I do love the sound of sphincters loosening in Washington.

First, there's this: The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks said on Thursday that it was pressing the White House to explain why the Bush administration had blocked thousands of pages of classified foreign policy and counterterrorism documents from former President Bill Clinton's White House files from being turned over to the panel's investigators.

Then the second "Oh, F*CK!" moment of the week for the folks at 1600: A federal judge ordered several government agencies to release documents related to an energy policy task force led by Vice President Dick Cheney.

""The court's ruling is a wake-up call to the Bush administration: it's time to come clean about how it is doing the public's business," said Sharon Buccino, an NRDC senior attorney."

As the LinkFilter poster that alerted me to this story put it:
A GIANT win for freedom and justice in America. Shit is going to hit the fan when America sees that the plan to invade Iraq began here.

If that is indeed the case, then they may as well start packing now.

The hits just keep on comin'!

Prosecutors investigating whether someone in the Bush administration improperly disclosed the identity of a C.I.A. officer have expanded their inquiry to examine whether White House officials lied to investigators or mishandled classified information related to the case, lawyers involved in the case and government officials say.

But wait, there's more!

A government whistle-blower says the Bush administration covered up the reasons for a toxic coal slurry spill in Appalachia that ranks among the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.

File this under "Betrayal Of Trust 101"

(snagged from murnkay)


A stretched Pentagon is sending unfit soldiers back to Iraq long before they are ready to serve again.

Let's put this in bold, folks:

The army specialist came within inches of death last November 15, when the Humvee he was driving hit a roadside bomb, killing his sergeant. The entire left side of Gunn's body was splattered with shrapnel, his elbow was shattered and, as he lay in the US military hospital bed in Germany, he was tortured by nightmares.

Late on March 23, Gunn told his mother, Pat, that his commanders were putting pressure on him to return to Iraq, but there was no way he was getting on that plane. A few hours later, he was airborne.

Is THAT what you call supporting the troops? Disgusting doesn't even begin to cover it. There is a special place in hell for the filthy bastards that ordered this.