Tag: scandals
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john edwards out of the running for vp slot
and the story was broken months ago by one of the last independent media outlets left: the national enquirer…from abc: John Edwards admitted to ABC News in an interview with Bob Woodruff Friday that he repeatedly lied about an extramarital affair with a 42-year old campaign employee, but strenuously denied being involved in paying the…
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jury finds ‘dc madam’ guilty on four counts
from raw story: A Washington jury has convicted Deborah Jean Palfrey, who became known as the DC Madam, on four counts including money laundering and racketeering in connection with a running a prostitution ring, according to news reports.
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spitzer? i barely know her
from press tv: New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has resigned, after US investigators alleged that he had spent thousands of dollars on high-priced prostitution. “I go forward with the belief as others have said that as human beings our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall,” Spitzer said…
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‘clean flix’ accused of dirty behavior
from hollywood reporter: Remember Clean Flix? It’s the Utah-based DVD business that was a favorite of conservative politicians and an anathema to the studios because it edited feature films to remove or alter content deemed inappropriate. The company’s activities sparked a number of lawsuits, including one huge one filed by 16 prominent directors, including Steven…
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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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cia man ‘can take white house down’
from press tv: Former head of the CIA’s clandestine service Jose Rodriguez claims he can take the White House down over a torture cover-up scandal. Rodriguez said he may testify before the House Intelligence Committee if he is granted immunity from prosecution, The Sunday Times reported. Intelligence sources believe Rodriguez is now quite determined not…
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here’s hoping mcclellan’s book brings down bush
from first post: Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan is ready to blow the lid off the Bush administration with an astonishing admission that not only did he lie for his masters, but was told to do so by President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush chief of staff Andrew Card, chief political adviser Karl…
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70 punished in ‘accidental’ nuke flight
from ap: The Air Force said Friday it has punished 70 airmen involved in the accidental, cross-country flight of a nuclear-armed B-52 bomber following an investigation that found widespread disregard for the rules on handling such munitions. “There has been an erosion of adherence to weapons-handling standards at Minot Air Force Base and Barksdale Air…
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larry craig pervert scandal is tip of the iceberg
from paul joseph watson: Revelations about Senator Larry Craig that have mired the Republicans in another sex scandal over the past few days continue to rumble across the media spectrum – but the true scale of perversion, organized child sex slavery rings and their connections to the elite is uniformly omitted from polite conversation. Last…
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‘dc madam’ posts client numbers online
from raw story: Following the judge’s lifting of a gag order, “DC Madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey promised to release her phone records to selected sources. However, those records have now been posted in full to her website. Because the website has suffered from a series of periodic outages since the records were posted Monday evening,…
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pentagram can’t account for $19b spent on iraqi forces
from washington post: The United States has invested $19 billion to train and equip nearly 350,000 Iraqi soldiers and police since toppling Saddam Hussein, but the ability of those forces to provide security remains in doubt, according to the findings of a bipartisan congressional investigation to be released today. As a result, President Bush’s pledge…
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news on the march
pentagon funds gay bombs & armed sharksfrom abc: Creating armor that renders a soldier invisible. Stimulating the brain to suppress sleep for days. Arming sharks with chemical implants and cameras to work as spies. This year the Pentagon will spend $78 billion – about half of all government research and development dollars – on a…
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resignations & refusals
update: wolfowitz to resign from world bank on june 30thfrom raw story: The Executive Directors of the World Bank today released a statement announcing that embattled World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz would resign at the end of the fiscal year, June 30th. According the the statement, the decision to resign was made by Wolfowitz… from…
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hopefully hypocrites will be outed by ‘dc madam’
from raw story: Brian Ross of ABC News reported Monday morning on the mounting scandal from the records of the so-called ‘DC madam.’ Ross said many prominent DC figures can be found on the list of clients for the escort service, which has emerged in the course of the trial of its operator, Deborah Jeane…
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news on the march
will iran war start on friday?from steve watson: Last weekend saw widespread reports in the mainstream media that the United States will be ready to launch a missile attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities as soon as early this month, perhaps “from 4 am until 4 pm on April 6.” … Andrei Uglanov, in the Moscow…