By Walter Pincus, Washington Post …U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth known for his outspoken nature, was the court’s chief judge from 1995 to 2002 and during that period was privy, he said, “to every deepest, darkest secret our country has.” His presentation Saturday, at the American Library Association’s convention, was probably the most revealing…
Raw Story Michael Isikoff is reporting “a new Cheney-Gonzales mystery” in the current issue of Newsweek. It has recently become known that Cheney’s office has refused to comply with an executive order requiring annual reports on security measures, claiming that the vice president is not part of the executive branch. The government official responsible for…
By Rowan Scarborough, San Francisco Examiner The White House is resisting a move by both Republicans and Democrats to fully declassify a Senate report on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. Republicans say the public disclosure would help show that the CIA made honest mistakes in its 2002 assessment that Iraq owned stockpiles of WMDs, when…
By Khody Akhavi, Alternet As the George W. Bush administration struggles through its last two years in office, it appears that the agenda of neoconservative ideologues has finally lost its appeal among strategic parts of the U.S. foreign policy apparatus. But as their influence has waned at the Pentagon and State Department, neo-conservative hawks have…
