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Agence France Presse

Former President Jimmy Carter accused President Bush's administration of degrading moral standards underpinning decades of US foreign policy. "This is just one indication of what has been done under this administration to change the policies

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Washington Post

Top White House aides are privately discussing the future of Karl Rove, with some expressing doubt that President Bush can move beyond the damaging CIA leak case as long as his closest political strategist remains in the administration. If Rove stays

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Newsweek

The conventional wisdom is that Karl Rove is out of the woods. But he may be in danger of losing his security clearance. It would prevent him from taking part in policymaking that relates to national-security issues, which would mean a much-reduced

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Larisa Alexandrovna and Jason Leopold (Raw Story)

John Bolton, now the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was contacted by "Scooter" Libby in late May 2003 to find out who sent Ambassador Joseph Wilson on a fact-finding mission to Niger.

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Agence France Presse

Thousands of Americans staged noisy demonstrations across the United States to protest the policies of President Bush on the first anniversary of his re-election. The protests in cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago.

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Associated Press

"If Democrats want to talk about the threat that Saddam Hussein posed and the intelligence, they might want to start with looking at the previous administration and their own statements that they've made," White House press secretary Sc

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by Tom Engelhardt and David Cole (LRC)

Senator John McCain's anti-torture amendment: "No individual in the custody or under the physical control of the United States Government, regardless of nationality or physical location, shall be subject to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treat

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by Butler Shaffer (LewRockwell.com)

Libby’s indictment on charges has given a false hope the Bush administration’s crimes are about to get a public airing. That the established order has any interest in ferreting out truths...no more wrongs are acknowledged than are necessary to mainta

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Reuters

In a courtroom victory for Rep. Tom Delay, the judge in the campaign-finance case against the former House Republican leader was removed Tuesday because of his donations to Democratic candidates and causes.

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Associated Press

Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito is "clearly within the mainstream" and shouldn't be filibustered, declared a Republican who helped fashion a plan limiting parliamentary roadblocks for judicial nominees.

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by Doug Bandow (Cato Institute)

For nearly five years, many conservatives backed the administration even as the President trampled their most cherished principles - wildly increasing spending, centralising power in Washington, and failing to hold anyone accountable for the Iraq dis

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Reuters

Democrats accusing the ruling Republicans of stalling tactics imposed a rare closed session of the Senate on Tuesday to force the majority to complete a probe on whether the Bush administration misused intelligence before the Iraq war.

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Addington has been a key figure in many of the White House's most controversial moves. He is the principal author of a memo that justifies the torture of terrorism suspects. He also headed the fight to keep secret the names of corporations involv

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by Jacob Hornberger (FFF)

Scooter Libby is apparently planning to rely on a “I was a very busy man to remember details” defense to the perjury and obstruction of justice indictment against him. The testimony simply contained “inconsistencies” that were the result of “the hect

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Agence France Presse.

Joseph Wilson demanded the scalp of White House political maestro Karl Rove, over a scandal which has already toppled one key official. "I don't believe that Mr Rove should be permitted to resign. I believe this is a firing offense," h

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Associated Press

President Bush nominated a judge serving on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals since 1990, Samuel Alito, to the Supreme Court today. Consistently conservative, but polite, reserved and even-tempered.

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by Justin Raimondo (AntiWar.com)

The lesson the Bushies are learning is that the neocons are nothing but trouble, and it just isn't worth it to go to bat for them. It may, however, be a lesson learned far too late. Bush's presidency is sinking faster than ....

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Agence France Presse

The US Congress should reject a Senate bill if it includes a White House -proposed amendment that would allow the CIA to abuse prisoners during interrogations, a human rights group said.