Daily Archives: July 14, 2013

Bush administration outs CIA ‘operative’ to discredit husband, a critic of Iraq War 10 years ago today (2003)


Video: 'Interview with Valerie Plame/Part 1 with Jason Leopold'

(Monday, July 14, 2003) — In an effort to discredit U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, who had written an article critical of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Washington Post columnist Robert Novak today identified Wilson’s wife Valerie Plame is a CIA “operative,” citing two Bush administration officials. Continue reading Bush administration outs CIA ‘operative’ to discredit husband, a critic of Iraq War 10 years ago today (2003)

Nazi eugenics begins with ‘Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring’ 80 years ago today (1933)

(Friday, July 14, 1933) — The Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring (Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses) was decreed today in Nazi Germany, initially providing for the compulsory sterilization of persons with mental retardation (“hereditary feeblemindedness”), bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, epilepsy, and persons born with handicaps.