note - this was published in of all places…NWA
America is much bigger than any one person. We’re going to survive the likes of Karl Rove and Dick Cheney and George Bush. People around the world will be in love with America again someday. Even Iraq, somehow, will survive what’s been done to it. And yet […]

Why Rove cared 
And it’s not hard to believe that brass-knuckled Rove decided at some point that politically appointed federal prosecutors were important tools in his bag of tricks — tools that occasionally needed a little sharpening, or replacement.
Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein write in today’s Washington Post: “Nearly half the U.S. attorneys slated for removal […]

More dithering in Congress equals more chaos.
A MAKE-OR-BREAK point has arrived in this country’s effort to enact meaningful immigration reform. After failing last year to devise a way out of the deadlock that has left 12 million illegal immigrants in legal limbo, and the likely future influx of several hundred thousand new workers annually in […]

Running Out of Time in Iraq
 BAGHDAD — The streets are nearly deserted in the Sunni neighborhoods northwest of Baghdad as the Black Hawk helicopter skims over the city. U.S. military commanders say the residents are hiding indoors or have fled their homes to escape the sectarian violence that has been devouring many of Baghdad’s neighborhoods.
Driving […]

Tenet acknowledges in his book that he has helped Woodward, and the two were known to be friendly. In fact, Tenet met with Woodward before writing his memoir, in order to seek Woodward’s advice. In the book-review section of the Post on May 6th, Woodward called Tenet’s account a “remarkable, important and often unintentionally damning” […]