Weapons of mass destruction

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  • The yes man and the thug

    In his disturbing new book, Times reporter James Risen reveals how George Tenet's gutless surrender to war-obsessed Donald Rumsfeld led to the total breakdown of U.S. intelligence.
    By Farhad Manjoo January 10, 2006

  • Chemical weapons in Iraq? An old story, but new questions

    Italy's state-run television network says that the U.S. used white phosphorus on human targets in Fallujah. The Pentagon has denied it.
    By Tim Grieve November 8, 2005

  • Judy Miller and the neocons

    Arrogance, poor editing, and getting too close to her sources -- not ideology -- led to her fall.
    By Juan Cole October 14, 2005

  • What if al-Qaida attacked now?

    Is the president confident that he could "secure the American people"? The White House won't say.
    By T.G. September 7, 2005

  • Another attack? Bush is in no hurry to prepare

    The president who launched a preemptive war to defend against nonexistent weapons of mass destruction says now isn't the time to investigate whether we're prepared for a WMD attack.
    By T.G. September 6, 2005

  • Bully for you

    With Capitol Hill freshly vacated, Bush installed U.N.-hating John Bolton as ambassador to the U.N. If Democrats really were partisan hacks, they'd rejoice that the president chose this incompetent ideologue to sell his foreign policies.
    By Ian Williams August 2, 2005

  • Look in the mirror, Mr. President

    A Reaganite Republican says Bush should apologize for his grievous failures on Iraq.
    By Doug Bandow August 1, 2005

  • Rove's war

    Bush's right-hand man is dispatching his troops to smear Joe Wilson -- and save himself. He may win in Washington, but the special prosecutor will have the last word.
    By Sidney Blumenthal July 14, 2005

  • The last laugh

    History will hold Bush and Blair accountable for their lies in the run-up to the Iraq war, even if the D.C. press corps just finds them funny.
    By Joe Conason June 10, 2005

  • Afraid to tell the truth

    A secret memo publicized in Britain confirms the lies on which Bush based his Iraq policy. Why has it received so little notice in the U.S. press?
    By Joe Conason May 6, 2005

  • Going ballistic over nukes

    How much brinkmanship with Iran and North Korea can there be before the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty implodes?
    By Mark Follman May 2, 2005

  • Half the country thinks Bush fibbed on WMDs

    A new poll shows that 50 percent of Americans now believe the Bush administration deliberately misled them in the march to war on Iraq.
    By Julia Scott April 26, 2005

  • The search for WMDs? It's over

    The Iraq Survey Group gives up on the hunt, but not without warnings about how the war in Iraq has increased the risk.
    By Tim Grieve April 26, 2005

  • The price of ignoring dissent

    The Bush administration has little tolerance for opposing views. Two new reports show the consequences of not listening.
    By Tim Grieve April 1, 2005

  • How they learned to love the bomb

    Bush is talking tough about nukes in Iran and North Korea. But critics say by illegally testing and building nuclear weapons, the U.S. is fueling a new arms race.
    By Leigh Flayton March 29, 2005

  • Where the Iraqis really do throw flowers

    The Kurds love American GIs. But will the good feelings continue if the U.S. has to rein in Kurdish ambitions?
    By David Axe March 25, 2005

  • Spooked about terrorists on the inside

    U.S. counterintelligence officials are worried that al-Qaida operatives have infiltrated the nation's spy agencies.
    By Mark Follman March 9, 2005

  • Among the believers

    At the Conservative Political Action Conference, where rabid Bush-worshippers learn that liberals hate America and that we really did find WMD in Iraq.
    By Michelle Goldberg February 19, 2005

  • If you like Iraq, you'll love Iran

    Kenneth Pollack says the Bush administration doesn't have a clue about what to do in Iran and doesn't have much time to get it right.
    By Jeff Horwitz December 22, 2004

  • Right Hook

    Terrorism expert says Bush's reelection gave bin Laden a "kosher stamp from the Islamic world" to use nukes on U.S. -- and a major attack is "inevitable." Plus: A karate champion says CIA must play dirty.
    By Mark Follman December 1, 2004

  • History of complicity

    Did the first President Bush, in 1991, and President Reagan, in the late '80s, cynically choose to ignore Saddam's use of chemical weapons against Iraqis?
    By Barry Lando November 19, 2004

  • Killing the messenger

    Porter Goss' purge at the CIA will ensure the agency is full of Bush yes men -- but it will seriously damage U.S. intelligence.
    By Spencer Ackerman November 16, 2004

  • Right Hook

    Beating back a CIA "insurgency" against Bush, Novak and the Wall Street Journal get ugly. Plus: O'Reilly's love-in on Letterman. And: Will Fox fire chief correspondent over fake story?
    By Mark Follman October 7, 2004

  • Hell

    Salon's war correspondent on the Iraq inferno.
    By Phillip Robertson September 23, 2004

  • Seymour Hersh's alternative history of Bush's war

    The crack investigative reporter tells Salon about a disastrous battle the U.S. brass hushed up, the frightening True Believers in the White House, and how Iran, not Israel, may have manipulated us into war.
    By Mary Jacoby September 18, 2004
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