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  • Texas grand jury today indicted U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay on a new charge of money laundering.
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Oct. 3, 2005, 5:34PM
    DeLay indicted on money laundering charge Associated Press
    AUSTIN - A Texas grand jury today indicted U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay on a new charge of money laundering.
    A different grand jury whose six-month term ended last week indicted him on a conspiracy charge, forcing DeLay to temporarily step down as House majority leader.
    Both indictments accuse DeLay and two political associates of conspiring to get around a state ban on corporate campaign contributions by (…)

  • Prosecutor in Plame Case May Seek Conspiracy Charges
    3 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By E&P Staff
    Published: October 02, 2005 10:20 AM ET
    NEW YORK Many observers of the unfolding Plame/CIA case lament the revelations in the federal grand jury probe but suggest it may all be in vain because the level of malfeasance may not produce a specific criminal charge. But that doesn’t mean serious charges—including far-ranging ones, connecting the offices of Karl Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney—could not be brought, via the "conspiracy" route.
    Prosecutor Patrick J. (…)

  • Democrats Sink Deeper into the Ooze
    2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by ALEXANDER COCKBURN and JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
    Away to prison for three years goes Lynndie England, her pleas for mercy ignored by the military judge in Fort Hood, Texas. So who are the penalized thus far to indicate America’s revulsion over the systematic use of torture by its own forces? It tots up to a handful of rednecks.
    Scot-free go those who inherited a secret system of torture that goes back decades and who ensured that its relentless and widening application would soon bring the (…)

  • CONSUMER GROUP CALLS BUSH A "LAWSUIT HYPOCRITE"
    2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Laurie Beacham
    The Center for Justice & Democracy (CJ&D) today called the Bush Administration “the worst kind of hypocrite” for, on the one hand, denouncing injured consumers who file lawsuits, while at the same time filing its own case for civil damages against a manufacturer whose defective product endangered the President.
    It was revealed this week that the secret service purchased for use by high level officials, including President and Laura Bush, defective bullet-proof (…)

  • Democrats: ever deeper into the ooze
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    With each month that passes, the Democratic Party seems to have touched bottom. Then it promptly sinks even deeper into the ooze of cowardice and irrelevance.
    While Interstate 45 from Galveston to Houston was clogged with evacuees fleeing the wrath of Hurricane Rita, there was a similar jam on the beltway round Washington, D.C., as Democrats fled the city on the eve on the Sept. 24 antiwar rally, panic-stricken lest their presence in Washington might somehow be construed as endorsement of (…)

  • Miller Agrees to Testify in CIA Leak Probe
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thursday September 29, 2005 8:38pm Washington (AP) - After nearly three months in jail, New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released Thursday after agreeing to testify in the investigation into the disclosure of the identity of a covert CIA officer, two people familiar with the case said.Miller left the federal detention center in Alexandria (website - news) , Va., after reaching an agreement with Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald. Legal sources said she would appear before a (…)

  • Democrats Who Voted For Roberts
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Here’s the 22 Democrats who just minutes ago voted to confirm John Roberts Jr. to be the next Chief Justice on the United States Supreme Court:
    Max Baucus (D - MT)
    Jeff Bingaman (D - NM)
    Robert Byrd (D - WV)
    Thomas Carper (D - DE)
    Kent Conrad (D - ND)
    Christopher Dodd (D - CT)
    Byron Dorgan (D - ND)
    Russell Feingold (D - WI)
    Tim Johnson (D - SD)
    Herb Kohl (D - WI)
    Mary Landrieu (D - LA)
    Patrick Leahy (D - VT)
    Carl Levin (D - MI)
    Joseph Lieberman (D - CT)
    Blanche (…)

  • CREW REVEALS NEWEST MAJORITY LEADER - REP. BLUNT ONE OF THE MOST UNETHICAL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Blunt Contributed $20,000 to DeLay’s Legal Defense Fund - Largest Individual Donation
    Washington, DC - With Rep. Tom DeLay’s indictment in Texas yesterday, Rep. Blunt has taken the reins as the new House Majority Leader. Despite Rep. DeLay’s innumerable ethics problems, the House leadership remains blind to the ethics issue, naming Rep. Blunt as Leader despite his trail of ethics violations. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) this week released a 88-page report (…)

  • Pentagon Analyst to Plead Guilty to Leak
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By MATTHEW BARAKAT The Associated Press Thursday, September 29, 2005; 12:33 PM
    ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Pentagon analyst charged with providing classified information to an Israeli official and members of a pro-Israeli lobbying group will plead guilty, according to the U.S. District Court clerk’s office.
    Lawrence A. Franklin, 58, of Kearneysville, W.Va., was indicted in June on charges of leaking classified materials _ including information about potential attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq _ to (…)

  • Key Player in Torture Scandal Nominated to No. 2 Post at Justice Department
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Key Player in Torture Scandal Nominated to No. 2 Post at Justice Department; ACLU Expresses Deep Concern With Embattled Appointee
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Media@dcaclu.org
    WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today expressed deep concern that Timothy Flanigan, who served as deputy to then White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, is being considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee to be deputy attorney general. The committee is scheduled to vote on his confirmation (…)