ICasualties:
| U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: | 3611 |
| Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: | 4 |
| Total | 3615 |
> While our George Bush says that he is working hard, he has left the President's Intelligence Oversight Board empty. Washington Post:
....The President's Intelligence Oversight Board -- the principal civilian watchdog of the intelligence community -- is obligated under a 26-year-old executive order to tell the attorney general and the president about any intelligence activities it believes "may be unlawful." The board was vacant for the first two years of the Bush administration.
The FBI sent copies of its violation reports directly to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales. But the board's mandate is to provide independent oversight, so the absence of such communications has prompted critics to question whether the board was doing its job.
"It's now apparent that the IOB was not actively employed in the early part of the administration. And it was a crucial period when its counsel would seem to have been needed the most," said Anthony Harrington, who served as the board's chairman for most of the Clinton administration.....
> While Senator Jim Webb fights for our men and women in uniform, Senator Lindsey Graham and the rest of his bunch continue to support Bush's unending war in Iraq. If you watch the video below, you'll notice that Graham just looks desperate and weak in his defense of the war.
Video from Meet the Press from a post at Huffington Post.
