Author: Larry Johnson

The Facts Behind the NIE

Although the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) regarding Iraq and terrorism is still classified (UPDATE:  The Key Judgments are now declassified and can be found at this link), the data behind the findings is not and has...

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Letter to the Judiciary Committee

26 September 2006 United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Arlen Specter, Chairman The Honorable Patrick J. Leahy, Ranking Democratic Member Dear...

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Maliki and Al Sadr Punk America

I will say it simply–the Iraqi Government of Prime Minister Maliki is taking part in an information operation to help Republicans in the upcoming election. The evidence? How about the repeated claims that “we have...

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Mutiny in America?

Shades of Herman Wouk! George Bush strolled into the Rose Garden today and channeled the behavior of Captain Philip Francis Queeg as described in the Caine Mutiny. He avoided grasping for small steel balls in his coat pocket and...

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George Bush, Whirling Dervish

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...

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