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by Greg Palast
June 1, 2007
Tim Griffin, formerly right hand man to Karl Rove, resigned Thursday as US Attorney for Arkansas hours after BBC Television ‘Newsnight’ reported that Congressman John Conyers requested the network’s evidence on Griffin’s involvement...
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John Fleischman atFlashReport Weblog on California Politics reported the siting and writes...
Kevin McCarthy: The "Energizer Bunny"
I'm in Sacramento today... And so is Congressman Kevin McCarthy. Kevin is far from the U.S. Capitol, and hundreds of miles from his hometown of...
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Via RawStory:
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, prominent neoconservative Norman Podhoretz writes that he 'hopes' and 'prays' that President Bush will bomb Iran.
"Although many persist in denying it, I continue to believe that what Sept 11, 2001, did was to plunge us headlong into...
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Evidently the Iraq PM can't make up his mind about how good his Army is. My earlier post was today's remarks at a press conference. This article from CBS, via RawStory, has Maliki fearful of a coup:
Iraqi PM al-Maliki told Lara Logan of CBS Evening News in an exclusive interview on Wednesday...
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Of course not, don't be silly! But this article does have a rich quote from Maliki:
"I cannot answer on behalf of the U.S. administration but I can tell you that from our side our forces will be ready by June 2007," Maliki told ABC television after meeting President Bush on Thursday...
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McClatchy,:
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Spc. David Williams, 22, of Boston, Mass., had two note cards in his pocket Wednesday afternoon as he waited for Sen. Joseph Lieberman. Williams serves in the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, N.C., the first of the five "surge" brigades to arrive in...
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From Pew Research Center
May 29, 2007
The U.S. public remains enthusiastic about the bipartisan proposals
Four months after the bipartisan Iraq Study Group proposed a number of new policy options for dealing with the Iraq conflict, these proposals remain broadly popular with the public.
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From ConsortiumNews:
By Robert Parry
May 30, 2007
It’s an old military adage that bad intel can get soldiers killed, but it now turns out that false talking points may be even more lethal, a lesson that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney continue to teach the world as the death toll mounts...
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Petition: http://impeachgonzales.org/ It's time for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to go. Bush won't fire him -- but YOU can.
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From Jim Hightower's Blog:
"Big corporations seems to be doing awfully well these days, scooping up record profits, getting massive tax breaks from the federal government, and cutting back on their employees. They're wallowing in wealth!
So, I ask you: Why do our cities and states...
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From Slate:
Waving a $5 billion bouquet and blowing kisses from puckered lips, Rupert Murdoch has now been wooing the Bancroft family for the hand of Dow Jones & Co. for more than a month. In his May 11 entreaty to the family, the old goat vowed that on becoming owner, he would never...
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By Steven Thomma
McClatchy Newspapers
"WASHINGTON - The push to impeach President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney is gaining a hearing in some parts of the country, but not in Washington.
More than 70 cities and 14 state Democratic parties have urged impeachment or investigations...
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I just knew it. I should have kept my big mouth shut. I have written a half dozen blogs about my life in general the last month or so and have gotten a few replies. I wrote one that spoke of my opinion on world and national affairs, that involved politics and I have more comments than I have had...
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So Cindy Sheehan has given up her fight against the war due to her perfectly understandable emotional, physical and financial exhaustion. She also cited the lack of the Democrats ability to do anything about bringing the war to an end. Well, they haven't accomplished much of anything else...
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From The Seattle Times:
SEATTLE, Washington - Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson said in Seattle on Thursday that fellow party leaders in Congress are wrong to abandon a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq and wrong about an immigration bill that he said would split up families....
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From David Sirota:
By David Sirota
Today was a dark day in our nation's history. That sounds melodramatic - but it is true. Today America watched a Democratic Party kick them square in the teeth - all in order to continue the most unpopular war in a generation at the request of the most...
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From the Baltimore Sun:
Leadership criticized for agreeing to drop withdrawal deadline
WASHINGTON // For anti-war activists, turning against House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer was only the beginning.
The liberal group MoveOn.org ran radio ads this week chastising the Southern...
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From Alternet via TomPaine.com:
Thanks to Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine's March 9 audit report detailing the FBI's handling of expanded surveillance powers granted under the USA PATRIOT Act, subsequent media reports and congressional hearings called to probe the findings,...
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From TP:
“An Office of Special Counsel report has found that General Services Administration chief Lurita Doan violated the Hatch Act, which bars federal officials from partisan political activity while on the job, sources say.”
The report addresses a Jan. 26...
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From TNR:
TRB from Washington
Pay Check- Letting stockholders set CEO pay and other communist plots.
by Jonathan Chait
Post date: 05.22.07
Issue date: 05.21.07
A few months ago, when Democrats proposed letting workers form unions...
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From SFGate:
Stewart M. Powell, Hearst Newspapers
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
(05-22) 04:00 PDT Washington -- The Bush administration is quietly on track to nearly double the number of combat troops in Iraq this year, an analysis of Pentagon deployment orders showed Monday.
The...
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From AP wire:
Iraq's military is drawing up plans to cope with any quick U.S. military pullout, the defense minister said Monday, as a senior American official warned that the Bush administration may reconsider its support if Iraqi leaders don't make major reforms by fall.
The U.S....
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From IraqSlogger:
Baghdad, May 20, (VOI) -The new draft oil law has sparked heated controversy in Iraqi political circles, with some parliamentarians ruling out the possibility of passing it in its current wording which stipulates that oil revenues should be distributed according to the...
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From the NYT:a short excerpt of their article:
Casualties among private contractors in Iraq have soared to record levels this year, setting a pace that seems certain to turn 2007 into the bloodiest year yet for the civilians who work alongside the American military in the war zone, according...
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From WaPo:
PARIS, May 18 -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy named women to nearly half of his cabinet positions Friday and designated the founder of Doctors Without Borders, a Socialist, as his foreign minister.
The appointments reflect Sarkozy's pledge to diversify the top echelons of the...
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Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) is taking a page from Tom DeLay and blaming all his problems on partisanship.
The thing is..this investigation was started when the Repub's controlled everything.
So to Mr. Doolittle I say..oh well, it sucks to be you at this point in time doesn't it? Not to...
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From The Hill.com:
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) has accused Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) of threatening him on the House floor and plans to force the full House to vote next week on whether to reprimand him.
A week ago Rogers offered a procedural motion to the fiscal 2008 intelligence bill that...
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And by no cajones, I mean the 20 Democrats that voted against the Feingold-Reid resolution that would effectively end most U.S. combat operations in Iraq by next April. Their amendment won the votes of 28 Democrats and one independent. But support for the Feingold-Reid measure, which followed a...
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From The Progressive:
Michael Baker worked for the Lincoln, Nebraska, public schools since 1981.
But after he showed the documentary “Baghdad ER” to his geography class on April 18, his career there was over.
This, despite the fact that in 2006, Baker was one of only 47 teachers in...
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From Yahoo- The US health care system ranks last among other major rich countries for quality, access and efficiency, according to two studies released Tuesday by a health care think tank.
The studies by the Commonwealth Fund found that the United States, which has the most expensive health...
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From ABC News:
Iraq's interior ministry has decided to bar news photographers and camera operators from the scenes of bomb attacks, operations director Brigadier General Abdel Karim Khalaf said on Sunday (local time).
His announcement was the latest in a series of attempts to curtail press...
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IN SECOND PRO-MILITARY AD FOR VOTEVETS.ORG SERIES, FORMER COMMANDER IN IRAQ, MAJOR GENERAL (ret.) PAUL D. EATON DECLARES, "MR PRESIDENT, YOU WEREN'T LISTENING... YOU'RE STILL NOT LISTENING... IF YOU WON'T LISTEN, CONGRESS MUST."
Major General (ret.) Paul D. Eaton is the second former...
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MSNBC:
Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty said Monday he will resign, the highest-ranking Bush administration casualty in the furor over the firing of U.S. attorneys, The Associated Press has learned.
McNulty, who has served 18 months as the Justice Department's second-in-command, announced...
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(With apologies to The Police [the rock group of yore])
I was sickened driving through McFarland's east-of-the-freeway streets yesterday for a follow-up on the latest gang violence.
Blatant gang graffiti dominated certain areas, especially along San Lucas, where three have been killed so...
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From MSNBC:
LOS ANGELES - Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is under investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department for taking ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers to Cuba for a segment in his upcoming health-care documentary “Sicko,” The Associated Press has learned.
The...
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From Boston.com:
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon has placed unprecedented restrictions on who can testify before Congress, reserving the right to bar lower-ranking officers, enlisted soldiers, and career bureaucrats from appearing before oversight committees or having their remarks transcribed,...
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Live blogging is being conducted at TruthOut and TPMmuckraker.
Some highlights..or lowlights depending on your pov:
10:05 AM EDT
Gonzales just delivered a wholly self-serving opening statement in which he claimed to have been completely forthcoming with all details...
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From Alternet:
More than half of the members of Iraq's parliament rejected for the first time on Tuesday the continuing occupation of their country. The U.S. media ignored the story.
On Tuesday, without note in the U.S. media, more than half of the members of Iraq's parliament rejected...
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From WaPo:
A House Democratic proposal introduced yesterday that would give President Bush half of the money he has requested for the war effort, with a vote in July on whether to approve the rest, hinges on progress in meeting political benchmarks that Iraq has thus far found difficult to...
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The anti-war veterans group, VoteVets.org, which has been influential with Capitol Hill Democrats, is launching a half-million-dollar TV ad campaign featuring Major General John Batiste (Ret.), former commanding general of the first infantry division in Iraq. The ad begins with a clip of...
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From Time:
Top members of President Bush's national security team are leaving in one of the earliest waves of departures from a second-term Administration — nearly two years before Bush's time ends.
As rancor in the nation rises over handling of the war in Iraq, at least 20 senior...
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I'd like to know what thinkest the herd about upcoming appointments by the City Council on Wednesday (May 9):
Planning Commission
Three choices for two spots:
1. William Andrews, retired government worker, mostly social work in Compton and L.A.; field rep for Nicole Parra. Experience...
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WASHINGTON — The House Republican leader said Sunday that GOP support could waver if President Bush's Iraq war policy does not succeed by the fall. A top Democrat said it would be "ridiculous" to stop insisting on linking new war money and a troop withdrawal.
House Minority...
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From the Guardian:
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Republican leader said Sunday that GOP support could waver if President Bush's Iraq war policy does not succeed by the fall.
House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Bush's troop increase deserves a chance and should be funded even if...
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From ABC:
President Bush's approval rating has dropped to 28 percent in a Newsweek poll released this weekend, the lowest of any president in a generation. Bush's low is now tied with Jimmy Carter during the Iran hostage crisis. Only two modern presidents have fared worse -- Richard Nixon,...
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As GonzoGate moves forward, the Dept of Justice has approved of the House Judicial Committee's desire to offer Ms. Goodling immunity. A statement from John Conyers the Committee Chair via TPMmuckraker:
Today the Department of Justice gave notice that it would not object to the House Judiciary...
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From the Wall Street Journal..a right-leaning member of the media if there every was one:
U.S. Soldiers Persevere
Despite Snipers, Ambush;
Fighting for Each Other
TARMIYAH, Iraq -- For U.S. troops, just walking a simple foot patrol through this small, trash-strewn city 30 miles north of...
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When I analyzed Kern County federal political donations last week, I found no one had given a dime to Hillary. (At least not any Kern dimes that had been reported yet to the FEC.)
After the list ran in the paper May 1st, I got a voice message from a gentleman whose name sounded like Roy...
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From CBS/AP:
The U.S. military is putting already-strained troops at greater risk of mental health problems because of repeated deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, a Defense Department panel says in warning of an overburdened health system.
The Defense Department's Task Force on Mental...
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From TPMmuckraker:
U.S. Attorney for Arizona Paul Charlton told Congress that Michael Elston, the chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, called him and warned him to remain silent. "I believe that Elston was offering me a quid pro quo agreement: my silence in exchange...
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