Tag: plamegate
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22 million missing bush white house emails found
from allgov: Six years after the problem was first discovered, computer experts have located 22 million emails that became lost during the Bush administration. The discovery followed lawsuits filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and the National Security Archive, which demanded the government locate the emails. The electronic messages won’t be…
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history/mystery: suicided, sexcrimes and skull & bones
bmw’s quandt family faces its nazi past* court silences cia operative despite yellowcake scandal*cia’s lost magic manual resurfaces*mike connell’s family copes with his mysterious death, tipsters, legal options*balloon boy parents plead guilty*william bennet update: defense witness in robbery trial arrested in courthouse*evangelist tony alamo sentenced to 175 years for sex convictions*video: cnn on skull &…
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obamessiah & the apostles of war: year one, change zero
out w/the old & in w/ the old, the left/right charade goes on – on obama’s election anniversary, repugs claim victory* gop victories in 1st election test for obama* voters repudiate dems because dems sold out on financial reform* obama invites native american leaders to white house* gay leaders blame tv ads & obama for…
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robert novak, dead at 78, wrote about 9/11 ‘inside job’ on 9/13
“Security experts and airline officials agree privately that the simultaneous hijacking of four jetliners was an ‘inside job,’ probably indicating complicity beyond malfeasance.”- Robert Novak, “Beyond Pearl Harbor” September 13, 2001 from 9/11 blogger: Now that the Prince of Darkness is dead, perhaps it is a good time to recall that 911blogger exposed Novak as…
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obama backs keeping cheney fbi interview secret
from allgov: If public officials are to be expected to cooperate with federal investigations, their testimony to government lawyers must be kept confidential, says the Obama administration. This argument is the basis for the Justice Department’s opposition to releasing former Vice President Dick Cheney’s testimony in 2004 during special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation of the…
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238-180 vote in favor of impeachment hearings
from brad blog: There will be a hearing related to Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s Article of Impeachment against George Bush in the House Judiciary Committee. That was assured by a vote of 238 to 180 on Tuesday. But, according to Keith Olbermann on MSNBC’s “Countdown” last night, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has mandated that questioning in the…
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flashback: ‘operation dark winter’
from killtown: On June 22-23, 2001, just under 3 months before 9/11, the U.S. military held a senior-level war game at Andrews Air Force Base called Dark Winter. The scenario of this bio-terrorism drill was designed to simulate a smallpox attack in three states in which one of these states would be Pennsylvania. As a…
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sibel edmonds: brewster jennings outted in ’01
from raw story: Former FBI agent turned whistleblower, Sibel Edmonds, has claimed that a senior official in the U.S. State Department tipped off a foreign contact to a CIA investigative cover during an investigation into a nuclear spy ring. In today’s Timesonline, the third in a series of interviews with the former FBI translator, Edmonds…
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white house ‘reused e-mail tapes’
from ap: The White House has acknowledged recycling its backup computer tapes of e-mail before October 2003, raising the possibility that many electronic messages – including those pertaining to the CIA leak case – have been taped over and are gone forever… The disclosure came minutes before midnight Tuesday under a court-ordered deadline that forced…
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plame to appeal dismissal of suit in cia case
from npr: Lawyers for CIA operative Valerie Plame say they plan to appeal a judge’s decision dismissing Plame’s lawsuit against Vice President Cheney and other current and former Bush administration officials. Plame claimed they leaked her covert CIA status in retribution for her husband’s public criticism of the administration. In 2003, Plame’s husband, former ambassador…
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plame testifies in cia leak hearings
from ap/breit bart: Valerie Plame, the CIA operative whose outing led to the conviction of a top Bush administration official, told Congress on Friday she believes her identity was disclosed for “purely political reasons.” Plame, whose outing triggered a federal investigation, answered questions for the first time. She said that she always knew her identity…
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cheney on stand may be ‘great theater’
from new york times: This week, as Libby’s defense attorneys try to show that he did not intentionally lie about his role in leaking the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame, Cheney is expected to make a historic appearance on the witness stand. It is an act of loyalty that carries considerable risk for Cheney……
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cheney to take the stand in plamegate case
from raw story: A segment on this morning’s CNN broadcast discussed Vice President Dick Cheney’s planned testimony as a defense witness in the Justice Department’s perjury case against former White House aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby. CNN broadcaster Soledad O’Brien remarked that “it can be kind of confusing” but that “the big take away from this…