In an editorial piece today that should surprise no one, the New York Times chose to play the blame game with the horrible miner tragedy in West Virginia where 12 of 13 miners were killed in a coal mine blast accident. The NYT:
If disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff starts singing, and it’s believed that he will, many likely will go down with him and Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) could be one of them. The press has focused extensively on Rep. Tom DeLay’s relationship with Abramoff, but you haven’t seen the same level of coverage for the prominent Democrats who had ties of their own. Debbie Schlussel has all the details on Levin’s relationship with Abramoff.
Can you believe this guy?
Newsweek has posted some select documents used by the Pentagon in a briefing on Iraq/AQ connections back in 2002. You must have Adobe Acrobat installed to view these.
Via the NYTimes today, we find out that in the immediate aftermath of 9-11 it was the NSA, not the President, who initiated the stepped up ‘spying’ tactics in an attempt to thwart future attacks:
Sheesh – that didn’t take long!
