Florida Hwy Patrol Helping Bush

Yesterday, Bob Herbert reported on another highly suspicious Florida initiative: state police officers have gone into the homes of elderly African-American voters – including participants in get-out-the-vote operations – and interrogated them as part of what the state says is a fraud investigation.

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Berger Cleared-Press Quiet

It seems that a report last Friday in the Wall Street Journal indicates that the National Archives and the Justice Department (that would be the Bush/Aschcroft Justice Department) have indicated that “no original materials are missing and nothing Mr. Berger reviewed was withheld from the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.”

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Reagan on Bush

“Politicians will stretch the truth. They’ll exaggerate their accomplishments, paper over their gaffes. Spin has long been the lingua franca of the political realm. But George W. Bush and his administration have taken ‘normal’ mendacity to a startling new level far beyond lies of convenience. On top of the usual massaging of public perception, they traffic in big lies, indulge in any number of symptomatic small lies, and, ultimately, have come to embody dishonesty itself. They are a lie. And people, finally, have started catching on. “

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