Weekend Update: Senator Karl Levin released a Pentagon IG report yesterday that confirms what we have known for a long, long time. There was no operational connection between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda. But that did not stop the fantasizers in Douglas Feith's shop of dreams. They issued briefings and reports to "make the case" of an Iraq-Al-Qaeda connection despite the CIA and DIA concluding none existed. It was pure and simple misinformation intended to sell the war. Incredibly, on the same day the Inspector General's report was released, Darth Cheney continued to spew forth the Big Lie on Limpbutt's radio show. The only thing I can't understand is why the guy is still in office. Soldiers are dying for Cheney's lies as you read this.
The Republican Party apparently knew its boys in the White House would have big problems at the end of eight years in power. The GOP issued email addresses and lap tops so staffers could use an unofficial back channel to discuss official business that could not bear the light of day. Now that congressional investigators want the e mails, four years of communications have conveniently disappeared. It makes Nixon's 18 1/2 minute gap look like a hiccup.