122^nd in continuing blog series on the administration push to war. In summer of 2004, the news keeps coming out—about administration uses of the intelligence community leading up to the Iraq war—and a consensus begins to emerge, that intelligence was indeed misused. Regrettably, that soft consensus does not provide enough impetus for hard action. Meanwhile, the White House continues to take its own measures to maintain position.
July, 2004:

July 6, 2004 – A hearing is held in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on Matthew Cooper’s motion to quash the subpoena issued by the ...   more »