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  • Corrupt Congressman Cunningham illustrates how US ended up in Iraq
    29 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Crying in Public, Congressman Cunningham hoping to gain sympathy for his crimes against humanity, admits to taking bribes and resigns from congress. Does anyone believe this display of regret would have occured had he not been caught?
    from Washington Post
    Prosecutors said Cunningham, an eight-term House member, “demanded, sought and received” illicit payments in the form of cash, home payments, furnishings, cars and vacations from four co-conspirators, including two defense (…)

  • Corruption Inquiry Threatens to Ensnare Lawmakers
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By PHILIP SHENON
    WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has signaled for the first time in recent weeks that prominent members of Congress could be swept up in the corruption investigation of Jack Abramoff, the former Republican superlobbyist who diverted some of his tens of millions of dollars in fees to provide lavish travel, meals and campaign contributions to the lawmakers whose help he needed most.
    The investigation by a federal grand jury, which began more than a year ago, has created (…)

  • A Murder Most Foul: The Execution of Brian Steckel
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I protested the execution of Brian Steckel by the State of Delaware on Nov. 4, 2005. I worry, and greatly, that my words will neither do justice to, nor adequately convey, the horror of that night, one which will forever be seared into my memory. Paradoxically, because it is a traumatic memory, I worry too that I will not be able to access all I heard and saw that cold moonless evening in a provincial backwater.
    I am not quite sure why we have a death penalty in any state in this country. (…)

  • Iraq fraud arrests expose criminality of US occupation
    21 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The arrest this week of a private contractor and a former US government official in connection with a multimillion-dollar contract-rigging and bribery scandal has exposed a piece of the corruption and criminality that is pervasive in America’s continuing military occupation of Iraq. It has likewise offered a glimpse of the layer of con men and profiteers who have flooded into the country in the name of reconstruction and democracy.
    Formally charged on Thursday were Philip H. Bloom, a US (…)

  • Scooter Libby’s Doomed Defense
    19 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Elizabeth de la Vega
    Shortly after Vice President Cheney’s former Chief of Staff, I. Lewis ("Scooter") Libby, was indicted for obstructing justice and making false statements to a government agent and a grand jury, Libby’s attorneys suggested that they would use the standard he’s-a-busy-man-who-can’t-remember-everything defense. But now, with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward’s revelation that a senior Administration official other than Libby told him, in mid-June 2003, that Joseph (…)

  • Bush’s Supreme Court upholds Florida Jim Crow Ban
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    How are we ever going to undo all that these people are doing to OUR country? This is BUSH & CO’s Supreme Court. They care nothing for the people of America. As this article from TomPaine shows, this is a law that is historically based in racial rhetoric which has not place in our society today!! Read on and weep for us................... But we must NEVER give up!!!! Supreme Court stabs another GOP knife into US democracy by upholding ex-felon vote ban by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey (…)

  • Ignore the Man Behind That Memo
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Judge Samuel Alito Jr.’s insistence that the Constitution does not protect abortion rights is not the only alarming aspect of a newly released memo he wrote in 1985. That statement strongly suggests that Judge Alito is far outside the legal mainstream and that senators should question him closely about it. They should be prepared to reject his nomination to the Supreme Court if he cannot put to rest the serious concerns that the memo, part of a job application, raises about his worthiness to (…)

  • Civil Rights Focus Shift Roils Staff At Justice. Veterans Exit Division as Traditional Cases Decline
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dan Eggen
    The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, which has enforced the nation’s anti-discrimination laws for nearly half a century, is in the midst of an upheaval that has driven away dozens of veteran lawyers and has damaged morale for many of those who remain, according to former and current career employees.
    Nearly 20 percent of the division’s lawyers left in fiscal 2005, in part because of a buyout program that some lawyers believe was aimed at pushing out those who did (…)

  • Rove and Cheney Are Now Caught In Fitzgerald’s Web. Will they Go Down too?
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The June 10th INR memo cited in the Libby indictment was written by Carl Ford, Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research for Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman at the request of John Bolton, then Undersecretary of State for Arms Control who was asked to do so by Libby. Ford is the person who testified before a senate committee convened to question Bolton during his United Nations confirmation hearing that Bolton was a “bully.”
    by Jason Leopold
    Now it’s about the Niger (…)

  • 1,100 Lawyers Leave Saddam Defense Team
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JAMAL HALABY
    AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Some 1,100 Iraqi lawyers have withdrawn from Saddam Hussein’s defense team, citing insufficient protection following the slayings of two peers representing co-defendants of the ousted Iraqi leader.
    In a statement obtained Sunday, the lawyers did not say whether Saddam’s chief Iraqi attorney, Khalil al-Dulaimi, was among those who withdrew. But the statement said other members of the team in Baghdad were continuing their duties under complex and (…)