31 October 2005 | Uncategorized | Paul Craig Roberts
Lewis "Scooter" Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Richard B. Cheney and assistant to the president, has been indicted for a cover-up. As U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald made clear at the Oct. 28 press conference announcing Libby’s indictment, he believes Libby "went before a federal grand jury and lied under oath repeatedly and [...]
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31 October 2005 | Uncategorized | bsnider
Echoing recent comments by White House officials, a U.S. government report submitted to the United Nations last Friday bears a message that the brutal treatment of people held in U.S. military custody abroad is and should be legal. The report, which was submitted to the UN’s Human Rights Committee and is designed to document U.S. [...]
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31 October 2005 | Uncategorized | Tom Engelhardt
I. Lewis (“Scooter”) Libby, immediately praised by the president (“Scooter has worked tirelessly on behalf of the American people and sacrificed much in the service to this country”), his resignation accepted with “deep regret” by the vice president (“He has given many years of his life to public service and has served our nation tirelessly [...]
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31 October 2005 | Uncategorized | Justin Raimondo
The idea that George W. Bush is losing confidence in Dick Cheney is gaining traction, and Time magazine has the story: “‘The problem is that the president doesn’t want to make changes,’ says a White House adviser who is not looking for a West Wing job, ‘but he’s lost some of his confidence in the [...]
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29 October 2005 | Uncategorized | Praful Bidwai
NEW DELHI – Seven years after blasting its way into the world’s "nuclear club," India has executed a major shift in its policy stance by jettisoning its long-standing advocacy of global nuclear disarmament in favor of nuclear non-proliferation. On Monday, the country’s Foreign Secretary, Shyam Saran enunciated a new doctrinal orientation: India will now be [...]
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29 October 2005 | Uncategorized | Backtalk
Iraq by the Numbers George Bush stated that he would rather fight terrorism in Iraq than in the United States. But what if the result is the same? The next big number in Iraq is going to be when the number of American soldiers killed there is equal to the number of people killed in [...]
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29 October 2005 | Uncategorized | Tom Engelhardt
Implosion update: And so they fall: Tom DeLay just weeks back. Harriet Miers yesterday. I. Lewis (“Scooter”) Libby today. Prepare yourself. It’s going to be a long, hard dive into deep waters that should, sooner or later, lead us back to the beginning. Think of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald’s indictment of the Vice President’s [...]
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29 October 2005 | Uncategorized | Norman Solomon
While indictment fever gripped the Washington press corps this month, the president’s spin doctor was incapacitated. An ailing Karl Rove could not help the Republican search for a media cure. With temperature rising, the political physician was in no position to cure himself or anyone else. Now, a media siege is underway at [...]
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29 October 2005 | Uncategorized | Gordon Prather
Last week, James Moore, a former television news correspondent and the co-author of the bestselling Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential, wrote an op-ed piece entitled “Fitzgerald’s Historic Opportunity” that appeared originally at HuffingtonPost.com and has since been reposted elsewhere. Quoth James Moore: “Patrick Fitzgerald has before him the most important [...]
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29 October 2005 | Uncategorized | Jim Lobe
with Katherine Stapp US Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff and top national security aide resigned Friday, hours before a grand jury formally indicted him on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice following a 22-month probe into the public disclosure of the identity of a covert Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative. [...]
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