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  • Memo reveals Bush authorized torture
    8 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Tim Wheeler
    WASHINGTON During confirmation hearings on Alberto Gonzales nomination as Attorney General, senators should question him about a recently uncovered memo that George W. Bush ordered the torture of detainees at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and other military prisons around the world, several human rights groups suggested last month.
    The groups, who joined in an ACLU Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit, which won release of the memo and other incriminating documents, are (…)

  • Gonzales also tried to give President power to imprison Americans incommunicado
    7 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Focusing on torture as the main objection to Alberto Gonzales’ taking over as Attorney General distracts us from his greater sin: his attempt to give the president the power to imprison Americans incommunicado and indefinitely, without recourse to courts or lawyers. Such contempt for our civil rights shows that Gonzales cannot be trusted to protect them.
    The White House, with Gonzales as legal adviser, argued for this unchecked and arbitrary power in two cases, all the way up to the US (…)

  • Keeping our democracy alive- Did voters really count in U.S. election?
    7 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In three national elections over the past 13 months, the official count was sharply at odds with an independent national exit poll. As in the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Ukraine, U.S. exit polls projected a clear victory for the challenger. John Kerry was projected to win the national popular vote by a 2 percent to 3 percent margin and was ahead in nearly every closely contested state. Of course, the official counts, as in the other nations, showed an almost mirror image victory (…)

  • Election Challenge: Congress Exposes the Enemy Within- Themselves
    7 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The two hour Congressional ’debate’ on the Ohio election irregularities exposed how the US Congress is completely dysfunctional.
    There were enough problems in Ohio and other states that many Americans know that the election was stolen, and we can prove it beyond a shadow of doubt. If Congress actually cared about our democracy, there would have been a real debate, with the presentation of all facts on both sides with the true intent to discover the truth. But Congress did not debate the (…)

  • Yes, you must pull out - but also pay for the damage
    7 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The US isn’t protecting or feeding Iraqis, it’s stoking violence and hardship
    by Naomi Klein
    Colin Powell invoked it before the invasion, telling aides that if the US went into Iraq "you’re going to be owning this place". John Kerry pledged his allegiance to it during the first presidential debate, saying: "Now, if you break it, you made a mistake. It’s the wrong thing to do. But you own it."
    It’s the so-called Pottery Barn rule: "You break it, you own it." Pottery Barn, a chain of (…)

  • Democrats to Force Debate on Ohio Election
    7 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Alan Fram
    Democrats turned Congress’ quadrennial counting of electoral votes on Thursday into a battle over Election Day problems in Ohio, forcing the House and Senate to consider a challenge to the presidential count for only the second time since 1877.
    President Bush’s re-election triumph over Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., was not in jeopardy. But after Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., lodged a formal protest that the Ohio votes "were not, under all (…)

  • In Tribute: Hon. Robert T. Matsui
    7 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear Friend,
    It is with great sorrow that we write to you today about the passing of beloved Sacramento Congressman and DCCC Chairman Robert T. Matsui. In recent months, Congressman Matsui had been battling Myelodysplastic Disorder (MDS), a rare stem cell disorder that causes an inability of the bone marrow to produce blood products, such as red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. He succumbed to complications caused by pneumonia on New Year’s Day.
    In his 26 years in Congress, (…)

  • Congress Formally OKs Bush Election
    6 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ALAN FRAM
    WASHINGTON - Congress certified President Bush’s re-election Thursday but only after Democrats forced a challenge to the quadrennial count of electoral votes for just the second time since 1877.
    Bush’s Election Day triumph over Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., was never in doubt. After a near four-hour delay to consider and reject the dispute over voting in Ohio, lawmakers in joint session affirmed Bush’s 286-251 electoral vote victory - plus a single vote that a "faithless" Kerry (…)

  • Dem lays out case against Bush’s Ohio win
    6 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Malia Rulon
    WASHINGTON — The senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee protested President Bush’s re-election Wednesday with a new report claiming serious election irregularities and "significant disenfranchisement" of voters in Ohio.
    The report by Rep. John Conyers of Michigan says Congress should challenge the Electoral College vote when it is tallied Thursday in the House of Representatives and investigate all claims of voter problems in Ohio.
    "We have found numerous, (…)

  • Democrats to Force Debate on Ohio Results - AP
    6 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (Coverage willl appear on C-SPAN at 01:00 PM Eastern / 12:00 Central)
    38 minutes ago
    By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer
    WASHINGTON - A small group of Democrats agreed Thursday to force House and Senate debates on Election Day problems in Ohio before letting Congress certify President Bush’s win over Sen. John Kerry in November.
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