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- Plame was ‘covert’ agent at time of name leak
  Posted by Billbar from MSNBC
  The unclassified summary of Plame's employment with the CIA at the time that syndicated columnist Robert Novak published her name on July 14, 2003 says, "Ms. Wilson was a covert CIA employee for who the CIA was taking affirmative measures to conceal her intelligence relationship to the United States."
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- Not All the DOJ Missing Emails Are Missing
  Posted by Jeff from Slashdot
  Hylas sends us to Democracy Now for a newscast on the missing emails, an interview with investigative journalist Greg Palast. Here's Palast talking about the fired US attorney from New Mexico, David Iglesias: "Iglesias believes the real reasons for the firings are in what are called the missing emails, emails sent by the [White House political advisor Karl] Rove team using Republican Party campaign computers, which Rove claims can't be retrieved. But not all the missing emails are missing. We h.
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- US court drops all charges against Posada Carriles--terrorist killer set free
  Posted by Sandyenglish
  With the decision by US District Court Judge Kathleen Cardone to dismiss all government charges against Luis Posada Carriles, the judicial farce staged by the Bush administration to prevent the long-time CIA agent from standing trial for terrorism and mass murder reached its logical outcome.
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- Ex-CIA director Tenet admits lies told on war
  Posted by Sandyenglish
  With the publication of his new memoir, At the Center of the Storm, released Monday, and in an appearance on the CBS television new program “60 Minutes” the night before, former CIA director George Tenet has become the latest former official to admit publicly that the Bush administration launched its war against Iraq based upon false pretenses and manipulated intelligence.
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- Link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden: BCCI
  Posted by j1o2n3a4s5 from ipsnews.net
  Bank of Credit and Commerce International, a dirty offshore bank president Reagan’s Central Intelligence Agency used to run guns to Hussein, finance Osama bin Laden, move money in the illegal Iran-Contra operation and carry out other “agency” black ops. The Bushes also benefited privately; one of the bank’s largest Saudi investors helped bail out George W. Bush’s troubled oil investments.
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- How Bogus Letter Became a Case for War
  Posted by Jeff from Washington Post
  Burba, who had no special expertise in Africa or nuclear technology, was able to quickly unravel the fraud. Yet the claims clung to life within the Bush administration for months, eventually finding their way into the State of the Union address.
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- NY Times slams Bush's 'nasty and bumbling comments' on US Attorney firings; Calls on Congress to sub
  Posted by Jeff from Rawstory
  The Times editorial continues, "Mr. Bush’s proposal was a formula for hiding the truth, and for protecting the president and his staff from a legitimate inquiry by Congress. Mr. Bush’s idea of openness involved sending White House officials to Congress to answer questions in private, without taking any oath, making a transcript or allowing any follow-up appearances. The people, in other words, would be kept in the dark."
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socean comments on:
Top Bush aides approved interrogation tactics: report

I think we should waterboard all the "principals" until they confess.

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3:12 pm 4/12/08
Jon comments on:
Top court rejects ACLU domestic spying lawsuit

Kafka anyone?

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11:39 am 2/20/08
theangryindian comments on:
CIA documents point to massive and ongoing government criminality

No big surprise that there isn’t an iota of outrage in the United States about this.

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11:03 am 7/05/07
Damianmann comments on:
CIA to Air Decades of Its Dirty Laundry

RFK’s son was on “Hardball” today and says Kissinger’s comments are “revisionist” and completely untrue.

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2:37 pm 6/22/07
j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:
Link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden: BCCI

Tax documents and other financial records show that Bath, an aircraft broker with controversial ties to Saudi Arabia sheiks, had invested $50,000 in Arbusto, granting him a 5 percent interest in two limited partnerships controlled by Dubya.
Time magazine described Bath in 1991 as “a deal broker whose alleged associations run from the CIA to a major shareholder and director of the Bank of Credit & Commerce.” BCCI, as it was more commonly known, closed its doors in July 1991 amid charges of multibillion-dollar fraud and global news reports that the financial institution had been heavily involved in drug money laundering, arms brokering, covert intelligence work, bribery of government officials and%u2014here’s the kicker%u2014aid to terrorists.
Bath was never directly implicated in the BCCI scandal, but according to The Outlaw Bank, an award-winning 1993 book by Time correspondents, Jonathan Beaty and S.C. Gwynne, Bath originally “made his fortune by investing money for [Sheikh Kalid bin] Mahfouz and another BCCI-connected Saudi, Sheikh bin Laden,” reportedly the brother of none other than Osama bin Laden, the man accused by the U.S. government of masterminding the August 1998 terrorist bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania which killed more than 250 people.
According to court documents, Bath swore that in 1977 he represented four prominent and wealthy Saudi Arabians as a trustee and used his name on their investments in the United States. In return, he received a 5 percent interest in their deals. Time reporters Beaty and Gwynne suggest in their book that the $50,000 Bath invested in Dubya’s Arbusto Energy drilling company may have belonged to Bath’s Saudi clients since the Houston businessman “had no substantial money of his own at the time.”
The FBI and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network later investigated Bath after allegations were made by one of his American business partners that the Saudis were using Bath and their giant piggy bank to influence U.S. policy. (Dubya’s father had been appointed by President Ford to head the CIA from 1976%u201377.)

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8:48 pm 4/06/07
Jeff comments on:
NY Times slams Bush's 'nasty and bumbling comments' on US Attorney firings; Calls on Congress to sub

It continues to amaze me how most Americans aren’t offended and outraged by the idea that public officials should be allowed to testify in private, not under oath and without a transcript.

Isn’t not under oath code for needing to lie without repercussions?

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11:55 pm 3/20/07
Jeff comments on:
CIA ‘refused to operate’ secret jails

He’s guilty of felonies for spying on Americans and endorsing torture.

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12:40 pm 9/21/06