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  • Karl Rove on Welfare
    31 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Karl Rove on Welfare
    by Ralph Nader Remember the day after the election last November, a triumphant newly elected (for the first time) President George W. Bush introduced to a national television audience a beaming Karl Rove as "The Architect" of his winning campaign. Did you know that you, the taxpayers, paid for his salary and benefits while he was running George W. Bush’s political campaign day after day inside the White House?
    Isn’t this illegal, you may properly ask? It would be (…)

  • State Dept. Now Says Bolton Interviewed
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    State Dept. Now Says Bolton Interviewed
    By MARK SHERMAN
    WASHINGTON — John Bolton, President Bush’s nominee for U.N. ambassador, neglected to tell Congress he been interviewed in a government investigation into faulty prewar intelligence that Iraq was seeking nuclear materials in Africa, the State Department said.
    Democratic senators said the admission should forestall Bush from using his authority to give Bolton a temporary appointment to the U.N. post, without Senate confirmation, (…)

  • White House Hints It May Appoint Bolton
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JENNIFER LOVEN
    WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House seemed to inch closer on Friday to going around Congress to install embattled nominee John Bolton as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
    President Bush has the power to fill vacancies without Senate approval while Congress is in recess. Under the Constitution, a recess appointment during the lawmakers’ August break would last until the next session of Congress, which begins in January 2007.
    White House press secretary Scott (…)

  • Judge’s Reagan-Era Work Criticized
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Judge’s Reagan-Era Work Criticized
    Papers Show Roberts’s Conservatism, Liberal Activists Say
    By Michael A. Fletcher
    After sitting mostly silent for more than a week after the Supreme Court nomination of Judge John G. Roberts Jr., liberal activist groups and their allies in the Senate yesterday expressed growing concern about the conservative positions Roberts advocated while working as a young Justice Department lawyer in the Reagan administration.
    Memos and other documents from (…)

  • Darker Purpose
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last week, we wrote of the Bush Faction’s increasingly successful drive to establish the principle of unlimited presidential authority — beyond the reach of any law or constitutional restriction — as the new foundation of a militarist American state. This relentless push toward autocracy gained even more strength in recent days, in two cases centering on what has emerged as the very core of President George W. Bush’s authoritarian philosophy: torture.
    Vice President Dick Cheney was (…)

  • The World Can’t Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The World Can’t Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!
    Mobilize for November 2, 2005
    Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights.
    Your government is openly torturing people, and justifying it.
    Your government puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night.
    Your government is moving each (…)

  • Bush gives press the finger
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush Flips Out
    What incredibly infantile behavior from the President of the United States. He has no respect for the office. All class!
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    Posted by Norm at July 27, 2005 11:45 PM
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  • KARL ROVE, MICHAEL LEDEEN SPIES PROCURED FORGED NIGER DOCUMENTS
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Karl Rove’s only full-time foreign-policy advisor is Michael Ledeen, a rabid anti-Arab, pro-Israel activist. The FBI is investigating Ledeen for procuring forged documents (shown here) on nonexistent WMD, which George Bush used to justify his war on Iraq. When Joseph Wilson exposed the farce, Rove helped "out" Wilson’s CIA wife. Did Ledeen procure the documents for Rove, and how might he have done that? The story includes multinational stool pigeon Rocco Martino, Italian spy Francesco (…)

  • Rove scandal merits scrutiny
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I’d like to request that you as editor of the Rutland Herald and your staff keep your eye on the ball in the next weeks as the Karl Rove scandal continues to unfold. This is, in my opinion, the most important story in a decade.
    This story comes at a time when news organizations will be challenged to keep telling the truth. There are those who will try to distract us and dismiss this story as "old news." Your readers don’t think so. We count on you to tell the truth and consider the (…)

  • Dean: How Far Will They Go? CIA Told Novak That Rove’s Story Was Wrong
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    According to the Washington Post, columnist Bob Novak was told by the CIA’s spokesperson that Karl Rove’s story was wrong. Wilson was not sent by his wife to Niger and she was still a covert agent whose name should not be disclosed. [Washington Post, 7/27/05] Nevertheless, Novak still disclosed the agent’s name and went with Rove’s story.
    "How far will the Bush smear machine go?" said Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. "Novak knew all this and still published his story. (…)