Just amazing. Newsweek is actually still flogging the bogus Pelosi plane story.
Joint Chiefs Chairman Peter Pace is again knocking down Pentagon claims that the Iranian government is behind those super-IEDs being used in Iraq. Now again today in Jakarta.
Late Update: Tony Snow got kicked around like crazy on this this morning in the press briefing. The upshot of Snow’s comments seemed to be that the press is forcing this Iran weapons “narrative” on the White House. More on that soon.
Minority Leader Boehner’s (R-OH) speech today in the House is really worth a close listen. When did this war start? The Iraq War, that is? Not in Iraq. Not even on 9/11. It turns out it started with the Iranian hostage crisis.
Did McCain really say that a “Tet”-like offensive in Iraq could make Americans favor the war?
Brent Wilkes, Dusty Foggo indictment watch…
Ousted federal prosecutor Carol Lam to hold press conference this afternoon.
Tony Snow does his best to explain the signficance of Sunday’s PowerPoint on Iran… and fails.
We’ve got the text of the Foggo and Wilkes indictments. We’ll be publishing them shortly.
“No more blank checks for President Bush on Iraq.”
That was Nancy Pelosi today on the House floor, telling House members why they should support the resolution against escalation. If you want to watch her in real time, we have video of her speech here.
And if you want to watch John Boehner respond to Pelosi by saying that America didn’t start the Iraq war, we have video of that here.
We’ve just added the Wilkes and Foggo indictments to the TPM Document Collection. See them here. Our report shortly.
The Wilkes/Foggo indictment is not a disappointment. Here’s our first blush summary from Paul Kiel. Don’t miss Dusty Foggo’s touching pledge of undying fealty to Duke Cunningham briber Brent Wilkes: “I am now, have been in the past, and will continue to as long as I breath [sic] – be your partner.”
Late Update: And it gets better! Shirlington Limo, the DC limo outfit that reportedly served as the hooker mobile for Duke Cunningham, Wilkes and the rest of the crew makes an appearance in the additional indictment of Brent Wilkes and John Thomas Michael.
Later Update: Better still! Then there was the time when Wilkes threatened to “disappear” a Pentagon program officer in Panana who wasn’t coughing up the contracting money quickly enough.