Al-Jazeera News: All the bad news we don't want to hear.

If reporters who live by their sources were obliged to die by their sources, New York Times reporter Judith Miller would be stinking up her family tomb right now.
Judith Miller finds everybody associated with the failed search theoretically culpable except Judith Miller.

In April, Miller wrote a letter objecting to an Army commander's order to withdraw the unit, Mobile Exploitation Team Alpha, from the field. She said this would be a "waste" of time and suggested that she would write about it unfavorably in the Times.

American citizens, even the most unrepentant terrorists, are excluded from military commission trials by the terms of the presidential order creating the commissions. Substandard justice is somehow more noticeable and more galling when it affects a compatriot.
Military commissions are not fit for our own people; they are not suitable for our close allies, at least in their unadulterated form, but they're good enough for everybody else.

Bush who said, on October 4, 2001, “We need to counter the shock wave of the evildoer by having individual rate cuts accelerated and by thinking about tax rebates.”

Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki warned against burdening twelve divisions worth of duties on a ten-division Army in his retirement speech a month ago.
We forget, of course, that death is a growth stock for George W. Bush. Death gives him political cover to ramrod through his extremist policies.

An old Roman maxim states, “Let justice be done though the heavens fall.” There is no justice in all this, and the heavens are falling.

She steered reporters away from early stories, based on leaks, indicating that the Sept. 11 attacks could not have been prevented.
"The report did not say that, but I still see it out there in the media," Hill said. "The report strongly suggests it was possible to prevent the attacks."Hill grew insistent: "I was not going to leave that impression out there. Not only was it wrong, it would have sent the wrong message. It takes away the initiative to fix things when you say it could not have been prevented."

Chalabi also failed to appear with the Iraqi delegation in London.

What David Kay is leaving out of his bio these days is that until 2002, he was VP of SAIC, a company rolling in Bush defense contracts. Kay produced "retroactive" evidence of WMDs for Bush I. Now he's Bush and Tenet's pick to get the goods...tho' he was fired in 1992 from his UN job for unethical behavior.

Wolfowitz said in an interview on Fox News Sunday the two channels were guilty of ``very biased reporting that has the effect of inciting violence against our troops.''

"Instead of spending $50 million to be governor," Mayor Brown says, "a wealthy person can throw in $2 million for a recall and only need 20 percent of the vote to win."

Now, as the Prime Minister faces up to the expected resignations of Hoon and his communications director Campbell, he is set to come under intense pressure over his own role.

Paul Wolfowitz on Sunday defended the invasion of Iraq as an example of how the United States had to be prepared to act on "murky intelligence" in its war on terrorism.

Report findings include: FBI informant housed two of the hijackers; no link existed between Iraq and Al Qaeda; possible Saudi agent directly helped two hijackes; U.S. knew Al Qaeda was considering flying planes into buildings.

they quote a former director of the counterterrorism center saying strategic intelligence never saved a life.

Well, what we know about the August 6 briefing is that the President was told that -- that Al Qaeda may attack within the United States and that airplanes -- and it's possible airplane hijackings may be part of the plot. We don't know more than that because the President won't release that briefing, but it seems very suspicious.
If the Saudis didn't have the largest reserves of oil in the world, we would have no interest in Saudi Arabia. Just as if Iraq didn't have the second largest reserves of oil, I don't think we would have 150,000 American troops in Iraq.

Only a month ago, Liberians welcomed the prospect of U.S. intervention. Americans were treated to the rare sight of foreigners waving U.S. flags rather than burning them.