Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Media, Politics As Usual, The Regime on Sep 30th, 2003
Now, be honest. Can you really see Andrea Mitchell going to jail to protect Karl Rove over outing Valerie Plame?
First Amendment protection. The U.S. Supreme Court last considered a constitutionally based reporter’s privilege in 1972 in Branzburg v. Hayes, 408 U.S. 665 (1972).
Justice Byron White, joined by three other justices, wrote the opinion for […]
Posted in General on Sep 30th, 2003
BREAKING NEWS!!!!
Again, via Atrios, Julian Borger of The Guardian says in an audio link:
Several of the journalists are saying privately, yes it was Karl Rove who I talked to. Now, the thing is that the journalists are not going to name Karl Rove publicly because you don’t name your sources, and to do so would […]
Posted in General on Sep 30th, 2003
Via Atrios, this is a hoot: A narrative of the Iraq war, told entirely in Bush lies.
The fundamental question was, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? And the answer was, absolutely. His regime had large, unaccounted-for stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons–including VX, sarin, cyclosarin, and mustard gas, anthrax, botulism, and possibly smallpox. Our […]
Posted in General on Sep 30th, 2003
RUMPELSTILTSKIN IS MY NAME, STRAW TO GOLD IS MY GAME
Actually, the little man weaving straw into gold is Ed Gillespie, the RNC’s chinless wonder. (Is his and Charles Krauthammer’s rage due simply to the lack of a competent plastic surgeon? Hmm… must give this one some thought.)
Just saw him on CNN and man, he actually […]
Posted in Blind Justice, Politics As Usual, The Regime on Sep 30th, 2003
Sen. Schumer’s on CSPAN right now, calling for a special prosecutor. He said the Justice Department recommended last night that the White House counsel send out an email telling employees to retain emails and phone logs for the Plame investigation.
White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales asked if it was okay to wait “until the morning.” Justice […]
Posted in General on Sep 30th, 2003
Jack Slate on the Plame Game:
The hidden good news in the Wilson-Novak-Plame melodrama is that it disproves a thesis that jaundiced readers, myself included, have about the weakness Washington reporters have for anonymous sources bearing scoops. Any of the six journalists who were offered the Plame story and declined to run with it could have […]
Posted in General on Sep 30th, 2003
ABC’S The Note has it all for you:
It might not be fair and it might not be right, but 480 members out of the Gang of 500 have the same theory about what happened, and The Note’s strong belief in the First Amendment makes us duty bound to tell you about this operating premise.
Based on […]
Posted in General on Sep 30th, 2003
My piece on Open Source Politics is up.
Posted in General on Sep 30th, 2003
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Posted in General on Sep 30th, 2003
Liar, liar, pants on fire:
The leading Democrat on the House intelligence committee yesterday strongly disputed the assertion by national security adviser Condoleezza Rice that there was new information to support the claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction before the war and was a looming threat to the United States.
“We don’t see the […]
Posted in General on Sep 30th, 2003
Why Karl? Why not?
Wilson said yesterday that he believes Rove “at a minimum condoned the leak,” but said he has no evidence Rove was the original leaker. Wilson said that based on reporters’ statements, he believes Rove participated in calls that drew attention to his wife’s occupation after Novak’s column was published. “My knowledge is […]
Posted in General on Sep 30th, 2003
Shorter David Brooks:
Even though their objections are founded in facts, Democrats should stop demonizing George Bush because it’s not very polite. And yes, I should have insisted more loudly on better manners when our side did it. For example, Richard Scaife was holding his knife incorrectly when he repeatedly stabbed Clinton in the back. […]
Posted in General on Sep 30th, 2003
Krugman on “Who’s sordid now?”
Cronyism is an important factor in our Iraqi debacle. It’s not just that reconstruction is much more expensive than it should be. The really important thing is that cronyism is warping policy: by treating contracts as prizes to be handed to their friends, administration officials are delaying Iraq’s recovery, with potentially […]
Posted in General on Sep 30th, 2003
Seems like the perfect political storm is brewing.
For Democrats, it is a powerful symbol of a sluggish economy, of a lack of federal money to deal with domestic problems because of the deficit and the war in Iraq and of what they say is the Bush administration’s insensitivity to the needs of the home front. […]
Posted in General on Sep 30th, 2003
Look like someone at the New York Times is reading Josh Marshall. A day late and a dollar short…
Posted in General on Sep 30th, 2003
I don’t understand. What happened to the rule of law?If no one did anything wrong, why wouldn’t they want to be cleared?
The White House sought today to head off the calls for a special counsel as numerous Democratic lawmakers and presidential candidates said they doubted that the Justice Department could investigate without at least the […]
Posted in General on Sep 29th, 2003
Mark Kleiman’s been all over the Plame story since the beginning. Check out this post from today’s Open Source Politics.
Posted in General on Sep 29th, 2003
Got home in time to see Novak on Crossfire. He’s saying it wasn’t a White House leak, it was merely an aside in the context of discussing the Niger yellow cake story. And there’s some Republicon congressman saying “well, she wasn’t killed and she probably didn’t even have a covert job, so what’s the big […]
Posted in Media, The Regime on Sep 29th, 2003
It’s been interesting, to say the least: reading the right-wing apologentsia on the Valerie Plame affair. It’s too complicated; it “doesn’t make sense.” It’s only the Bush haters, looking desperately for anything to hang on his administration. And they’re demanding a standard of proof that was lacking for even the most lurid of anti-Clinton allegations. […]
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2003
Okay, I simply have to stop blogging now. But you can head over to this comments thread at Daily Kos for the oddsmaking on whodunnit re: the Valerie Plame outing story.
And don’t forget: Joseph Wilson on CSPAN tomorrow at 7 a.m. Yee-HAW!
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2003
Think we’ll see a search of Bob Novak’s office for his cooperation in the revenge outing of Valerie Plame?
Federal law prohibits prohibits both federal and state officers and employees — including public school officials — from searching or seizing journalists’ “work product” or “documentary materials” in their possession even when the present a search warrant. […]
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2003
If it turns out we’re right, are these still conspiracy theories? Just wondering.
“The thing I hate most about Bush Co. is that they make me feel like a crazy conspiracy theorist.” -Molly Ivins
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Regime on Sep 28th, 2003
I was explaining to one of my friends just why this Valerie Plame CIA story is so important. (She was only seven when Nixon resigned, one step ahead of impeachment.) I spelled it out, but she really has nothing in her historical reference to prepare her for the enormous implications.
Just remember: No one really thought […]
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2003
THE CANCER ON THE PRESIDENCY IS GROWING…
From Daniel Drezner:
That won’t fly, for the simple reason that high-ranking members of the Bush administration apparently know that it wasn’t an “innocent mistake.” By telling the Post, it’s clear that some cabinet officials are not going to let this die quickly.
To which I say, good. What was […]
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2003
Kevin Drum speculates on the White House leak of Valerie Plame’s CIA status and why it’s significant:
WHO DID IT?….Based on emails and some surfing around the blogosphere, here are some guesses about who’s involved in the Plame scandal. The whistleblower in the Post story seems likely to be CIA Director George Tenet. The two White […]
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