I saw some of the remarks delivered at Camp Democracy on C-Span2 yesterday. Perhaps the scariest talk was given by veteran intelligence officer Ray McGovern. (You may remember him as the bearded, bespectacled gentledman who called Cheney on the "bulletproof" proof of Iraq's ties to Al Qaeda and his assertion that he knew where the WMD were. It ( Read more... )

A Foley-free post.

* Well, this isn't good.... Global warming is projected to cause massive drought in the next hundred years. This is apparently the first time they've modelled drought specifics with a supercomputer climate modelling program, and the result is extensive and severe droughts... which could still be under-estimates ( Read more... )

The U.S. thinks China may be the best bet to solve the North Korea situation. North Korea, though, wants talks directly with the U.S. I'm not precisely sure why we don't want those, except that we don't want to reward their missile launches or give them a bigger platform to make demands. Or maybe it's a tacit admission that our diplomatic ( Read more... )

Via Americablog, maggiesox, etc: NYT: CIA closes down unit looking for Bin Laden:

The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, intelligence officials confirmed Monday ( Read more... )

As printed in the Baltimore Sun:

Karl Rove, President Bush's top political adviser, will not face criminal charges, ending his jeopardy in a three-year investigation into the leak of a CIA agent's name to the press, his lawyer said today ( Read more... )

Excuse me... what??

On Wednesday afternoon in the U.S. Capitol, Distinguished Service Awards will be bestowed upon Vice President Dick Cheney and former CIA Director Porter Goss, two former House members selected by House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL), RAW STORY has found ( Read more... )

"CIA Director Porter J. Goss resigned today after less than two years on the job, President Bush announced at the White House."

Here's analysis from Georgia10 at DKos:
This isn't part of some White House shake-up. This is a scandal-plagued Bush appointee resigning just as an investigation into another Republican corruption scandal hits too close ( Read more... )

Story from WaPo:

CIA Director Porter J. Goss resigned today after less than two years on the job, President Bush announced at the White House ( Read more... )