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  • Lawrence O’Donnell: Three Questions for Karl Rove’s Lawyer
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I have a call in to Bob Luskin, Karl Rove’s lawyer, but I’m not holding my breath for a call back. He knows I know too much, since I broke the story last week that his client is one of the secret sources Matt Cooper has been protecting for the last two years. I have three questions for Luskin:
    Q: You’ve said Rove is not a target of the investigation. Is he a subject of the investigation?
    Q: Since Time delivered its e-mails to the prosecutor on Friday, have you asked the prosecutor (…)

  • The Internet vs. Karl Rove
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Things heated up over the Independence Day weekend regarding Karl Rove’s involvement with the leaking of a secret CIA agent’s identity. The problem is that the mainstream media is NOT touching the Rove angle with a proverbial 10 foot poll. Although there is clearly something going on here, the big shots of big media are treating Rove like he’s the most feared man in the country. It appears that the only way this story is going to stay alive is if the blogosphere keeps it alive.
    For weeks (…)

  • White House Scrambles to Stop Criminal Indictment of Rove
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Bush Administration is scrambling behind the scenes to stop a criminal indictment against Presidential advisor Karl Rove for disclosing classified information to reporters in an attempt to discredit a White House critic.
    Time Magazine emails turned over to a grand jury show Rove leaked CIA Operative Valerie Plame’s name to journalists after her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, went public with claims the Bush Administration knowing used false information to justify the invasion of (…)

  • Dear NYT, Get it Straight. Miller and Cooper are Protecting a Possible Felon.
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION
    I sent the following letter to a reporter at The New York Times after reading: . The Times changed the heading of the article after I wrote the letter.
    A BuzzFlash Reader
    * * *
    RE: "Spy at Center of Leak Case Still in Shadow" [July 5]
    Dear Scott Shane,
    You write: "the investigation into the leak of a covert C.I.A. officer’s name has unfolded clamorously in the nation’s capital, with partisan brawling on talk shows..."
    The only ones "brawling" are (…)

  • Save the First Amendment — from Karl Rove
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A man who taught with Rove, and considers him a friend, writes that in the Valerie Plame case, Rove is using journalists, and the First Amendment, "to operate without constraint, or to camouflage breaking the law." That’s why neither reporters Cooper and Miller, nor their publications, should protect Rove (or anyone else) "through an undiscerning, blanket use of the First Amendment that weakens its protections by its gross misuse."
    By Bill Israel
    (July 05, 2005) — In 99.9 percent of (…)

  • Wake up Calls
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The jury of conscience has just released it’s recommendations after the culminating session of the World Tribunal on Iraq came to its conclusion. I’ll post the news story I wrote on this later, which will provide more details.
    I will add now, as a preface to a letter I received just now from an Iraqi who asked me to pass it on to the American people, that the jury made the following recommendations:
    “The recommendations made by the jury included the demand for an immediate, unconditional (…)

  • Israeli soldier is convicted of killing British student
    29 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Eric Silver in Jerusalem
    A former Israeli soldier has been found guilty by a military court of shooting dead the British student Tom Hurndall while he acted as a human shield for Palestinian children amid gunfire in the Gaza Strip.
    Anthony Hurndall, Tom’s father, welcomed the outcome, but said he was disappointed the Israeli judges had not investigated higher up the chain of command.
    Tom, 22, a photography student, was shot in the head with a single round in April 2003. The three (…)

  • The Perfect Storm: the World Tribunal on Iraq in Istanbul
    29 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Walden Bello* It was on the second day that I got the sense that things were coming together in a way akin to that whereby several climatic disturbances fuse to create what meteorologists have called the “perfect storm.”
    It was probably the combination of eyewitness accounts that made clear beyond a shadow of doubt that the siege of Fallujah in November 2004 was a case of collective punishment; a damning expose of how the so-called reconstruction of Iraq was actually meant to (…)

  • World Tribunal on Iraq : PRESS RELEASE about JURY STATEMENT
    28 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ’The attack on Iraq is an attack on justice, on liberty, on our safety, on our future, on us all’ - The Jury of Conscience
    Istanbul, 27 June, 2005 - With a Jury of Conscience from 10 different countries hearing the testimonies of 54 members of the Panel of Advocates who came from across the world, including Iraq, the United States and the United Kingdom, this global civil initiative came to an end with a press conference at the Hotel Armada where the chair of the Jury of Conscience, (…)

  • Shocking and Appalling Stories of US Illegalities at the World Tribunal on Iraq in Istanbul
    28 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The hall is abuzz with the thrill of full-page spreads on the front page of every newspaper in Istanbul, and the woman next to me smiles that we are also on the BBC. The bank of cameras and the swarm of photographers have filled the room again this morning. Still absent is any sign of the US media, except the cameras of Deep Dish TV. The website got 15,000 hits from more than 100 countries. As the spokesperson for the Jury of Conscience, Arundhati Roy said earlier in the week, "This is what (…)