Entries by emptywheel

Once Again, Forgeries?

The news that the CIA may have forged a letter alleging ties between Al Qaeda and Iraq reminds me that OVP–particularly Scooter Libby–was the one behind many of the Iraq-Al Qaeda claims.

Anthrax Timeline

The media is finally beginning to question the story about Bruce Ivins (though Glenn is still schooling them). But here’s a question I see no one asking, much less answering. The LAT reported that attention began to focus on Ivins in “late 2006” only after FBI Director Mueller changed the leadership team on the investigation.

Federal investigators moved away from Hatfill — for years the only publicly identified “person of interest” —

The Count of Monte Cristo Was Not Fiction

As someone who received her PhD in Comparative Literature just months before Bush was selected and who has read maybe ten fictional books since I stopped teaching fiction, I feel obliged to point to–and comment on–Chris Bowers’ post on “The Rise of the Non-Fictional Aesthetic.”

This decade seems to have brought on a broad shift in the leftist aesthetic in America.

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