Rice: EU Back Off Secret CIA Prisons!
• ReutersSecretary of State Condoleezza Rice is expected to give allies in Europe a response next week to their pressure over Washington's treatment of terrorism suspects: back off.
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U.S. Military Admits Planting Stories In Iraqi Press
• Associated PressMilitary officials in Baghdad described a Pentagon program that pays to plant stories in the Iraqi media, part of an effort to "get the truth out" there. "a function of buying advertising and opinion/editorial space, as is customary in
Judge dismisses 4<sup>th</sup> Amendment
• ReutersA federal judge ruled on that police had a constitutional right to randomly search subway passengers' bags to deter terrorist attacks and the searches were an effective and appropriate means to fight terrorism, and constituted a minimal
US civil rights group to sue CIA
• BBC NewsThe American Civil Liberties Union says the intelligence agency has broken both US and international law. It is acting for a man allegedly flown to a secret CIA prison in Afghanistan.
FBI Plants Candidate in Legislative Race
• Associated PressThe mayor issued press releases, raised money and bought newspaper ads. Signs bearing his name popped up in yards on a legislative bid. Just before the primary election, the mayor dropped out: The FBI had planted the mayor among the field of candidat
US backed Timor invasion
• Agence France-PresseTHE US knew a year in advance of and explicitly approved Indonesia's invasion of East Timor in 1975. The US adopted a "policy of silence" and even suppressed news on East Timor, including reports of Indonesia's massacres of Timores
State Department using ideological litmus tests to screen speakers
• Knight Ridder NewsThe State Department has been using political litmus tests to screen private American citizens before they can be sent overseas to represent the US, weeding out critics of the Bush administration's Iraq policy.
FBI re-opens Niger Uranium Forgery Documents Case
• Los Angeles TimesThe FBI has reopened an inquiry into how the Bush administration came to rely on forged documents linking Iraq to nuclear weapons materials as part of its justification for the invasion.
US Airstrike in Pakistan Town
• NBC NewsThe operational commander of al-Qaida, possibly the No. 3 official in the terrorist organization, was killed by a CIA missile attack on a safehouse in Pakistan.
Gold jumps to 23-year high
• ReutersGold galloped to its highest price in almost 23 years on Thursday, driven by further investment buying after it pierced the key $500 an ounce level earlier this week.
Most Americans doubt Bush has plan for Iraq victory
• CNN NewsAs President Bush launched a new effort to gain public support for the Iraq war, a new poll found most Americans do not believe he has a plan that will achieve victory.
Diebold back in North Carolina & Certified
• Brad BlogFormer Diebold Rep, Now on NC Election Advisory Board Certifies Diebold, Despite Apparent Failure to Comply with State Law Requiring Source Code Escrow!
Cheney Cut Out on National Security
• Insight MagazineThe role of Dick Cheney as the administration's point man in security policy appears over. Over the last two months Mr. Cheney has been granted decreasing access to the Oval Office. The 2 men still meet, but the close staff work between the presi
Lobbyist's Role in Hiring Aides Is Investigated
• New York TimesWith a federal corruption case intensifying, prosecutors investigating Jack Abramoff, the Republican lobbyist, are examining whether he brokered lucrative jobs for Congressional aides at powerful lobbying firms in exchange for legislative favors.
Rove Nearing That Frog March
• New York TimesA conversation between Karl Rove's lawyer and a journalist for Time magazine led Mr. Rove to change his testimony last year to the grand jury in the C.I.A. leak case.
Abramoff Investigator Aided Mashpee Tribe
• Associated PressThe top Senate Democrat investigating Jack Abramoff's Indian lobbying met several times with the lobbyist's team and clients, held a fundraiser in Abramoff's arena skybox and arranged congressional help for one of the tribes, records show
Pentagon moves ahead in Military Tribuneral of Canadian teenager
• ReutersThe Pentagon said it had formed a military tribunal to hear the war crimes trial of a Canadian citizen jailed at Guantanamo Bay, proceeding even though a judge last month froze a similar case to allow the Supreme Court to decide the legitimacy of su
Fascist Schools
• The NationSeven Hampton students are facing expulsion hearings. Their "crime" was distributing "unauthorized" literature criticizing the Bush Administration's policies on AIDS, Hurricane Katrina, homophobia, the Iraq war and the Sudan
'Report Your Neighbor' Number Yielding Revenge
• USA TodayThe hotline - designed to help identify foreigners and others who could harm U.S. interests - has become a venting board for thousands of tips from across the USA that have nothing to do with potential threats to the homeland.
Allies Bugging out of Iraq; Checks Bounce?
• Associated PressBulgaria and Ukraine will begin withdrawing their combined troops by mid-December. If Australia, Britain, Italy, Japan, Poland and South Korea reduce or recall their personnel, more than half of the non-American forces in Iraq could be gone by next
Forget Duke Cunningham. Take a look at THE PEOPLE WHO BRIBED HIM.
• CannonfireLooks at a California firm called ADCS, which is part of the Wilkes Corporation, which lobbies -- and funds -- a number of Republican politicians. Wilkes operates under a variety of names -- the primary sobriquet seems to be "Group W Advisors.**
Western white woman a suicide bomber
• London TimesMIREILLE, who was born in Belgium to a white, middle-class Christian family, blew herself to pieces last month in a suicide attack against American troops near Baghdad.
California voting summit stacked with electronic voting proponents
• by Miriam Raftery (Raw Story)A California summit on voting equipment, where many of the speakers had apparent conflicts of interests, barred entry to consumer groups calling for election reform.
Prosecutors Urged to Investigate Ralph Reed's Covert Lobbying
• Common DreamsRalph Reed did not register as a Texas lobbyist in 2001 or 2002, when he reportedly received $4.2 million to lobby Texas state officials to shut down two Indian casinos in Texas.
The Lincoln Group: Pentagon Psyops in Iraq
• Billmon's Whiskey Bar BlogThe Pentagon awarded 3 contracts, worth up to $300 million over 5 years, to companies it hopes will inject more creativity into its psychological operations efforts to improve foreign public opinion about the US, particularly the military.
State's AGs Want Limited Supply of Goods and Long Lines to Purchase Them
• Arizona RepublicThe nation's attorneys general are putting finishing touches on a proposal to create a nationwide price-gouging law that would extend to any "essential services" including medicines, food, water, heating and cooling costs and hotel room
Electronic Voting Examined; Deadline Nears
• ReutersEven in this election off-year, the potential perils of electronic voting systems are bedeviling state officials as a Jan. 1 deadline approaches for complying with standards for the machines' reliability.
Congress planning new tax on electronic gear
• Medill News ServiceMany people will replace their old media gadgets with Christmas gifts like HDTVs, iPods, and digital video recorders, often consigning the old TV sets, CD players, and VCRs to the junk pile. Congress is considering how to make sure that this "e-
Make Free PC Video Calls With Skype's New Software
• PC WorldSkype Technologies today updated its Internet telephony software, with version 2 adding free integrated video calling to the company's popular Voice over Internet Protocol service.
Engineers Confirm Levee Shortcomings
• Associated PressGovernment engineers performing sonar tests at the site of a major levee failure confirmed that steel reinforcements barely went more than half as deep as they were supposed to, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official said.
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