The irony of the overly-secretive Bush White House is that they have incoherent standards — they’re leaking information that should be classified, but classifying old information that has sat on public book-shelves for years. In terms of recent, sensitive intelligence, the White House has authorized top staffers to disclose classified information to reporters about Iraq’s […]
At this point, I almost don’t care which energy goal the White House picks; I just want them to pick one and stick with it. Right now, that seems to be a bit too much to ask. From the State of the Union: “Breakthroughs on this and other new technologies will help us reach another […]
Daniel Henninger, deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, wrote an interesting column the other day about the reaction and intensity of scandals surrounding the Bush White House. He makes a provocative argument, but I’m afraid he has the situation backwards. Have you ever noticed how on a scale of one to 10, […]
This story didn’t generate much attention over the weekend, in part because it appeared in the Washington Post’s local section, but it’s a disturbing tale. Two uniformed men strolled into the main room of the Little Falls library in Bethesda one day last week and demanded the attention of all patrons using the computers. Then […]
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * A new Rasmussen poll out this morning in Pennsylvania shows the sizable gap between Rick Santorum and Bob Casey staying pretty much the same. The latest numbers show Casey up by 16 […]
Of all of the partisan attack dogs from the Swiftboat smear of 2004, few were as thoroughly discredited as Jerome Corsi. The man was not only caught lying about John Kerry’s heroic military service, Corsi was also exposed as a bigot, having condemned Islam and Roman Catholicism, among others. As Corsi once put it, “boy […]
Well, this certainly explains a lot. For Americans troubled by the prospect of federal agents eavesdropping on their phone conversations or combing through their Internet records, there is good news: A little-known board exists in the White House whose purpose is to ensure that privacy and civil liberties are protected in the fight against terrorism. […]
One of the more frustrating aspects to the Bush White House’s scandals is that, in almost every instance, they were warned about the very problem they were about to face. True to form, the Bush gang was convinced they knew better — dissent from the official line simply helped identify those who were insufficiently loyal. […]
Over the weekend, it seemed Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) had finally shown some independent thinking and was ready to exert some oversight on the Bush administration. After years of carrying water for the White House, Roberts’ change of heart on the president’s warrantless-search program was welcome and encouraging. It almost lasted a […]
Early last week, Media Matters published a terrific and well-researched report on the ideological slant that dominates the Sunday morning news/talk shows. The results helped highlight what many of us have noticed for years: “Republicans and conservatives have been offered more opportunities to appear on the Sunday shows – in some cases, dramatically so.” With […]