Keith Olberman of MSNBC has chronicled something obvious yet interesting:

President Bush’s speech about the war on terror had come earlier the same day, as had the breaking news of the possible indictment of Karl Rove in the CIA leak investigation.

I suggested that in the last three years there had been about 13 similar coincidences - a political downturn for the administration, followed by a “terror event"- a change in alert status, an arrest, a warning.

The entire list is required reading.

Right after Katrina, in one of our articles about the need for a real, rational energy policy, one of our brave team members fastidiously pointed out that the spike in energy prices were caused by economics, that no evidence was yet available that shows profiteering by the oil giants, even though it seemed intuitive.

Well now we know. I wonder how much of this is directly tied to Bush Administration corruption?

Meet the 2000 men and women have died in the Iraq War face to face, courtesy of the New York Times. Click on “Date of Death” to move month by month from March of 2003 to October 2005.

From The Washington Note

October 25, 2005
Indictments Coming Tomorrow; Targets Received Letters Today

An uber-insider source has just reported the following to TWN (since confirmed by another independent source):

1. 1-5 indictments are being issued. The source feels that it will be towards the higher end.

2. The targets of indictment have already received their letters.

3. The indictments will be sealed indictments and “filed” tomorrow.

4. A press conference is being scheduled for Thursday.

The shoe is dropping.

More soon.

– Steve Clemons

Could the dark lord be going down?

From today’s Daily News:

Cheney may be target of probe

BY JAMES GORDON MEEK, THOMAS M. DeFRANK and KENNETH R. BAZINET
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON - A special prosecutor’s intensifying focus into who outed a CIA spy has raised questions whether Vice President Cheney himself is involved, knowledgeable sources confirmed yesterday.

At least one source and one reporter who have testified in the probe said U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is pursuing Cheney’s role in the Valerie Plame affair.

In addition, at least six current and former Cheney staffers - most members of the White House Iraq Group - have testified before the grand jury, including the vice president’s top honcho, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, and two top Cheney national security lieutenants.

Cheney’s name has come up amid indications Fitzgerald may be edging closer to a blockbuster conspiracy charge - with help from a secret snitch.

“They have got a senior cooperating witness - someone who is giving them all of that,” a source who has been questioned in the leak probe told the Daily News yesterday.

Today on Meet the Press, former FBI Director, stallwart Republican, and born again Clinton detractor Louis Freeh slipped this bit into is anti-Clinton book promo schpiel:

The New Yorker magazine article, which was in the spring of 2001, actually corroborates the one part of the story which is that the president didn’t seriously or vigorously persecute the request, the request being to get FBI agents into the prison in Saudi Arabia to talk to detainees who would ultimately tell us that the Iranian government was responsible for this attack. …

three of the detainees who had actually performed the bombing–these are members of the Saudi Hezbollah, which is an agent of the Iranian government. …

When I finally came back to Sandy Berger and told him we now had evidence that the Iranian government had murdered 19 Americans–killed, wounded over 300, his first reaction was, “Who knows about this?” And his second reaction was “Well, that’s hearsay.” This was an administration that was not interested in finding out that the Iranian government had blowed up–had blown up Khobar Towers.

Don’t worry about it. Tim raked him over the coals. The thing that jumps out at me is this. Is anyone going to take notice of this accusation in light of the Iraq War??!! A former FBI Director, and Rebublican hack is shifting attention away from the shinking ship of state with the age old NeoCon strategy - blame Clinton. In so doing, he’s claiming proof that Iran was involved with Khobar!!!! Freeh stayed on under Bush. Did he bring this up on September 12th, when planning for Iraq was already under way?