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  • Washington Post withholds info on secret prisons at government request
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Consequences of Covering Up : Washington Post withholds info on secret prisons at government request
    On November 2, the Washington Post carried an explosive front-page story about secret Eastern European prisons set up by the CIA for the interrogation of terrorism suspects. While the Post article, by reporter Dana Priest, gave readers plenty of details, it also withheld the most crucial information—the location of these secret prisons—at the request of government officials.
    According (…)

  • Powerful Government Accounting Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As a legal noose appears to be tightening around the Bush/Cheney/Rove inner circle, a shocking government report shows the floor under the legitimacy of their alleged election to the White House is crumbling.
    The latest critical confirmation of key indicators that the election of 2004 was stolen comes in an extremely powerful, penetrating report from the General Accounting Office that has gotten virtually no mainstream media coverage.
    The government’s lead investigative agency is known (…)

  • Senator Kerry rebuffs claim he said election was stolen
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A spokesman for Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) vehemently denied that the senator had told a popular liberal author and journalist that he believed the 2004 election was "stolen" in response to queries from RAW STORY.
    The author, New York University professor Mark Crispin Miller, told Democracy Now and Air America’s "Morning Sedition" the senator had confided in him at a fundraiser Friday, saying he believed the election was stolen after Miller offered Kerry a copy of his new book. Miller said (…)

  • GOP Leaders to Bush: ’Your Presidency is Effectively Over’
    4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By DOUG THOMPSON
    A growing number of Republican leaders, party strategists and political professional now privately tell President George W. Bush that his presidency "is effectively over" unless he fires embattled White House advisor Karl Rove, apologizes to the American people for misleading the country into war and revamps his administration from top to bottom.
    "The only show of unity we have now in the Republican Party is the belief that the President has failed the party, the (…)

  • Mark Crispin Miller: “Kerry Told Me He Now Thinks the Election Was Stolen”
    4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New York University professor and author Mark Crispin Miller says in an interview on Democracy Now!: “[Kerry] told me he now thinks the election was stolen.
    He says he doesn’t believe he is the person that can be out in front because of the sour grapes question. But he said he believes it was stolen. He says he argues with his democratic colleagues on the hill.
    He said he had a fight with Christopher Dodd because he said there’s questions about the voting machines and Dodd was angry. (…)

  • Zogby poll: Majority of likely voters support considing impeachment
    4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by David Swanson
    New Poll Shows Majority of Americans Support Impeachment; ImpeachPAC is Launched to Support Pro-Impeachment Candidates
    By a margin of 53% to 42%, Americans want Congress to impeach President Bush if he lied about the war in Iraq, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
    The poll was conducted by Zogby International, the (…)

  • Drifting towards a Police State
    4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mike Whitney
    “Those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid the terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America’s enemies and pause to America’s friends” Former Attorney General, John Ashcroft
    Did you know that under the terms of the new Patriot Act prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in cases where “defendants gave financial support to umbrella (…)

  • Vermont Passes Resolution to Secede from the USA
    4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by GREG SZYMANSKI
    An historic Vermont meeting in the state capital has passed a resolution to secede from the United States. Members of a peaceful freedom-fighting group want no part of neo-cons running the imperialistic U.S. government. The plan to secede from the U.S. is gaining momentum in the fiercely independent Green Mountain state.
    The neo-con band of criminals running Washington, trampling on civil rights at home and invading countries at will overseas, has led a large group of (…)

  • 2nd Circuit judges appear wary of Patriot Act secrecy rules
    4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    NEW YORK - A federal appeals panel yesterday suggested it might require the government to permit entities ranging from major corporations to libraries to challenge FBI demands for records under the Patriot Act.
    Judges on a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals commented as they questioned lawyers on both sides in two cases from Connecticut and New York in which lower court judges ruled that the government’s secrecy requirements went too far.
    Judges Barrington D. (…)

  • Tracing the CIA’s Planes: to Senator’s Office, Poland, Romania
    4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    News media reported Thursday that the group Human Rights Watch "claims records and other evidence point to POLAND and ROMANIA as countries that allowed their territory to be used by the CIA to hold top suspected al-Qaeda captives." We report that HRW knows that from tracing the movements of CIA planes and we provide a list of the planes.
    http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/131066/index.php
    The HRW report clarifies earlier reports in the mainstream media that declined to reveal (…)