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...statements wasn't her claim to have been misled - Dems have accused the Bush Administration of misleading them on everything from evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to funding for No Child Left Behind - it was that she was blaming the CIA itself. Even through the WMD contortions, Dems only ever accused the Administration of manipulating CIA intelligence to its own ends. Pelosi is effectively accusing the agency of a dangerous bias - an indictment it cannot directly answer without revealing secret information...
...firms? Spokesman Nick Ashooh said his in-house communications team needs additional mouthpieces to respond to the "tsunami" of bad news from its collapse last September, including a lavish executive junket and hefty bonuses covered by the $180 billion taxpayer transfusion. (Read "The Bailout Bomb: Why AIG=WMD...
...prospect of chemical and biological warfare in this age of anthrax scares and WMD can feel - like the threat of nuclear Armageddon before it - like a uniquely modern terror. But a British archaeologist's recent find offers a reminder that chemical weapons are nothing new - in fact, they are nearly 2,000 years old. Simon James, a researcher at the University of Leicester in the U.K., claims to have found the first physical evidence of chemical weaponry, dating from a battle fought in A.D. 256 at an ancient Roman fortress. James concluded that 20 Roman soldiers unearthed beneath the town...
...have to go back, as with so much concerning Bush, to Sept. 11, 2001. After 9/11 the press failed in some big ways. Not everywhere, not everyone and not always. But there was too credulous reporting and cheerleading - from the erroneous WMD speculation to the cable-news screens festooned with American flags to the anemic press conference before the Iraq war in which Bush fielded hardballs like "How is your faith guiding...
...Somebody needs to go to jail. The American people have been cheated enough this century by individuals who shirked both their responsibilities and consequences. No one has been held accountable for faulty WMD intelligence or for the politicization of U.S. prosecutors, to name just a few scandals. Now a group of individuals has wrecked the economy and with it the global security of the United States. Undoubtedly, some people broke the law, and the time and effort should be expended to make sure they face the consequences...