Author: Larry Johnson

Vice President Cheney, Chef in Chief

The evidence now on the public record is overwhelming and, if we could have a jury, Vice President Dick Cheney would be found guilty of cooking the intelligence and lying us into war. Three remarkable and compelling pieces of...

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Is President Bush SWIFT?

Outrage voiced today by President Bush, whether feigned or genuine, over recent news that the U.S. Government is using bank data to track terrorists, is disturbing because it reveals how little the President knows about tracking...

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Preparing For Retreat

When the history of our misadventure in Iraq is written, scholars will focus on our failure to mount a counterinsurgency strategy while wasting our resources on counterterrorism operations that inadvertently fed the...

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So Called Iraqi WMD

Senator Rick Santorum’s desperate effort to reenergize his failing re-election campaign by touting the discovery of so-called Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. Repeat after me, BULL FECAL MATTER! Leave it to Faux, er, I...

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Miami’s Al Qaeda Cell?

Before you join the media horde trumpeting the arrests of alleged members of a fledgling Al Qaeda cell in Miami, a couple of notes of caution.  Initial reports are usually wrong and hyped.  Remember the arrest of the...

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