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2005

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December 2005

  1. Six Stories
  2. The Incredible Story of Mahdi Obeidi, Part Two
  3. The Incredible Story of Mahdi Obeidi, Part One
  4. They've Been Lying since 1991
  5. Executive Power at the Expense of the Legislature, Sure
  6. Reading between the (Intercepted Communication) Lines
  7. Able Danger on Steroids
  8. The White House Bunkers Down
  9. Pioneering Corruption–Coincidence, or Design?
  10. The Gray Lady Sinks Deeper in the Mire
  11. The Townsend Campaign
  12. Michael Ledeen's "Wilderness of Mirrors"
  13. My Take on the Armitage Speculation
  14. In Celebration of John Dingell's 50 Years of Service
  15. My Hadley Conspiracy Theory
  16. Is Rove Woodward's Source?
  17. What Vivnovka Tells Us
  18. What the Bolton Testimony Tells Us about the Niger Forgeries
  19. Tampering with Evidence: A Cost-Benefit Analysis
  20. Obstructive Timelines
  21. Ford Squanders Its Integrity
  22. Judy's Regret
  23. Piling on Matt and Vivnovka
  24. The Niger Documents–How They Did It

November 2005

  1. The Cognitive Style of "Victory"
  2. Time to Remind the Press about the K Street Project
  3. Frog Viveca-section
  4. Rove Over and Over
  5. Dick and Libby's Nuclear Button
  6. Woodward's Denial
  7. Digging through Old Articles…
  8. Is this Woodward's Missing Article?
  9. John Dean Sends Woodward a Letter
  10. Cuckoo–I Mean Booby–Clock
  11. The Chess Match over the Release of Information
  12. Why Libby's Defense Relies on Richard Nixon
  13. Is Bill Jeffress in the Business of Legal Defense … Or Telephone?
  14. The Pincus Woodward Connection
  15. More on Woodward
  16. Smokin' Them Out
  17. Dodgy Dossiers and Scary Slide Shows, Redux
  18. Judy Crashes into Logic
  19. Utilitarian Postmodernists and the Office of Special Plans
  20. But Do They Get the Drafts?
  21. "The Information-Gathering Machine … Shows Signs of Being Corrupted"
  22. Judy Held Out for THIS? Plus, a Bonus MoDo Letter
  23. Trent Lott: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
  24. The Fault Lines on Torture
  25. Handicapping Journalistic Shame
  26. Chalabi, Iran, and a False Resolution to the Iraq War
  27. How They Lied Us to War
  28. Reading Judy, Part Two
  29. Reading Judy, Part One
  30. How Libby Wanted Judy to Testify
  31. About John Hannah's Promotion
  32. "Information does not yearn to be free"
  33. WARNING: Al Qaeda Leader Roams the Street …. Or Not
  34. "Be prepared to face this motion every day until you face reality"
  35. The CIA Report on Joe Wilson’s Trip

October 2005

  1. Ari and the Big Red Herring
  2. The Conspiracy to Out Joe Wilson
  3. Indicting Dick
  4. Who Is the Sixth Journalist? Is Tweety Lucky Number Six?
  5. Is Alan Foley the Senior CIA Officer? And Why the Answer Matters to the Niger Forgery Case
  6. Paragraphs 4 and 5
  7. Whither Whig?
  8. Libby the Crappy Fiction-Writer–Even His Lies Didn't Make Sense
  9. We Still Don't Know a Damn Thing
  10. They Don't Get It
  11. About the Papers Libby Withheld from the SSCI, Part One
  12. Pinch Has an Expensive Problem on His Hands
  13. Plame Affair: Some Notes on Notes
  14. What the New York Times Doesn't Want You to Know
  15. Why Is Kristof Joining the Mushy Technicality Club?
  16. My Thoughts on the Cheney Story
  17. Novak: Some Caution and Some Thoughts
  18. NYT Managers Sacrifice Judy to Hide Their Own Complicity
  19. Outstanding Questions for Mr. Calame
  20. Some Context on Scowcroft
  21. Hoagland Begs, Don't Come after Me Next
  22. About that INR Analyst
  23. Is Plame WINPAC?
  24. Were the Cover-Up Conspirators Going to Meet in Aspen?
  25. About Judy's Security Clearance
  26. The Judy Saga: My First Impressions
  27. In Defense of Judy. Kind of.
  28. Newt Warns: The Neocons May Be Down, But They're Not Out
  29. Subpoena June or Perjury Trap It?
  30. Tony's Surprise Visit
  31. The Moses of Mendacity
  32. The Outing of Joe Wilson
  33. The Corrections
  34. The Theory of the Two Notebooks
  35. Head in a Cloud
  36. How Fitzgerald Might Expose the Niger Forgery Scandal through His Plame Investigation
  37. Jill Abramson, What Was Judy Working on in July 2003???
  38. Sweet Judy Blew Lies
  39. Rove's First Story, and Second Story, and Third Story to the Prosecutor
  40. From Rove to Hadley to the Rest of the Conspiracy
  41. Why Would Rove Testify Again?
  42. Anatomy of a White House Smear, Redux
  43. Live by the Leak, Die by the Leak
  44. Did DeLay's Lawyer Just Screw Up?
  45. Seeing the (Aspen) Trees that Make Up the Forest
  46. Did Libby Try to Telegraph Testimony to Judy, as Rove Did with Cooper?

September 2005

  1. Let's Make a Deal: A Word on Judy's Timing
  2. I may not know why a caged bird sings–but I've got my guesses
  3. Get Out!! And Stay Out!!
  4. The Manly Norquist Approach versus the Emasculating Laura Approach
  5. What Do We Learn about Fred Fleitz from the Bolton Testimony?
  6. Specter Tries–and Fails–to Find Another Scottish Compromise
  7. What the Bolton Testimony Tells about the Plame Affair
  8. The Jailed Judy Show
  9. "We don't do nation-building" … but what if it's our nation?
  10. emptywheel's Kremlinology
  11. Is Dick Cheney setting Bush up to fail on Katrina?

August 2005

  1. What Judy Miller Did as an Embed, Conclusion
  2. What Ahmed Chalabi Did While Judy Was Embedded
  3. What Judy Miller Did as an Embed, Part Five
  4. What Judy Miller Did as an Embed, Part Four
  5. What Judy Miller Did as an Embed, Part Three
  6. What Judy Miller did as an embed, Part two
  7. What Judy Miller did as an embed in Iraq, Part one
  8. Judy and Jehl: Some thoughts

July 2005

  1. The Dog Ate My Draft of the SOTU
  2. The WH Spin Takes a New Turn
  3. About that those INR Memo Memos
  4. The CIA Did Know the Niger Documents Were Bunk
  5. The CIA pushes back
  6. Is this Judy Miller's missing article … ?
  7. Why Bolton would have testified to the Plame grand jury
  8. Is it possible the INR memo is a red herring?
  9. What the SSCI Report Tells Us about Plame
  10. Anatomy of the WH's Smear Defense
  11. About that INR Memo
  12. "A leak is when you ask a reporter to write a story"
  13. Why is Norm Coleman Leading the Rove Defense?
  14. Did Judy Miller Go to Jail because of Journalism–or Something Else?
  15. Rove Advises Lawyer: Leak Profusely

June 2005

  1. Short Takes. Er. Hurrahpertif. Um. Quick Bites.
  2. Frist's Incompetence Makes the News
  3. Son of the Return of the Nuclear Option — The Novakening
  4. Rove accuses Dems of shortchanging the military–then lies to shortchange our Veterans
  5. UAW to GM: Fix Your Product Line before You Come for My Healthcare
  6. In Show of Unity with Joe Biden, Dick Lugar Votes against Bolton
  7. Kissinger tells the China-bashers to play nice
  8. The US is beyond hegemony AND exceptionalism–it must choose one
  9. "Cowpie High" the Focus of Two Gay Rights Cases
  10. While John Bolton slept
  11. Why I think it likely we'll attack Iran

May 2005

  1. The clock is ticking on Bush's SS reform
  2. Where was Specter for the Bolton vote??
  3. How to make the filibuster compromise a win: get to work on Bolton
  4. Your Nuclear Option Resource Center: Monday Edition
  5. Back to Specter: A Moderate Ultimatum?
  6. Time to Review Arlen Specter's Deal with the Devil
  7. The Bolton Nomination: The Field Changes
  8. Once again, the poodle follows his master
  9. Compare and Contrast: Why Bolton's Appointment Would Be Counterproductive
  10. Why Bolton's role directly threatens the guys who are supposed to approve him

April 2005

  1. There is too such a thing as free lunch, Nike says
  2. Tall Millionaire is ideal Chinese worker
  3. The Pulitzer versus the Pontiac
  4. The Coming World Trouser War

March 2005

  1. Wanted: 25 nations to rebuild
  2. 68% of white evangelicals embrace Choice
  3. Karen Hughes would "like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony"
  4. Journalists May Give You "Objectivity," but not Certainty
  5. Not Whose News, but Whose Stories
  6. Bush's Last Two Anchors on Reality Lose Their Grip
  7. Time to Go on the Offensive

February 2005

  1. Contributors

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