by Charley James
They’re baaaack..
Having disappeared under a rock after being exposed as frauds during Iraq on a scale matched only by the Wizard of Oz, the neo-con foreign policy lug nuts are sticking their heads out again, looking for a shadow by calling for renewing a policy that totally destroyed America’s moral, ethical and political [...]

by Charley James
Thanks to the movie website Corona Coming Attractions, there’s an advance review of the new film Fair Game, based on the book by Valerie Plame, the CIA case officer who was “outed” by the Bush Administration when her husband called the president a liar in The New York Times in July, 2003, for [...]

 
by Madeleine Begun Kane
My Homage To Feigned Outrage
May 14th, 2009
Republicans (and Joe Lieberman) have been staging yet another temper tantrum. What’s their grievance du jour? Speaker Nancy Pelosi said CIA leaders misled Congress about interrogation techniques.
The CIA’s under attack
By the Speaker who gave it a smack.
She accused it of lying.
The GOP’s crying:
She’s mean and must [...]

 
With George Bush, Dick Cheney and several surrogates telling interviewers that the 9/11 attacks couldn’t be anticipated, they were – not surprisingly – lying. As a result, this article Charley James first published in April 2005 at The Dissident Voice bears repeating as the outgoing administration tries rewriting history. The article reveals that a CIA “mole” [...]

by Charley James
Most of the discussion of Ron Suskind’s The Way of the World has focused on a single anecdote: The White House ordered the production of a rather clumsy forgery of a letter from the head of the Iraqi intelligence service to Saddam purporting to prove that Muhammad Atta trained in Iraq and that [...]

(Reprise article)
The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats they may be forced to serve in Iraq next year and says it will soon start identifying prime candidates for jobs at the Baghdad embassy and outlying provinces, according to a cable obtained by The Associated Press.
First one must applaud members of the Foreign Service for their [...]