But you knew that.
The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit center for investigative journalism, finds that in the two years after 9/11, the Bush administration made at least 935 false statements to justify military action.

Neocons like to roll their eyes and claim, in exhausted, put-upon voices, that “everyone thought that Iraq had weapons of mass [...]

The Bush administration takes a stand
After the 9/11 attacks, then EPA head Christine Whitman gave a speech assuring the public the air near Ground Zero was safe to breathe. This was false. A group of citizens who trusted her, acted on her words, and have suffered because of it, have sued her. A federal judge [...]

Six years after 9/11, America’s second-largest port is still open for terrorist business

PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
I’m a big one for historical remembrances–1066 (William the Conqueror lands on the English coast), 1945 (the atom bomb dropped twice in a single month), and 1977 (premiere of Three’s Company, with the first episode “A Man About the House”–hilarious)–and, [...]