Attorneys: No backstory in CIA leak case

WASHINGTON – Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby agree on something: keeping Libby’s perjury trial in the CIA leak case focused solely on his actions. The two are separately asking a federal judge not to allow three years of politically charged backstory in the case to seep into [...]

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Ex-Hussein political adviser claims Iraq accepted Bush’s ultimatum before invasion

Hossam Shaltout, a former political adviser to Saddam Hussein’s son, said today that before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March of 2003, Saddam expressed his intent to yield to all American demands, but that the Bush administration refused his offers, according to a press release on Yahoo News. Shaltout is a Canadian citizen who [...]

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Money trails lead to Bush judges

A four-month investigation reveals that dozens of federal judges gave contributions to President Bush and top Republicans who helped place them on the bench. A Salon/CIR exclusive.Oct. 31, 2006 At least two dozen federal judges appointed by President Bush since 2001 made political contributions to key Republicans or to the president himself while under consideration [...]

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CALLING ALL ANGELS

CALLING ALL ANGELS CLICK (FOR VIDEO)

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101 Americans die in Iraq during October

BAGHDAD, Iraq – The American death toll for October climbed past 100, a grim milestone reached as a top White House envoy turned up unexpectedly in Baghdad on Monday to smooth over a rough patch in U.S.-Iraqi ties. At least 80 people were killed across Iraq, 33 in a Sadr City bombing targeting workers. A [...]

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Newspapers Across Country Support Dem Candidates…

LINKS TO ENDORSEMENTS: CT: New York Times Calls Lamont “By Far the Better Candidate.” MN: Pioneer Press Knows Klobuchar Will Be Independent in Washington. MN: Duluth News-Tribune Says Minnesotans Would Be Well-Served By Klobuchar. MO: Kansas City Star Says McCaskill Will “Bring Needed Change.” MT: Great Falls Tribune Calls Some of the Attacks on Tester [...]

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Shreddin’ With Dick

Spotted on 10/19, by an eagle-eyed Wonkette reader: The Mid-Atlantic Shredding Services truck making its way up to the Cheney compound at the Naval Observatory. Fun fact: Mid-Atlantic Shredding Services has been contracted by the Secret Service for our Executive Branch’s record-not-keeping needs. The present contractor providing Pickup & Destruction of Sensitive Waste Material services [...]

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GOP, Democratic leaders spar on Rumsfeld

WASHINGTON – The No. 2 leader in the House on Sunday said Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is “the best thing that’s happened to thePentagon in 25 years,” sparking a debate with Democrats who said the comments show why the GOP should be voted out of power. Rumsfeld’s leadership of the bloody mission in Iraq [...]

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Tipping Point for War’s Supporters?

As the fighting in Iraq swerved toward civil war in February, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John W. Warner (R-Va.) expressed “a high degree of confidence” that a new government would take charge and that by the end of the year the conflict “won’t be the same.” As October opened, Warner returned from Iraq with [...]

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The Constitution

The Constitution Thank You GEF!

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