold war period.
What we are learning here, Mr. President, is how to
clearly define our interests in this period. As
speaker after speaker on both sides of this issue
tonight have said, our national security interests
must clearly be involved before we put our troops on
the ground.
The narrow issue before us tonight is simply how do you leave? We
are leaving, we all agree on that. The only narrow
issue before us tonight is how do you leave?
Reasonable people can differ, as Senator
McCain
sees it one way, Senator
Byrd
and myself and others see it another way in terms of
how best to depart. But we are leaving, and we are
leaving because this mission should not have been
allowed to evolve into what it became after May.
(Congressional Record 13447, October 14, 2007.)
Senator
McCain proposed his own amendment on spending in
Somalia, arguing:
this amendment authorizes no further funds for
United
States operations in Somalia, except those funds
needed to support a prompt and orderly withdrawal of
our forces from that country in a manner most
consistent with the safety of United States personnel.
Let us make it perfectly clear: `In a manner most
consistent with the safety of U.S. personnel.'
. . .
our amendment will not permit
United
States forces to do anything else in Somalia other
than organize their withdrawal. This means no warlord
hunting, no nation building, no law and order
establishing, no other missions whatsoever that have
not been authorized by Congress.
. . .
Is there a Member of this body who can tell me with
any degree of confidence that the situation which
ensues following the withdrawal of U.S. forces 6
months from now will be any less chaotic than the
situation which may ensue following our withdrawal 1
or 2 or 3 months from now?
(Congressional Record, s13433, October 14, 2007.)
Ex. Sen. Conrad Burns Becomes A Lobbyist
January 10, 2007
The GOPer from Montana was
defeated in the November 2006 elections, with his
Democrat challenger taking full advantage of Burns’
connections to disgraced former superlobbyist Jack
Abramoff. Burns will now be a lobbyist himself, with
his new firm promoting the ex-Senator as “one of the
fathers of the modern Internet." One of the first
victims of YouTube is more like it.
“Surge”
Troops Will Lack Latest Armor
January 10, 2007
Conflicting Claims Of More US Strikes In Somalia
January 10, 2007
Somali
government officials claim further strikes on
suspected al Qaeda targets, US says it didn’t happen.
Ten GOP Senators Likely To Oppose Bush War Escalation
January 10, 2007
Schwarzenegger Proposes Big Borrowing To Fund Spending
Plan
January 10, 2007
Romney Gaining Ground In Iowa
January 10, 2007
By Rob @
9:09 a.m. The real question here is: Who is the
conservative choice in this election? Giuliani is DOA
when the GOP faithful get a full explanation of his
pro-abortion, pro-gay rights and pro-gun control
positions. His picture in drag on the cover of The
National Review is sure to be a big hit in South
Carolina. McCain is not well loved in Iowa, has
problems with the base on immigration (get ready to
hear the phrase “McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill” a lot)
and campaign finance reform, which many on the right
consider to be a restriction on free speech. He has
staked out a position of greater and greater
escalation of the Iraq war that is further and further
away from the view of the American people. Even bright
red state Utah has turned against Bush’s conduct of
the war. As the Democrats seem to be finally
coalescing around a plan to turn the conflict over to
the Iraqis, the GOP base may be cracking over the
war. Family values, Giuliani, McCain and Gingrich have
eight wives between them, some of whom have received
notice of their divorce by television or while being
treated for cancer. So how about Mitt
Romney? Conservatives may have trouble with his pledge
to protect a woman’s right to choose during his tenure
as Massachusetts governor and perceived flip-flops on
gay rights. Watch for the second-tier of GOP
candidates like Sen. Sam Brownback and Arkansas
Governor Mike Huckabee to get a second look.
Bush
Lifts Oil And Gas Drilling Ban For Alaska Bay
January 9, 2007
The First Item On The House Democrats' '100 Hours'
Legislative Agenda Passes 299-128
January 9, 2006
Official: First Wave
Of Troops To Iraq By Jan. 30
January 9, 2007
61% Of Americans Oppose Iraq Surge
January 9, 2007
Bush Dumps Four Judicial Nominees
January 9, 2007
Former
Reagan Aide Compares Bush To Hitler
January 9, 2007
ABC News Anchor Injured By Roadside Bomb Returns To TV
January 9, 2007
Picture Of Bush And Abramoff Surfaces
January 9, 2006
Gas Smell Alarms NYC
January 9, 2006
US
Strikes Southern Somalia
January 8, 2006
Pentagon sources are confirming an air strike in
southern Somalia on suspected al Qaeda targets.
McCain Wants a Bigger Surge
January 8. 2007
Romney Seeks $1M In Single Day Donations
January 8, 2007
Biden
To Seek Presidency
January 7, 2007
Access Denied! White House Makes Visitor Logs Secret
January 6, 2006
By Rob @ 12:26 p.m.
The President has
decided that it’s none of our business who visits the
White House.
In May 2006,
the Justice Department released Secret Service access logs showing
only two White House visits from convicted super
lobbyist and GOP fundraiser Jack Abramoff. Now we
have reason to doubt these records are complete.
Last spring, the White
House and the Secret Service reached an understanding
that records identifying visitors to the White House
are not open to the public. The May 17,
2006 agreement declares that all entry and exit data
on White House visitors are presidential records that
belong to the White House and not Secret
Service agency records. Therefore, the agreement
states, the material is not subject to public
disclosure under the
Freedom of
Information Act.
The agreement is dated one week after the Justice
Department response providing the Abramoff visit
records. The cover letter for the Abramoff records
specifically states that the records are being
provided "voluntarily" and "without conceding they
constitute 'agency records' under FOIA." The letter
essentially denies any obligation to provide a full
and complete response to the FOIA request for the
Abramoff entry records. The agreement was not
disclosed until months later.
The White House is
using this agreement to appeal a Federal Court ruling
ordering the release of records identifying visitors
to Vice President Dick Cheney. The Washington Post is
suing for access to the Secret Service logs. The
administration calls the request an "unprecedented
intrusion into the daily operations of the vice
presidency."
This, of
course, is a big lie.
The Bush
administration has been embarrassed by White House
entry records before. A lawsuit produced similar
records released in September showing that Abramoff
associates Grover Norquist and Ralph Reed had more
than
100 meetings inside
the Bush White House. Secret Service records also
showed that male escort and conservative reporter
James Guckert, a.k.a. Jeff Gannon,
visited the White House over 200 times. Guckert
made more than two dozen visits to the White House on
days when there were no scheduled briefings.
White House entry
records have been a wealth of information used by
Democrats and Republicans to keep watch over
Presidents from both parties. The Abramoff records
were released in respond to a FOIA request from
Judicial Watch, which used the same tool to obtain
records regarding Clinton re-election campaign
fundraising in 1996. Secret Service records played a
significant role in the Whitewater scandal in the
1990s, supplying congressional Republicans with leads
to follow in their investigations of the Clintons. In
his unrelenting quest for the truth about President
Clinton's sex life, Special Inquisitor Ken Starr
forced Secret Service agents to testify about what
they saw while protecting him. ("Secret Service
officers and agents testified about their observations
of the President and Ms. Lewinsky in the White House."
(Starr
Report, Narrative, Section I-B(5))
Starr used White House visitor logs as well as logs of
the President's movement throughout the White House as
evidence in favor of impeachment.
Bush has even used
information about White House visitors to his own
political advantage in the first presidential debate
in 2000, where he quipped "I believe they've moved
that sign, 'The Buck Stops Here,' from the Oval Office
desk to the Lincoln Bedroom, and that's not right."
Bush now believes we have no right to know who he and
Cheney are in bed with.
New Mass. Governor says Romney Left Billion Dollar
Deficit
January 5, 2007
Biden Accuses White House Of Delaying The Loss Of Iraq
January 5, 2007
