Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-New York) has introduced legislation to compensate Richard Barlow, the intelligence official fired for telling the truth about Pakistan's nuclear activities.

The press release reads in part,

"Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) introduced legislation today to compensate Richard Barlow, a former high-level CIA and Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) counter-proliferation intelligence officer.  In the late 1980’s Barlow was essentially forced out of his job after informing his superiors that Congress was being lied to about Pakistan's efforts to acquire nuclear weapons.  Within days after expressing his concerns inside OSD, Mr. Barlow was issued a notice ...   more »

Hillary Clinton on March 6, 2008, to Time magazine:

[Q] “One group that probably ultimately wouldn't want it to go on too long is the Democratic Party itself. Can you envision a point at which — if the race stays this close — and with the difficulties that everyone has analyzed in accumulating enough delegates to get any distance ahead where party elders would step in and say "Senators Clinton and Obama, this is now hurting the party and whoever will be the nominee in the fall. We need to figure this out."
[A] “No I really can't. ...   more »

Hillary Clinton's final speech today--"I endorse [Barack Obama] and throw my full support behind him"--probably hit enough of the markers politically.

There is one puzzling detail, however, in her summation of the last 40 years: In the forty years since she first became involved in politics, Clinton said, "Democrats won only three times, and the man who won two of those [elections] is here with us today."

So, nothing there for Al Gore. Nothing for John Kerry. Nothing for moveon.org. Nothing for the bipartisan, nonpartisan and volunteer efforts of researchers and others who have worked tirelessly since the 2000 ...   more »

Looking forward to reading Vincent Bugliosi’s most recent book

 
Former prosecutor and lively writer Vincent Bugliosi, author of among other books The Betrayal of America, about Bush v. Gore, has now come out with The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. I look forward to reading it, have it on order as a Buzzflash ‘premium.’

 
But it wd be wrong to leave all the work to Bugliosi. Now with the weight of blogging the Plame-Kokal-Niger timeline lifted, I have a civic obligation further to try to pull together some threads suggested by the rich ...   more »

Picking up where I left off [smile]:)-- today, the Senate Intelligence Committee announced its release, finally, of 'Phase II'--the Committee report on administration use of intelligence and presentation of evidence in the more-than-a-year-long run-up to invading Iraq.

From the Committee:
"Washington, DC -- The Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, and a bipartisan majority of the Committee (10-5), today unveiled the final two sections of its Phase II report on prewar intelligence.  The first report details Administration prewar statements that, on numerous occasions, misrepresented the intelligence and the threat from Iraq. The second report details inappropriate, sensitive ...   more »

WITNESS TO A CRIME -- AVAILABLE ONLINE

[Passed along re election fraud expert Richard Hayes Phillips. Read (after buying) and weep--or rather, read and resolve to fix the problems.]


"Richard Hayes Phillips has been the leading investigator of the fraudulent 2004 presidential
election in Ohio.  His work was relied upon by John Conyers in challenging the Ohio electors in Congress, by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in his article for Rolling Stone magazine, and by Algenon L. Marbley in issuing his federal court order protecting the ballots from
destruction.  Assisted by teams of volunteers equipped with digital cameras, Phillips amassed some ...   more »

138^th and final post in continuing blog series on the administration push to war. As 2005 winds to a close, the White House and the Office of the Vice President put all their energies in trying to defend the indefensible. The purpose, aside from self-protection, is simple: to stymie any investigation, any press reporting, any citizen action, that would bring about a withdrawal from Iraq. The Bush-Cheney objective is what it has been since before the 2000 election, to move into Iraq and to remain there.
December 2005:

 

Dec. 19, 2005 – Vice President Cheney is interviewed ...   more »

137^th in continuing blog series on the administration push to war. As fall 2005 rolls on, with no elections in immediate view, investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of Valerie Plame as a CIA officer continues, and the media become even more interested.

November 2005:

 

Nov. 3, 2005 – Bob Woodward’s source for the item on Valerie Plame, Richard Armitage, tells the office of Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald that Bob Woodward was given the item about Wilson’s wife.

 

Same day -- Fitzgerald’s office gets in touch with Bob Woodward.

 

Nov. 9, 2005 – The New ...   more »