Author: BooMan

What the Libby Trial Is Really About

While we are waiting for the jury to come to its verdict in the Scooter Libby trial, I thought I would do a little run down of what this trial is really all about. And, no, it is not all about whether Scooter Libby lied to the...

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Open Thread

From the Department of Stupid: MEET THE PRESS, March 16, 2003. MR. RUSSERT: And you are convinced the Kurds, the Sunnis, the Shiites will come together in a democracy? VICE PRES. CHENEY: They have so far. One of the things that...

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A Look Back at the Pre-War Lieberman

Sometimes it pays to revisit history. On February 4, 2002, the Financial Times (LexisNexis) reported about the security meeting in Munich. Annual meetings in Munich of top defence experts from both sides of the Atlantic have...

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Potential Mistrial in the Libby Case

Via firedoglake: ***BREAKING: There has been exposure of at least one of the jurors to media coverage of the trial. There is discussion going on in chambers with Judge Walton and counsel for both sides as to how to proceed....

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Lieberman Wants Another Friedman

Joe Lieberman has done it again. He has taken to the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal to call for another six months of war in Iraq (aka one more Friedman unit). I appeal to my colleagues in Congress to step back and...

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