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  • Slaughter Leads Charge To Compel House Vote On Gannongate Probe
    8 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Slaughter Leads Charge To Compel House Vote On Gannongate Probe Mike Hudson March 08, 2005 Don’t put Rep. Louise Slaughter on the "pay no mind" list.
    The congresswoman, who serves as ranking member on the House Rules Committee, has joined the ranking members of the Judiciary, Government Reform, Homeland Security and Ways and Means committees to author what is known as a Resolution of Inquiry, which would require the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security to release (…)

  • Bush takes questions from male prostitute, refuses veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas
    7 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Helen Thomas, who spoke at Siena College’s First Woman President symposium Friday, also had plenty to say about serving as a White House correspondent for United Press International. Not all of it was encouraging.
    "This president (Bush) doesn’t think he has to answer any questions. ... He even says (during press conferences) this is scripted," bemoaned Thomas, 83, who gave up her reporter job to become a syndicated columnist two years ago and routinely trashes Bush on economic and military (…)

  • GannonGate
    6 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Wayne Besen
    Although George W. Bush once owned the Texas Rangers, anyone who has seen him at a press conference knows that his favorite sport is really softball. Bush’s penchant for puff helps to explain the mercurial rise and fall of “reporter” Jim Guckert, who went from working in a cyber-whorehouse to covering the White House as a “correspondent” for conservative Internet mag, Talon News.
    When not reporting conservative news, Guckert was a member of Bush’s “ownership society”. In (…)

  • Voting glitches haunt statistician
    5 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Brian Joiner wishes he could "just get over it."
    He wishes he could ignore the thousands of reported voting irregularities that occurred in the Nov. 2 election, accept the fact that George W. is going to be around another four years and just hope that we haven’t created even more enemies or fallen even deeper into debt by the time 2008 rolls around.
    "I’m sure the Republicans would like me to forget all that stuff, just like they wanted everyone to forget all the strange things that (…)

  • Members of Congress Pledge Support for FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds
    5 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Members From Both Sides of the Aisle Promise to Investigate Problems at FBI After Hearing Wednesday
    WASHINGTON - Two Members of Congress promised to investigate whistleblower Sibel Edmonds’ allegations against the FBI and raised concerns over the government’s response to her case after she testified Wednesday for the first time before Congress.
    Edmonds, who was fired after exposing national security concerns at the FBI, received support from Representatives Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and (…)

  • THE MYTH OF SEPARATION
    3 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE MYTH OF SEPARATION
    By M. KATO
    The Supreme Court is now hearing arguments for and against the display of the Judeo-Christian Ten Commandments on government property involving two cases originating from Kentucky and Texas. It is anyone’s guess how the Supremes will rule even though proponents of a ban on such displays claim that such displays are in clear violation of the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment of the United (…)

  • FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds to Testify Before Congress for First Time Wednesday
    2 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Edmonds Set to Speak at House Hearing on Excessive Classification
    A release from the ACLU:
    March 1, 2005
    WASHINGTON - Sibel Edmonds, who was fired after exposing national security concerns at the FBI, will testify before Congress for the first time Wednesday.
    Edmonds, a former Middle Eastern language specialist for the FBI, will share her story with members of the House Committee on Government Reform’s Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations. (…)

  • What A Rich Nation Should Really Be Doing About Social Security
    1 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Gar Alperovitz Listening to the debate between the Administration and even its most adventurous critics one would imagine that only an extremely limited range of Social Security options are even conceivable. One would also imagine that we live in an extremely poor society which is ultimately going to have to find ways to squeeze its seniors financially or somehow we will all perish. The truth is radically different.
    This is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world. A serious (…)

  • Bush Administration using Social Security Administration to scare up support for privatization
    1 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New Report Details the Politicization of the Social Security Administration Under President Bush
    WASHINGTON - Today Reps. Henry A. Waxman, Rep. Charles B. Rangel, and Rep. Sander M. Levin, along with Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, and Reps. Obey, Miller, and DeLauro, released a new report that shows how the Social Security Administration has modified its communications strategy to undermine public confidence in Social Security.
    The report, based on a review (…)

  • White House Must Charge Or Free Suspect
    1 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mark Sherman WASHINGTON - A federal judge ordered the Bush administration Monday to either charge terrorism suspect Jose Padilla with a crime or release him after more than 2 1/2 years in custody.
    U.S. District Judge Henry Floyd in Spartanburg, S.C., said the government can not hold Padilla indefinitely as an "enemy combatant," a designation President Bush gave him in 2002.
    "The court finds that the president has no power, neither express nor implied, neither constitutional nor (…)