More on the 7/7 terrorists
The BBC has released a CCTV photograph of the UK 7/7 terrorists obviously taken not long before the bombings. Quite a haunting image.
Plamegate: a retrospective
Rather than me attempting to put it all together, I’ll just direct you to a blogger who already has. Meet Fat Steve (that’s what he calls himself!), who’s put together a pretty comprehensive history of Plamegate, and how this story has pretty much collapsed in the faces of the Bush haters.
Rove and Novak: Pieces falling into place
Let’s do a little backstory here. First, Novak’s assertion from 10/1/2003 (emphasis added):
Will Salon amend their comments about Al-Arian?
Salon.com was all too willing to defend former University of South Florida professor and suspected terrorist fundraiser/supporter Sami Al-Arian back in January of 2002, most noteably labelling him an “innocent professor.” To my knowledge, since Al-Arian’s arrest about two years ago, they’ve not said another word about him. Well, now’s their big chance:
Plamegate: Has perception become reality?
The more information that becomes available about Rove’s conversation with the Time’s Matt Cooper, the more obvious it seems (at least to me, anyway) that not only did Rove not leak Plame’s name, but in fact, Cooper was the one who called Rove – suggesting that Rove wasn’t actively hunting for reporters he could use to help throw Plame’s name out into the limelight. John Podhoretz picked up on this, too:
Yes, words DO have meaning
This is a big pet peeve of mine: changing the meaning of a word via faulty comparisons so much that the true meaning of the word gets diluted. An example, to me, would be of comparisons of Bush or Clinton to Hitler. Neither are remotely close the being like the worst dictator we’ve seen in modern history. Yet people on both sides of the aisle still routinely make the claim.