The Prez fires back
Here’s the text of his 10:30 press conference from this morning. (Thanks for the link, Bak)
Disgruntled Dems are considering challenge to Lieberman
He’s not anti-war, so he must go:
Prez essentially says ‘let me do my job’
The President was unapologetic in his radio address today while defending himself on the misleading article in yesterday’s NYTimes where Times reporters Eric Lichtblau and James Risen (who, incidentally, has a book coming out next month on Bush and the CIA’s history) reported on a so-called authorization of ‘domestic spying’ without a court order – with the clear implication that it was domestic communications being monitored when in actuality it is international communications coming from domestic sources that are being closely monitored. Via AP:
The terrorists must be smiling
… considering all the setbacks this week that have happened in the war on terror, thanks to the liberal media, former admin and intelligence agency employees with an axes to grind against the President, and politicians on both sides of the aisle (including the President) who seem to believe that being politically correct on the issue of the ‘torture law’ (as well as the Patriot Act) trumps our national security. A recap:
Pelosi hails Democrats’ ‘diverse’ Iraq stances
IOW, an endorsement of an official ‘non-position’ on Iraq going into the 2006 elections:
The politics of the torture agreement
I wanted to blog a bit this morning about the President’s reversal in position on Sen. John McCain’s call for a law banning ‘torture’ to foreign suspects in the war on terror but John Hawkins’ post on the subject pretty much sums up my feelings on this switch in position by the President. John writes: