The Sexually Explicit Internet Messages That Led to Fla. Rep. Foley’s Resignation

Florida Rep. Mark Foley’s resignation came just hours after ABC News questioned the congressman about a series of sexually explicit instant messages involving congressional pages, high school students who are under 18 years of age.In Congress, Rep. Foley (R-FL) was part of the Republican leadership and the chairman of the House caucus on missing and [...]

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Henry Kissinger Advises Bush To Stay The Course

(CBS) Veteran Washington reporter Bob Woodward tells Mike Wallace that the Bush administration has not told the truth regarding the level of violence, especially against U.S. troops, in Iraq. He also reveals key intelligence that predicts the insurgency will grow worse next year.
In Wallace’s interview with Woodward, to be broadcast on 60 Minutes this Sunday, [...]

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Four men and a golf photo

Four years later, why aren’t these men smiling anymore?
WASHINGTON – In the four years since the above photo was taken, in August of 2002, on a golf junket at the famed St. Andrews links in Scotland, fate and government investigations have taken the smiles off the faces of these four duffers and many others associated [...]

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Former President Carter says U.S. in more danger of terrorism because of Iraq war

FALLON, Nevada-
Former President Jimmy Carter said major policy changes are needed because the Iraq war has divided the nation “almost as much as Vietnam.””So there’s no doubt that our country is in much more danger now from terrorism than it would have been if we would have done what we should have done and stayed [...]

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White House Lashes Out

Sept. 29, 2006 — The White House is lashing out at a new report which says convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his associates had far more extensive contacts with the White House than President Bush’s staff ever acknowledged.
Outside his home in Washington, D.C., Karl Rove commented exclusively to ABCNews on his dealings with Jack Abramoff.
In [...]

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Wiretap bill sets up election-year issue

WASHINGTON – The House approved a bill Thursday that would grant legal status to President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program with new restrictions. Republicans called it a test before the election of whether Democrats want to fight or coddle terrorists.
“The Democrats’ irrational opposition to strong national security policies that help keep our nation secure should be [...]

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Lawrence O’Donnell says Abramoff had ‘run’ of White House

A draft report from the House Government Reform committee, to be released this morning, says that indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff had many more connections to the Bush Administration than the White House had originally reported. Abramoff’s billing records and emails indicate that, over a three year period, he had 485 lobbying contacts with the White [...]

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Dispute on Intelligence Report Disrupts Republicans’ Game Plan

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 — The dispute over a newly disclosed National Intelligence Estimate has threatened a pre-election script in which the White House had sought to put Democrats on the defensive on national security.
As the White House saw it, this was to have been the week in which Republicans seized the advantage by pushing two [...]

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GOT VOTE FRAUD???

The Party is Over…GOP that is!!Did you know….
(Many thanks to ‘Global Evildoer Fighter’ for this info!)
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes
http://en.wikipediaorg/wiki/Diebold
2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/091604.htm
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes
3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of [...]

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Democrats Cite New Hope in Bid to Retake Senate

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 — Six weeks before Election Day, the Democrats suddenly face a map with unexpected opportunities in their battle for control of the Senate.
In Virginia, a state that few expected to be seriously competitive, Senator George Allen, a Republican, looks newly vulnerable after a series of controversies over his racial views, strategists in [...]

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Libby’s graymail gambit

Judge to decide if jury will be allowed to hear national secrets.
WASHINGTON – In what is stacking up to be one of the most decisive pre-trial hearings in the CIA leak case against I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the parties involved will face off Wednesday to argue which — if any — classified documents Libby will [...]

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More Americans blame Bush than Clinton for failure to capture Osama bin Laden

According to the latest Gallup Poll, more Americans blame President Bush than former President Clinton for the failure to capture Osama bin Laden.
“According to a recent Gallup Panel survey, the American public puts the primary blame on Bush rather than Clinton for the fact that bin Laden has not been captured,” writes Lydia Saad for [...]

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CondiMan ??!!

Condi Rice turns into a man to defend Dubya. (Screen shot from the Boston Herald.) I guess someone at the Boston Herald has a sense of humor.
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Sen. Clinton Disputes Rice’s Comments

WASHINGTON (AP) — New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has struck back at Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the escalating political bickering over which president – Bill Clinton or George W. Bush – missed more opportunities to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks.
Clinton, D-N.Y., took aim at President Bush and Rice over their roles [...]

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Study Doesn’t Share Bush’s Optimism on Terror Fight

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 — Three years ago, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld wrote a memo to his colleagues in the Pentagon posing a critical question in the “long war’’ against terrorism: Is Washington’s strategy successfully killing or capturing terrorists faster than new enemies are being created?
Until Tuesday, the government had not publicly issued an [...]

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