Bush to Limit Testimony Before 9/11 Panel
President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have placed strict limits on the private interviews they will grant to the federal commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, saying that they will meet only with the panel’s top two officials and that Mr. Bush will submit to only a single hour of questioning, commission members said Wednesday.
Clear Channel suspends Howard Stern, sets new rules on indecency.
It’s interesting, Stern had been an ardent Bush supporter in terms of the war (I’d call him a war monger, encouraging bombing the Middle East back to the stone age etc.) But on Monday he came back from vacation saying he’d read Al Franken’s book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, and that the book convinced him how bad the Bush administration is, saying “anyone but Bush” is the way he has to go. And ripped into Bush for his anti- gay marriage stance, saying it was an absurd thing to concentrate on when the CIA dropped the ball in terms of all the warnings they had pre-9/11.
Future Hi. A collaborative blog looking to the future. They feel there is such a thing. Via Linkfilter
Manufacturing job stats looking down on this election year? No problem, redefine fast-food jobs as manufacture.
Soldier for the Truth
Exposing Bush’s talking-points war - by Marc Cooper
After two decades in the U.S. Air Force, Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, now 43, knew her career as a regional analyst was coming to an end when — in the months leading up to the war in Iraq — she felt she was being “propagandized” by her own bosses…
“…these people have total disrespect for the Constitution. We swear an oath, military officers and NCOs alike swear an oath to uphold the Constitution. These people have no respect for the Constitution. The Congress was misled, it was lied to. At a very minimum that is a subversion of the Constitution. A pre-emptive war based on what we knew was not a pressing need is not what this country stands for.”
In the LA Weekly Via MeFi
