The News Sieve

- The Pentagon may still define homosexuality as a disorder but that didn’t stop Donald Rumsfeld from hiring openly gay Stephen Herbits to oversee hiring at the Defense Department in 2001. He’s now one of Rummy’s top aides.

- “All right, you’ve covered your ass now“: President Bush’s response to the CIA briefer who told him “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” on August 6, 2001, That’s another revelation from Ron Suskind’s book, “The One Percent Solution.” (Although some are taking the book with a few pounds of salt.)

- CIA’s ex-#3 Kyle “Dusty” Foggo singing to the feds (read more on the ties that bind Foggo, Duke Cunningham, Jerry Lewis, Bill Lowery at the American Prospect)

- As I reported almost two years ago at the New York Observer, the Homeland Security Department devotes a “disproportionate amount of its resources to air security” compared to protecting mass transit and domestic rail. (By the numbers, that comes to $9 per air travel passenger compared with one cent per rail passenger.) (GovExec.com)

- Medical marijuana supporters, along with Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), make one more push for a federal amendment barring the Justice Department from raiding stashes in California and nine other states with legalization laws. (via Hit & Run)

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One Response to “The News Sieve”

1. muckraker Says:
   June 23rd, 2006 at 9:50 am

   Richard Clarke started the “cover my ass” campaign by former Clinton intelligence staffers.These are the guys who did too little with terrorist information during their 8 do nothing years of the Clinton administration and are now trying to convince otherwise.