BIG BUSH NEWS: Does the President Plan to Fire Himself?

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I was writing a post on Cynthia McKinney’s theatrics, but the news has been gushing in that President Bush authorized the “leaking” of secret information to the media. From my quick review, the most authoritative and I think the first writer to break the news was Joshua Gerstein at the New York Sun.

On Iran, Intelligence-Blind American War Planners Should Consult with the Better-Informed Israelis

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Chris Nelson, publisher of the “Nelson Report” As I stated on Christopher Lydon’s NPR show, Radio Open Source, tonight — one of the take-aways from my recent Israel trip is that Israeli national security bureaucrats — diplomats and generals — have far greater confidence that there are numerous potential solutions to the growing Iran crisis…

I Want to Offer Tom DeLay a <em>TWN</em> Fellowship

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I’ve got no inside track on DeLay, but I imagine that whatever prosecutors were wringing out of his line of former top aides who are pleading guilty one after another to fraud and corruption charges had something to do with DeLay’s announcement yesterday.

Koizumi’s “Liberal” Problem

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One probably has to be addicted to the soap opera that is Japanese politics to get the laugh I did out of the news that Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party wants to drop “Liberal” from its English-language name.

Leopold Reports that Fitzgerald Close to Securing Indictment Against Rove

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I have not been able to confirm a key point in this methodical and carefully ordered account by Jason Leopold of Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation of the Valerie Plame Wilson leak that states that the government investigator “is now preparing the paperwork to present a grand jury outlining the charges against Rove in hopes of securing…