In other news today....
While I've been chirruping about Cheney all day, there have actually been other things going on. We'll start with...
Rawstory reported today that Valerie Plame's "team" was looking into nuclear technology transfers in Iran. Sure would be nice to have that intelligence unit working now, wouldn't it? They destroyed one of the few windows into Iran's nuclear program.
The leaks on the House Draft report is due to be released tomorrow continued, and Chertoff and Frances Townsend were busy today desperately trying to get out in front of it. My favorite quote is by Townsend, "I reject outright any suggestion that President Bush was anything less than fully involved." (you know, in other countries, Japan, Britain, Germany, they have this tradition that when somebody screws up in the government, they resign.)
And the British have already arrested a soldier related to the "beatings video" made public just a few days ago.
Meanwhile, the US investigation has stalled into 27 soldiers and officers relating to the deaths of 2 Afghani detainees who were found dead, "hanging by their shackled wrists in isolation cells at the prison in Bagram, north of Kabul." The stiffest penalty of the fifteen prosecuted was five months.
"Ohio coin dealer and Republican money man Tom Noe has been indicted on 53 state felony counts of theft, corruption and money laundering alleging he stole "from a state-run investment fund for injured workers."" He was a huge Republican donor with the money he stole with contracts he got from the Republican politicians he was supporting.
Enough for now. What'd I miss?
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 — The federal government is on the verge of one of the biggest giveaways of oil and gas in American history, an estimated $7 billion over five years.
Rawstory reported today that Valerie Plame's "team" was looking into nuclear technology transfers in Iran. Sure would be nice to have that intelligence unit working now, wouldn't it? They destroyed one of the few windows into Iran's nuclear program.
The leaks on the House Draft report is due to be released tomorrow continued, and Chertoff and Frances Townsend were busy today desperately trying to get out in front of it. My favorite quote is by Townsend, "I reject outright any suggestion that President Bush was anything less than fully involved." (you know, in other countries, Japan, Britain, Germany, they have this tradition that when somebody screws up in the government, they resign.)
And the British have already arrested a soldier related to the "beatings video" made public just a few days ago.
Meanwhile, the US investigation has stalled into 27 soldiers and officers relating to the deaths of 2 Afghani detainees who were found dead, "hanging by their shackled wrists in isolation cells at the prison in Bagram, north of Kabul." The stiffest penalty of the fifteen prosecuted was five months.
"Ohio coin dealer and Republican money man Tom Noe has been indicted on 53 state felony counts of theft, corruption and money laundering alleging he stole "from a state-run investment fund for injured workers."" He was a huge Republican donor with the money he stole with contracts he got from the Republican politicians he was supporting.
Enough for now. What'd I miss?
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