1. Scalia indulges in quackery regarding Cheney, won't recuse himself:
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia [and] his friend and hunting partner, Vice President Dick Cheney ... went on a duck hunting trip last month, three weeks after the court agreed to hear a White House appeal in a case involving private meetings of the vice president's energy task force. Critics said the trip raised questions about Scalia's impartiality in the case.
"It did not involve a lawsuit against Dick Cheney as a private individual," Scalia said ... "That's all I'm going to say for now. Quack, quack." [2/12/2004]
2. The "independent commission" to investigate the build-up to the invasion of Iraq has at least two biased members:
John McCain is appointed to the commission and immediately says: "The president of the United States, I believe, would not manipulate any kind of information for political gain or otherwise." [2/12/2004]
And: "Laurence Silberman, a retired judge nominated by the Bush administration as the co-chairman of the commission investigating pre-war intelligence on Iraq, was involved in a major cover-up during the Reagan era, his critics alleged yesterday." [2/10/2004]
Article comments
1 - Shark
Hal, the Scalia/Cheney thing is a huge scandal that hasn't received a smidgen of press.
And what else is new?
I'm constantly amazed at the blantant criminal/unethical acts of the Bush Administration.
re: the investigating committee - I'm just thankful that Kissinger isn't chairing it.
Overall, it would be funny if it weren't so sad and dangerous.