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Save Your Money and Your Time »

A new book, The Human Factor by “Ishmael Jones” claims to be an insiders story of the CIA who details its many dysfunctions. The first warning sign that this book is a joke is the fact that it is endorsed by neocon columnist, Max Boot. Boot, who has never worked with the CIA [...]

Steve Clemons: Gen. Clark Is Not Welcome at the Democratic National Convention »

Steve Clemons is one of the classiest and most fair-minded people I know. He makes every effort to always give people the benefit of the doubt. He demonstrates in every action and in all of his writings the “Golden Rule.”
Furthermore, if you’ve ever been lucky enough to have turned on C-Span during [...]

The Donna Brazile - Karl Rove Connection »

A guest column from the newspaper, TheCityEdition.com || Letters to the Editor

In order to “save” the Democratic Party, Brazile resolved back in 2003 that she might have to destroy it first. And who better to help her in this lofty pursuit than her new best friend, the man neoconservatives call “The Architect”.
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BY ROSEMARY REGELLO
It’s not [...]

NQ Radio: 10 a.m. ET Today [Update: The Archived Show Is Available] »

UPDATE: CLICK HERE to listen to this terrific show. From Valerie, we got a fascinating description of the life of a CIA agent, and from Joe we got a great history lesson on the lead-up to the Iraq War. Larry Johnson added important details and perspectives, and we got some great phone calls. [...]

No Quarter Launches Radio Show with Larry Johnson »

For Immediate Release
July
12, 2008
Premier Guests: Valerie Plame Wilson and Ambassador Joe Wilson
Washington, DC - NO QUARTER RADIO Live Internet Talk enters new territory with "Security Corner," hosted by Larry Johnson, a discredited CIA officer who is despised by the extremes on both the right and the left. (Must be doing something [...]

Chutzpah, Thy Name is Rove »

Karl Rove is one jolly fat man. With George Carlin well on his way to being worm food, looks like Karl is angling to become America’s new funny man. I refer of course to Karl’s outrage that the “NY Times outed a CIA officer.” Appearing on Bill O’Reilly’s show yesterday, Rove and [...]

Enough »

It’s hard to post when your bloggy compatriots are doing such an able job of covering and analyzing the salient points of what’s amounting to be a debacle, but after last night I thought it was time to emerge from my bunker and have at it.
What we’re looking at here is one of the most [...]

Joe & Valerie Plame Wilson for Hillary »

The Clinton campaign released this television ad today in Oregon:

Ambassador Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame Wilson believe Hillary has the strongest plan for ending the war in Iraq.

Obama’s illusions on foreign policy »

Re-printed from the Philadelphia Inquirer with express permission.
Joseph C. Wilson IV is a retired career diplomat, a former U.S. ambassador, presidential foreign-policy adviser, and author of “The Politics of Truth”
Sen. Barack Obama declared in Pennsylvania on March 27 that his foreign policy would “return” to that of George H.W. Bush and that Sens. John McCain [...]

Smears and Tears: How Obama’s National Security Week Turned Into the Mendacity of Hype »

Originally published at Huffington Post. Reprinted here with express permission.
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The past week marked the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War and the milestone of the 4,000th American soldier killed in that disastrous adventure.
Commemorating and underscoring the urgent need for a new policy direction, Senator Clinton delivered a serious and detailed address clearly setting out [...]

Valerie Plame Wilson - Wide Open Thread »

UPDATE: If you have a Daily Kos account, please recommend this diary: “Forget the Flowers - Send Hillary Some Love Today.” (Alegre’s wonderful diary is hanging in there at the bottom of the recommended list — let’s help her move it up!) (There’s an ADDITIONAL UPDATE below the fold.)
ORIGINAL: News from Hollywood, via Huffington [...]

FBI Denies File Exposing Nuclear Secrets Theft »

[To click on the countries in the BBC map, go here.]
Following up on Larry’s post two weeks ago about how Sibel Edmonds is finally getting her story out, the Times of London reports today that:
THE FBI has been accused of covering up a key case file detailing evidence against corrupt government officials and their [...]

How Kumbayah! Obama’s Top Attorney Wants to Pardon Scooter Libby! »

Those are big smooches landing smack on Scooter’s “other cheek.” I did not know this. But, Jane Hampsher at FireDogLake, who covered the Scooter Libby trial like no other blogger, had plenty to say: “Pardoning Scooter — Still A Bad Idea, Senator Obama.” Here’s the scoop from The Hill about Obama’s top general counsel:

I AM FULL! (And You?) + OPEN THREAD »

Just a little pot/kettle fun: If Harold Ford hadn’t gotten so desperate and gone nauseatingly phony, rightwing, and over-the-top come-to-Jesus at the end of his Senate campaign, Tennessee wouldn’t have that intellectual giant Bob Corker as its new junior senator. However, even Sen. Corker sees the problem in the White House: About [...]

Sunday Is For Contact Sports (& Mo’ Open Threads) »

Football’s not the only national Sunday contact sport. (However, I am curious: Do any of you think the Patriots can (will?) lose a game this season?)
Memo to the Obama campaign from the regulars at No Quarter who know what Novak is capable of and who followed every minute of “Plamegate”: CONSIDER THE [...]

Electronic Politics Asks: “What Is Torture?” »

George Kenney has some strong opinions on torture — and the dirth of discussion in the MSM:
[I]t seems to me that it’s newsworthy when a person in that position [Manfred Nowak, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture] says (1) waterboarding is unequivocally torture and (2) that U.S. officials must be held to account by [...]

Friday Fizzle, Sizzle + WIDE OPEN THREAD »

UPDATE — A Fun Interview with Valerie Plame Wilson on Her Movie Deal: “Plame on spy movies and going Hollywood,” at Politico.com (Tidbits: “We have a powerful script.” … “[T]here’s a story of political intrigue, an espionage story and a love story. It’s about the loss of innocence, about speaking truth to power. And [...]

Fixing Intelligence–Larry Interviews Val »

With Electric Politics providing some technical assistance, Larry Johnson interviews his former CIA classmate Valerie Plame Wilson, author of Fair Game. Click the “Audio mp3″ icon to listen or download here. Total runtime thirty five minutes (and please use the link on this page to buy the book).
It’s a fascinating conversation between two seasoned intelligence [...]

Wilson Case Dismissed »

Posted by Jim Marcinkowski
SECRET/NOFORN/NOMORONS/NOREPUBS/NOPOLITOCOS/NOHACKS
TO: CIA STATIONS WORLDWIDE
FM: LEGAL COUNSEL – LANGLEY, VIRGINIA
RE: DISMISSAL OF WILSON/PLAME DISCLOSURE CASE – SUMMARY
REF: Valerie Plame Wilson et al v. I. Lewis Libby, et al.
As you are no doubt aware, last week Judge John D. Bates of the federal district court in WDC dismissed the Wilson case. While you operate overseas in [...]

Wait, Wait, Tell Me, Patrick Fitzgerald! (Open Thread) »

Patrick Fitzgerald gets quizzed on today’s airing of the deservedly popular NPR show, “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me.” Reports the Progress Report:
[Thursday], in a “rare public appearance,” U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald “submitted himself to questions as a guest on Chicago Public Radio’s comedic quiz show, ‘Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me.’” Although “Fitzgerald flunked the quiz, a [...]