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For those who just cannot get enough on the Sibel Edmonds story, there is a new posting over at Bradblog by Brad Friedman http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7449 regarding the testimony of FBI Counterintelligence officer John Cole.
Friedman relates how “An 18-year Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Manager for the FBI has called for a Special Counsel to be appointed to investigate the [...]
From Bloomberg, Johnathan Weil reports a US prosecutor says a stolen Goldman Sachs computer program capable of manipulating global markets may fall into the wrong hands (wrong being other than the world’s most powerful investment bank). About the first of this month Goldman notified authorities that former employee Sergey Aleynikov, not content with post-its and [...]
From Todd Purdum’s Vanity Fair profile of Palin, a week or two back:
Surveying the landscape of political and policy troubles in Alaska, Gregg Erickson, an independent economic consultant in Juneau, concludes, “Everything she’s doing seems to be saying that there’ll be a problem in the future owing to her inattention, but she won’t be here [...]
On June 8, 1967, Israeli forces knowingly attacked an American intelligence ship off the coast of Egypt. Thirty-four Americans were killed.
The Johnson administration responded by rushing to coverup the facts.
James Bamford, author of Body of Secrets, has unearthed massive evidence proving that the Israelis had definitely identified the ship as American before they sought to [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Scandal, War
On the eve of the New Year, Gov. Rod Blagojevich, charged with conspiring to sell the Senate seat of Barack Obama, put the ball back squarely in the court of a Democratic Party that had disowned him.
Blago named Roland Burris, former attorney general of Illinois and first African-American ever to win statewide office, to fill [...]
With the defeat of John McCain, have we at last seen the end of the neocons? Don’t bet on it, says Jacob Heilbrunn, even if the neocons may be splitting into rival New York and D.C. camps.
Justin Raimondo wishes Rod Blagojevich a very merry Fitzmas. Poor Blago isn’t much different from any other politician [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Magazines, Politics, Scandal
“De mortuis nil nisi bonum.”
Of the dead, nothing but good.
So said Dean Acheson of Sen. Joe McCarthy on his death in 1957. “Tailgunner Joe” had bedeviled the secretary of state for his lassitude toward communist penetration of State in President Truman’s time.
But the passing of Mark Felt, associate director of the FBI in the later [...]
“Something is rotten in the state,” says Marcellus in “Hamlet.”
Well, it certainly is in the state of Illinois.
Yet on hearing U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald describe a plot by his governor to sell his Senate seat — “conduct (that) would make Lincoln roll over in his grave” — how did reform President Barack Obama respond?
“I had [...]
Filed under: Scandal