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Condolezza Rice: ‘I Am Proud Of The Decision to Invade Iraq'
thinkprogress.org — In an interview with Bloomberg TV yesterday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was unable to acknowledge the failure of Iraq. She said: "But I know that great historical events go through difficult phases and often emerge with the world left for the better. And I am proud of the decision of this administration to overthrow Saddam Hussein."More… (Political News)
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Protesters disrupt Bush's July 4th address at Monticello
rawstory.com — President Bush delivered a July 4th address before a naturalization ceremony for new citizens at Thomas Jefferson's home of Monticello that was repeatedly interrupted by protesters who called out "war criminal" and "impeach Bush."More… (Political News)
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NSA Spy Judge Defends the Law, Congress to Strip His Power
blog.wired.com — Just days before the Senate will convene to give a final blessing to President Bush's secret, warrantless wiretapping program, a federal court judge ruled that his legal justification for the surveillance has no legal merit. He's the same judge Congress is trying to save the nation's telecoms, such as AT&T and Sprint, from having to face in court.More… (Political News)
U.S. Arms Dealer Tests Legal Bounds in Middle East Arms Baza
wired.com — Former congressman Curt Weldon is helping broker deals between Russian and Ukranian weapons suppliers and the Iraqi and Libyan governments as part of his new job with a private American defense consulting firm, Wired.com has learned.More… (Political News)
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Karl Rove refuses to appear before House Judiciary panel
politico.com — Karl Rove, former White House deputy chief of staff and President Bush's top political adviser, is refusing to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to testify on "politicization" within the Justice Department. Rove had been scheduled to appear next Thursday, July 10.More… (Political News)
TheEngineer2008
Jon Soltz: McCain Flips At Legit Question
huffingtonpost.com — That's why the McCain campaign went into all-out outrage mode over General Clark's comments. It wasn't about being offended. It was about lashing out so strongly that the media would cower in fear, and not even think about putting a question like this to McCain -- a question to which he has no answer, and is afraid of being exposed on that point.More… (Political News)
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Judge: FISA trumps state secrets, binds executive branch
arstechnica.com — A federal judge has struck a blow to the Bush Administration's use of the "state secrets" privilege in a lawsuit over its domestic surveillance practices. The ruling alsoundercuts the Democrats' rationale for signing off on retroactive immunity for the telecoms.More… (Political News)
Secret-Spilling Wikileaks Plans to Save Journalism
wired.com — After 18 months of publishing government, industry and military secrets that have sparked international scandals, led to takedown threats and briefly gotten the site banned in the United States, Assange says Wikileaks is just getting started changing the world.More… (Political News)
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U.S.military to patrol Internet
upi.com — WASHINGTON, June 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. military is looking for a contractor to patrol cyberspace, watching for warning signs of forthcoming terrorist attacks or other hostile activity on the Web. More… (Political News)
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Hersh: Cheney 'Privately' Says He Prefers U.S to Strike Iran
thinkprogress.org — Seymour Hersh in the MSNBC interview: "If Israel goes — I’ll tell you what Cheney’s says privately, and whether or not you, how I know this is, — what he says privately is, “we can’t let Israel go because, first of all, they don’t have the firepower, we do. We have much more firepower. And secondly, if they go, we’ll be blamed anyway."More… (Political News)
Americans: How Ignorant Are We?
tomdispatch.com — Ask the political scientists and you will be told that there is damning, hard evidence pointing incontrovertibly to the conclusion that millions are embarrassingly ill-informed and that they do not care that they are. There is enough evidence that one could almost conclude that we are living in an Age of Ignorance.More… (Political News)
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Fox News airs altered photos of NY Times reporters
mediamatters.org — During a segment in which Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade labeled New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe "attack dogs," Fox News aired photos of Steinberg and Reddicliffe that appeared to have been digitally altered to add yellowed teeth and exaggerated features.More… (Political News)
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Closer to war with Iran than anyone knows?
npr.org — The man who broke the My Lai and Abu Ghraib stories says we're closer to war with Iran than anyone knows.More… (Political News)
beanzoUS Torture Tactics at Guantánamo Inspired by Communist China
iht.com — The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of "coercive management techniques" The recycled chart is the most vivid evidence of the way Communist interrogation methods that the United States long described as torture became the basis for Guantanamo Bay.More… (Political News)
Conservatives on WALL-E: 'Fascist, Fear-Mongering Nonsense'
thinkprogress.org — Pixar's Wall-E portrays a lonely robot’s quest for love, as he is left to clean up a trashed earth. Meanwhile, the over-indulged humans wait it out aboard gigantic spaceships run by a monolithic corporation-turned-government that “resemble spas for the fat and lazy.” Somehow, this touching love story has outraged the radical right.More… (Political News)
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