CIA Destroyed Subpoenaed Torture Tapes they Denied Existed While Congress Stood By...
The CIA destroyed at least two tapes of its operatives using “severe interrogation techniques” to obtain information from suspected terrorists, Mark Mazetti reports for the NYT. Both the 9/11 Commission and attorneys for Zacarias Moussaoui ...
Comment Posted By Outside The Beltway | OTB On 7.12.2007 @ 13:13
Gerald Ford, RIP
Gerald R. Ford, 38th president of the United States, passed away Tuesday at the age of 93.
Comment Posted By Outside The Beltway | OTB On 27.12.2006 @ 08:35
Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon’s scandal-shattered White House as the 38th and only unelected president in America’s histo...
Gerald Ford, RIP
Gerald R. Ford, 38th president of the United States, passed away Tuesday at the age of 93.
Comment Posted By Outside The Beltway | OTB On 27.12.2006 @ 08:35
Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon’s scandal-shattered White House as the 38th and only unelected president in America’s histo...
Jim Webb’s Dirty Books
Senator George Allen has issued a press release detailing lurid, strange, and otherwise lame scenes from the novels of his Democratic opponent, former Navy Secretary James Webb.
Comment Posted By Outside The Beltway | OTB On 27.10.2006 @ 10:06
WEBB’S WEIRD WORLD
The Author’s Disturbing Writings Show a Continued P...
I WOULDN'T WISH IT ON MY WORST ENEMY
Defending Keith Olbermann
His rants against the Bush administration have made Keith Olbermann a rock star among the denizens of the Left Blogosphere and and object of scorn and ridicult on the Right. It’s rather amusing, then, to see a pro-Olbermann blogstorm among the l...
Comment Posted By Outside The Beltway | OTB On 28.09.2006 @ 08:12
ALL THAT'S MISSING ARE THE POM-POMS
The Deadliest Israeli Air Strike Yet (Video)
It happened today in the southern Lebanon village of Qana:
Comment Posted By Outside The Beltway | OTB On 30.07.2006 @ 12:31
Israeli missiles hit several buildings in a southern Lebanon village as people slept Sunday, killing at least 56, most of them children, in the deadliest attack in 19 days of fighting.
Israeli...
ANN COULTER: CONSERVATIVE LOUT
Ann Coulter Trashes 9/11 Widows on Today Show (Video)
Ann Coulter has managed, once again, to inflame Left and Right alike with comments she made on the “Today” show with Matt Lauer.
Comment Posted By Outside The Beltway | OTB On 7.06.2006 @ 05:02
Here’s a transcript of the most controversial part:
LAUER: On the 9-11 widows, an in particular a gro...
CIA VS. THE WHITE HOUSE: THE LEAKER AND THE SQUEALER
Fired Leaker Caught in Sting Operation?
Much more news has come out about yesterday’s firing of a CIA officer for leaking classified secrets to the press.
Comment Posted By Outside The Beltway | OTB On 22.04.2006 @ 10:48
The NYT reports her name, duty station, and the information leaked:
The C.I.A. would not identify the officer, but several governme...
Attacking Ben Domenech II
On Wednesday, I defended Ben Domenech against inflammatory and over-the-top attacks by several bloggers on the Left, challenging opponents to, “Criticize his arguments, not his upbringing.” Now, a second round of attacks are underway that ...
Comment Posted By Outside The Beltway | OTB On 24.03.2006 @ 12:42