http://dir.salon.com/topics/sidney_blumenthal/?source=rss&aim=sidney_blumenthal en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/excerpt/2008/04/24/blumenthal_death/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/excerpt/2008/04/24/blumenthal_death/index.html?source=rss A look at how radicalism has forced the Republican Party to retreat. By Joe Conason Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/05/02/blumenthal/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/05/02/blumenthal/index.html?source=rss Some bloggers accuse Blumenthal, a Hillary advisor, of spreading right-wing lies about Obama. But I get his e-mail blasts and the charge isn't fair. By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/excerpt/2008/04/14/cheney/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/excerpt/2008/04/14/cheney/index.html?source=rss A hard look at how one man changed the face of neoconservatism. By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/11/15/2008_election/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/11/15/2008_election/index.html?source=rss The Republican will to power remains ferocious. It will take a dauntless Democratic leader to win back the White House and restore dignity to the Constitution. By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/11/08/musharraf_bush/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/11/08/musharraf_bush/index.html?source=rss Gone are the days when stern words by a U.S. president could prevent rash action by an errant foreign leader like Musharraf. By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/11/01/mukasey/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/11/01/mukasey/index.html?source=rss His reputation for integrity was meant to restore credibility to the Justice Department. Instead, his remarks on waterboarding show that he, like Alberto Gonzales, has let the White House call the shots. By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/10/25/walter_lippmann/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/10/25/walter_lippmann/index.html?source=rss Ninety years after Walter Lippmann first railed against the complicity of the media in wartime propaganda, we're back at ground zero. By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/10/18/schlesinger_journals/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/10/18/schlesinger_journals/index.html?source=rss His personal journals unveil the glory and corruption of postwar presidents with emotional truth and power. Alas, the age of the great historian is over. By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/10/11/torture_letter_to_hughes/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/10/11/torture_letter_to_hughes/index.html?source=rss Your duty is to defend America's reputation in the world. To do so, you must persuade the Bush administration to renounce its abhorrent and hypocritical policy on torture. By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/10/04/private_military_in_iraq/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/10/04/private_military_in_iraq/index.html?source=rss Under the cloak of freedom, the U.S. exempted Blackwater and other contractors from Iraqi law -- and destroyed its own democratic credibility. By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/27/dan_rather_suit/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/27/dan_rather_suit/index.html?source=rss His lawsuit will attempt to show that CBS tried to suppress the report on Bush's National Guard Service and the Abu Ghraib abuses. By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/20/bush_draper/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/20/bush_draper/index.html?source=rss Hoping that history will somehow vindicate him, the president has entered a phase of decadent perversity. By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/13/iraq_war/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/13/iraq_war/index.html?source=rss The president is now taking credit for turning Sunni tribes against al-Qaida in Iraq. But two years ago he rejected a Sunni offer to negotiate an end to the violence. By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/06/bush_wmd/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/06/bush_wmd/index.html?source=rss Salon exclusive: Two former CIA officers say the president squelched top-secret intelligence, and a briefing by George Tenet, months before invading Iraq. By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/08/27/gonzales_resignation/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/08/27/gonzales_resignation/index.html?source=rss Without Karl Rove around to give him his orders, and with the investigations closing in, "Fredo" had nowhere to turn. By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/08/22/bush_legacy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/08/22/bush_legacy/index.html?source=rss Karl Rove calls himself Moby Dick. One speechwriter sees himself as St. Francis. Another sees him as Iago. All regard Bush as Abraham Lincoln. In Washington, reality is a myth. By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/08/13/karl_rove/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/08/13/karl_rove/index.html?source=rss The country takes leave of the political serial killer who tried to forge a one-party state. But don't expect the Mayberry Machiavelli to pay for his civic sins. By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/08/09/iraq_powell/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/08/09/iraq_powell/index.html?source=rss The White House fears that the former secretary of state will finally tell the truth about planning for the Iraq war. By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/08/02/alberto_gonzales/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/08/02/alberto_gonzales/index.html?source=rss The president won't fire Alberto Gonzales. He needs him to protect White House secrets, including the scheming roles of Cheney and Rove. By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/07/26/cheney/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/07/26/cheney/index.html?source=rss In the absence of anything remotely resembling victory in Iraq, Bush and Cheney play the blame game -- including in a new, authorized biography of the vice president. By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/07/19/bush_iraq/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/07/19/bush_iraq/index.html?source=rss The latest government estimate of the terrorist threat is just a rehash of the same old script, produced under pressure to support the president's efforts to sell the Iraq war. By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/07/13/lady_bird/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/07/13/lady_bird/index.html?source=rss A staunch opponent of segregation, Lady Bird Johnson shares the glory of the greatest presidency for civil rights since Lincoln. By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/07/03/libby/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/07/03/libby/index.html?source=rss Even as the president confesses that Scooter Libby engaged in a cover-up -- after all, that was the verdict -- he completes the ultimate obstruction of justice in the Plame affair. By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/06/28/cheney/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/06/28/cheney/index.html?source=rss New details about his secret mission to expand the power of the president show that Cheney, at the end of his career, refuses to loosen his grip. By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/06/21/bush_torture/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/06/21/bush_torture/index.html?source=rss Bush may ignore the 4th Circuit's stinging rebuke of his war paradigm. But his policies are losing the cloak of legality.