Investigative reporter Sy Hersh created a stir last week when he mentioned during a speech at the University of Minnesota that the Bush Administration had employed an “executive assassination ring” that had reported directly to Vice-President Dick Cheney.
Hersh was extremely clumsy in his explanation, making obvious errors that betrayed he really didn’t know what the [...]
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Truth About Cheney’s Assassination Squad
Also posted in Politics Tagged Air Force, Army, assassination, Bush Administration, Congress, Congressional Oversight, Delta Force, Department of Defense, DEVGRU, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, intelligence community, intelligence oversight, Joint Special Operations Command, Marines, military, paramilitary operations, Seal Team 6, Secretary of Defense, Seymour Hersh, Special Forces, Stephen Cambone Comments closed
Chas Freeman Lambasts Israeli Lobby
Ambassador Chas Freeman is a brilliant man. I occasionally attend a salon he frequents, and have always found his comments insightful, his questions probing.
In recent weeks, I’ve been amazed, though not particularly surprised, at the seemingly calculated destruction of his nomination for chair of the National Intelligence Council–the intelligence community’s brain trust responsible for producing [...]
Also posted in Bitching and Moaning, J'accuse, Politics Tagged AIPAC, Chas Freeman, China, CIA, intelligence community, Israel, Israeli lobby, National Intelligence Council, NIC, Saudi Arabia Comments closed
Wikipedia Makes Blackwater/Xe Tranformation Official
Since Blackwater began the first stage of a re-branding campaign by changing its name to Xe two weeks ago, a heated debate broke out behind the scenes at Wikipedia.
First, site contributors debated and reversed a “unilateral” move that had re-directed Blackwater searches to Xe. But since then, Xe has won out, becoming the only portal [...]
Also posted in J'accuse, Politics Tagged Blackwater, Erik Prince, PMC, private military company, private security company, Wikipedia, Xe Comments closed
The Secret Friendship of Porter and Dusty
One aspect of the dramatic rise and criminal fall of Dusty Foggo that has caused much confusion concerns why Porter Goss promoted the mid-level logistics officer to the position of Executive Director of the CIA. The speculation has only increased now that some of the serious marks on Foggo’s personnel record have come to light [...]
Also posted in J'accuse, Politics Tagged Dusty Foggo, Felix Bloch, Frankfurt, hookers, Porter Goss, prostitute, prostitution Comments closed
My Hunch: Vicki Iseman Totally Fucked McCain
Vicki Iseman has dropped her $27 million defamation suit against the New York Times’s, which targeted the paper’s reporting that John McCain’s advisers had once worried the senator’s close relationship with the lobbyist could create valid public concerns about his ethics.
A friend close to the action on this case told me some time ago that [...]
Also posted in J'accuse, Politics, Schadenfreude Tagged defamation, ethics, ethics violations, John McCain, lobbyists, New York Times, Vicki Iseman Comments closed
Sarah Palin Owes Back Taxes!
Chronic Tax Confusion Syndrome (CTCS) has claimed another victim–Sarah Palin!
CTCS, a non-fatal illness closely related to Spiro Agnew Disease (SAD), has maintained a relatively stable infection rate for decades, until a recent outbreak struck down Tom Daschle, Nancy Killefer, and critically undermined Timothy Geithner.
Symptoms include confusion, anxiety, involuntary sphincter clenching, and in the most severe [...]
Also posted in Bitching and Moaning, J'accuse, Politics, Schadenfreude Tagged Alaska, IRS, Juneau, pile of shit, Sarah Palin, tax fraud, taxes, Wasilia Comments closed
ABC’s Radar Blog Fabricates Sarah Palin Quotes
Sarah Palin has successfully crafted a strong public image as a social conservative diva–all God-n-Guns, with a dash of blindly ignorant golly gee charm popularized by the George W. Bush School of Political Leadership and Winning Elections.
Her opposition to sex education for young people suffered a troubling dose of reality last year in the form [...]
Also posted in J'accuse, Politics Tagged ABC, ABC Radar, abstinence, abstinence only education, Bristol Palin, Levi Johnston, Sarah Palin, teen pregnancy Comments closed
Cheney May Finally Face Consequences for Raping the Environment
Unlike his well-known problems with hunting, Dick Cheney has never nearly killed anyone while enjoying his other outdoor passion: fly fishing.
As Vice-President, however, he helped cause plenty of harm to the innocent little fishes of this great country’s lakes and rivers.
Now finally it looks like Darth Cheney may be suffering some embarassing consequences for advocating [...]
Also posted in Politics, Schadenfreude Tagged American Museum of Fly Fishing, bastards, Christine Todd Whitman, Clean Air Act, Clean Waters Act, Dick Cheney, Endangered Species Act, environment, EPA, fish, fishing, fly-fishing, New York Angler's Club Comments closed
Bloggers Get No Respect: Dirty Bomb Edition
We’re really sick of journalists who follow up on information they read on unattributable, who then fail to credit us for breaking the story first.
Bloggers respect other bloggers, but it seems like journalists in the old media are embarrassed to admit when they were scooped by someone in pajamas doodling around on their home computer. [...]
Also posted in Bitching and Moaning, J'accuse Tagged dirty bomb, FBI, IED, inauguration, James Cummings, radiological device, Washington Regional Threat Assessment Center, white supremacist, WRTAC Comments closed
Chinese Premier Shames George W. Bush
On February 2, Martin Jahnke, a 27-year-old pathology student originally from Germany, took off his gray athletic shoe and winged it at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during his speaking engagement at Cambridge University.
Jahnke was apparently inspired by Iraqi journalist and Dogood hero Muntazer al-Zaidi, who flung the shoe heard round the world at President George Bush [...]
Also posted in Heroes, J'accuse, Politics Tagged Cambridge, China, George W. Bush, Iraq, Iraqi journalist, media, Muntazer al-Zaidi, protest, shoe protest, sole protestors, Wen Jiabao Comments closed
Alec Baldwin + Murray Waas + Richard Nixon = Awesome
In the mid-70s, Murray and Alex, two young and bright George Washington University students, worked diligently to hone their impersonations of Richard Nixon.
The friends would make prank phone calls in front of an audience of their neighbors in the GW dorm, battling to see who could more accurately portray the disgraced president.
In one classic session, [...]
Also posted in Whine & Cheese Tagged Alec Baldwin, Hollywood, Huffington Post, Murray Waas, Richard Nixon, Sheryl Crowe Comments closed
White House Press Office May Have Credentialed Israeli Spy
There was a small flurry of excitement yesterday after a member of the White House press corps reportedly climbed over the cordon separating the media from the President and other officials, approaching Barack Obama to ask for an autograph. The Secret Service briefly detained the man and he was reportedly escorted from the White House [...]
Also posted in J'accuse, Politics Tagged CIA, covert operations, espionage, intelligence, intelligence operations, Israel, Jewish World Review, journalism, Middle East conflict, Mossad, Palestine, propaganda, Robert Feuereisen, spy, White House, White House correspondents, White House Press Corps Comments closed
Elizabeth Edwards to Release Tell-a-Little-Bit Memoir
“You want to hear what that peroxide blonde cuntface bitch did?”
That would be the first line of my tell-all memoir, if I were Elizabeth Edwards reflecting on the more untoward developments of the past few years.
But as you all well realize, Mrs. Edwards possesses a degree of discretion clearly lacking in the Dogood DNA. We [...]
Also posted in Politics Tagged Broadway Books, Elizabeth Edwards, John Edwards, Random House, Resilience, Rielle Hunter Comments closed
Did Cindy McCain Forget She Stole From Her Own Non-Profit?
In a remarkable show of chutzpah–or a signal of early-onset dementia–a new interview with Cindy McCain has her lamenting non-profits she has “come in contact with” that “haven’t handled their money or people well.”
Ummm, like maybe her own?
Also posted in J'accuse, Politics Tagged American Voluntary Medical Team, Cindy McCain, drug abuse, drugs, fraud, John McCain, Meghan McCain, non-profits Comments closed
EXCLUSIVE!! After Death of Anti-Obama White Supremacist, FBI Seized Dirty Bomb Components
Amber Cummings allegedly shot her husband James on December 8 after suffering years of abuse at his hands. It looked like just another everyday tragedy adding to statistics on domestic violence, a local investigation with no need for federal assistance–until police discovered in the Cummings residence radiological materials, components to construct a dispersal device (dirty [...]
Also posted in Politics, Today in Crazy Tagged Amber Cummings, dirty bomb, domestic abuse, domestic violence, FBI, James Cummings, Maine, radiological device, white supremacists Comments closed
A Note From “Bored, Anonymous, Pathetic Bloggers”
I am going to embroider Sarah Palin’s words on tea towels, use the to wipe my ass, and then burn them in a ceremony commemorating unattributable.com’s triumphant annoyance of the Alaskan political diva. I’ve only gossiped about her family once, but the recent remarks apparently hit home.
Palin thinks the mainstream media has been unfair in [...]
Also posted in Politics Tagged bloggers, Bristol Palin, campaign, drugs, election, John McCain, Levi Johnston, media, Sarah Palin, Sherri Johnston Comments closed
CIA Director Parties at Journopalooza
Thanks to the friend who sent us this documentary evidence of an amicable encounter between the respected veteran newsman and former al Jazeera English anchor Dave Marash, and the outgoing CIA Director Michael V. Hayden. The pair chatted while Marash took a break from his hosting duties during Journopalooza at the National Press Club on [...]
Also posted in Whine & Cheese Tagged al Jazeera, CIA, CIA director, Dave Marash, Journopalooza, Michael Hayden Comments closed
McCain Campaign Threatened Lumet to Keep Her Quiet
I know I said the last post I made on the rumored John McCain–Amy Lumet affair would be my final comment on the matter, but I can’t very well keep what I’ve just heard a secret.
McCain may have never had to face the shame of his extramarital past blasted across the front pages of the [...]
Posted in Dirt Tagged affair, Amy Lumet, drugs, John McCain, presidential campaign, presidential election Comments closed
The G-Man, The Actress And The Private-Eye-To-The-Stars
The guilty plea by G-Man Mark Rossini to five misdemeanor counts of “criminally accessing a sensitive FBI database for personal purposes” is a tale to get the tabloid juices flowing.
According to the FBI, “Many of Rossini’s improper searches related to the criminal case of United States v. Anthony Pellicano,” in which private-eye-to-the-stars Pellicano has been [...]
Exclusive: Revealing Pseudonymed New York Times Authors
“Hitler’s success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.”
That is just a sampling of the wit and wisdom that could be found in “Deng [...]
Politicunt Ann Coulter Temporarily Silenced
Having just composed a high-minded post about violence against women, I really should not be experiencing such glee regarding a rumored injury to politicunt Ann Coulter.
I know it’s wrong to take pleasure in the suffering of others, but when they’re detestable examples of humanity like Ms Coulter, it’s difficult to maintain the usual standards of [...]
Posted in Dirt Tagged Ann Coulter, broken jaw, injury, Page Six, politicunts, violence against women Comments closed
Sign My Yearbook?
Also posted in Politics Tagged Bush Administration, G20 Summit, George W. Bush, unpopular Comments closed
German Spies Prowl Internet for Hookers
Last Friday, Wikileaks posted an internal document from T-Systems (Deutsche Telecom) that listed over two dozen IP addresses reportedly used by the German intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtendienst, or BND. The IP addresses were assigned to an unregistered company at a Munich-based PO box linked to T-Systems, apparently a cover used by the spy agency.
T-Systems Computer Emergency [...]
Also posted in J'accuse, Uncategorized Tagged blowing cover, BND, Bundesnachrichtendienst, call girls, data mining, Deutsch Telecom, German intelligence, Goethe Institute, hookers, IP addresses, operational security, prostitutes, T-Systems, Wikileaks, Wikipedia, Zarqawi Comments closed
Impetus Grows for Bush Admin Inquiry
I shared a little dirt with you earlier this week about how Senate Democrats have very recently been discussing options for holding major Congressional hearings after they re-convene in January, intending to examine the misdeeds of the Bush Administration.
Reporting by the AP and the New York Times today adds greater weight to the sense that [...]
Posted in Dirt Tagged Bush Administration, Democrats, Dianne Feinstein, Dick Cheney, Fred Fielding, George Bush, hearings, investigation, John D Rockefeller, Patrick Leahy, Senate, Senate Intelligence committee, Senate Judiciary committee, Sheldon Whitehouse, torture, wiretaps Comments closed
DoJ Lawyers Debating Charges for Bush, Cheney
Sometimes rumors sound too good to be true. That’s the feeling I had the first time someone told me recently that somewhere, somehow, deep inside the bowels of the Justice Department, lawyers were discussing options to charge President Bush and Vice President Cheney for some of the crimes of the past eight years.
But I’ve since [...]
Also posted in Politics Tagged Bush Administration, crime & punishment, criminal charges, Department of Justice, Dick Cheney, George Bush, NSA, torture, waterboarding, wiretapping Comments closed
Dem Congress Contemplating Major Bush Hearings
A general public consensus has grown around the notion that the Bush Administration broke laws, manipulated the Constitution, abused executive privilege, and lied to the American people in order to gain public support for its own misguided policy initiatives.
From ordering the NSA to spy on American citizens, to authorizing torture (and then denying it), Bush [...]
Also posted in Politics Tagged Church-Pike, Congress, George Bush, hearings, House of Representatives, Senate Comments closed
Photoshopaholics! Dogoods Discover Newly Revised Kim Jong-Il Pic
The recent absence of frequent preening photo ops of Kim Jong-Il in North Korean media has caused worldwide speculation about the Dear Leader’s health. A new batch of photos released Wednesday has only fueled the intrigue, as Western media organizations examining the prints discovered telltale signs of Photoshopping.
Now unattributable.com brings you a new and exclusive [...]
Also posted in J'accuse, Politics Tagged ill, Kim Jong-Il, North Korea, photo, Photoshop, sick Comments closed
Report: John McCain Physically Abused Wife Cindy
I heard a rumor a couple of months ago that John McCain had been known to beat his wife Cindy. I didn’t post about it at the time because I only heard it from one person, the details were vague, and it just seemed like the kind of thing that could have emerged from the [...]
Posted in Dirt Tagged Alexander Cockburn, Cindy McCain, Counterpunch, domestic abuse, Jeffrey St. Clair, John McCain, rumors, wife-beater Comments closed
Bad News for Bankers, Lawyers as Tax Dodgers Snitch to IRS
UBS, the world’s largest private bank, has been embroiled in controversy for most of 2008 as American feds have pursued an investigation into whether or not the Swiss company has helped wealthy US citizens hide income in overseas accounts as a way to avoid paying taxes.
The case would involve an estimated 20,000 tax dodgers, hiding [...]
Did Former Top CIA Official Leak Classified Info?
Again, the short answer to the above question is I don’t really know. But as always, I love to share what I do know.
Yesterday I told you about recent FBI rounds of inquiry, purportedly seeking the source of classified information leaked via Ron Suskind’s two-year-old book, One Percent Doctrine.
If the investigators were indeed intent on [...]
Posted in Dirt Tagged Buzzy Krongard, CIA, classified information, Cookie Krongard, FBI, intelligence, leak investigation, leaks, One Percent Doctrine, Ron Suskind Leave a comment
Rumored John McCain-Amy Lumet Affair— One Final Comment
Those who’ve been with us since the birth of our baby blog (what is she now, three weeks old?), know we launched with three days of blind items about a high profile political affair.
We originally left it for our readers to fill in the blanks regarding the characters involved in this sordid episode, but now [...]
Posted in Dirt Tagged affair, Amy Lumet, Bill Clinton, Capitol Hill, Gina Gershon, John McCain, liberal MSM, Rachel Gets Married 429 Comments
Is the FBI Investigating Author Ron Suskind?
The short answer to that question is–I’m not really certain. You all know Prudence and I don’t bother ourselves with silly things like cultivating “sources,” or making phonecalls to officially verify stuff we’ve heard.
We’re just generous–and lazy–by nature, simply endeavoring to share with our loyal readers the juiciest tidbits of gossip we hear during our DC adventures.
Now about that poor Suskind….
Who Wants a Ride on the Sweet Talk Express?
You all know Prudence and I like a good party. With the gossip we’ve been hearing of late, I think we might have found a kindred spirit in Meghan McCain, blogette daughter of John McCain.
Meghan has been on the trail for her father, accompanied by a photographer and filmmaker who chronicle her campaigning for her [...]