I don’t have time to watch Fox News often, but I’d like to think that if I did, I would watch Glenn Beck. More Beck magic after the jump.
Looks like the charade of including Chuck Grassley and Mike Enzi in the health care negotiations is over. It is not impossible that other Republicans who are not Senators from Maine can be located to support health care reform. But it’s also entirely possible that the Republicans will continue their kamikaze ways and oppose a [...]
Yesterday, I wrote about Dick Cheney’s claim on Fox News Sunday that he does not object to those CIA employees who went beyond legal authorizations during interrogations. Today, I am still wading through the hundreds of pages of once-classified documents that were released last week. And I was struck by this passage, in a December [...]
Tony Cordesman, the well-known and -regarded military expert, makes the case for more of everything in Afghanistan today. But there is a giant hole in the middle of his argument.
Twice in the past month, my private communications have been splashed about the internet. That such a thing would happen is unfortunate, and dishonorable, but sadly inevitable, I suppose. I ignored the first case, in which a rather pathetic woman acolyte of Greenwald’s published a hyperbolic account of a conversation I had with her at [...]
Two former editors of mine, Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffrey, weigh in with a reality check on the news business, which is a must read. I don’t agree with their contention that the ad-based model is over; it is just shifting dramatically under the pressure of a major recession, to the detriment of just about [...]
The headlines are all the rage in Washington, D.C., today: Tom Ridge, the first secretary of Homeland Security, is “backpedaling” on his claim that he was pressured to raise the terror alert. “Ridge backpedals on pressure to raise terror alert level,” announces a headline in USA Today, which was picked up by Politico’s Mike Allen [...]
Regular readers know that I’ve not had much positive to say about John McCain in recent years, but his smackdown of the odious Dick Cheney on the subject of torture is worth celebrating. In fact, after some reflection, I’ve changed my mind and agree with McCain on both sides of the torture equation–that it is [...]
On July 20, 2007, the Bush Administration’s Office of Legal Counsel issued a memo authorizing the CIA to use forced stress positions to keep certain Al Qaeda detainees awake for four days, or longer with additional approval. In making this argument, deputy assistant attorney general Steven Bradbury cited a classified CIA briefing for certain members [...]
Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace was able to get an important, and clarifying, admission from Vice President Dick Cheney in an interview that was broadcast today. Wallace mentions a list of techniques that CIA agents are accused of using in violation of the legal guidance that the Bush Administration established. These include threatening a naked [...]
