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  • Velvet Revolution offers $100K for arrest in Plame case!
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    VelvetRevolution Launches ’Government Accountability Reward Fund’; $100K Reward for Information Leading to Arrest, Conviction of Corrupt Gov’t. Officials
    30 minutes ago
    To: National Desk, Legal Reporter
    Contact: Ilene Proctor, 310-271-5857
    SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 29 /U.S. Newswire/ — VelvetRevolution.us, a network of more than 120 progressive organizations seeking honest government, just launched the ’Government Accountability Reward Fund’ to induce whistleblowers to come forward (…)

  • We Are All Torturers Now: WHO DID YOU TORTURE DURING THE WAR, DADDY?
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ted Rall
    Or, We Are All Torturers Now
    NEW YORK—Never miss the Saturday paper. Because it’s the skimpiest and least-circulated edition of the week, it’s the venue of choice for lowballing the stories the government can’t completely cover up. September 24’s New York Times, for example, contained the bombshell revelation that the U.S. government continues to torture innocent men, women and children in Iraq.
    An army captain and two sergeants from the elite 82nd Airborne Division confirm (…)

  • Key Player in Torture Scandal Nominated to No. 2 Post at Justice Department
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Key Player in Torture Scandal Nominated to No. 2 Post at Justice Department; ACLU Expresses Deep Concern With Embattled Appointee
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Media@dcaclu.org
    WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today expressed deep concern that Timothy Flanigan, who served as deputy to then White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, is being considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee to be deputy attorney general. The committee is scheduled to vote on his confirmation (…)

  • Judge Orders Release of Abu Ghraib Photos
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Judge Orders Release of Abu Ghraib Photos
    By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press Writer 9 minutes ago
    Saying the United States "does not surrender to blackmail," a judge ruled Thursday that pictures of detainee abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison must be released over government claims that they could damage America’s image.
    U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein ordered the release of certain pictures in a 50-page decision that said terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan have proven they (…)

  • US forces ’out of control’, says Reuters chief
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Julia Day Wednesday September 28, 2005
    Reuters has told the US government that American forces’ conduct towards journalists in Iraq is "spiralling out of control" and preventing full coverage of the war reaching the public.
    The detention and accidental shootings of journalists is limiting how journalists can operate, wrote David Schlesinger, the Reuters global managing editor, in a letter to Senator John Warner, head of the armed services committee.
    The Reuters news service chief (…)

  • Republicans Introduce Line Item Veto Constitutional Amendment
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Ruled unconstitutional in 1997, after President Clinton used it some 82 times, the Line Item Veto is back, but this time with the weight of a Constitutional Amendment. Senator George Allen, who deems himself a legitimate contender for the 2008 Presidential election; and Senator Talent, facing a tough re-election campaign next year, offered the Amendment today.
    Claire McCaskill, Talent‘s challenger, was having none of this Johnny come lately budget consciousness, and fired out a statement, (…)

  • FlashBack: The Bush’s, The CIA, and their Terrorists Friends in Miami
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    GRANMA July 16, 2002
    BUSH’S LIASONS The scandalous release of Letelier’s killers
    HOW José Dionisio "Bloodbath" Esquivel and Virgilio Paz Romero were able to personally express their gratitude to their master . As CIA head, George Bush Sr. never had to explain his role in this dirty story of murder and disinformation . A few weeks before September 11, President Bush released two dangerous terrorists, who are also CIA collaborators and CANF mercenaries
    BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD (Special for (…)

  • Cuban Terror Case Erodes US Credibility, Critics Say
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON, Sep 28 (IPS) - The decision Tuesday by a U.S. immigration judge in Texas to deny Venezuela’s request to extradite Luis Posada Carriles, whom Caracas has dubbed "the Osama bin Laden of Latin America", was greeted with surprise and disappointment by Latin America activists and even some former U.S. officials.
    Venezuela wants Carriles to stand trial for the October 1976 bombing of a civilian Cubana Airlines flight that killed all 73 people aboard shortly after it took off from (…)

  • Bush’s Depression: Been There, Reported That
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Depressed and demoralized White House staffers say working at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is "life in a hellhole" as they try to deal with a sullen, moody President whose temper tantrums drive staffers crying from the room and bring the business of running the country to a halt.
    "It’s like working in an insane asylum," says one White House aide. "People walk around like they’re in a trance. We’re the dance band on the Titanic, playing out our last songs to people who know the ship is sinking (…)

  • Drugs, Drunks, and the Bushes
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Son of a Bush pushed officer during arrest
    A nephew of US President George Bush repeatedly pushed against an officer who was trying to handcuff him during his arrest on suspicion of public intoxication, according to an affidavit.
    John Ellis Bush, 21, whose father is Florida Governor Jeb Bush, was arrested by agents of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) at 2.30am on Friday in Austin’s Sixth Street bar district.
    Bush had approached the state agents and Austin police officers (…)