Newly appointed White House press secretary Tony Snow is likely to prove the most entertaining public disaster of the Bush administration’s waning years. He’ll no doubt enjoy a honeymoon with the press, of which he’s a member, but in the end, he’s stuck with defending the indefensible and explaining the inexplicable. . . . → Read More: The Tony Snow disaster, or McClellan’s revenge
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BTC News White House writer Eric Brewer asked Scott McClellan today if the CIA had responded to White House inquiries about the political affiliation of CIA personnel. McClellan said he hadn’t seen the Washington Post story Eric cited. But recently dismissed CIA officer Mary McCarthy’s donations to Democratic politicians has raised eyebrows among right-wing commentators so high that we fear physical injury or permanent disfigurement. . . . → Read More: CIA’s McCarthy guilty of driving while Democrat? Today at the White House I asked Scott McClellan about this bombshell buried near the end of R. Jeffrey Smith and Dafna Linzer’s ‘s article on the firing of Mary McCarthy from the CIA in last Sunday’s Washington Post: “The White House also has recently barraged the agency with questions about the political affiliations of some of its senior intelligence officers, according to intelligence officials.” . . . → Read More: Is the White House conducting a political purge at the CIA? Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root spent more than $75 million in Iraq on a pipeline project engineers say was doomed before it began. A long New York Times story provides details on the project, which accomplished, literally, nothing. . . . → Read More: New York Times on KBR: money for nothing in Iraq On April 24, Wall Street Journal opinion columnist John Fund penned an attack on University of Michigan professor Juan Cole. The column was an attempt to block Cole’s appointment to a Yale University professorship, and it included at least one outright lie. Fund has not responded to repeated requests from Cole to retract the lie. . . . → Read More: Wall Street Journal’s John Fund: liar and coward? New York Times White House correspondent David Sanger offered a bone weary farewell to Scott McClellan in Sunday’s edition of the paper. Along the way, he suggests abandoning the press briefings, and that cameras in the press room have turned reporters into posturing juveniles. . . . → Read More: New York Times: Cameras turn reporters into twits The image in the one-sheet for this film shows the four actresses –Jennifer Aniston, Joan Cusack, Catherine Keener and Frances McDormand – in what looks like dress-up clothes found in a relative’s attic. From the lighting and windows behind them, they’re clearly in a warehouse. As strangely attired as they all are, they don’t really seem connected to one another by anything other than closeness in age. . . . → Read More: Friends with Money Richard Armitage, the number two man at Colin Powell’s state department, has been knighted for making “an important contribution to British interests.” Presumably this is a reference to his diplomatic exertions on behalf of the invasion of Iraq. . . . → Read More: OMG: Meet Richard Armitage, Knight Commander US intelligence czar John Negroponte told an audience at the National Press Club Thursday that Iran is years away from obtaining nuclear weapons. Tuesday, US military czar Donald Rumsfeld told right-wing talk show host Laura Ingraham that he doesn’t trust US intelligence estimates on Iran’s nuclear program. Today, US presidency czar George W. Bush skirted the issue entirely to remind Americans once again that we invaded Iraq and exposed that country’s citizens to horrific violence from terrorists and others “so we do not have to face them here at home.” . . . → Read More: A yawn from John, a yaw from Don, a blink from Bush |
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Another year, another whopping increase in terrorism, another lame excuse
Today the U.S. government released its 2005 report on worldwide terrorism, which reveals that, compared to the figures for 2004, the number of terrorist attacks more than tripled and the number of people killed in those attacks more than doubled. The hard data: 14,602 killed in 11,111 attacks. . . . → Read More: Another year, another whopping increase in terrorism, another lame excuse