Via maggiesox: According to Seymour Hersh, the CIA has no firm evidence that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program.

Seymour Hersh, writing in an article for the November 27 issue of the magazine The New Yorker released in advance, reported on whether the administration of Republican President George W. Bush was more, or less, inclined to attack Iran ( Read more... )

patrickdean, and anybody else whose first instinct Thursday was that the timing of the British terror plot revelations was awfully convenient for Republican political spin, we were right:

NBC News has learned that U.S. and British authorities had a significant disagreement over when to move in on the suspects in the alleged plot to bring down trans-Atlantic ( Read more... )

~We were waist deep in the big muddy, the big fool says to push on~

/musical interlude

So, Cheney says we can't withdraw from Iraq because the terrorists will follow us.

"And it will continue -- whether we complete the job or not in Iraq -- only it'll get worse. Iraq will become a safe haven for terrorists. They'll use it in order to launch ( Read more... )

Or not. That's sort of what you'd get if you smooshed these stories together ( 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... )

The hypocrisy, it burns.
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney, in remarks that caused a stir in neighboring Russia, accused President Vladimir Putin Thursday of restricting the rights of citizens and said that "no legitimate interest is served" by turning energy resources into implements of blackmail ( Read more... )

So, Democratic and Republican senators are calling for Dick Cheney to be investigated in the Plame leak. As you may have heard, it was reported last Thursday that in his grand jury testomony, Lewis Libby rolled on Cheney. So what could make his weekend worse?

Well, today he shot somebodyAhahahahahhaha ( Read more... )

Suddenly, I heart Knoxville.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Vice President Dick Cheney was heckled by protesters Tuesday as he spoke at the groundbreaking for a public policy center honoring former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker ( Read more... )

From ThinkProgress, AmericaBlog and various other sites: Cheney May Be Entangled in CIA Leak Investigation. Eeeee.
A special counsel is focusing on whether Vice President Dick Cheney played a role in leaking a covert CIA agent's name, according to people familiar with the probe that already threatens top White House aides Karl Rove and Lewis Libby ( Read more... )

That's about what I'd be saying if I was stuck in Gulfport, Mississippi. From Rawstory:
During a discussion on hurricane relief efforts, an off camera protester shouts, "Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney. Go fuck yourself."


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