By Kenneth T. Walsh
Suddenly, the West Wing is buzzing with a new sense of possibility. Reports on the assault in Fallujah (story, Page 16) have been cautiously positive. The president’s first call to Harry Reid, the new Senate Democratic leader, raised hopes that he might get more cooperation from his congressional adversaries. And the death of Yasser Arafat may provide a "new opportunity" for Middle East peace, Bush said late last week in a joint appearance with British Prime Minister (...)
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A sunny ’W’ seizes the moment Bush intends to further consolidate power at the White House
16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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US accused of ‘torture flights’
16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentby Stephen Grey
AN executive jet is being used by the American intelligence agencies to fly terrorist suspects to countries that routinely use torture in their prisons.
The movements of the Gulfstream 5 leased by agents from the United States defence department and the CIA are detailed in confidential logs obtained by The Sunday Times which cover more than 300 flights.
Countries with poor human rights records to which the Americans have delivered prisoners include Egypt, Syria and (...) -
Top spies threaten to leave the fold over CIA reform
16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentby From Roland Watson in Washington
THE CIA’s top spies are on the brink of revolt seven weeks after the arrival of President Bush’s new Director.
Porter Goss and his newly imported aides have had a series of bruising showdowns with established CIA figures that have left the agency in turmoil.
John McLaughlin, the agency’s deputy director, a 32-year CIA veteran, announced at the weekend that he was quitting. Stephen Kappes, the deputy director of operations, is expected to announce (...) -
Bush Faces Mounting Allegations of Widespread Fraud in 2004 Election
16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
The evidence is mounting against George Bush and his election team for committing widespread fraud in the November 2004 elections. Documented allegations range from telephone subterfuge to get Democrats to stop voting, to high-tech warfare that suppressed the votes of thousands of Kerry supporters.
By far the most effective method for Bush may have been the use of electronic voting machines, provided by three companies run by close friends of the Bush family. A total of three companies (...) -
I Smell a Rat
16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentI Smell a Rat BY COLIN SHEA I smell a rat. It has that distinctive and all-too-familiar odor of the species Republicanus floridius. We got a nasty bite from this pest four years ago and never quite recovered. Symptoms of a long-term infection are becoming distressingly apparent. The first sign of the rat was on election night. The jubilation of early exit polling had given way to rising anxiety as states fell one by one to the Red Tide. It was getting late in the smoky cellar of a (...)
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Here is a message John Kerry’s brother sent out
16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
3 comments"I am grateful to the many people who have contacted me to express their deep concern about questions of miscounting, fraud, vote suppression, and other problems on election day, especially in Florida and Ohio. Their concern reflects how much people care about the outcome of this election.
I want to you to know we are not ignoring it. Election protection lawyers are still on the job in Ohio and Florida and in DC making sure all the votes are counted accurately. I have been conferring (...) -
County Wants Investigation Into Voters Who Tried To Vote Twice
16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBroward County officials want prosecutors to investigate about 30 registered voters who attempted to cast ballots twice in the Nov. 2 election.
Members of the county’s canvassing board, who certified the county’s election results Friday, said they were concerned about voters who cast ballots by touch-screen voting machine at early-voting sites in the days before Nov. 2, then tried to cast paper ballots at the precincts on Election Day.
Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes said she has (...) -
Ohio voters tell of Election Day troubles at hearing
16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
by Reginald Fields
Columbus
Tales of waiting more than five hours to vote, voter intimidation, under-trained polling-station workers and too few or broken voting machines largely in urban or heavily minority areas were retold Saturday at a public hearing organized by voter-rights groups.
For three hours, burdened voters, one after another, offered sworn testimony about Election Day voter suppression and irregularities that they believe are threatening democracy.
The hearing, (...) -
Ohio Vote Fraud: More Bush "Voters" Than Residents, at least 93,136 extra votes total
16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentIn Ohio, the Republicans adhere strictly to the infamous vote fraud motto: Vote Early and Vote Often.
Cuyahooga county is only one of 48 counties connected with voter fraud in Ohio and Florida.
You may have seen the associated press story about the precinct in Cuyahoga county that had less than 1,000 voters, and gave Bush almost 4,000 extra votes.
But that turns out to be only the tip of a very ugly iceberg. The evidence discovered by some remarkably careful sleuthing would convince (...) -
In defense of John Kerry: A theory
16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Rick Gagliano, 11/15/04, Downtown Magazine John Kerry lost the election on November 2nd.
Or did he? Internet bloggers, web sites, professors with stats, Ralph Nader, the Greens and Libertarians in Ohio, and probably millions of people who haven’t seen or heard the theories focusing on potential fraud, manipulation and more - thanks to a media blackout on anything suggesting the election is not over and done with - beg to differ.
More on the mainstream media later. First, what about (...)