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A lot is being made in the blogosphere about Karl Rove being involved in leaking the information that Valerie Plame was a CIA agent. Rove has never denied, and in classic lawyerly fashion, Rove’s attorney is choosing his words carefully. Rather than saying Rove “didn’t” provide any information, he is saying that Karl never “knowingly divulged confidential information.” From whence does his deniability derive?
Read moreThis NOT a fake story…I repeat, this is true. You can read the whole thing in the Orlando Sentinal. Apparently, a few years ago, against policy and at the behest of then Secretary of State and now U. S. Representative Kathryn Harris, the State Dept. of Agriculture had to test “Celectial Drops” as a possible cure for Citrus Canker.
Read moreThe White House and the Senate Republican leadership are pushing back against pressure from some of their conservative allies about the coming Supreme Court nomination, urging them to stop attacking Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales as a potential nominee and to tone down their talk of a culture war.
Read moreIn an article in The Nation, David Corn explains how Rove the Toad’s attorney will try to keep him out of jail in Plamegate.
Read moreJustice Sandra Day O’Connor resigned from the Supreme Court yesterday. Despite being placed on the Court by arch-conservative Ronald Reagan, Justice O’Connor was often the swing vote maintaining some sanity and progressive thinking within the Court. Here thoughtful votes and reasoning, and her protection of civil rights will be sorely missed. You have to wonder why she’s really leaving the Court at this point.
Read moreThe Internal Revenue Service’s annual report on wealthy Americans found that the “number of affluent individuals and married couples who paid no federal income taxes jumped more than 15 percent in 2002.”
Read moreToday, the Senate passed an amendment (proposed by Sen. Barbara Boxer) by a wide margin (60-37) prohibiting the EPA from testing pesticides on humans. What the EPA has been doing is pretty awful: They promise families some cash in order to carry out experiments, often on kids and often in low-income neighborhoods.
Read moreThanks to the American Taliban, the U.S. continues to fall behind the rest of the world. Spain now offers same sex marriage.
Read moreElizabeth Holtzman has a new article in the Nation, Torture and Accountability. It blows the cover off the “few bad apples” meme and makes a case for a war crimes prosecution of higher-ups.
Read moreAs President Bush continues to speak about doing everything we can to support our troops, his administration finally “acknowledged that it had significantly underestimated veterans health care funds needed for the fiscal year beginning on Oct. 1.”
Read moreA new report spearheaded by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) uncovered startling new details about Halliburton’s misdeeds, including the fact that the amount of taxpayer funds lost to Halliburton is “more than twice as high as those in previous official reports.”
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