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By Shaun Waterman
A veteran CIA terror hunter has quit the agency, saying it gagged him for fear his exposure of intelligence failures would embarrass other U.S. agencies.
Michael Scheuer, a 22-year CIA veteran who headed its operations against terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, told United Press International that he was barred from publishing a critique he wrote in May "documenting management and leadership failures" in U.S. efforts to disrupt al-Qaida and capture or kill its leader, (…)

BY SUSAN BRYCE
He grew up as a very rich child with powerful parents. He partied from high school until he was 40 then went cold turkey on drugs and alcohol. His business career was marked by mediocrity or failure that nonetheless resulted making him millions of dollars thanks to the political allies of his father, who happened to be the US President. He was elected 46th governor of Texas mostly because of his family name and his dad’s cronies. He found God and became a Christian. Now, (…)

By SCOTT LINDLAW
President Bush has chosen White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, a Texas confidant and one of the most prominent Hispanics in the administration, to succeed Attorney General John Ashcroft, sources close to the White House said Wednesday.
Ashcroft announced his resignation on Tuesday, along with Commerce Secretary Don Evans, a Texas friend of the president’s.
After a National Security Council meeting, Bush was sitting down Wednesday with Secretary of State Colin Powell, (…)

by Congressman Dennis Kucinich The 2004 presidential election was determined by the results of Ohio. The unofficial result, as reported on November 3, had George Bush with approximately 136,000 more votes than John Kerry. Senator Kerry conceded the election to President Bush. He also said every vote would be counted.
I have been vigilant in monitoring Ohio’s election in 2004. Attorneys from my party closely monitored the election before and during election day. While there were some (…)

By ADAM FEDERMAN
Charges of anti-Semitism against professors in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) at Columbia University, are being made by a Zionist organization that claims to promote, "a fair and honest understanding of the Middle East Conflict." The David Project, a Boston based organization created in 2002, "in response to the growing ideological assault on Israel," is using a documentary film, "Columbia Unbecoming," to argue that anti-Semitism on (…)

by Matt Hamon
As I sit here and write this I have tears streaming down my face, I am shaking and my heart is pounding. I have just witnessed a murder on my TV screen.
While watching Lateline on Australian ABC television there was a report from Fallujah. In the story they showed a marine saying, “I’ve just injured one, he’s between the two buildings”. At that moment another marine walks over to the gap between the two houses, he then climbs on a forty four gallon drum aims his gun at the (…)

By DOUG THOMPSON
From the time he took the oath of office as Attorney General of the United States, John Ashcroft declared war on the Constitution and freedom as we know it in the United States.
President George W. Bush capitulated to the rabid, right-wing of the Republican Party by appointing Ashcroft, a bible-thumping zealot from Missouri who holds a narrow, ultra-conservative moralistic view of the world.
Ashcroft showed his true colors from day one, ordering drapes for nude statues (…)

Florida Democrats found some positive signs in John Kerry’s loss, saying a sampling of Hispanic precincts in Miami-Dade County shows some movement toward the Democrats.
BY LESLEY CLARK
lclark@herald.com
John Kerry lost Florida, but state Democrats have found solace in one particular area: He made a dent in the reliably Republican Cuban-American voting block.
A sample of overwhelmingly Hispanic voting precincts in Miami-Dade shows Kerry picking up 35 percent of the vote, with 63 (…)

Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was released from custody that evening, following his arrest in a dramatic and excessive show of force early Thursday morning, November 11, at St. George’s Cathedral in East Jerusalem. He has been punished yet again, and placed under house arrest for seven days. His cell phones were returned to him, but he is still waiting for his laptop computers to be returned.
Vanunu was warned that he is still bound by the severe restrictions placed on him (…)

• November 12, 2004 | 5:29 p.m. ET
SECAUCUS- You know it’s bad when the two sides start throwing professors at one another.
Two conflicting scholarly studies on the variance between the national exit polling and the presidential election results, are flying across the Internet, eating up your e-mail storage capacity.
Full story:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/