Salon, which I have found to be a damn fine source of news over the last couple years, is setting up a Washington Bureau. They seem pretty intent on going after Bush throughout the year and helping Kerry to win this election. They have up a letter from the editor at the moment giving a preview of the first stories to come this week.
They're starting out today with "an exclusive, eyewitness account of how Bush officials inside the Defense Department twisted intelligence in the rush to the Iraq war."
And, according to the letter from the editor, there will be more:
On Thursday, Salon will publish the first of several advance excerpts from "House of Bush, House of Saud," a new book by Craig Unger that explores the relationship between the two dynasties, whose explosive contents have been embargoed. In the first installment, Unger, who has written for Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, will expose shocking new details on the flights approved by the Bush White House that carried members of the bin Laden family and other prominent Saudis out of the U.S. to Saudi Arabia after Sept. 11. Salon will publish for the first time the manifest of the passenger list and identify one passenger as a suspected al-Qaida funder who was aware ahead of time of the Sept. 11 attack.
And on Friday, Salon will publish an exclusive report on the Texas investigation of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and his political operatives that reporter Lou Dubose (co-author of "Shrub" and "Boy Genius") believes may send some of them to prison, shaking up Texas and national politics.
Looks like they'll also be partnering up with Air America, the new left-leaning radio station featuring Al Franken, among others. They also have forged a partnership with The Guardian to bring in a story from them each day.
I must say, I continue to be happy with my subscription to Salon. They've provided quite a bit of great journalism and have written some excellent articles on the failures of the Bush administration. In particular, I remember a great story about the lack of security amongst nuclear and chemical facilities.
Hopefully, some of these stories will filter into the mainstream press and help keep up the current assault against Bush. The more we can get the man beaten down, the better. And please consider checking out Salon, maybe using a day pass to read these articles. They should have some good information and you'll be supporting a great source of independent journalism.