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Last Chance to Silence Abramoff

His lawyers are putting out the word that unless he gets massive hush money now he’s gonna squeal. This is also “leaked” to the front page of the Washington Post and the New York Times.

ANWR SCAM KILLED

BY FILIBUSTER – IT’S OVER, ENVIRONMENT WINS STEVENS BUSH AND FRIST LOSE

UPDATE: Frist has made a “motion to reconsider” and is holding the Senate open, desperately trying to twist arms and get a re-vote. One by one, the Senators are filing off the floor which means he’s failing. The numbers are against him; he […]

It Unravels – AMERICAN CALLS WERE TAPPED

NEW YORK TIMES – think about this: how could Bush not have known this story was inevitably going to be in the papers? The Bush Administration is in a state of collapse.

FISA JUDGE RESIGNS; WARRANTS TAINTED BY ILLEGAL PROGRAM

In his Monday press conference, Bush repeatedly made a distinction between “detection” and “monitoring” and kept trying to reassure reporters that he had used the FISA court properly when it was appropriate. What he didn’t mention is that the “detection” was illegal, thus tainting the “monitoring” warrants issued by the FISA courts based on this […]

Bipartisan Call for Senate Hearings On Spying

Reuters – the cat is out of the bag and Frist can’t put it back in. It’s crucial to have the Judiciary Committee probe this first, before the planned confirmation hearings of Alito.

The Madness of King George

Let me start off by saying that everyone needs to see Bush’s historic press conference yesterday, especially the Q and A portion. If you don’t see it with your own eyes, you’ll have a hard problem understanding what’s going on in Washington, DC right now. We are in a constitutional crisis. Never before has a […]

“My Father Was Not a Criminal”

A scene from the NYC transit strike.

Pentagon Spying Expands

Washington Post– but also, in the New York Times we have spying on Greenpeace, Peta, and vegans.

Burned to Death

Remember the US Marines killed in Falluja in June? You’re not supposed to.

“The females should never have been transported like that,” said Sgt. Carozio V. Bass, one of the marines who escorted the convoy. “We didn’t have enough people or proper vehicles.”

What NSA (normally) Does

This article by William Arkin is a must-read and a lot quicker than reading “The Puzzle Palace” and “Body of Secrets” by James Bamford, which still are the definitive descriptions of the NSA and its practices.