Author: Jeff Huber

Secretary of State Robert Gates seemed sober and subdued on Meet the Press last Sunday.  He was candid about the negative effect of Iraq’s Parliament taking August off while American troops continue to fight in...

We’re about to lose focus on the key issue behind a Bush administration scandal.  Again. Discussion of the Valerie Plame affair largely centered on what White House official had leaked a CIA agent’s identity and...

Fred Kagan wants you to have faith in the Iraq “surge” strategy.  You might expect that he would.  Kagan is, after all, the strategy’s chief architect.  A darling of the neoconservative elite,...

Here’s another one from the “Irony is Dead” file.   On Wednesday, Jim Rutenberg and Alissa J. Rubin of the New York Times revealed that George W. Bush has taken beleaguered Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri...

It’s been another week chock full of Bush administration double talk, starting off with the latest stall for time in the Iraq “surge” strategy. The New York Times reported that in closed-door videoconferences...