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  • SCOOTER’S LIBBY’S SEX SHOCKER NOVEL
    31 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Of all the scribbled sentences that have converged to create the Valerie Plame affair, the most remarkable, in literary terms, may belong to Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney’s recently deposed chief of staff. “Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work-and life,” he wrote in a jailhouse note to Judith Miller. Meant as a waiver of confidentiality, the letter touched off the sort of fevered exegesis (…)

  • Impeach Bush for lies propelling U.S. to war
    31 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Bush regime told lies to get support for its pre-emptive war against a country that posed no threat to our borders. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, introduced a “Resolution of Inquiry to demand the White House turn over all white papers, minutes, notes, e-mails or other communications kept by the White House Iraq Group (WHIG).”
    “This group, comprised of the president and vice president’s top aides, was critical in selling the administration’s case for war,” Kucinich said. “We now know (…)

  • Col. Janis Karpinski, the Former Head of Abu Ghraib, Admits She Broke the Geneva Conventions
    31 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    But Says the Blame "Goes All the Way to The Top”
    Karpinski, the highest-ranking officer demoted in connection with the torture scandal, speaks out about what happened at the Abu Ghraib prison. She discusses: How the military hid "ghost detainees" from the International Red Cross in violation of international law; Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller calling for the Gitmoization of Abu Ghraib and for prisoners to be "treated like dogs"; Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s secret memos on interrogation (…)

  • US and Britain seek UN backing for action against Syria
    31 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ann Talbot
    Events following the publication of the United Nations report on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri confirm that the investigation was never more than a pretext for aggressive US and British action against Syria.
    While there remain sharp differences within the US administration and between the major powers, the thrust of US and British policy goes further than the economic sanctions it is initially proposing and towards military action against (…)

  • Reversing the Pistons of Empire: One America for Peace
    31 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Greg Moses
    Whip lashed by serial collisions of imperial power, dissident movements in the USA brace for the next shocking thing. We have been hijacked into a crashing invasion of Iraq, slammed around by evasive maneuvers in New Orleans, and now along the borderlands of the Southwest USA, signs warn that a highway of accommodation is about to end, dumping us head-on into deserts of aggression upon Latin American peoples.
    Into each new crisis, empire roars forward, pumping high octane (…)

  • Libby: The War Party’s Kamikaze
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Why did Scooter lie - and so badly?
    by Justin Raimondo
    "It’s not over."
    Out of Fitzgerald’s hour-long press conference, these three words had the most resonance. Before we get into that, however, let’s look at the man who has come out from behind the screen of this very closely-held investigation.
    Fitzgerald’s debut at the press conference put on display a character who might have been imagined by a novelist. He seems to embody the principle of justice: the clear concise nature of (…)

  • Indicting America
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Scott Ritter
    The indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby by Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald provides the most cogent and visible evidence to date of the criminal mindset that exists inside the Bush administration regarding the decision to invade Iraq.
    The indictment is linked to Libby’s involvement in illegally revealing the identity of a covert CIA operative, Valerie Plame, in violation of U.S. law, and the resultant conspiracy to deny and cover up the fact that this crime (…)

  • An Open Letter to Col. Boylan
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Butler Shaffer
    To: Lt. Col. Steve Boylan Director, Multinational Force Press Center Re: 2,000 Dead Soldiers
    The media inform me that you have sent an e-mail to news reporters asking them not to treat the 2,000th American serviceman killed in Iraq as “a milestone.” You reportedly asked journalists “to think about the effects on the families and those serving in Iraq.” You added that the 2,000 figure was “an artificial mark on the wall set by individuals or groups with specific (…)

  • ’Official A’ Stands Out in Indictment
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By PETE YOST
    WASHINGTON - In a sign of the trouble lingering for the Bush administration, the indictment handed up Friday in the CIA leak probe refers to someone at the White House known as "Official A."
    The unidentified official could become a courtroom witness against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who left his job as vice presidential aide shortly after his indictment on charges of obstruction of justice, making false statements and perjury.
    Several other unnamed officials mentioned in (…)

  • Clumsy forgeries, Italian style
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Gordon Prather
    The March 2005 report of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction contained a scathing chapter on the "intelligence" President Bush used to justify Operation Iraqi Freedom:
    As war loomed, the U.S. intelligence community was charged with telling policy-makers what it knew about Iraq’s nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs. The community’s best assessments were set out in an October 2002 (…)