ron suskind

Cheney, Bush and Habbush

Aug 21, 2008
Even though Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind supplied explosive evidence to support the case that the Bush administration willfully deceived America and the rest of the world about the Iraq invasion, some key players in Congress still insist there aren't sufficient grounds for impeachment, but the chance still stands to follow Suskind's lead before the Bush camp decamps from the White House.

White House Fabricated Iraq Intelligence, Book Alleges

Aug 5, 2008
According to Ron Suskind, former Wall Street Journal reporter and best-selling Bush critic, the White House ordered the CIA to fabricate evidence linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida and knew before the invasion that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. The White House denies the allegations, published in Suskind's new book, "The Way of the World."
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Colbert to Suskind: We Need a ‘Zero Percent Doctrine’

Jul 14, 2006
Stephen Colbert tells author Ron Suskind that Vice President Cheney's so-called "One Percent Doctrine"--whereby a one percent chance of terrorists obtaining WMDs must be treated as a certainty--is "soft on terror." Colbert: "One percent? Shouldn't it be a zero percent doctrine? I mean even if there's no chance that someone's a threat to the United States, and they just look at us funny, shouldn't we just--[beats a fist into his palm]--tag 'em?"

Sullivan: Bush Channeled Tony Soprano on Torture

Jul 11, 2006
Bush and Rumsfeld gave the go-ahead to CIA interrogators to threaten the family of Al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Muhammed if he did not talk, according to Ron Suskind in his new book, "The One Percent Doctrine." Former Bush defender Andrew Sullivan says the green light made Bush "the moral equivalent of a mafia boss."

Truthdigger of the Week: Ron Suskind

Jun 25, 2006
Truthdig salutes Ron Suskind, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer whose most recent book, "The One Percent Doctrine," stripped down Vice President Dick Cheney's counter-terrorism philosophy to its Strangelovian essence: If there is a 1% chance of a terrorist attack, America must respond as though it is a 100% certainty. Click here for disclosures from the book, Suskind TV appearances, links to other writings and biographical information.