John Dean Sends Woodward a Letter
There is no way anyone who is remotely familiar with Fitzgerald's history--or Dean's attentiveness to the Plame Affair--would take this line from John Dean's recent letter seriously:
I believe that you were selected with theexpectation that you would conduct the narrowest of investigations, andit seems you have done just that.
Fitzgerald is famous for diligently, patiently, meticulously grabbing hold of one tiny thread of a crime and with it shredding giant conspiracies.
Utilitarian Postmodernists and the Office of Special Plans
I've always been curious about the Gary Schmitt and Abram Shulsky (S&S) essay "Leo Strauss and the World of Intelligence (By Which We Do Not Mean Nous)." But I was too lazy to hunt it down. Now that Pat Lang has helpfully provided a…
Trent Lott: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
I suggested yesterday that Lott's outspokenness against torture was more pragmatic than ideological. He ruined Fristy's little PR stunt--of hunting down the leaker of the news that we've got secret prisons in eastern Europe--by revealing the leaker was probably a Republican Senator. But he did it, almost certainly, to piss off Frist, not to make a great stand against torture.
But Lott has an opportunity to really undercut Bush, Rove, and Frist.
How They Lied Us to War
Doug Jehl has a scathing article out providing clear evidence that the Administration knowingly used intelligence from a source deemed not credible to support their claim there were ties between Al Qaeda and Iraq.
A top member of Al Qaeda in American custody was identified as a likelyfabricator months before the Bush administration began to use hisstatements as the foundation for its claims that Iraq trained Al Qaedamembers to use biological and