This latest revelation by Murray Waas will certainly heat things up, especially in the context of the impending indictments tomorrow: Vice President Cheney and his chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, overruling advice from some White House political staffers and lawyers, decided to withhold crucial documents from the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2004 when …
Archives for October 2005
Blog Spats
This isn’t really a blog fight, but Kos and Armando are not seeing eye to eye on the Miers withdrawal. Says Kos: It seems to me that Miers wasn’t done in from a lack of conservative cred as the wingers want to believe. Bush was convinced she was like him and would’ve fought for her …
A Fond Farewell
Harriet Miers says goodbye and pens her thank you notes.
Blog Fights
Let’s Get Ready to Rumbbbbbble! The Undercard Robert George vs. Steve Gilliard. Fight Synopsis: Steve Gilliard paints Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele (who is running for Senate) up in blackface and calls him simple Sambo. Robert George responds. The Kaine Campaign (he is running for Gov. in VA) then pulls their advertising from Steve Gilliard’s …
The New Jihad
Here is something positive (I think) from the Sunni Triangle: For weeks before Iraq’s constitutional referendum this month, Iraqi guerrilla Abu Theeb traveled the countryside just north of Baghdad, stopping at as many Sunni Arab houses and villages as he could. Each time, his message to the farmers and tradesmen he met was the same: …
Bill Roggio Embedded
Via Daly Thoughts, I see that Bill Roggio will be embedded with a Marine unit. Nice. Go donate.
Plame Update
Looks like the announcements will be tomorrow, so you libs out there will have to wait until Friday for your Fitzmas celebrations: The prosecutor in the CIA leak investigation presented a summary of his case to a federal grand jury yesterday and is expected to announce a final decision on charges in the two-year-long probe …