US attorney’s demotion halted probe of lobbyist
By Walter F. Roche Jr.
WASHINGTON — A US grand jury in Guam opened an investigation of controversial lobbyist Jack Abramoff more than two years ago, but President Bush removed the supervising federal prosecutor, and the probe ended soon after.
The previously undisclosed Guam inquiry is separate from a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia that is investigating allegations that Abramoff bilked Indian tribes out of millions of (…)
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Bush removal ended Guam investigation
9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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Bush Plans to Fire Prosecuter
7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
19 commentsBush Plans to Fire Prosecuter by Tom Flocco - August 7, 2005 TomFlocco.com
Sunday morning online editions of Newsweek and Time are reporting that the President is planning to fire Chicago’s U.S. Federal Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and replace him with a Bush classmate/Skull and Bonesman from Yale.
Following on the heels of these reports, we have learned from U.S. intelligence sources that federal agents are prepared to immediately arrest Mr. Bush if he fires Fitzgerald and seeks to (…) -
NOTICE FROM TOM FLOCCO
6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentTom Flocco was warned by a U.S. Intelligence source that a contract FBI Division 5 operative had compromised his website without his knowledge.
He made the decision to immediately move the site to a new server since the site was unstable and experiencing intermittent availability. The recent stories "Financial Terrorism Towers Over 9.11" and "Bush and Cheney Indicted" will both be placed up online with his archive shortly, while his website is restored. Tom was locked out of the (…) -
Roberts Devoted Free Time to Liberal Cases
6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
By HOPE YEN
WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite his view that death penalty appeals are clogging the courts, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts provided free legal help to an inmate languishing on Florida’s death row for two decades.
The 25 hours of legal assistance that Roberts reported to the Senate Judiciary Committee are minuscule compared with thousands of hours contributed by dozens of other attorneys in the case of John Ferguson, who was convicted in 1978 of killing eight people in one of (…) -
Israeli Businessman Sentenced in Plot to Ship Nuclear Detonation Devices
6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentWASHINGTON (AP) - An Israeli businessman who conspired to ship controlled nuclear technology to Pakistan was sentenced to three years in federal prison.
U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina on Thursday imposed the sentence on Asher Karni, who pleaded guilty last year to helping ship devices that could be used to test, develop and detonate nuclear weapons.
Karni, who was based in South Africa, admitted routing sophisticated oscilloscopes and high-speed electrical switches through South (…) -
BUSH AND CHENEY INDICTED
4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
11 commentsA Chicago grand jury has indicted the President and Vice-President of the United States along with multiple high officials in the Bush administration
Chicago — August 2, 2005 — TomFlocco.com — U.S. federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s Chicago grand jury has issued perjury and obstruction of justice indictments to the following members of the Bush Administration: President George W. Bush, Vice-President Richard Cheney, Bush Chief of Staff Andrew Card, Cheney Chief of Staff I. Lewis (…) -
Democrats to Compare Roberts’s Views Now, Then
4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentSome Senators See Discrepancies in Roberts’s Statements Now Vs. in Years Past
By Jo Becker
Senate Democrats yesterday signaled that they plan to question Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. vigorously on what they see as discrepancies between recent statements and his writings as an up-and-coming lawyer in the Reagan and the first Bush administrations.
In particular Democrats say that at next month’s confirmation hearings they plan to focus on Roberts’s stated views on the issue (…) -
FLOCCO: BUSH/CHENEY INDICTED ALSO BUSH Sr./CLINTON MENA & TONY BLAIR!!
3 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
9 commentsHave you heard anything about this?
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Frist On Right Side Of Stem Cell Fault Line
2 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
Frist On Right Side Of Stem Cell Fault Line
by Wayne Besen
Embryonic stem cells show remarkable promise because they may be able to transform themselves into any human body part. Just last week, for example, they miraculously helped Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist grow a spine!
Frist surprised colleagues and his benefactors on the extreme right by announcing his support for a House bill that would ease restrictions on federal spending on studies of stem cell colonies or lines derived (…) -
Uncle Sam’s Iron Curtain of Secrecy
2 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentThe Bush administration is subverting the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
On January 31, the People for the American Way publicly protested that the Justice Department claimed it would cost the group a minimum of $372,999 for the feds to search their files (in response to an FOIA request from the group) for cases in which the Justice Department requested secret proceedings in court involving immigrants arrested and held after 9/11.
This is typical of the how the Bush administration is (…)