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Blunt Contributed $20,000 to DeLay’s Legal Defense Fund - Largest Individual Donation
Washington, DC - With Rep. Tom DeLay’s indictment in Texas yesterday, Rep. Blunt has taken the reins as the new House Majority Leader. Despite Rep. DeLay’s innumerable ethics problems, the House leadership remains blind to the ethics issue, naming Rep. Blunt as Leader despite his trail of ethics violations. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) this week released a 88-page report (…)

Criminally indicted former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay yesterday laid out a strong case...against himself.
Each of the points below were spoken verbatim by DeLay during an interview last night on Fox News (we’ve compiled them all into a single video). If this is his "defense," he’s in serious trouble.
Watch the DeLay compilation: Quicktime Streaming I have had ethics charges filed starting in 1993 Again in 1995 A racketeering suit right after that Some more ethics charges right after (…)

SNIFFING CROTCHES
By Peter Fredson
September 29, 2005
Speculation on True Believer Sexual Mores
In older days it was reputed that some nutty or horny high school boys would get kicks from sniffing girl’s bicycle seats. In modern times you have Republican True Believers improving on the kicks by investigating people’s sexual habits in full juicy details to make them sweat and slaver. They never seem to tire of gossip about who is humping whom, the duration of the hump, the size of (…)

Gulf factor key to PM’s Iran vote decision
Top-ranking Americans have told equally top-ranking Indians in recent weeks that the US has plans to invade Iran before Bush’s term ends. In 2002, a year before the US invaded Iraq, high-ranking Americans had similarly shared their definitive vision of a post-Saddam Iraq, making it clear that they would change the regime in Baghdad.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050926/asp/nation/story_5284580.asp
RECALL: US ’planned attack on Taleban’ (…)

I think it is finally time we stood up and thanked Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the darling Democrat from the Bay Area who leads her party in the House. Pelosi’s recent speech to the Israel-American lobby AIPAC, the second largest lobby in Washington, was monumental - truly unparalleled in its candor.
Despite the fact that AIPAC was recently busted for spying on the United States, Pelosi, along with many other top bureaucrats from Washington, gushed effusions of praise on the foreign power. "There (…)

By MATTHEW BARAKAT The Associated Press Thursday, September 29, 2005; 12:33 PM
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Pentagon analyst charged with providing classified information to an Israeli official and members of a pro-Israeli lobbying group will plead guilty, according to the U.S. District Court clerk’s office.
Lawrence A. Franklin, 58, of Kearneysville, W.Va., was indicted in June on charges of leaking classified materials _ including information about potential attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq _ to (…)

VelvetRevolution Launches ’Government Accountability Reward Fund’; $100K Reward for Information Leading to Arrest, Conviction of Corrupt Gov’t. Officials
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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 (…)

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; 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
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 (…)