I have created a new topic solely on news from Pakistan because it seemed apparent to me that this was becoming a major focus of the Global War On Terror (GWOT). Seems I am not alone in this. Bill Rogglio posts on his belief Pakistan is not the prime battlefield in the GWOT: The Battle […]

The DPW deal seems to have done something which needed doing: expose some serious flaws on the right side of the political spectrum. I called the isolationists Chickenhawks for not being able to stand next to an Arab businessman while they supported sending troops into the Middle East to arm, train and fight by Arab […]

Pakistan is booting the Afgahn Taliban out of their norther province. Authorities in a Pakistani tribal region troubled by Islamist militants said yesterday that thousands of Afghans thought to be living there must leave and return home. The North Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan has been the scene of military strikes this month in which […]

** Updates at the end ** The AP is reporting an FBI informant has claimed that Zawahiri, Bin Laden’s number two in Al Qaeda was in the US prior to 9-11: An FBI informant testified today that Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man lived in the Central Valley town of Lodi before the 2001 terrorist attacks. […]

From the Washington Post (which should know given its connections to Woodward and Bradlee) we have this on the Plame leak coming from Armitage: In an interview yesterday, Bradlee said he does know the identity of Woodward’s source and does not recall making that precise statement to a Vanity Fair reporter. He said he has […]

As if to emphasize my earlier point regarding my prediction impeachment of Bush-Cheney will define this years federal elections, Russ Fiengold came out with Feingold’s Follly to put his own party on the line: If Frist had succeeded in bringing Feingold’s resolution up for a floor vote, it would have put on the spot Democrats […]

** Major Update At The End ** The breaking news regarding Richard Armitage as the original leak to the press regarding Valerie Plame’s CIA employment and role in sending big mouth Joe to Niger on a classified fact finding mission puts a whole new spin on the existing information out there. Tom Maguire’s post on […]

Those who visit this blog know I have been suspect of the entire NSA -FISA issue since day one when we learned the resigning Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) judge was not concerned about NSA bypassing the FISC, but was stated to be worried about the NSA ‘tainting’ the FISA process. That can only mean […]

Michelle Malkin linked to this story in Town Hall about lazy, inaccurate reporting and how it endangers the lives. When does the press become criminally negligable for their actions? I fail to understand why we can hold the media accountable for negligent driving which leads to a death on the way to a story, and […]

 ** Update: Tom Maguire finally has a chance to post his thoughts on this matter: We eagerly await a bootleg copy of the [Vanity Fair] article. Yes we do! end update Tom Maguire, all things Plame, seems to have struck gold with his prediction that the true leak source for Valerie Plame’s identity was Richard […]