Epstein Secrets

, Bush belatedly moved to rein in his vice president, siding with Justice Department lawyers on surveillance issues; firing Cheney's dearest friend, Donald Rumsfeld, from his Pentagon job; letting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice win the argument over whether to bomb a Syrian nuclear reactor site (we didn't)

ened. After Iraq, there has been a weird amnesty and amnesia about people's misjudgment on the most consequential decision of our times.... Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bremer, Rice, McCain, Abrams, and others including the pro-war press claque are still offering their judgments unfazed. One of my fathe

last days, Bush refused to pardon his right-hand man, Lewis I. "Scooter" Libby, who had been convicted of obstruction of justice and perjury in the Valerie Plame case (though he did commute Libby's prison sentence). Unrepentant, convinced of his rectitude and his ultimate place in history, the 72-year-old fo

esident Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld—most associated with extreme views of how to han

of the first four years. During the 2004 campaign, Bush came close to jettisoning the two people—Vice-President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld—most associated with extreme views of how to handle post-9/11 foreign affairs. After the election, Cheney saw the influence of his principal ideolo

h won approval of an energy bill, a trade agreement, and a bankruptcy-reform bill. But the remainder of his Presidency was consumed by scandal (the Valerie Plame case, the N.S.A.'s warrantless wiretapping program, the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys for political reasons) and by badly managed catastrophes (K

recently for writing a book in defence of Donald Rumsfeld in which she argued passionately for the former d

the New York Review of Books' founder Robert Silvers and Midge Decter - an ultra-conservative writer known recently for writing a book in defence of Donald Rumsfeld in which she argued passionately for the former defence secretary's "manliness". http://www.smh.com.au/news/business/surprise-party-cost-no-mere-tru

s that an Armitage indictment would have been antithetical to ginning up political hay for the Dems. Understand this: There was no crime committed. Valerie Plame was not a covert agent. But did that deter Fitzgerald? N0000000! His plan was to subpoena as many high-level Bush operatives as he could; bring the