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  • OHIO’S ODD NUMBERS
    23 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    No conspiracy theorist, and no fan of John Kerry’s, the author nevertheless found the Ohio polling results impossible to swallow: Given what happened in that key state on Election Day 2004, both democracy and common sense cry out for a court-ordered inspection of its new voting machines
    If it were not for Kenyon College, I might have missed, or skipped, the whole controversy. The place is a visiting lecturer’s dream, or the ideal of a campus-movie director in search of a setting. It is (…)

  • Congress not doing its job of protecting whistleblowers nor investigating their claims
    23 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - Congress is not doing its job of protecting government whistleblowers, nor investigating the national security weaknesses those employees have tried to expose, several private watchdog groups said Wednesday.
    They called for hearings into a particular case, that of linguist Sibel Edmonds, fired in 2002 after alleging shoddy work and possible espionage inside the FBI’s translator program.
    "The time has come for Congress to hold hearings and address the concerns raised by Ms. (…)

  • Invasion Anniversary Next Month Is Date Of Campaign Kickoff
    22 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Evelyn Nieves Washington Post Staff Writer
    On Feb. 15, 2003, as millions of people worldwide took to the streets to protest the imminent U.S. invasion of Iraq, Marine Lance Cpl. Michael Hoffman was in Kuwait, awaiting deployment to Baghdad.
    Two years later, Hoffman, 25, is a civilian on the lecture circuit, introducing himself as an Iraq Veteran Against the War. On March 19, when war opponents plan to converge near Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, N.C., to mark the date of the invasion, (…)

  • United States government, 2005: If it walks like a goose... (Part I)
    22 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Previous readers know I can be a little, well, uh...rough on the Bushies, for lack of a better term (like, say, “unapologetically brutal”). That’s OK; I’ve never had a problem calling a spade a spade, or, for that matter, a scoundrel a scoundrel. Typically, though, as a matter of personal preference, I’ve pretty much tried to stay away from using vulgar or shocking language. Since November 2, however, some may have noticed I’ve not shied away from rolling out the f-word.
    It is a strong (…)

  • WHITE HOUSE SCRAMBLES TO EXPLAIN FAKE REPORTER IN ITS PRESS CORPS
    22 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Brian Kelly
    Internet researchers have uncovered new evidence that contradicts the Bush Administration’s claims about James Guckert, a Republican activist allegedly involved in criminal activities and linked to an incident involving a major breach of national security. Guckert, operating as "Jeff Gannon," was granted daily access to White House press briefings for more than two years as a "reporter" for Talon News.
    White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan stated that Guckert was (…)

  • SCOTT RITTER SAYS U.S. PLANS JUNE ATTACK ON IRAN, ‘COOKED’ JAN. 30 IRAQI ELECTION RESULTS
    21 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Scott Ritter, appearing with journalist Dahr Jamail yesterday in Washington State, dropped two shocking bombshells in a talk delivered to a packed house in Olympia’s Capitol Theater. The ex-Marine turned UNSCOM weapons inspector said that George W. Bush has "signed off" on plans to bomb Iran in June 2005, and claimed the U.S. manipulated the results of the recent Jan. 30 elections in Iraq.
    Olympians like to call the Capitol Theater "historic," but it’s doubtful whether the eighty-year-old (…)

  • Congressman tells GOP crowd we really did find WMD in Iraq
    21 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — It’s a good thing I went to the Conservative Political Action Conference this year. Otherwise I never would have known that, despite the findings of the authoritative David Kay report and every reputable media outlet on earth, the United States actually discovered weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, vindicating all of George W. Bush’s pre-war predictions. The revelation came not from some crank at Free Republic or hustler from Talon News, but from a congressman surrounded by (…)

  • 19 yr old that Wanted Out of the Marines, Drowns at Boot Camp
    20 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In this image taken from WIS-TV, video, taken Feb. 7, 2005, on Parris Island, S.C., an unidentified Marine Corps drill instructor, far-left, back to camera, grabs Jason Tharp, far left, facing camera, by the collar, near a swimming pool. Tharp of Sutton, W.Va., drowned the next day, Feb. 8. at Parris Island while participating in a 25-meter swim that was part of a water-survival course. His family wants answers from the Marine Corps on the circumstances surrounding their son’s drowning (…)

  • Rice chooses Richard Jones for top Iraq position to reward him for helping steal millions?
    20 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Unanswered Questions Remain on Rice’s Iraq Pick
    WASHINGTON — February 17 — Today Rep. Waxman asked for a full explanation of the role of Ambassador Richard Jones, Secretary of State Rice’s choice to head U.S. Iraq policy, in the steering of a lucrative fuel contract to an obscure Kuwaiti company. The text of the letter follows:
    February 17, 2005
    The Honorable Condoleezza Rice Secretary of State U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20520
    Dear Madam Secretary: (…)

  • How America’s response to 9/11 unleashed an obscene nightmare
    20 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mark Danner - toiling through official reports and transcripts of interviews with prisoners and witnesses, as well as conducting his own investigation in Iraq - has exposed the false piety in disavowals of responsibility by Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, and established official complicity in the abuse. Five days after 9/11, Vice-President Cheney emerged from the fortified burrow in which he’d been awaiting Armageddon and - glowering as blackly as the oil he no doubt dreams of - explained how the (…)