Key Bush Intelligence Briefing Kept From Hill PanelTen days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant ( Read more... )

Prepared at the direction of Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Iraq on the Record is a searchable collection of 237 specific misleading statements made by Bush Administration officials about the threat posed by Iraq. It contains statements that were misleading based on what was known to the Administration at the time the statements were made. It does not ( Read more... )

from BuzzFlash

"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people." ~ Theodore RooseveltA couple years ago, historian Chalmers Johnson predicted that thanks to the "entrenched interests" of the military-industrial complex, the United States can look forward ( Read more... )

an especially pithy offering from Michael O'Hare at the Reality Based community

exposes the manipulations of the bushies...
from the WPAt a meeting of the Senate intelligence committee on Sept. 5, 2002, CIA Director George Tenet was asked what the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) provided as the rationale for a preemptive war in Iraq. An NIE is the product of the entire intelligence community, and its most comprehensive ( Read more... )

America Blog has the info...

Now here's a good idea ( Read more... )

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has some info on this problem.

In his speech on Vets Day, President Bush claimed that members of Congress who voted for the 2002 Iraq war resolution “had access to the same intelligence” as his administration. This is patently false.

Asterisks Dot White House's Iraq ArgumentPresident Bush and his national security adviser have answered critics of the Iraq war in recent days ( Read more... )

Kansas, where the state Board of Education on Tuesday approved science standards for public schools that cast doubt on the theory of evolution. The 6-4 vote was a victory for intelligent design advocates who helped draft the standards. The standards cast doubt on Darwinism and redefine the word "science" so that it's not limited to the search for ( Read more... )