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  • Conspiracy Charges in the Plame Case?
    5 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Posted by Mark Kleiman on October 04, 2005 05:43 PM
    Jim VandeHei and Walter Pincus report that lawyers close to the Valerie Plame investigation (identified as lawyers for witnesses, but presumably those would be potential defendants) say that Patrick Fitzgerald is pointing toward conspiracy charges.
    "Many lawyers in the case have been skeptical that Fitzgerald has the evidence to prove a violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, which is the complicated crime he first set (…)

  • Bush uses failure during Katrina,overstated avian flu death tolls to push for end to Posse Comitatus
    5 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    publisher’s note: This is the worst US president ever, responsible for the deaths of over 100,000 innocents, a moral zero, incompetent idiot who is a threat to the world. We have to stop him now or God help us all.
    Bush Would Use Military to Quarantine Avian Flu Pandemic
    In the event of a bird flu pandemic that spreads among humans in the United States, President George W. Bush is considering using the military to impose a quarantine on the affected areas. Currently state governors (…)

  • Miers Led Law Firm Repeatedly Forced to Pay Damages For Defrauding Investors
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In case anyone thought Harriet Miers wasn’t a corporate-shill-in-White-House-clothing, take a gander at how Miers did her best Ken Lay impression while heading a major Texas corporate law firm. That’s right, according to the 5/1/00 newsletter Class Action Reporter, Miers headed Locke, Liddell & Sapp at the time the firm was forced to pay $22 million to settle a suit asserting that "it aided a client in defrauding investors."
    The details of the case are both nauseating and highly (…)

  • The Bush administration’s Top 40 Lies about war and terrorism
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    1) The administration was not bent on war with Iraq from 9/11 onward.
    Throughout the year leading up to war, the White House publicly maintained that the U.S. took weapons inspections seriously, that diplomacy would get its chance, that Saddam had the opportunity to prevent a U.S. invasion. The most pungent and concise evidence to the contrary comes from the president’s own mouth. According to Time’s March 31 road-to-war story, Bush popped in on national security adviser Condi Rice one day (…)

  • Ignoble liars: Leo Strauss, George Bush, and the philosophy of mass deception
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn’t work." Irving Kristol - Founder of American Neoconservatism Leo Strauss and Our Current Political Condition
    Tue (…)

  • Miers Briefed Bush on Famous Bin Laden Memo, But Newspapers Handle the AP Photo Quite Differently
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Harriet Miers, at the time staff secretary, is seen on Aug. 6, 2001, briefing President Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas."
    NEW YORK On its front page Tuesday, The New York Times published a photo of new U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers going over a briefing paper with President George W. Bush at his Crawford ranch “in August 2001,” the caption reads.
    USA Today and the Boston Globe carried the photo labeled simply “2001,” but many other newspapers ran the picture in print or (…)

  • Packing the Supreme Court in Anticipation of a Constitutional Showdown
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Packing the Supreme Court in Anticipation of a Constitutional Showdown
    October 3, 2005 — Packing the Supreme Court in Anticipation of a Constitutional Showdown. The Kabuki dance between George W. Bush and Special Prosecutor on the CIA leak case Patrick Fitzgerald continues with Bush’s nomination of his one-time personal lawyer and current White House Counsel Harriet Miers, a person who has never served on the bench, as the replacement for outgoing Associate Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day (…)

  • 21 Administration Officials Involved In Plame Leak
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The cast of administration characters with known connections to the outing of an undercover CIA agent:
    Karl Rove I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Condoleezza Rice Stephen Hadley Andrew Card Alberto Gonzales Mary Matalin Ari Fleischer Susan Ralston Israel Hernandez John Hannah Scott McClellan Dan Bartlett Claire Buchan Catherine Martin Colin Powell Karen Hughes Adam Levine Bob Joseph Vice President Dick Cheney President George W. Bush
    (Comment on this page here.)
    Karl Rove Senior Advisor to (…)

  • Reporter finks on Fox
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    "With the change of administration in Washington, I wanted to do the same kind of reporting, holding the (Bush) administration accountable, and that was not something that Fox was interested in doing"
    by Mike Leonard
    David Shuster has spent most of the past month covering hurricanes Katrina and Rita. And the Bloomington native and television correspondent admits he’s really not that fond of catastrophe reporting.
    "I’d rather get slugged by an angry politician than hit over the head (…)

  • Bill Would Give Cover to Pentagon Spies in U.S.
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    In an effort to thwart domestic terror, some privacy protections would be rolled back.
    By Greg Miller Times Staff Writer
    October 1, 2005
    WASHINGTON - Pentagon intelligence operatives would be allowed to collect information from U.S. citizens without revealing their status as government spies under legislation approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee and publicly released this week.
    The bill would end a long-standing requirement that military intelligence officers disclose their (…)