Archive for July of 2007
Independence Day 2007 For You And Me
July 03, 2007Tags: Scooter Libby, Cheney, Neocons, Iraq, Fitzgerald, Bush, Commute, Pardon, Obstrusction of Justice
Scooterus Sejanus Beneficium
July 02, 2007
Two interesting and intertwined stories collide. First, Lynne Olson, author of the feted “Troublesome Young Men”, the story of Churchill's wilderness years leading up to 1940 and immortality, spanks Bush, the Neocons and the whole Likudite effort to hijack Winston as their own revisionist mascost.
The WaPo is increasingly irrelevant as a journalistic force and even a useful local information source (witness Sunday's incredibly inane effort to promote their young hip Internet reporters against the WaPo rebel kids who left to found Politico.com. The WaPo scoop? People should use BCC instead of CC on Capitol Hill when sending mass emails. We almost sobbed at the temporary nadir, soon to be surpassed.)
But the Olson piece is a pleasant surprise. Read the whole thing as the ex-space-law power tool law firm associate-turned-blogger says. The Walter Reed stories and a few other glimmers at the WaPo, too — but so much empty banality.
Then, the Imperator of the White House grounds (and little else) bestows Scooter's Neocon-VC (and in this case not even politically postumously).
We were never a blog site that devled into the feral debates and arcana of the L'Affaire Wilson. The case against the WH et al. seemed clear to the Stiftung from the outset. We have always suspected from knowing Grover et al. that this WH ran an enemies list operation that would make Erlichman blush, and from outing Plame to selective IRS audits is how we know and suspect these guys roll.
Moreover, from the outset the details bored the Stiftung and were often wrong when reported. In truth, Firedoglake and the other usual suspects will serve you better, Dear Reader, if this issue is of concern. Those people, more than the traditional media, brought this story to the American people and deserve your readership. We could never match their expertise on the case even if we wanted to try.
The WaPo is increasingly irrelevant as a journalistic force and even a useful local information source (witness Sunday's incredibly inane effort to promote their young hip Internet reporters against the WaPo rebel kids who left to found Politico.com. The WaPo scoop? People should use BCC instead of CC on Capitol Hill when sending mass emails. We almost sobbed at the temporary nadir, soon to be surpassed.)
But the Olson piece is a pleasant surprise. Read the whole thing as the ex-space-law power tool law firm associate-turned-blogger says. The Walter Reed stories and a few other glimmers at the WaPo, too — but so much empty banality.
Then, the Imperator of the White House grounds (and little else) bestows Scooter's Neocon-VC (and in this case not even politically postumously).
We were never a blog site that devled into the feral debates and arcana of the L'Affaire Wilson. The case against the WH et al. seemed clear to the Stiftung from the outset. We have always suspected from knowing Grover et al. that this WH ran an enemies list operation that would make Erlichman blush, and from outing Plame to selective IRS audits is how we know and suspect these guys roll.
Moreover, from the outset the details bored the Stiftung and were often wrong when reported. In truth, Firedoglake and the other usual suspects will serve you better, Dear Reader, if this issue is of concern. Those people, more than the traditional media, brought this story to the American people and deserve your readership. We could never match their expertise on the case even if we wanted to try.