Libby, Franklin, the OSP and Sibel Edmonds – What’s It All About?

For all those who have been trying to keep up with (and make sense of) the story of Sibel Edmonds, the woman who learned terrible things while translating for the FBI, blew the whistle and was promptly fired and gagged with the court invented "state's secrets privilege," there is good news. Lukery, proprietor of the excellent blog wot is it good for?, has put in the time and gray matter to piece together what we can learn from what she can say around her gag order. (Which was recently upheld...

Libby’s case fixed? Judge Reggie Walton Planted by Neocons?

Today at Antiwar.com, the great reporter from Balkanalysis.com, Christopher Deliso has an article about another very interesting convergence of the felony case against the vice president's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Please call me Scooter" Libby and the natural, er, civil rights case of FBI translator/whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. For those who may have fallen behind, it seems the case that many - there are so many, who can keep track? - of the scandals of the Bush II administration are...

More war in 2006?

What a hell of a year that was, huh? Lots of killing. I'm hoping for less this year, though the number of people who can adequately debunk the State's case for Iran building nukes is down to the Iranians themselves, and Dr. Gordon Prather of Antiwar.com and World Net Daily. ("I'm not a defender of Iran!! It's just that Cheney-Rice are lying about everything," he tells me.) For those not familiar, Prather's case is that there is no evidence, after 2 years of carte blanche inspections by the...