About an hour ago I received a call from Jane Harman’s–uh, embarrassed–chief of staff saying that after her conversation with me yesterday, she changed her mind and voted against the war funding. I like Harman a lot. She is one of the best-informed Democrats on intelligence matters but….Yikes. If there’s more from the Harman camp [...]
will certainly include reading the sentencing memo that the government filed today asking that he be given 30-37 months. Here’s the key part: IV. Conclusion Mr. Libby, a high-ranking public official and experienced lawyer, lied repeatedly and blatantly about matters at the heart of a criminal investigation concerning the disclosure of a covert intelligence officer’s [...]
I’ve been reading the back and forth between Jay and our commenters regarding the Hillary books. And I found myself agreeing with Jay’s observation: It is news, I think, that Hillary had a “serious fear” that she might be indicted for perjury or obstruction during the Whitewater investigation. Covering the Clinton White House at the [...]
Our editor says that polls are the “crack of political reporting,” but they’re more like powdered cocaine: hard to get, expensive, a quality high that gets spread around the whole party. The real crack of political reporting are political catfights: cheap, fast, generally leading to poor decision making and lost teeth. [Swampland does not encourage [...]
I want to respond to some of the early reaction out there to my post on the two Hillary books about to be published. The post takes note of the front-page story in the WP this morning about the two books, judges the revelations in the books (as reported in the WP story) to be [...]
So what are we to make of the Washington Post story today about the two, soon-to-be-published tomes on Hillary Rodham Clinton? Based on the story, neither book is very flattering. But again, based on the WashPo story (because we haven’t scored copies of the books yet), the revelations contained in the books are not of [...]
I can confirm, through military and intelligence sources, part of Steve Clemons’ account of Cheney’s crazed bellicosity regarding Iran. In fact, having just received a second-source confirmation of the following story, I was intending to post it today: Last December, as Rumsfeld was leaving, President Bush met with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in “The [...]
I was wrong, sadly, last week to say that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama would vote for the Iraq supplemental bill. They voted against. As readers here know, I would have voted for the bill. Voting against it means you’re in favor of a precipitous departure from Iraq. I’m for a careful departure from Iraq, [...]
