Author: BooMan

This is just a guess, but I’d put money down that George W. Bush will preemptively pardon Harriet Miers and Alberto Gonzales on Christmas Eve. Bush’s father pardoned the Iran-Contra crew on Christmas Eve 1992, and it...

There are roughly eighteen intelligence gathering agencies in the U.S. Government. Most people lazily lump them all together under the rubric of the CIA. The CIA has two main missions, and some minor ones. The CIA has an...

One thing Stuart Rothenberg should do before he puts finger to keypad is ask himself how many lives have been lost (in a global sense) because of the United States government following the advice of punditheads on MSNBC. And...

Word on the street is that Obama will nominate Bill Richardson tomorrow morning as his Commerce Secretary. Without being critical of this selection, I don’t think it is the best use of Richardson’s talents. I’d...

I have tremendous respect for Glenn Greenwald. He’s one of, if not the best bloggers in the business. But he has a reading comprehension problem. Today he has decided to mock me for alleged beltway journalism. I had the...