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Top News Article | Reuters.com: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Army Corps of Engineers' top contracting official has demanded an investigation into contracts given to Halliburton, citing improper action that favored Vice President Dick Cheney's old company. According to documents made available to Reuters on Monday by congressional sources, Army Corps whistle-blower Bunny Greenhouse complained of

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Yahoo! News - U.N. Warns of Explosives Missing in Iraq: "VIENNA, Austria - The U.N. nuclear agency warned Monday that insurgents in Iraq (news - web sites) may have obtained nearly 400 tons of missing explosives that can be used in the kind of car bomb attacks that have targeted U.S.-led coalition forces for months. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei reported the

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Salon.com News | Iraq massacre may have been inside job: "Oct. 25, 2004 | BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The massacre of 50 unarmed Iraqi cadets headed home on leave suggests Iraqi insurgents have infiltrated Iraq's security forces deeply enough to gain intelligence and make precision strikes of their own. Although U.S. officials say it's too early to tell whether the cadets were set up, some American

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Yahoo! News - U.N. Warns of Explosives Missing in Iraq: "VIENNA, Austria - The U.N. nuclear agency warned Monday that insurgents in Iraq (news - web sites) may have obtained nearly 400 tons of missing explosives that can be used in the kind of car bomb attacks that have targeted U.S.-led coalition forces for months. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei reported the

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AlterNet: The World According to a Bush Voter: "Do the supporters of President Bush really know their man or the policies of his administration? Three out of 4 self-described supporters of President George W. Bush still believe that pre-war Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or active programs to produce them. According to a new survey published Thursday, the same number also

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Pentagon official distorted intelligence, report says: printer friendly version: "WASHINGTON As recently as January 2004, a top Defense Department official misrepresented to Congress the view of American intelligence agencies about the relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda, according to classified documents described in a new report by a Senate Democrat. The report said that a classified

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AlterNet: The Secret in the CIA's Back Pocket: "It is shocking: The Bush administration is suppressing a CIA report on 9/11 until after the election, and this one names names. Although the report by the inspector general's office of the CIA was completed in June, it has not been made available to the Congressional intelligence committees that mandated the study almost two years ago. 'It is

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CNN.com - Iraqi N-sites 'stripped carefully' - Oct 14, 2004 VIENNA, Austria (Reuters) -- The mysterious removal of Iraq's mothballed nuclear facilities continued long after the U.S.-led invasion and was carried out by people with access to heavy machinery and demolition equipment, diplomats said on Thursday. The United Nations nuclear watchdog told the Security Council this week that equipment

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CNN.com - Iraqi N-sites 'stripped carefully' - Oct 14, 2004 VIENNA, Austria (Reuters) -- The mysterious removal of Iraq's mothballed nuclear facilities continued long after the U.S.-led invasion and was carried out by people with access to heavy machinery and demolition equipment, diplomats said on Thursday. The United Nations nuclear watchdog told the Security Council this week that equipment

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CNN.com - Iraqi N-sites 'stripped carefully' - Oct 14, 2004 VIENNA, Austria (Reuters) -- The mysterious removal of Iraq's mothballed nuclear facilities continued long after the U.S.-led invasion and was carried out by people with access to heavy machinery and demolition equipment, diplomats said on Thursday. The United Nations nuclear watchdog told the Security Council this week that equipment

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The New York Times > Washington > Prewar Assessment on Iraq Saw Chance of Strong Divisions: "WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 - The same intelligence unit that produced a gloomy report in July about the prospect of growing instability in Iraq warned the Bush administration about the potential costly consequences of an American-led invasion two months before the war began, government officials said Monday.

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Cheney changed his view on Iraq: "WASHINGTON -- In an assessment that differs sharply with his view today, Dick Cheney more than a decade ago defended the decision to leave Saddam Hussein in power after the first Gulf War, telling a Seattle audience that capturing Saddam wouldn't be worth additional U.S. casualties or the risk of getting 'bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and

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Salon.com News | George W. Bush's missing year: "Allison's account corroborates a Washington Post investigation in February that found no credible witnesses to the service in the Alabama National Guard that Bush maintains he performed, despite a lack of documentary evidence. Asked if she'd ever seen Bush in a uniform, Allison said: 'Good lord, no. I had no idea that the National Guard was

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CNN.com - Delegates mock Kerry with 'purple heart' bandages - Aug 30, 2004 NEW YORK (CNN) -- Delegates to the Republican National Convention found a new way to take a jab at Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's Vietnam service record: by sporting adhesive bandages with small purple hearts on them. Morton Blackwell, a prominent Virginia delegate, has been handing out the heart-covered

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Guardian Unlimited | World Latest | Ranks of Poverty, Uninsured Rose in 2003: "WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans living in poverty increased by 1.3 million last year, while the ranks of the uninsured swelled by 1.4 million, the Census Bureau reported Thursday. It was the third straight annual increase for both categories. While not unexpected, it was a double dose of bad economic news

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washingtonpost.com: Goss Backed '95 Bill to Slash Intelligence President Bush's nominee to be the director of central intelligence, Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.), sponsored legislation that would have cut intelligence personnel by 20 percent in the late 1990s. Goss, who has been chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for the past eight years, was one of six original

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AlterNet: The Thief of Baghdad Missing: One giant generator owned by the United States military. Estimated cost: $734,863 Last seen: Somewhere in Iraq. While much of the media is focused on the pitched battle over the control of the holy shrine in Najaf, a bigger scandal is brewing in Iraq that may well have an equally important effect on the future of the U.S. occupation. A team of auditors

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Allawi shot prisoners in cold blood: witnesses - After Saddam - www.smh.com.au Iyad Allawi, the new Prime Minister of Iraq, pulled a pistol and executed as many as six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station, just days before Washington handed control of the country to his interim government, according to two people who allege they witnessed the killings. They say the prisoners -

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FOXNews.com - 'Fahrenheit 9/11' Gets Standing Ovation The crowd that gave Michael Moore's controversial "Fahrenheit 9/11" documentary a standing ovation last night at the Ziegfeld Theater premiere certainly didn't have to be encouraged to show their appreciation. From liberal radio host/writer Al Franken to actor/director Tim Robbins, Moore was in his element. But once "F9/11" gets to audiences

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Telegraph | News | Interrogation abuses were 'approved at highest levels': New evidence that the physical abuse of detainees in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay was authorised at the top of the Bush administration will emerge in Washington this week, adding further to pressure on the White House. The Telegraph understands that four confidential Red Cross documents implicating senior Pentagon

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A Child's ABCs of Terrorism: A IS FOR Al Qaeda and amnesia. Are you old enough to remember when the war on terror was being fought against people who actually attacked us? B IS FOR Bush and Bin Laden. They hate each other, but they could never be the same without each other--just like lots of mommies and daddies! C IS FOR Chalabi and the cap President Bush would like to pop in his ass.

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Salon.com News | "A temporary coup": June 14, 2004 | The U.S. is now waging three wars, says intelligence expert Thomas Powers. One is in Iraq. The second is in Afghanistan. And the third is in Washington -- an all-out war between the White House and the nation's own intelligence agencies. Powers, the author of "Intelligence Wars: American Secret History From Hitler to Al Qaeda," charges that

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Military confirms soldier injured during training at Guantanamo: LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The Army confirmed Tuesday that a former military police officer was injured while posing as a prisoner during a training session at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, last year. But Maj. Laurie Arellano, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Southern Command in Miami, said Spc. Sean Baker's medical discharge last month was not

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The New York Times > Washington > New Premier: Ex-C.I.A. Aides Say Iraq Leader Helped Agency in 90's Attacks: WASHINGTON, June 8 — Iyad Allawi, now the designated prime minister of Iraq, ran an exile organization intent on deposing Saddam Hussein that sent agents into Baghdad in the early 1990's to plant bombs and sabotage government facilities under the direction of the C.I.A., several former

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The Seattle Times: Nation & World: U.S. subsidy keeps gas price low in Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq — While Americans are shelling out near-record prices for fuel, Iraqis pay only about 5 cents a gallon for gasoline — a benefit of hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies bankrolled by American taxpayers. Before the war, some forecasters predicted that by invading Iraq and ousting Saddam Hussein,

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Infoshop News - Pentagon Report Set Framework For Use of Torture: Bush administration lawyers contended last year that the president wasn't bound by laws prohibiting torture and that government agents who might torture prisoners at his direction couldn't be prosecuted by the Justice Department. The advice was part of a classified report on interrogation methods prepared for Defense Secretary

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'We're paying the mujahideen not to shoot at us': In Fallujah, the most restive city in the Sunni Triangle of Iraq, anti-American feeling is white-hot. Jack Fairweather is smuggled inside the city that is a no-go area for Westerners Wearing an American-supplied uniform and armed with a battered AK47 rifle, Abdullah lounged at the checkpoint on the outskirts of Fallujah. A month ago he

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Yahoo! News - Democrats Ask Special Halliburton/Cheney Counsel: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Democrats urged a special counsel on Wednesday to probe whether Vice President Dick Cheney broke the law through any involvement in the award of a government contract in Iraq to his old company, Halliburton Co. For the second day running, Democrats demanded more answers to questions raised by a newly

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Yahoo! News - Bush Consults Lawyer in CIA Leak Case:WASHINGTON - President Bush has consulted an outside lawyer in case he needs to retain him in the grand jury investigation of who leaked the name of a covert CIA operative last year, the White House said Wednesday. There was no indication that Bush is a target of the leak investigation, but the president has decided that in the event he needs

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CNN.com - Army widens 'stop-loss' program - Jun 2, 2004: WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Army will prevent soldiers in units set to deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan from leaving the service at the end of their terms, a top general said Wednesday. The announcement, an expansion of an Army program called "stop-loss," means that thousands of soldiers who had expected to retire or otherwise leave the military

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Twelve questions for President Bush Meant to Help Strengthen His Remaining Speeches about Iraq: By Chalmers Johnson 1. Please tell us more about your notion of "full sovereignty" for Iraq. Will this be like our returning Okinawan sovereignty to Japan in 1972, when we retained exclusive control over the 38 military bases on the island and the deployment and behavior of American forces on them?

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The New York Times > Washington > Chalabi Reportedly Told Iran That U.S. Had Code: " WASHINGTON, June 1 — Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi leader and former ally of the Bush administration, disclosed to an Iranian official that the United States had broken the secret communications code of Iran's intelligence service, betraying one of Washington's most valuable sources of information about Iran,

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Salon.com | "The most dishonest president since Nixon": George W. Bush promised us a foreign policy with humility. Instead, he has brought us humiliation in the eyes of the world. He promised to "restore honor and integrity to the White House." Instead, he has brought deep dishonor to our country and built a durable reputation as the most dishonest president since Richard Nixon.

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The New York Times > International > Middle East > From the Editors: The Times and Iraq: Over the last year this newspaper has shone the bright light of hindsight on decisions that led the United States into Iraq. We have examined the failings of American and allied intelligence, especially on the issue of Iraq's weapons and possible Iraqi connections to international terrorists. We have studied

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Salon.com News | GOP senator rips Bush on Iraq, terrorism: May 23, 2004 | MEDFORD, Mass. (AP) -- Republican Sen. Richard G. Lugar on Saturday said the United States isn't doing enough to stave off terrorism and criticized President Bush for failing to offer solid plans for Iraq's future. Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the nation must prevent terrorism from

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Chicago Tribune: Soldier Found Guilty of Desertion in Iraq: FORT STEWART, Ga. -- A U.S. soldier who said he left his unit in Iraq to protest an "oil-driven" war was convicted of desertion Friday and sentenced to a year in jail and a bad conduct discharge. A military jury met for about 20 minutes before giving the maximum sentence to Staff Sgt. Camilo Mejia, an infantry squad leader with the

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Charleston Daily Mail: PARKERSBURG -- On his second visit to West Virginia in the past two months, President Bush faced an audience in a hot, crowded high school gym that, in addition to his cheering supporters, included voters who say they're ready for a change in the nation's leadership. During an appearance once again labeled a "presidential visit" and not a campaign stop, Bush talked to a

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US soldier Charles Graner smiles beside the body of Manadel al-Jamadi, an Iraqi who died in US custody at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. The US-led coalition in Iraq was reeling after disturbing new pictures were released showing grinning soldiers standing over dead Iraqi prisoners.(AFP/ABC NEWS)

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Army Times - News - More News: Around the halls of the Pentagon, a term of caustic derision has emerged for the enlisted soldiers at the heart of the furor over the Abu Ghraib prison scandal: the six morons who lost the war. Indeed, the damage done to the U.S. military and the nation as a whole by the horrifying photographs of U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi detainees at the notorious prison is

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Reports: Disney tries to stop release of Moore film - May. 5, 2004: NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore's documentary linking President Bush with powerful Saudi families, including that of Osama bin Laden, is sparking the latest fight within Walt Disney Co. The film, set to debut at the Cannes film festival later this month, has yet to be released. The New York Times

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True hero athlete / Day's theme: Challenge yourself: Just when we thought we had a pure and simple hero, a millionaire athlete who gave up wealth and fame to become the ideal patriot, to make the ultimate sacrifice, his friends and family complicated everything. They turned Pat Tillman into a human being Monday, showing us what was really lost during that ambush in Afghanistan, insisting that we

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Vanishing Votes: On October 29, 2002, George W. Bush signed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). Hidden behind its apple-pie-and-motherhood name lies a nasty civil rights time bomb. First, the purges. In the months leading up to the November 2000 presidential election, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, in coordination with Governor Jeb Bush, ordered local election supervisors to purge

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Salon.com News | Bremer takes back statements about Bush May 2, 2004 | BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq, said Sunday he regrets a statement he made more than six months before the Sept. 11 attacks that the Bush administration was "paying no attention" to terrorism. Bremer said any implied criticism that President Bush was not acting against terrorism was "

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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | US military in torture scandal: Graphic photographs showing the torture and sexual abuse of Iraqi prisoners in a US-run prison outside Baghdad emerged yesterday from a military inquiry which has left six soldiers facing a possible court martial and a general under investigation. The scandal has also brought to light the growing and largely unregulated role

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Yahoo! News - More Agents Track Castro Than Bin Laden: WASHINGTON - The Treasury Department agency entrusted with blocking the financial resources of terrorists has assigned five times as many agents to investigate Cuban embargo violations as it has to track Osama bin Laden's and Saddam Hussein's money, documents show. In addition, the Office of Foreign Assets Control said that between 1990 and

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DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004®: DEAD AT DOVER PHOTOS HIT INTERNET; CONTROVERSY OVER SHOWING IRAQ CASUALTIES INTENSIFIES Hundreds of photos capturing flag-draped caskets carrying dead soldiers from Iraq have hit the Internet. The Pentagon has moved to block any and all images of the dead arriving at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, home to the Defense Department's largest mortuary. But in the

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The Village Voice: Features: Fables of the Reconstruction by Jason Vest s the situation in Iraq grows ever more tenuous, the Bush administration continues to spin the ominous news with matter-of-fact optimism. According to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Iraqi uprisings in half a dozen cities, accompanied by the deaths of more than 100 soldiers in the month of April alone, is something to

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CBS News | Woodward Shares War Secrets | April 19, 2004 07:04:32: ... Woodward says he described Powell as semi-despondent “because he knew that this was a war that might have been avoided. That’s why he spent so much time at the United Nations.” But, it turns out, two days before the president told Powell, Cheney and Rumsfeld had already briefed Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador. ”Saturday,

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Bush told public that important Iraq meeting with war commander was about Afghanistan: "WASHINGTON (AP) Following an important meeting on Iraq war planning in late 2001, President Bush told the public that the discussions were about Afghanistan. He made no mention afterward about Iraq even though that was the real focus of the session at his ranch. ''I'm right now focused on the military

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CNN.com - IAEA: Iraq nuke plants apparently unguarded - Apr 16, 2004 UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Some Iraqi nuclear facilities appear to be unguarded, and radioactive materials are being taken out of the country, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency reported after reviewing satellite images and equipment that has turned up in European scrapyards. The International Atomic Energy Agency sent a letter to

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The Beat Bush Brigades: "The Bush presidency has not been kind to Ohio, where 230,000 jobs have been lost over the past three years. That's particularly true in the eastern part of the state, where the steel industry is hemorrhaging jobs, and hope. 'There's a lot of anger, a lot of frustration. Our challenge is to channel that anger and frustration into the election this fall,' says Jess Goode

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Yahoo! News - Fragile Cease-Fire Holds in Fallujah: FALLUJAH, Iraq - A fragile cease-fire held between Sunni insurgents and U.S. Marines on Sunday in the besieged city of Fallujah, where Iraqis said more than 600 civilians were killed in the past week. Near Baghdad, gunmen shot down a U.S. attack helicopter, killing two crewmembers. Also, the military suggested it is open to a negotiated

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The New York Times > Washington > Text of the President's Daily Brief for Aug. 6, 2001: "ollowing is the text of the president's daily brief for Aug. 6, 2001, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.,' as provided by the White House. Omitted material is indicated by ellipses."

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Yahoo! News - al-Qaida Threat Included in Bush Memo: WASHINGTON - President Bush's August 2001 briefing on terrorism threats, described largely as a historical document, included information from three months earlier that al-Qaida was trying to send operatives into the United States for an explosives attack, according to several people who have seen the memo. The so-called presidential daily

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Forbes.com: U.S. terrorism policy spawns steady staff exodus: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the Bush administration has faced a steady exodus of counterterrorism officials, many disappointed by a preoccupation with Iraq they said undermined the U.S. fight against terrorism. Former counterterrorism officials said at least half a dozen have left the White House Office for

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The New York Times > Washington > Bush Was Warned of Possible Attack in U.S., Official Says: WASHINGTON, April 9 — President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the United States with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes, a government official said Friday. The warning came in a secret briefing

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Claim vs. Fact: Condoleezza Rice's Opening Statement The Center for American Progress fact-checks Condoleeza Rice's opening statement from her appearance before the the 9-11 committee.

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Yahoo! News - White House Refuses Panel Request for Rice Speech: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House has refused to provide the panel investigating the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks with a speech national security adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) was to deliver on that day touting missile defense as a priority rather than al Qaeda, sources said on Tuesday. With Rice slated to testify

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Amnesty International - Library - Death Penalty: Latest worldwide statistics released: (Geneva), By abolishing the death penalty in law or practice over half the countries in the world have set the path for the remaining states who continue to violate the right to life, said Amnesty International today. Releasing its statistics on worldwide executions carried out during 2003, Amnesty

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BBC NEWS | Middle East | US senators warn of Iraq civil war: The Bush administration has received a warning from two senior senators that Iraq faces the possibility of civil war. Richard Lugar and Joe Biden, the Republic and Democratic Party leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the US should consider postponing the handing over of sovereignty which at the moment is set for

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News: A former translator for the FBI with top-secret security clearance says she has provided information to the panel investigating the 11 September attacks which proves senior officials knew of al-Qa'ida's plans to attack the US with aircraft months before the strikes happened. She said the claim by the National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, that there was no such information was "an

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Los Angeles Times: Medicare Secrecy Inquiry Is Silenced: WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Thursday shut down an inquiry by Democrats into whether the Bush administration acted illegally or inappropriately last year when it withheld from Congress its estimates of the true cost of the Medicare prescription drug bill. At issue are allegations that then-Medicare Administrator Thomas A. Scully

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Salon.com News | Condi Rice's other wake-up call: April 2, 2004 | Richard Clarke was not the only national security expert who warned National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other Bush administration officials about terrorist threats before 9/11. Former Democratic Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado also directly told senior Bush officials loudly and clearly

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Bush Aides Block Clinton’s Papers From 9/11 Panel: WASHINGTON, April 1 — The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks said on Thursday that it was pressing the White House to explain why the Bush administration had blocked thousands of pages of classified foreign policy and counterterrorism documents from former President Bill Clinton's White House files from being turned over to the

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This is a must read article: Bush To City: Drop Dead: The Bush Administration has treated New York City like a battered wife who still gets displayed for photo-ops and state dinners. George Bush and the Republicans who control both houses of Congress have starved New York for three years with fiscal policies that alternate between abuse and neglect. But now Bush will stage his renomination

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Yahoo! News - Top Focus Before 9/11 Wasn't on Terrorism: On Sept. 11, 2001, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice was scheduled to outline a Bush administration policy that would address "the threats and problems of today and the day after, not the world of yesterday" -- but the focus was largely on missile defense, not terrorism from Islamic radicals. The speech provides telling insight

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Yahoo! News - Pentagon Finds Iraq Deals Riddled with Problems: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A report by the Defense Department's inspector general has found major problems with some of the early contracts to rebuild Iraq (news - web sites), including poor planning, pricing and a lack of oversight. According to the report on the inspector general's Web site, procurement rules were not followed in 22

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Salon.com News | "We should have had orange or red-type of alert in June or July of 2001": A former FBI wiretap translator with top-secret security clearance, who has been called "very credible" by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, has told Salon she recently testified to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States that the FBI had detailed information prior to Sept. 11,

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Government Executive Magazine - 3/24/04 Sept. 11 commission cites intelligence agency failures: A former FBI translator said Wednesday that the bureau had "real, specific" information relating to the Sept. 11 attacks before they happened. Sibel Edmonds worked for the agency working from Sept. 20, 2001 to March 2002. Edmonds said she was hired to retranslate material that was collected prior to

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washingtonpost.com: Conflict Ends in Pakistani Tribal Lands: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 28 -- A deadly, 12-day confrontation between government troops and Islamic fighters in a remote tribal region reached a peaceful settlement Sunday after the militants released 12 paramilitary fighters and two civilian officials held hostage for more than a week and soldiers began pulling out of the area.

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CNN.com - Historian: Kerry FBI files stolen - Mar 27, 2004: (CNN) -- FBI documents about FBI surveillance of John Kerry in the early 1970s have been stolen, according to their owner, a historian who lives near San Francisco, California. Gerald Nicosia, who spent more than a decade collecting the information, said three of 14 boxes of documents plus a number of loose folders containing hundreds

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Guardian | Running scared: The swiftness and ferocity of the Bush White House's attack on Richard Clarke tells you two things: his story may be largely true, and the Bush administration is terrified that the American people will believe it. The central allegation - that Mr Bush was so obsessed with going after Saddam Hussein that he openly challenged his counter-terrorism adviser to find a

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Salon.com News | Republicans for Kerry?: March 26, 2004 | Victor Fasciani, a 40-year-old asset manager, pays membership dues to the Republican National Committee, the only party he's ever belonged to. He was at the 2000 Republican Convention in Philadelphia, where he was a New York delegate for John McCain. He's no fan of John Kerry, but come November, he says, "I'm probably not voting for

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Chicago Tribune: Bush criticized for gags about weapons search: WASHINGTON -- Democratic critics and some family members of soldiers serving in Iraq took President Bush to task Thursday for his jokes at a black-tie dinner about the fruitless search for weapons of mass destruction. The jokes came at Wednesday night's annual Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner. In a 10-minute,

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Salon.com News | Richard Clarke terrorizes the White House: March 24, 2004 | NEW YORK -- After more than 30 years of dedicated service, including stints as the National Security Council's counterterrorism chief under Presidents Clinton and Bush, Richard A. Clarke has delivered a scathing assessment of Bush administration policy and personnel in his new memoir, "Against All Enemies: Inside

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metromix.com: Liberal talk radio to air in Chicago: Ending months of speculation, political humorist Al Franken has signed a deal to host a three-hour daily talk radio program for Progress Media, a New York City-based firm that is trying to launch a national liberal talk radio network. Progress Media also announced Tuesday that its broadcasts will air in Chicago on WNTD-AM 950. It is the

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CNN.com - Clarke: 'White House is papering over facts' - Mar 23, 2004: NEW YORK (CNN) -- Former White House counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke will testify Wednesday before a commission investigating the attacks of September 11, 2001. Clarke claims in a new book, "Against All Enemies," that President Bush ignored the terrorist threat before September 11, 2001. Administration officials called

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Diplomacy: A Day When the White House Reversed Stand on the Killing WASHINGTON, March 22 — The Bush administration, in the middle of its own campaign to capture or kill Osama bin Laden and others it considers terrorists, found itself on Monday in the position of being pressed by world opinion to criticize as "deeply troubling" Israel's assassination of the leader of Hamas. In a startling

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The Lie Factory: It's a crisp fall day in western Virginia, a hundred miles from Washington, D.C., and a breeze is rustling the red and gold leaves of the Shenandoah hills. On the weather-beaten wood porch of a ramshackle 90-year-old farmhouse, at the end of a winding dirt-and-gravel road, Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski is perched on a plastic chair, wearing shorts, a purple sweatshirt, and muddy

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Salon.com News | Welcome to Armageddon: March 23, 2004 | NEWPORT, Tenn. -- Say you were a terrorist in the late 1990s, around the time Osama bin Laden was planning the attack on the World Trade Center, and you wanted to get your hands on some weapons of mass destruction. You could have tried to track them down in Iraq, at one of the chemical-weapons facilities that the Bush administration

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A Vote for Honesty: Madrid It is a maxim of politics that people do not vote on foreign policy. But foreign policy became a domestic issue here on March 11, when the country was shaken by the early morning terrorist strikes on four Madrid commuter trains. The moment at which Spaniards decided to throw out the conservative Popular Party that had ruled the country for eight years was not the

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Win Without War: WASHINGTON - March 19 - The rising chorus of complaints from allied world leaders about being misled into the Iraq war underscores the need for Congress to hold the president accountable for deceiving Americans and our allies to justify the invasion and occupation of Iraq,� said former Congressman Tom Andrews, leader of Win Without War, the largest mainstream coalition of

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CNN.com - 'Show Us the Jobs' tours Rust Belt - Mar 22, 2004 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Laid-off workers, students, a priest and creators of anti-offshoring Web sites are among the 51 people taking a bus tour through Rust Belt states this week to talk about job struggles, countering similar trips by the Bush administration to promote a growing economy. Every state and Washington, D.C., will have a

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Huge Worldwide Protests Demand Iraq Troop Pullout: "NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than a million antiwar protesters poured into the streets of cities around the globe on Saturday's anniversary of the invasion of Iraq to demand the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops. From Sydney to Tokyo, from Santiago, Chile, to Madrid, London, New York and San Francisco, demonstrators condemned U.S. policy in Iraq and

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Chicago Tribune: Thousands gather in Chicago to protest war: "War protesters carrying banners and pounding drums gathered on the city's Michigan Avenue today before marching through downtown to mark the one year anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Thousands of demonstrators chanted anti-war slogans in the city's famous shopping district before walking nearly two miles to the Federal

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Global Protests Mark Iraq War Anniversary: "MADRID - Hundreds of thousands took to streets across the world on Saturday to demand the withdrawal of U.S.-led occupying forces from Iraq on the first anniversary of the start of the war. Journalists estimated at least a million people streamed through Rome in probably the biggest single protest, and in London two anti-war protesters evaded tight

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Did Prez Press For Iraq-911 Link?: "In the aftermath of Sept. 11, President Bush ordered his then top anti-terrorism adviser to look for a link between Iraq and the attacks, despite being told there didn't seem to be one. The charge comes from the advisor, Richard Clarke, in an interview airing Sunday at 7 p.m. ET/PT on 60 Minutes. Clarke also tells CBS News Correspondent Lesley Stahl that

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CNN.com - Report cites wasteful Army Corps projects - Mar 18, 2004: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to spend $12 billion on more than two dozen unneeded projects because of pressure from special interest groups and individual members of Congress, two activist groups said Thursday. The Corps, the agency responsible for building federal dams and designating flood

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General Sacked by Bush Says He Wanted Early Elections: "Jay Garner, the US general abruptly dismissed as Iraq's first occupation administrator after a month in the job, says he fell out with the Bush circle because he wanted free elections and rejected an imposed program of privatization. In an interview to be broadcast on BBC Newsnight tonight, he says: 'My preference was to put the Iraqis in

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TIME.com: Raising the Volume: "Administration sources tell TIME that employees at the Department of Homeland Security have been asked to keep their eyes open for opportunities to pose the President in settings that might highlight the Administration's efforts to make the nation safer. The goal, they are being told, is to provide Bush with one homeland-security photo-op a month. "

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CNN.com - Journalists walk out on Powell in Baghdad - Mar 19, 2004: "Powell, on a tour of Asian nations, arrived Friday in Iraq and met with L. Paul Bremer, the top U.S. civilian administrator in Iraq, and other diplomats. Bremer was also at the news conference. One al Arabiya correspondent died Friday from injuries received in a shooting that killed his cameraman a day earlier, according to

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Yahoo! News - Poland 'Misled' on Iraq, President Says: "WARSAW, Poland - Poland, which has about 2,400 troops in Iraq, was 'misled' about the threat from Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, its president said Thursday. The remarks by President Aleksander Kwasniewski were his first hint of such criticism directed at the United States and Britain, although he mentioned no country by

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U.S. Videos, for TV News, Come Under Scrutiny WASHINGTON, March 14 � Federal investigators are scrutinizing television segments in which the Bush administration paid people to pose as journalists praising the benefits of the new Medicare law, which would be offered to help elderly Americans with the costs of their prescription medicines. The videos are intended for use in local television news

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Splinter groups may rise from crackdown on al Qaeda, they warn WASHINGTON (CNN) -- It is possible the U.S.-led war on terror has created new enemies of Western governments and societies by splintering al Qaeda, according to counterterrorism experts. Some U.S. government officials go so far as to say that even if Islamic fundamentalists are eventually found responsible for the train bombings in

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Bush administration ordered Medicare plan cost estimates withheld: "WASHINGTON - The government's top expert on Medicare costs was warned that he would be fired if he told key lawmakers about a series of Bush administration cost estimates that could have torpedoed congressional passage of the White House-backed Medicare prescription-drug plan. When the House of Representatives passed the

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Study Faults Media Coverage of WMD: "NEW YORK A new study of how the media has covered the issue of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), released today, concludes, 'Many stories stenographically reported the incumbent administration's perspectives on WMD, giving too little critical examination of the way officials framed the events, issues, threats and policy options.'"

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Yahoo! News - 7,000 Orange County Voters Were Given Bad Ballots: "Poll workers struggling with a new electronic voting system in last week's election gave thousands of Orange County voters the wrong ballots, according to a Times analysis of election records. In 21 precincts where the problem was most acute, there were more ballots cast than registered voters."

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CNN.com - RNC�tells TV stations not to run anti-Bush ads - Mar 6, 2004: "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Republican National Committee is warning television stations across the country not to run ads from the MoveOn.org Voter Fund that criticize President Bush, charging that the left-leaning political group is paying for them with money raised in violation of the new campaign-finance law. 'As a

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USATODAY.com - FEC proposes plan to curb political groups: "Federal election officials proposed new rules Thursday that could sharply curb the activities of private political groups intent on influencing this year's presidential election. Although the action by the Federal Election Commission is not final, it drew objections from non-profit groups allied with Democrats who fear that continuing

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AP Wire | 03/03/2004 | Clinton, Gore Set to Face 9/11 Commission: "WASHINGTON - The federal panel reviewing the Sept. 11 attacks has scheduled interviews with former President Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore this month but is struggling to get similar cooperation from President Bush and administration officials. Members of the bipartisan commission said they were considering a

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