The AP is reporting that "A European Parliament investigation into alleged CIA secret prisons could ask Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to testify, although it has no legal power to subpoena them". Good luck with that. The US Congress can't even get the Bush administration's top mine safety official to cooperate, you think Cheney and Rumsfeld are going to appear before a foreign entity. Hold your breath, I dare you. See for yourself here.

The Palm Beach Daily News is reporting that on Tuesday, former anchor of CNN's NewsNight, Aaron Brown gave an impassioned speech at The Society of the Four Arts. Brown had this analysis of today's main stream news outlets, "Truth no longer matters in the context of politics and, sadly, in the context of cable news." Anyone willing to spend 30 seconds with Bill O'Reilly knows exactly what he's talking about. If you want the ratings, you've got to be willing to sell your soul to the Springer formula. Garbage sells. See for yourself here.

The New Republic online has a neat little piece on FoxNews.com's science columnist Steven Milloy. Turns out that Milloy just so happens to be one of those despicable hacks willing whore out his column for anybody willing to pay a little bit for it. Tobacco overlord Phillip Morris was willing to pay to the tune of $92,500 each year for "consulting" in at least 2000 and 2001. What are the results of Milloy's "consulting"? Secondhand smoke is apparently not all that bad. Thank goodness, oh and according to Milloy, global warming is a hoax but we all knew that. See for yourself here (subscription req'd).

More detail from the Huffington Post. See for yourself here.

Then there's this, which is freakin' hilarious, and demonstrates exactly how much credibility the independent grassroots organization Accuracy In Media truly deserves. According to AIM, Fox News is in danger of becoming one more cog in the leftwing media machine which has been so successful of late champion leftist causes. That's right kids, Fox News, just another pinko commie outfit. See for yourself here

Just one day after Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld categorically denied claims from a Pentagon draft report which suggested that the US Army was stretched thin, the top US Commander in Iraq, Gen. George Casey, acknowledged that the US Army was, in fact, stretched. However, he said, the Army is capable of accomplishing their mission and any recommendation to reduce troops further would be dictated by the situation on the battlefield, the AP reports. Rrrriiiiight!?! See for yourself here.

MSNBC has more on that Pentagon draft report. See for yourself here.

From ThinkProgress, according to Secretary Rumsfeld, what's the reason why we are in this unfortunate position of having our Army stretched so thin? It's Clinton's fault, of course. Kind of like the imaginary WMD's were Clinton's fault as well, or the events of 9/11 were his fault. Of course the response to Katrina wasn't Clinton's fault. That was the fault of local officials. For an administration that doesn't want to get dragged into the blame game, they sure do spend a lot of time blaming others. Although, covering your ass after your incompetence and/or neglegence has resulted in the death of thousands of American citizens/soldiers/marines does require quite a bit of work with all the shifting of blame and "stonewalling". It must be awesome to be so incompetent; nothing is ever your fault. IT'S EVERYBODY ELSES FAULT EXCEPT MINE. To the Bush administration, may only a few thousand more Americans die as a result. See for yourself here

Seriously, to what possible benefit do these freakseeds serve other then to assure that peasant farmers be forever at the mercy of the multinational agribusinesses. This is just about as despicable as it gets. See for yourself here.