Senior CIA official Mary McCarthy has denied leaking information to Dana Priest about the CIA’s secret Eastern European prisons. She has argued that she did not have access to intelligence about these prisons, though seems to be admitting to unauthorized discussions with journalists. A couple of comments.
Yesterday, former State Department Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson offered another installment in his own “straight talk express” in an article that appeared in the Baltimore Sun. He opens with a powerful blast that articulates what true nationalists in this country are feeling: In January 2001, with the inauguration of George W.
Another new tape. Osama Bin Laden and al Qaeda were always the ball George W. Bush, the Congress, and the Pentagon should have had their eye on. Saddam Hussein — though a thug who needed serious supervision — was a contrived, self-damaging distraction for this country.
Last night, in a speech before a Washington power crowd, Hu Jintao mentioned democracy nine times. Nine times — and his security team and intelligence/police forces did nothing about it. Jiang Lijun, however, mentions democracy in a draft, unsent email and is sentenced to four years in prison.
THE DECIDER IS DOWN TO 33% APPROVAL, and in a Fox News poll no less. Rumsfeld is down. Condi Rice is up. The good thing about new Bush Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten is that I’m sure he can count.
The last time I invested some serious time in what was percolating in the Fitzgerald investigation of the White House leak of Valerie Plame Wilson’s CIA role, the best I was able to get was to confirm that Karl Rove was “enthusiastically” cooperating with Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation and to confirm that Rove had helped lead…
I’ve not been real high on Washington Post editorials lately, but this one on Hu Jintao’s visit gets half-way to some important issues.
The Washington Post has run an important piece this morning on the rapidly increasing year on year costs of the Iraq War. Rather than becoming less expensive each year, American costs have increased, in constant dollars, each year.
My email has been overflowing today with comments and reactions about what I have written and said in a number of radio interviews about Iran. The comments on TWN and emails have been very helpful.
Evelyn Iritani of the Los Angeles Times wrote an interesting piece on Rob Portman’s departure as U.S. Trade Representative to serve as Joshua Bolten’s successor at the Office of Management and Budget. Susan Schwab, who is now one of three Deputy USTRs, will be succeeding Portman as America’s third female U.S.
