New York's subway system plot was a hoax

* huffpost: "The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg are working on stories that point to Vice President Dick Cheney as the target of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation into the leaking of CIA operative Valerie Plame's name." (link)

* " Outside the blind trusts he created to avoid a conflict of interest, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist earned tens of thousands of dollars from stock in a family-founded hospital chain largely controlled by his brother, documents show." (link)
when it rains...

* "Miers has two characteristics -- lack of intellectual distinction and subservience to the interests of the Bush clan -- that are undesirable from both conservative and liberal perspectives. It's easy to imagine that the person nominated to replace her should she fail of confirmation would be more intelligent and more independent. So no matter how much conservatives oppose this nomination, liberals should oppose it with equal vigor." (link)

* "To people, who are calling to impeach Bush Galloway urged: “We don’t want Bush out of the White House, we want Bush in prison” to pay for his war crimes, and to be an example for Presidents to come." (link)

* emptywheel had the bright idea of looking back at all of the corrections that the NYT has made wrt plamegate stories.

* scott horton has a great post up about rumsfeld using sex to banish opponents from the military (ie rumsfeld's opponents from rumsfeld's military) (link)

* billmon has a post called "Rummy's Blackmail Ring" about scott's article (link)

* "Government sources said Tuesday information from an informant in Iraq about a terrorist plot involving New York's subway system was a hoax." (link)

* compare the above with this from cbs on oct7: "

Even more disturbing to me in yesterday’s subway warning was New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s comment that a news outlet had gotten the story two days earlier but agreed to withhold releasing it until the government gave the green light. Perhaps Bloomberg’s position on this will turn out to be credible, but his claim that the extra time was needed for law enforcement to handle this threat seems worth questioning.
The result was that a news media outlet was persuaded to join a conspiracy of silence until the government was ready to announce the news, which happened to coincide with White House strategy for Bush’s speech and also just so happened to serve as a neat distraction from Rove’s latest bad news.

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