"I don't know anybody that I can think of who
has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear
weapons." -Donald Rumsfeld

Hard to believe that Cheney did not know October 31, 2005

“The uranium claims had never been significant to career analysts — Iraq had plenty already and lacked the means to enrich it. But the allegations proved irresistible to the White House Iraq Group, which devised the war’s communications strategy and included Libby among its members. Every layman understood the connection between uranium and the bomb, participants in the group said in interviews at the time, and it was the easiest way for the Bush administration to raise alarms.”

We Have Been Warned By U.S. Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) Before the US House of Representatives, October 26, 2005 "The statement that should scare all Americans (and the world) is the assurance by Secretary Rice that the President needs no additional authority from Congress to attack Syria. She argues that authority already has been granted by the resolutions on 9/11 and Iraq. This is not true, but if Congress remains passive to the powers assumed by the executive branch it won’t matter. As the war spreads, the only role for Congress will be to provide funding lest they be criticized for not supporting the troops. In the meantime, the Constitution and our liberties here at home will be further eroded as more Americans die."

Samuel Alito’s America October 31, 2005

Bush picks conservative for Supreme Court Democrats are quick to criticize as ‘needlessly provocative’

Bush: Treaty Outlawing Torture Doesn't Apply Beyond US Soil October 31, 2005

Judicial Activism Who are the judges most likely to legislate from the bench?

The Vice President In Indictment's Wake, a Focus on Cheney's Powerful Role October 30, 2005

The Oil We Eat Following the food chain back to Iraq

Unitary Executive theory Libby's replacement believes that the position of the president is all powerful.

According to the FBI's annual Uniform Crime Reports, violent crime declined 2.2% last year and has dropped a whopping 32% since 1995. Property crime rates have also declined, although not so dramatically, dropping 23% since 1985.

Cheney, Libby Blocked Papers To Senate Intelligence Panel October 27, 2005

U.S. Ranks 44th in Worldwide Press Freedom Index Nation's openness sinking after Sept. 11, northern Europe tops the list

Bill makes DHS secretary eligible for presidential succession

Tell The President: No More Pardons for Traitor-Gate Criminals Convicted Previously of National Security Crimes Elliott Abrahms is Newest Figure in Traitor-gate Did you know that Elliot Abrams, pardoned by the first President Bush for the Iran-Contra crimes he committed under the Reagan Administration, now works for the Bush White House? And has been implicated in the leak of Valerie Plame's covert identity? Fitzgerald may well successfully prosecute senior White House officials. Insist that anyone convicted in this case be ineligible for a presidential pardon. Demand that the President not pardon any criminals in his administration who compromise our national security!

Sen. Wellstone's closed- door impeachment statement February 12, 1999

Top Cheney aide Libby indicted, quits post Meantime, lawyer for Rove says his client is safe for now Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, was indicted Friday on five charges that include obstruction of justice, making false statements and perjury in the investigation into the leak of a covert CIA agent’s name. Details were to be outlined at 2 p.m. ET, when Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald will hold a press conference at the Justice Department. Prosecutors said that Libby, if found guilty on all charges, faces a maxium sentence of 30 years in prison and a $1.25 million fine. -October 28, 2005

F.B.I. Is Still Seeking Source of Forged Uranium Reports

The Italian Job Timeline: First Course October 27, 2005

Pot not a major cancer risk: report Although both marijuana and tobacco smoke are packed with cancer-causing chemicals, other qualities of marijuana seem to keep it from promoting lung cancer, according to a new report. -October 26, 2005

After Uniform, White-Collar Blues Michael Serricchio was an up-and-coming stockbroker, tending $250 million worth of accounts in Connecticut and earning $200,000 a year in salary and commissions. He was also a sergeant in the Air Force Reserve. October 28, 2005

Irreversible Disintegration of CCP as Over 5 Million Resign By Shi Yu Special to The Epoch Times Oct 20, 2005

The strange saga of Cheney and the "nuclear threat" Why did the veep suddenly lose interest in the evidence? By Jim Lobe -October 26, 2005

Aides To Be Indicted, Probe to Continue

Fitzgerald Focus: An Anonymous Star on the CIA's Wall of Honor October 25, 2005

Small Men Posted by Athenae on October 26

Saddam lawyers suspend trial work

The Top Nine Plamegate Lies

I Hate, Hate, Hate this Editorial

Bush Aides Brace for Charges Grand Jury May Hear Counts in Leak Case Today October 26, 2005

If Fox News Had Been Around Throughout History

Congress keeps ducking Niger investigation October 27, 2005

Craig Murray: The reality of Britain's reliance on torture Torture means the woman who was raped with a broken bottle, and died after 10 days of agony -October 27, 2005

The White House is up to its ears in controversy, but made time to send a legal letter to The Onion ordering the satirical newspaper to stop using the presidential seal. -October 25, 2005

Treasongate: The Real Significance of the Niger Uranium Forgery Stories in La Repubblica October 26, 2005

Let Justice Be Done Though the heavens fall… If Plame and her associates were hot on the trail of whoever forged the Niger uranium documents, by neutralizing Brewster Jennings & Associates the Libby cabal closed one possible route to uncovering their schemes – and opened up another one. by Justin Raimondo -October 24, 2005

Date correction in Raimondo's article

White House Sidesteps Cheney Questions October 25, 2005

The White House cabal By Lawrence B. Wilkerson LAWRENCE B. WILKERSON served as chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell from 2002 to 2005. October 25, 2005

Harper's Magazine: We Now Live in a Fascist State October 11, 2005

Was Saddam's Capture Faked? Ex-U.S. soldier makes charges in Lebanon March 15, 2005

A remote control that controls humans Headset sends electricity through head, forcing wearer to move

Vice President for Torture October 26, 2005

The Missing 19 Minutes and 55 Seconds October 19, 2005

Saddam's Attorney Says Iraqi Leader Not Found in Spider Hole Interrogations Ignored WMDs Q: Are you getting protection? A: No. None. I have asked for Iraqi police protection. They said no. I have asked for an armed bodyguard they said no. Many times I have asked the Americans June 16, 2005

Abducted Saddam trial lawyer found dead Co-defendant's attorney dumped near mosque; referendum results audited -October 21, 2005

Plame plans to sue White House officials WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Joseph Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame are preparing to file a civil suit against Bush administration officials.

Why would Bush aides spill the beans about Bush and Rove's early conversation about the leak if that would implicate the president?

Why Bush is Unimpeachable By Ted Rall

Bush Will Veto Anti-Torture Law after Senate Revolt October 7, 2005

La Repubblica's Scoop, Confirmed Italy's intelligence chief met with Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley just a month before the Niger forgeries first surfaced. -October 25, 2005

Libby's Source Was Vice President Richard Cheney -- Not Journalists First of all, this means that Vice President Cheney has known all along that he was Scooter Libby's source -- and whether Libby had license from him or not to try and slaughter the reputation of Joe Wilson -- CHENEY KNEW. -October 24, 2005

The CIA leak inquiry that threatens senior White House aides has now widened to include the forgery of documents on African uranium that started the investigation, according to NAT0 intelligence sources. -October 23, 2005

I mentioned yesterday that the Italian daily La Repubblica ran a story reporting alleged new details about the origins of the Niger/uranium forgeries. Today they followed up with a second part of their report which, if accurate in its particulars, could rock the foundations of official Washington. October 25, 2005

Bush allies have already begun casting perjury and obstruction charges as irrelevant in a probe created to find out who leaked classified information. Asked in 1999 about Clinton's impeachment by the House, Bush responded, "I would have voted for it. I thought the man lied."

Vice president Dick Cheney: "I don’t know Mr. Wilson. I probably shouldn’t judge him. I have no idea who hired him and it never came..."

Cheney Told Aide of C.I.A. Officer, Lawyers Report October 25, 2005

Chinese anarchist and literary giant Ba Jin dead at 100 Ba Jin, a giant of 20th-century Chinese literature and a staunch anarchist whose writings inspired a generation of youth to join the Communist revolution, died on Monday of cancer in Shanghai, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Presidents Past Inspire Bush's Damage Control Republican advisers also have studied the Clinton strategy for surviving the Monica S. Lewinsky scandal and the impeachment that followed. October 25, 2005

Marijuana Arrests at All-Time High Again ...an estimated 771,608 persons were arrested on marijuana charges in 2004, nearly nine out of ten of them charged with simple possession. -October 21, 2005

Kentucky lands grant to protect bingo halls from terrorists

Now They Tell Us Why didn't Bush's foreign-policy critics speak out a year ago? October 24, 2005

Nigeria, Oct. 23 -- Military helicopters searched for a missing plane that was carrying at least 114 people when it disappeared from radar shortly after taking off from Nigeria's commercial capital, officials said Sunday.

Saddam Trial –Another Western Kangaroo Court “It's all about justifying the US invasion"- A top Swiss legal expert October 20, 2005

Prelude to a Leak Gang fight: How Cheney and his tight-knit team launched the Iraq war, chased their critics-and set the stage for a special prosecutor's dramatic probe. October 31, 2005

Cheney Told Aide of C.I.A. Officer, Notes Show

Against perjury before being for it This Sunday we got a preview of the GOP post-Fitzmas spin -- that perjury isn't a crime. -October 24, 2005

Within a week, Wurmser, on orders from "executives in the office of the vice president," was told to leak her name to a specific group of reporters in an effort to muzzle her husband, Wilson, who had become a thorn in the side of the administration, those close to the inquiry say. It is unclear who Wurmser had spoken with in the media, the sources said, but they confirmed he did speak with reporters at national media outlets about Plame. "Libby wanted to discredit him right from the start," one source close to the investigation told RAW STORY. "He used David Wurmser to help him do that."

FBI Papers Indicate Intelligence Violations Secret Surveillance Lacked Oversight October 24, 2005

C.I.A. to Avoid Charges in Most Prisoner Deaths October 23, 2005

The Exit Strategy for Plamegate October 20, 2005

War counsel Conservative legal scholar John Yoo, whose memos helped shape White House policy, says the framers gave the president all the war powers of a king"

Kucinich Uses House Procedure To Demand Documents From White House Iraq Group

I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is known for his sarcastic, world-weary and at times dark sense of humor. He once quipped to an aide that he planned to stay as Vice President Cheney's top adviser until "I get indicted or something."

The paper did not note that there were experts and journalists before the war who were skeptical of the WMD claims. For instance, Mohamed ElBaradeii and the International Atomic Energy Agency said before the war that there was no evidence Iraq had revived its nuclear weapons program. The day after Colin Powell's infamous--and misleading--show at the United Nations, The Washington Post published several articles that quoted technical experts taking issue with his Powell's pronouncements. Miller was not wrong because everybody was wrong."

FBI, eager for talent, weighs hiring former pot smokers Arrests for marijuana hit 771,605 last year, more than for all violent crimes combined, FBI figures released last week show. Those convicted may not qualify for entry to public housing and could lose the right to vote. About 41,000 students were disqualified from federal student loans or grants during the 2003-04 school year because of drug convictions.

Miller testified in her second grand jury appearance that it was during this June 23 meeting that she and Libby first discussed Plame's CIA employment. Miller's notes of that meeting contained the notation, regarding Wilson, "Wife works in bureau?" As National Journal reported on October 11, Libby also did not disclose the June 23 meeting to investigators and the grand jury until he was pressed on the issue. Ironically, the information supplied by Libby turned out to be incorrect. Instead of working for the analytic unit of the CIA, Plame actually worked for the agency's covert side, the directorate of operations.

The Report They Forgot From our November issue: The Fitzgerald probe reminds us: Whatever happened to Pat Roberts' Phase II intelligence report? In February 2004, the Senate Select Intelligence Committee (SSCI) announced that it had unanimously agreed to expand its investigation of prewar Iraq intelligence from focus on intelligence community blunders and into the more controversial area of “whether intelligence was exaggerated or misused” by U.S. government officials. The committee’s ranking Democrat, Jay Rockefeller, struck the agreement with Chairman Pat Roberts -- provided, Roberts insisted, that the probe into policy- makers’ activities wait until after the presidential election. October 19, 2005

White House Defense Crumbling in Leak Case October 20, 2005

Sorry, Judy... Everybody Didn't Get it Wrong on WMD October 21, 2005

Bush Calls Recent Woes 'Background Noise' October 20, 2005

On no issue is the JINSA/CSP hard line more evident than in its relentless campaign for war--not just with Iraq, but "total war," as Michael Ledeen, one of the most influential JINSAns in Washington, put it last year. For this crew, "regime change" by any means necessary in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority is an urgent imperative.

Rove Told Jury Libby May Have Been His Source In Leak Case Top Aides Talked Before Plame's Name Was Public -October 20, 2005

Rice Suggests Iraq War Resolution Could Allow For War Against Syria

Rove Told Jury Libby May Have Been His Source In Leak Case Top Aides Talked Before Plame's Name Was Public October 20, 2005

These two men are experts on rendition: one invented it, the other has seen its full horrors

Security for whose sake? The U.S. government's post-9/11 effort to make citizens more "secure" has had some frighteningly destructive consequences. One of the most egregious examples is the government's prosecution--using new departmental powers of Homeland Security and the PATRIOT Act--of Thomas C. Butler, a distinguished scientist and doctor.

85-Year-Old Seattle Woman Recruited By Marines October 13, 2005

Niger Yellowcake and The Man Who Forged Too Much July 22, 2005

Bush whacked Rove on CIA leak "Bush did not feel misled so much by Karl and others as believing that they handled it in a ham-handed and bush-league way," the source said. It wasn't what you did, it was that you got caught, and I'd already promised to fire you...

Officials from the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon say they have no idea what New York Times reporter Judith Miller was talking about in her published claim over the weekend that she was given a "security clearance"

Rice won’t rule out troops in Iraq in 10 years Secretary testifies before senators seeking more specifics about war -October 19, 2005

The New Defense: Bush Knew, But Was Mad At How Clumsy The Attacks Were The New York Daily News has another eye-opener today, when it reports that Bush scolded Karl Rove two years ago about how clumsy Rove and others were in their campaign to discredit Joe Wilson. WTF? October 19, 2005

Novak on the Plame leak: a pattern of contradictions

Niger Uranium Forgery Mystery Solved? The Fitzgerald/Plame investigation goes in a new direction -by Justin Raimondo October 19, 2005

Hussein Faces Tribunal Today In First Trial for Actions in Iraq If convicted, all could face death by hanging. Under one of the revisions approved by the Iraqi parliament but not yet formally implemented, any sentence would be carried out within 30 days of a final appeal decision. That means Hussein might never be tried for other crimes of which he has been accused, including the campaign against the Kurds that killed at least 180,000, the deadly suppression of Shiite uprisings in southern Iraq following the 1991 Persian Gulf War and the invasion of Kuwait. October 19, 2005

Terror Threat Ties Up Baltimore Tunnels Midday Traffic Disruption Follows Warning Received From Overseas Informant According to two law enforcement sources, authorities were acting on information that six Egyptian or foreign terrorists were to receive bomb-making materials by ship, assemble them and load them onto vehicles to be detonated in one or both tunnels. Mayor Martin O'Malley (D) and Baltimore Police Commissioner Leonard D. Hamm said they learned of the tunnel closure from the news media -October 19, 2005

Hussein Pleads Not Guilty to Charges October 19, 2005

DeLay Will Likely Be Booked This Week Rep. Tom DeLay will likely be booked in a Texas county jail this week despite attempts by his attorneys to bypass the fingerprinting and mug shot process. -October 17, 2005

Jury rejects convict's prison rape lawsuit October 18, 2005

Pravda March 11, 2005

Secret Code in Color Printers Lets Government Track You San Francisco – A research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently broke the code behind tiny tracking dots that some color laser printers secretly hide in every document. The U.S. Secret Service admitted that the tracking information is part of a deal struck with selected color laser printer manufacturers, ostensibly to identify counterfeiters. However, the nature of the private information encoded in each document was not previously known. -October 17, 2005

Bush Seeks to Alter Global Nuclear Pact In their public statements and background briefings in recent days, Bush's aides have acknowledged that Iran appears to have the right - on paper, at least - to enrich uranium to produce electric power. But Bush has managed to convince his reluctant European allies that the only acceptable outcome of their negotiations with Iran is that it give up that right.

Treasongate: A Flame-ing Lie, It Seems 'What was she going to say in that article - "A source I can't recall (and a former Hill staffer) said that Valerie Plame works in the CIA"?' -October 16, 2005

Ex-Analyst Faces New Federal Charges An Eastern Panhandle man is accused of keeping classified documents in his home. Lawrence Anthony Franklin, 58, who already has been accused of illegally disclosing military secrets, now is facing charges for unlawfully housing 83 top-secret or classified federal government documents at his Kearneysville home. Of the 83 documents, approximately 38 were classified as top secret, 37 were considered secret and eight were classified as confidential. -May 26, 2005

Queries over huge yes vote Election officials say that under those standards voting procedures should be re-examined any time a candidate or a ballot question received more than 90 per cent of the vote. -October 19, 2005

Bush Refuses to Discuss CIA Leak Probe With the CIA leak investigation nearing an end, President Bush on Monday declined to say whether he would remove an aide under indictment. -October 17, 2005

CIA leak probe 'widening to include use of intelligence' October 17, 2005

Curious numbers in Ninevah "What’s truly eyebrow-raising is that the number of constitutional “yes” votes — 326,774 — is more than the total increase in votes over January’s turnout. That suggests that not only did all of the Sunnis in Ninevah province, who largely boycotted the January elections turn out, but that they all voted for the constitution." -October 17, 2005

TREASONGATE: The Controlling Law - Big Trouble For The White House Staff. July 28, 2005

TREASONGATE: The Controlling Law, Part 2: THE DEATH PENALTY, 18 USC 794 and the shift from GWOT to GSAVE -August 05, 2005

Army's Top Abuse Cop Kills Himself in Iraq Captain's body is found at barracks October 17, 2005

Military police chief found dead October 16, 2005

'I was pleased to see that the Sunnis have participated in the process," Bush said. 'The idea of deciding to go into a ballot box is a positive development.' Iraq's Electoral Commission announced that numbers from most provinces ''were unusually high according to the international standards" and so would ''require us to recheck, compare, and audit them." The commission said it would take random samples from some ballot boxes to check the results.

After meeting with six families whose loved ones have served in Iraq, Governor Mitt Romney said yesterday that the United States had invaded the country based on ''faulty intelligence." But he refused to press President Bush to bring home the state's National Guard. -October 18, 2005

"White House Ignored CIA Warnings on Iraq Postwar Projections "had little or no impact on policy deliberations" Declassified Kerr Report Available on National Security Archive Website October 13, 2005

Miers speeches backed stronger executive branch October 18, 2005

CIA Leak Probe 'Widening to Include Use of Intelligence' October 17, 2005

Judy Miller - Obstruction of Justice October 15, 2005

Treasongate: Miss Run Amok - Arthur Sulzberger Jr.'s and Tom Friedman's Idea of a Great Journalist October 17, 2005

Bush demands nurses release The nurses were sentenced to death last year in Libya after being convicted of deliberately spreading the AIDS virus to children. -October 18, 2005

US strikes militants as Iraq counts vote Iyad al-Dulaimi, a doctor at Ramadi general hospital, told Reuters the hospital had received 20 civilian bodies since U.S. operations in the city began on Friday. The U.S. military statement said all attacks "were timed and executed in a manner to reduce the possibility of collateral damage" and that it had no reports of any civilian casualties. -October 17, 2005

Absurd level of election fraud in Iraq - Juan Cole October 17, 2005

Dobson and Miers: The Other Shoe Drops In a column posted early Monday in the WSJ Opinion Journal, John Fund quotes from notes from a conference call Dobson participated in in which two judges close to Miers assured him that they had spoken with her about Roe v. Wade and that she had indicated she would vote to overturn it. -October 16, 2005

Cheney May Be Entangled in CIA Leak Investigation, People Say There's no indication Fitzgerald is considering criminal charges against the vice president, who gave unsworn testimony to investigators last year. October 17, 2005

Bush to Blair: First Iraq, then Saudi The US President told Tony Blair, in a secret telephone conversation in January 2003 that he "wanted to go beyond Iraq". An alternative view is that the mention of Saudi Arabia indicates that the true objectives were not related exclusively to WMD. -October 16, 2005

Very little has been written about the White House Iraq Group, or WHIG, and only one newspaper article or two have mentioned it in passing reporting that it had been set up by Andrew Card, the White House chief of staff, said the article in the newspaper's opinion page. The group had eight members, including Karl Rove, the top political adviser to President George W. Bush, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, and then presidential security adviser Condoleezza Rice and others, and its mission was to market a war in Iraq.

Rice enlists support for Syria, Iran showdowns October 16, 2005

More than 1,000 Massachusetts and Rhode Island residents evacuated flooded homes yesterday as torrential rains swamped roads, pushed rivers to flood levels, stressed bridges and dams, and sparked fears of more damage as waters continue to rise. October 16, 2005

CIA leak prosecutor asked about any Cheney role October 15, 2005

Two homemade bombs placed in garbage bins and detonated three minutes apart killed four people and injured more than 80 in Khuzestan's capital Ahvaz on Saturday. The British Embassy in Tehran issued a statement on Sunday condemning the blasts. "There has been speculation in the past about alleged British involvement in Khuzestan," the statement said. "We reject these allegations. Any linkage between the British Government and these terrorist outrages is certainly without foundation," it said." October 15, 2005

US troops 'starve Iraqi citizens' October 15, 2005

This Day In History Vietnam War 1965 First draft card burned October 15

Miers Briefed Bush on Bin Laden PDB, But Papers Handle Photo From That Day Quite Differently October 04, 2005

Letter to Zarqawi: A Shiite Forgery? October 14, 2005

ABC's use of college interns for investigation angers colleges October 13, 2005

Baghdad Blackout Caused by Sabotage

Thatcher reveals her doubts over basis for Iraq war Although Mr Blair condemned Saddam's record in the build-up to the war, he did not advocate "regime change" because that would have been illegal. -October 14, 2005

Why an exotic fruit is the world's only weapon against bird flu Only star anise grown in the four provinces of China is suitable for manufacture into Tamiflu and 90 per cent of the harvest is already used by Roche. The company has faced demands to relax the patent on the drug to allow other manufacturers to produce it. October 15, 2005

Repair U.S. image, ad chief says He tells government, business officials that anti-American sentiment will carry a price Oct 14, 2005

Nearly Half of Americans Cite 'Too Little' Environment Regulation October 13, 2005

Rove Testifies Fourth Time on CIA Leak October 14, 2005

Aura of fear pervades Thai media If Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra had hoped, as critics suggested, to scare Thailand's journalists by filing libel lawsuits that seek more than $12 million in damages from a media group owner and his partner, he has at least partially succeeded. October 5, 2005