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  • A Gestapo Administration: Bush tactics parallel Hitler’s rise to power
    2 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Caught in gratuitous and illegal spying on American citizens, the Bush administration has defended its illegal activity and set the Justice (sic) Department on the trail of the person or persons who informed the New York Times of Bush’s violation of law.
    Note the astounding paradox: The Bush administration is caught red-handed in blatant illegality and responds by trying to arrest the patriot who exposed the administration’s illegal behavior.
    Bush has actually declared it treasonous to (…)

  • NSA Spying on Americans: Official objected; decision on who to monitor left up to a shift supervisor
    2 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 - A top Justice Department official objected in 2004 to aspects of the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program and refused to sign on to its continued use amid concerns about its legality and oversight, according to officials with knowledge of the tense internal debate. The concerns appear to have played a part in the temporary suspension of the secret program.
    The concerns prompted two of President Bush’s most senior aides - Andrew H. Card Jr., his (…)

  • Roberts Wants Raises for Federal Judges
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By TONI LOCY
    WASHINGTON (AP) - In his first year-end assessment of the federal judiciary, Chief Justice John Roberts urged Congress to increase judicial pay to help keep good judges on the bench and to recruit new ones.
    Roberts, who succeeded the late William Rehnquist, warned Congress that judges’ pay is an issue that is driving them off the bench and deterring qualified lawyers from throwing their names into consideration for judgeships.
    A strong and independent judiciary is not (…)

  • It Wasn’t All Bad
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Katha Pollitt
    All year long it’s been one piece of bad news after another, but now it’s time to put on the rose-colored glasses and list some of the good things that happened in 2005. I had to e-mail about fifty people to come up with these items, but that’s OK. Keeping you cheerful is part of my job. I mean, the war could be wrong, but the Iraqi elections could still be good. So fill that glass half full with whatever and...and...well, just drink it.
    1. The Bush Administration is on (…)

  • Chilean Judge Strips Pinochet of Immunity
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By EDUARDO GALLARDO
    SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet was stripped of his legal immunity Friday to face charges of diverting public funds to personal bank accounts.
    Judge Juan Escobar, president of the Santiago Court of Appeals, said his tribunal voted 21-3 to remove the immunity Pinochet enjoys as a former president.
    Friday’s decision is part of a wider corruption-related legal process in which Pinochet also lost immunity against charges of tax evasion and (…)

  • ACLU: Bush Broke the Law and Lied to the American People
    31 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 - The Justice Department said on Friday that it had opened a criminal investigation into the disclosure of classified information about a secret National Security Agency program under which President Bush authorized eavesdropping on people in the United States without court warrants.
    The investigation began in recent days after a formal referral from the security agency regarding the leak, federal officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the (…)

  • David Corn and "The White House Smear"
    31 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I wish an enterprising journalist would ask Mr. David Corn ,The Washington Editor of Nation Magazine , to answer the folowing questions :
    1) Mr. Corn , have you been contacted by the Office of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald ?
    2) Mr. Corn , in your article published in the Nation Magazine on July 16, 2003 ( 2 days after the infamous Robert Novak article identified CIA agent Valerie Plame as an Operative on weapons of mass destruction ) you quote an unidentified source (…)

  • A petition to Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald
    29 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I ,an American citizen, in compliance of constitutional rights to seek redress of greivances against the high officers of the US federal government , seek to petition said Patrick J. Fitzgerald , US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois and Special Counsel leading the investigation of the instant case , known in the public vernacular as the "CIA Leak Case" to take the following actions to serve the cause of Justice and to protect the National Security of the United States (…)

  • 50 indicted for stealing hundreds thousands of dollars from Red Cross Fund for Katrina Victims
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Fraud Alleged at Red Cross Call Centers Contract Workers in Calif. Stole From Katrina Aid Program, Indictments Say
    By Jacqueline L. Salmon Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, December 27, 2005; A02
    Nearly 50 people have been indicted in connection with a scheme that bilked hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Red Cross program to put cash into the hands of Hurricane Katrina victims, according to federal authorities.
    Seventeen of the accused worked at the Red Cross claim center in (…)

  • RIGHTS: U.S. Vets Join Vietnamese Agent Orange Victims
    23 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Elisabeth Schreinemacher
    UNITED NATIONS, (IPS) - Vietnamese victims of the defoliant known as Agent Orange wound up a month-long visit to the U.S. at the invitation of veterans, Vietnamese Americans and peace activists, to press their case for reparations from the U.S. government and the companies that made the deadly chemical.
    They say an estimated 50,000 deformed children have been born to parents who were directly sprayed with Agent Orange or exposed through contaminated food and (…)