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New Yorker article says U.S. followed secret plan, despite Congress’ objections
by Douglas Jehl, David E. Sanger, New York Times
Washington — In the months before the Iraqi elections in January, President Bush approved a plan to provide covert support to certain Iraqi candidates and political parties but rescinded the proposal because of congressional opposition, current and former government officials said Saturday.
In a statement issued in response to questions about a report in the (…)

By PETE YOST
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney’s top aide was among the sources for a Time magazine reporter’s story about the identity of a CIA officer, the reporter said Sunday.
Until last week, the White House had insisted for nearly two years that vice presidential chief of staff Lewis Libby and presidential adviser Karl Rove were not involved in the leaks of CIA officer Valerie Plame’s identity.
The White House refused last week to repeat those assertions when it was (…)

Bush is on the rack over a revelation that his close aide Karl Rove exposed a CIA agent
by Paul Harris in Washington
It was a question the White House press corps once believed unthinkable. Has President George W Bush lost confidence in his political guru, Karl Rove? If simply posing the question was a surprise last week, the answer - or, more accurately, the lack of one - was an even greater shock.
When Bush faced reporters at the White House last Wednesday, he dodged questions on (…)

Editorial: Dump Rove / The investigation moves closer to the president
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
As the Valerie Plame case becomes increasingly the Karl Rove case, and as the rising water of it begins to lap closer to President Bush, there are several truths about this matter that are worth keeping in mind.
1. In the very beginning Mr. Bush said that it was unlikely that the leaker would ever be found. There is every reason to believe that he would then have taken steps to make that (…)

Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan
A US appeals court in Washington has ruled that the trial at Guantanamo Bay of a former driver for al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden can go ahead.
The decision overturns a lower court ruling that the trials for detainees held at Guantanamo were unlawful.
This latest ruling means in effect that the trials, known as military commissions, can now proceed.
Salim Ahmed Hamdan, from Yemen, is accused of conspiracy to commit war crimes, including (…)

As the Rove gate emerges. And Karl Rove is known for being a gay, shouldn’t somebody ask the qestion:
Mr. President did you have sex with this man?
The could do it to Clinton! They tried to impeach an almost honest man! Here America is our opportunity to get rights on their right values.
Impeach this President! Now is the time!

Public Catching On To Dirty Deeds Bill Gallagher July 19, 2005 Detroit - Lying and denying, kicking and screaming, the Busheviks are defending comrade Karl Rove from the enemies of the state who are attacking him. We now have the "smoking gun" evidence that Rove was involved in the sordid scheme to "out" CIA officer Valerie Plame. Retribution, a quintessential Rove political weapon, brought him to expose Plame and risk national security in the process to get back at her husband, former (…)

MSNBC OFFICIALS ARE STUNNED BY THE RESULTS OF THEIR POLL ON BUSH SURROGATE KARL ROVE.
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SHOULD KARL ROVE KEEP HIS JOB?
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EVIL IDEOLOGY
By Peter Fredson
July 18, 2005
Newspapers today reported an extension of the Christian Morality Play by Tony Blair that explains everything people have been eagerly awaiting to hear about the Iraq war, terrorism and assorted suicide bombings. Here is the genial theory in a nutshell:
“ASSOCIATED PRESS 2005-07-17 07:09:54” “LONDON — Prime Minister Tony Blair warned yesterday that an "evil ideology" of Islamic extremism was bent on spreading terror through the West, (…)

By William Fisher
The U.S. Army general widely considered the ‘architect’ of abusive prisoner interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and in Afghanistan used “creative” and “aggressive” tactics, but did not practice torture or violate law or Pentagon policy. Despite the recommendations of military investigators, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey C. Miller will not be reprimanded ? thus bringing to a close what could be the last of 15 separate investigations into detainee abuse.
Members (…)