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  • A Foul Tragedy. Democrats fled in the face of danger
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Garrison Keillor
    We Democrats are at our worst when we try to emulate Republicans as we did in signing onto the “war” on drugs that has ruined so many young lives.
    The cruelty of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 is stark indeed, as are the sentencing guidelines that impose mandatory minimum sentences for minor drug possession-guidelines in the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act that sailed through Congress without benefit of public hearings, drafted before an election by Democrats afraid to be (…)

  • 2nd Memo to Cheney after 9-11: “The ‘family’ wants their boxes”
    10 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Congress continues to ignore explosive memos pointing to secret cash payoffs
    by Tom Flocco
    Washington-November 9, 2005-TomFlocco.com-A November 2, 2001 hand-written memo to Vice President Richard Cheney from former U.S. Ambassador to Somalia Leo Wanta, indicates the White House knew that boxes containing large amounts of U.S. currency were moved from the Philippines seven weeks after the September 11 attacks.
    According to U.S. intelligence agents with knowledge of the document, Wanta’s (…)

  • Borking Alito Requires Democratic Agenda
    9 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    By nominating a man known as "Scalia-lite" for the Supreme Court, President George W. Bush may have picked a fight he is going to lose, unless the Democrats prove to be losers. The choice of Samuel A. Alito, a right wing stalwart, to replace the moderate Sandra Day O’Connor is at once, audaciously brazen, spit-in-the eye insulting, nakedly partisan and just plain dumb.
    Bad News Bush has watched his poll numbers sink faster than New Orleans. Yet, he makes a choice of (…)

  • Hoekstra/Roberts Letter Calls for Inquiry into WP story
    8 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I just found this on Raw Story....... I can think of all kinds of things to say about this but right now I’m still trying to digest the whole thing!!! Yet no one is screaming about Valeria Plame???????????
    Letter calls for inquiry into Washington Post story on CIA jails
    John Byrne
    Senior Republicans are pushing for an investigation into who revealed the existence of secret CIA prisons overseas for "high-value" al Qaeda suspects to the Washington Post, RAW STORY can confirm.
    The Post (…)

  • GAO report upholds Ohio vote fraud claims
    8 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Joe Baker
    As if the indictment of Lewis “Scooter” Libby wasn’t enough to give the White House some heavy concerns, a report from the Government Accounting Office takes a big bite out of the Bush clique’s pretense of legitimacy.
    This powerful and probing report takes a hard look at the election of 2004 and supports the contention that the election was stolen. The report has received almost no coverage in the national media.
    The GAO is the government’s lead investigative agency, and (…)

  • Drifting towards a Police State
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid the terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America’s enemies and pause to America’s friends" — Former Attorney General John Ashcroft
    Did you know that under the terms of the new Patriot Act prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in cases where "defendants gave financial support to umbrella organizations without (…)

  • Kucinich Demands IG Investigation Into FBI’s Handling Of Investigation Into Forged Niger Documents
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    FBI Drops Investigation Just As Italians Make A Potential Break In The Case; Kucinich Sends Department Of Justice A Letter Demanding Investigation
    WASHINGTON - November 4 - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) today sent a letter to the Department of Justice Inspector General (IG), Glenn A. Fine, demanding an IG investigation of the FBI’s handling of the situation.
    The letter, sent today, states:
    Dear Inspector General Fine:
    I am greatly dismayed to learn that without answering any (…)

  • A Cheney-Libby Conspiracy, Or Worse? Reading Between the Lines of the Libby Indictment
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JOHN W. DEAN
    In my last column, I tried to deflate expectations a bit about the likely consequences of the work of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald; to bring them down to the realistic level at which he was likely to proceed. I warned, for instance, that there might not be any indictments, and Fitzgerald might close up shop as the last days of the grand jury’s term elapsed. And I was certain he would only indict if he had a patently clear case.
    Now, however, one indictment has been (…)

  • Powerful Government Accounting Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As a legal noose appears to be tightening around the Bush/Cheney/Rove inner circle, a shocking government report shows the floor under the legitimacy of their alleged election to the White House is crumbling.
    The latest critical confirmation of key indicators that the election of 2004 was stolen comes in an extremely powerful, penetrating report from the General Accounting Office that has gotten virtually no mainstream media coverage.
    The government’s lead investigative agency is known (…)

  • 2nd Circuit judges appear wary of Patriot Act secrecy rules
    4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    NEW YORK - A federal appeals panel yesterday suggested it might require the government to permit entities ranging from major corporations to libraries to challenge FBI demands for records under the Patriot Act.
    Judges on a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals commented as they questioned lawyers on both sides in two cases from Connecticut and New York in which lower court judges ruled that the government’s secrecy requirements went too far.
    Judges Barrington D. (…)