Ow! This looks like a book you wouldn’t want published about your personal presidential candidate: A Woman in Charge by Carl Bernstein.

Drawing on a trove of private papers from … [Keep reading >>]

Got a link from a Pakistani blogger the other day requesting to be listed here.

What do you think? Munaeem’s Blog … [Keep reading >>]

Juan Cole lets Mr. Tenant have it – right on his glass chin:

In his April 29 interview with “60 Minutes” touting the book, Tenet came across as a spectacularly tragic … [Keep reading >>]

Dear Mayor Giuliani:

Since you have based your presidential campaign almost exclusively on your reaction to terrorist attacks on New York City, and since you have recently accused Democrats of being on the defense against terrorism and therefore guilty of inviting more casualties, I have one question for you: Where were you on terrorism between January 31, 2001, and September 11th?

Sincerely Yours

Gary Hart, (co-chair, U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century)

The scene was familiar: uniformed soldiers, rifles swinging restlessly, big man at the door, boots, gun butts smashing smashing, male voices screaming orders: Get down! Get down you fuckin’ … [Keep reading >>]

While most of the world wants the litigation process at Guantanamo opened up to public scrutiny, the Cincinnati Post is concerned that the administration seems determined to seek new restrictions … [Keep reading >>]

A bit offbeat, but this article in the Charleston Gazette by Eric Eyre tells the story of the health crisis facing many thousands of West Virginia and mid-south residents because … [Keep reading >>]

Writing in the Guardian, Gary Younge believes this is the moment that the democrats must step up and rescue the president from himself: “That is where leadership comes in: the … [Keep reading >>]

OK. I can’t stand it any more. I have to talk about massages in the $250 an hour range. In D.C.

First off, when I get a massage in Marin … [Keep reading >>]

I just watched my tivoed copy of the Bill Moyer’s report on the failure of the national media in the run-up to war: Buying the War

I have to say, it … [Keep reading >>]

Update below.

Some friends are excited about the the revelations promised in George Tenant’s book Being There At the Center of the Storm. I’m happy about WHO is saying it … [Keep reading >>]

Bay Area folks have already heard about this:

Not too far from where the same freeway collapsed in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake another section went down in a ball of … [Keep reading >>]