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Larry C. Johnson: A New "Night of Long Knives?"
Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 4:25 pm | Larry C. Johnson
It looks like Republican homosexuals who work on the Hill are being set up as the ultimate scapegoat for the electoral disaster awaiting the Republicans in November. It remains to be seen whether there will be a purge, albeit a bloodless one, of homosexual ... More >>
Larry C. Johnson: George Bush, Whirling Dervish
Monday, 18 September 2006, 11:58 am | Larry C. Johnson
Sid Blumenthal's new book, How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime , provides a great benchmark for evaluating what I believe is a new phase in the Bush Presidency. Sid's collection of essays certainly documents the devious, nasty tactics Bush and ... More >>
Senate Intel Committee Bloodies Bush's Nose
Saturday, 9 September 2006, 8:47 pm | Larry C. Johnson
WOW! WOW! and Wow! Message to Karl Rove and Dick Cheney - read it and weep baby. Cheney's newly appointed biographer, Stephen Hayes, is blown out of the water. Bottomline, Saddam rebuffed cooperation with Bin Laden, tried to capture Zarqawi, and did NOT ... More >>
What George Bush Didn't Say About Guantanamo
Friday, 8 September 2006, 12:09 am | Larry C. Johnson
If we had to rely solely on the word of George W. Bush about the progress in the war on terrorism and the value of information obtained from Muslim prisoners in U.S. custody we would be in trouble. Bush's speech today from the White House was both ... More >>
Johnson: Smearing the Wilsons and Sliming America
Monday, 4 September 2006, 11:34 am | Larry C. Johnson
How low can they go? I refer of course to the latest vitriol directed at Valerie and Joe Wilson by the likes of Christopher Hitchens and Fred Hiatt of the Washington Post, who claim that Joe Wilson, not Bush administration officials, is responsible ... More >>
Larry C. Johnson: Republican Chutzpah on Iran
Monday, 28 August 2006, 11:34 am | Larry C. Johnson
Chutzpah is a Yiddish term that means "unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity." Got to love Yiddish. No other term captures what the Republican staff members of the House Intelligence Committee accomplished yesterday with the release of a partisan ... More >>
Larry C. Johnson: Bush's Weapon of Mass Deception
Sunday, 20 August 2006, 9:14 pm | Larry C. Johnson
It is a week since news broke in London about an alleged plot to blow up nine commercial jetliners, and there are emerging indicators that Bush and Blair exaggerated the truth about the actual readiness of the so-called plot. And yes, I mean so-called ... More >>
Larry Johnson: Israel Takes a Stupid Pill
Monday, 17 July 2006, 11:21 am | Larry C. Johnson
Apparently not content to let the US do a self-immolation act in the Middle East by itself, Israel decided to set itself on fire by invading Lebanon. Burn baby burn? More >>
Larry Johnson: House Intel Chief Misses the Boat
Tuesday, 11 July 2006, 12:28 am | Larry C. Johnson
Today's news from Eric Lichtblau and Scott Shane that the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Peter Hoekstra, sent a nasty-gram to the White House complaining of being kept in the dark on intelligence matters is significant, but misleading. More >>
Larry C. Johnson: The Myth of Terrorism, Part Deux
Tuesday, 4 July 2006, 10:10 pm | Larry C. Johnson
How afraid should we be? If you listen to the Bush administration, a minority of Supreme Court Justices, and the extreme right wing, the answer is simple: RUN, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! President Bush and Vice President Cheney have said repeatedly that ... More >>
Larry Johnson: Earplugs, Marines, and Haditha
Tuesday, 6 June 2006, 4:31 pm | Larry C. Johnson
Earplugs, Marines, and Haditha By Larry Johnson t r u t h o u t | Perspective From: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060306X.shtml Saturday 03 June 2006 More >>
Larry Johnson: Wrong Way Bush
Monday, 29 May 2006, 10:26 am | Larry C. Johnson
Let's give credit where credit is due. George W. Bush finally admitted some mistakes last night. For instance, he noted that tough talk, such as challenging the Iraqi insurgents with the retort, "bring 'em on," sent the wrong signal and was counterproductive. ... More >>
Larry C. Johnson: Whither the CIA?
Tuesday, 9 May 2006, 12:02 am | Larry C. Johnson
If the New York Times is correct, John Negroponte and Michael Hayden are hell bent on shifting critical analytical functions from the CIA to some other part of government (perhaps a stand-alone entity). If true, the death knell for the CIA is sounding, ... More >>
Larry Johnson: Why Did Goss Resign?
Monday, 8 May 2006, 11:52 am | Larry C. Johnson
Yesterday's surprise announcement by Porter Goss comes on the heels of press stories that members of Congress received sexual favors from prostitutes allegedly procured by Brent Wilkes, an entrepreneur implicated in the bribery of Congressman Randy "Duke" ... More >>
Larry C. Johnson: Ray, You da Man!
Monday, 8 May 2006, 11:49 am | Larry C. Johnson
Leave it to the former Presidential Daily Briefer for George Herbert Walker Bush to lay the wood on Rummy. Don Rumsfeld would deny that the Sun rises in the east even if he were strapped naked and spead eagle on a cross facing Mecca. Perhaps Rummy ... More >>
