Bush Administration Lies and Deceit

Republicans' policy of 'pork before people' takes a terrible toll -
Baltimore Sun, The - Article - 2005-09-22

Toxic floodwaters are draining into Lake Pontchartrain, enabling
rescue workers to recover New Orleans' dead. Millions of Americans
watch with horror, and wonder how could this have happened in the
richest country on earth.

At the same time, an unneeded $231 million bridge to a sparsely
inhabited part of Alaska is to be built.

Yes, there is a connection...


Bush Puts Right Hand, Homeland Security Man in Charge of Katrina
Investigation - Inter Press Service News Agency - Article - 2005-09-21

U.S. President George W. Bush's appointment of his own homeland
security advisor to head a White House investigation of what went
wrong with the government's Hurricane Katrina response and how to fix
it is being greeted with some scepticism by emergency preparedness and
response experts.


Bush Puts ChevronTexaco lawyer to Head Oil Price Gouging Probe -
Working for Change - Article - 2005-09-21

IMTV - In the Bush Administration the foxes guard, feed, and bathe the
hens.


Pentagon blocked military officers from testifying on pre-9/11
intelligence - Associated Press - Article - 2005-09-21

They were expected to testify Wednesday about a link between al-Qaeda
and four of the Sept. 11 hijackers - including leader Mohamed Atta -
that the unit is said to have uncovered more than a year before the
2001 attacks.


Another Scandal Visits the White House - Washington Post - Article -
2005-09-20

The Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal reached into the White House
yesterday, picking off President Bush's top procurement official --
who just barely had time to resign before being arrested.


Plamegate: The John Bolton Connection - Huffington Post, The - Article
- 2005-09-20

I'm now hearing that the investigation may be inching closer to
never-confirmed UN Ambassador John Bolton.

According to two sources, Bolton's former chief of staff, Fred Fleitz,
was at least one of the sources of the classified information about
Valerie Plame that flowed through the Bush administration and
eventually made its way into Bob Novak's now infamous column.


Congress Sells America Short - Other - Article - 2005-09-20
In yet another twist in the stock market scandal known as Stockgate,
the Faulking Truth has learned that Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL),
Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, has shelved a planned Senate
Subcommittee Hearing investigating the issue. Originally scheduled for
February of this year, and then postponed several times, the hearing,
which has been advocated by Senator Robert Bennett (R-UT), has been
cancelled indefinitely.


US-India nuclear deal under Iran gun - Times of India - Article -
2005-09-20
IMTV - This is a good one. To gain India's supporting in stopping
Iran's nuclear hopes, the US is threating to withold a nuclear
agreement with India, if India doesn't support the U.S. position. Even
more ironic is that the U.S. is breaking it's International Nuclear
Non-Proliferation agreement in order to share this nuclear technology
with India.


Why is George W. Bush Above the Law? - TV News Lies - Article - 2005-09-19
Four major scandals, not a single independent investigation!


Galloway's Frankness Invigorates, Shocks Americans - Madison Capitol
Times - Article - 2005-09-17
The British parliamentarian, who came of age in the brawling political
landscape of his native Scotland, where a quick wit and a savage
debating style are prerequisites for electoral success, does not mince
words in the manner that most American pols do.


'Swift Boating' Science - Wired.Com - Article - 2005-08-30
Some time ago, I conducted an interview with Florida Rep. Cliff
Stearns, a Republican and staunch member of the religious right. At
the time, Stearns was proposing a law to jail any scientist who
attempted to make a human embryo through cloning. He opposed cloning
and embryonic stem-cell research, he said, because clones would not
have "tentacles" like you and me and we'd wind up with "categories of
people who didn't have these tentacles, so there might be superior and
inferior people. If you met them and knew they were cloned, how would
you deal with them?"

The many times this administration and its supporters have fudged or
even lied about scientists and scientific research are well-known.
Global warming, stem cells, cloning, sex, land use, pollution and
missile defense come to mind.


Katrina Relief: It's Iraq Déjà vu All Over Again - Huffington Post,
The - Article - 2005-09-17
The feeling that the Katrina relief effort is going to be Iraq all
over again is unavoidable when you look at the list of the companies
already being awarded clean up and reconstruction contracts. It's that
old gang from Baghdad: Halliburton, Bechtel, Fluor, and the Shaw Group
(which has a tasteful notice on its website saying "Hurricane Recovery
Projects -- Apply Here!"). Together again. A veritable moveable feast
of crony capitalism.


UN Summit failure blamed on US - Observer, The - Article - 2005-09-18
The failure of last week's United Nations summit to deliver an
agreement designed to prevent terrorists acquiring 'weapons of mass
destruction' was sabotaged by the US, senior diplomats have told The
Observer.

Officials involved in the negotiations have confirmed that the Bush
administration's refusal to countenance any form of disarmament
blocked attempts to push measures that would prevent regimes seeking
to develop a nuclear capability.


The Desperation Of Decent People - Independent Media TV - Article -
2005-09-18
Shame, hopelessness and desperation are settling on decent people
throughout this country. Our Congress, government, press and
corporations have been taken over by vile, venal, callous, despicable
people. They lead by irresponsible misconduct, gross mismanagement,
and dereliction of duty fueled by blatant lies and propaganda
amplified nationally by a corrupt press.


Chertoff delayed federal response, memo shows - Knight Ridder -
Article - 2005-09-13
The federal official with the power to mobilize a massive federal
response to Hurricane Katrina was Homeland Security Secretary Michael
Chertoff, not the former FEMA chief who was relieved of his duties and
resigned earlier this week, federal documents reviewed by Knight
Ridder show.


Restoring pipeline came first - Hattiesburg American, The - From
Mississippi - Article - 2005-09-11
Shortly after Hurricane Katrina roared through South Mississippi
knocking out electricity and communication systems, the White House
ordered power restored to a pipeline that sends fuel to the Northeast.

That order - to restart two power substations in Collins that serve
Colonial Pipeline Co. - delayed efforts by at least 24 hours to
restore power to two rural hospitals and a number of water systems in
the Pine Belt.


Republican Senators Kill Bid for Independent Commission on Katrina -
Associated Press - Article - 2005-09-14
Senate Republicans on Wednesday scuttled an attempt by Sen. Hillary
Clinton to establish an independent, bipartisan panel patterned after
the 9/11 Commission to investigate what went wrong with federal, state
and local governments' response to Hurricane Katrina.

IMTV - Despite the fact that 70% of Americans feel there should be an
independent investigation.


On Eve of World Summit, Hurricane Bolton Threatens to Wreak Havoc on
the Global - Common Dreams - Article - 2005-09-13



The US Fight Against the Fight Against Poverty - Financial Times, The
- Article - 2005-09-13
The negotiations on the draft declaration for the World Summit - which
opens on Tuesday - have been nothing short of bizarre. The United
States government has fought a relentless battle to dissociate itself
from specific obligations regarding international development, and has
tried repeatedly to the quash obligations that it has taken on the
past. All of this has been taking place at a time when the US itself
has become an aid recipient, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.


Firms with Bush-Cheney Ties Clinching Katrina Deals - Reuters -
Article - 2005-09-12
One is Shaw Group Inc. and the other is Halliburton Co. subsidiary
Kellogg Brown and Root. Vice President Dick Cheney is a former head of
Halliburton.


Hurricane Halliburton - Nation, The - Article - 2005-09-12



All the President's Friends - New York Times - Article - 2005-09-12



In Your Face, America: the Bushco Scams! - TV News Lies - Article -
2005-09-12
They've been scamming us for nearly five years. They just did it again!


Timeline of FEMA Fate Under Bush Administration - Washington Monthly,
The - Article - 2005-09-01
Here's a timeline that outlines the fate of both FEMA and flood
control projects in New Orleans under the Bush administration. Read it
and weep:


FEMA Chief Brown Paid Millions in False Claims to Help Bush Win FL
Votes - Independent Media TV - Article - 2005-09-10
Michael Brown, the embattled head of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency, approved payments in excess of $31 million in taxpayer money
to thousands of Florida residents who were unaffected by Hurricane
Frances and three other hurricanes last year in an effort to help
President Bush win a majority of votes in that state during his
reelection campaign, according to published reports.


Iraqis To Bush - Where Did All Our Money Go? - Independent Media TV -
Article - 2005-09-11
I have come to the conclusion that even if I live to be 100, I will
never be able to track down every Bush-connected profiteer involved in
this phony war on terror scheme. According to a report released in
March 2005, by Transparency International (TI), an international
organization that focuses on matters of corruption, Iraq could become
"the biggest corruption scandal in history."


US 'approved' oil smuggling - News Interactive - Australia - Article -
2005-09-08
The largest oil consignment smuggled out of Iraq took place with US
approval just weeks before the April 2003 invasion, according to a
United Nations report.


Accusations and Smear - Independent Media TV - Article - 2005-09-11
Part I Interview with Professor Ward Churchill


U.S. Censoring Katrina Coverage, Groups Say - Reuters - Article -
2005-09-08
When U.S. officials asked the news media not to take pictures of those
killed by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, they were censoring a
key part of the disaster story, free- speech watchdogs said yesterday.

The move by the Federal Emergency Management Agency is in line with
the Bush administration's ban on images of flag-draped U.S. military
coffins returning from the Iraq war, media monitors charged in
separate telephone interviews.


How Bush Blew It - Newsweek - Article - 2005-09-19
Bureaucratic timidity. Bad phone lines. And a failure of imagination.
Why the government was so slow to respond to catastrophe.


'Racist' police blocked bridge and forced evacuees back at gunpoint -
Independent, The - Article - 2005-09-11
A Louisiana police chief has admitted that he ordered his officers to
block a bridge over the Mississippi river and force escaping evacuees
back into the chaos and danger of New Orleans. Witnesses said the
officers fired their guns above the heads of the terrified people to
drive them back and "protect" their own suburbs.


Eight Big Lies About Katrina - AlterNet.Org - Article - 2005-09-09
In the past week, Bush administration officials and conservative
commentators have repeatedly used the national media to spread
misinformation about the federal government's widely criticized
response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.


Goverment: National Weather Service Warning, Sunday Afternoon (BEFORE
STORM HIT) - U.S. Government - Article - 2005-08-28
..DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED

WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.

MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER.

THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL.
PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD FRAMED
LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE BLOCK LOW
RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE...INCLUDING SOME WALL AND
ROOF FAILURE.

IMTV - Democracy Now reports that Bush received a brief on this on Sunday.


Statement on Federal Emergency Assistance for Louisiana - U.S.
Government - Article - 2005-08-27

Picture courtesy of www.whatreallyhappened.com

The President's action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security,
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster
relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and
suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to
provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures,
authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives, protect
property and public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the
threat of a catastrophe in the parishes of Allen, Avoyelles,
Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, Catahoula,
Concordia, De Soto, East Baton Rouge, East Carroll, East Feliciana,
Evangeline, Franklin, Grant, Jackson, LaSalle, Lincoln, Livingston,
Madison, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Pointe Coupee, Ouachita, Rapides,
Red River, Richland, Sabine, St. Helena, St. Landry, Tensas, Union,
Vernon, Webster, West Carroll, West Feliciana, and Winn.


Katrina Timeline: When Did The Bush Administration Know - Other -
Article - 2006-09-08
IMTV - Wow.


CORRECTED: List of FEMA Blocking Relief Efforts - Other - Article -
2005-09-08
Amazing list.


Canadians Reached New Orleans Suburb 5 days Before Feds - Reuters -
Article - 2005-09-08
A Canadian search-and-rescue team reached a flooded New Orleans suburb
to help save trapped residents five days before the U.S. military, a
Louisiana state senator said on Wednesday.

The Canadians beat both the Army and the Federal Emergency Management
Agency, the U.S. disaster response department, to St. Bernard Parish
east of New Orleans, where flood waters are still 8 feet (2.4 metres)
deep in places, Sen. Walter Boasso said.


War Profiteer, Undersecretary of Defense for Bush, Doug Feith Retires
Wealthy - Independent Media TV - Article - 2005-09-07
IMTV - Simply a must read article.


Have You No Shame? - Nation, The - Article - 2005-09-06
As Republicans desperately cry out of one corner of their mouths to
stop the blame game, they have been blaming everyone but themselves
since this catastrophe. Let's look at their ever-evolving buck-passing
strategies.

Blame the victims: Both FEMA's Michael Brown and Homeland Security's
Michael Chertoff, the Mutt and Jeff of this calamity, have blamed
careless, destitute New Orleaners for not evacuating. "Those who got
out are fine," Chertoff told NBC's Tim Russert. FEMA sought to excuse
its delays in entering the city by blaming the looters.

IMTV - More...


Republicans Blaming the Hurricane Victims - Democratic Talk Radio -
Article - 2005-09-07
In a effort to shield the Bush Administration from justified and
severe criticism concerning the failures of the federal government
concerning the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Republican spin
machine has gone into full spin mode blaming local government, state
government and the poor citizens of the Gulf Coast.


George W. Bush: By the Numbers - Other - Article - 2005-09-07
IMTV - Very good and very detailed article.


Bush Launches Inquiry Into Governmental Response; Puts Himself in
Charge - Scotsman, The - Article - 2005-09-07
GEORGE Bush risked further antagonising his critics yesterday by
rejecting calls for an independent commission to examine what went
wrong in the handling of Hurricane Katrina and announced instead that
he would personally lead an investigation.


Seems like More People Died than Prospered under Pres Bush's
Leadership - Independent Media TV - Article - 2005-09-06
There won't be any admission of guilt, no one to take responsibility,
no one fired for screwing up, just lies and spin, and mudslinging.


To Those Who Voted for Bush: Do You Get It Now? - Crisis Papers, The -
Article - 2005-09-06
For the past four years, progressives and moderate-conservatives have
been pointing out how incompetent this Administration is. Many Bush
Republicans accused us of making up such accusations for purely
political reasons. Now you yourself can see what we have seen: These
guys are way over their heads and haven't got a clue; they're
constantly having to come back at a problem in hopes of getting it
right the second or third time around. Of course, that means they're
always playing catch-up, which means they're always too late. (Such as
this Alice-in-Wonderland comment by Bush a week after he went AWOL --
again -- when his country needed him: "In America, we do not abandon
our fellow citizens in their hour of need.")


U.S. Influence 'Too Much' - Inter Press Service News Agency - Article
- 2005-09-05
U.S. influence in the process of drafting a constitution for Iraq is
excessive and "highly inappropriate", a United Nations official says.


Hey George, How About Taking a Polygraph? - TV News Lies - Article -
2005-08-31
The Twenty Most Urgent Questions....


Crime As A Political Tactic - Democratic Talk Radio - Article - 2005-09-02
Recently, I had several weeks of mail stolen in what I believe was a
politically motivated crime. In the previous two weeks before the
theft, I wrote several blistering columns complaining about oil
industry price-gouging, calling for the possible nationalization of
the oil industry and urging the immediate withdrawal of American
troops from Iraq . My brilliant co-host, Al Lawrence interviewed and
aired an excellent segment with Cindy Sheehan from Crawford , Texas on
a local radio station. The timing seems to indicate that the mail
theft was connected to these events.


A Declaration Of War on the UN - Tom Paine - Article - 2005-08-31
The 450 changes that Washington is demanding to the action agenda that
will culminate at the September 2005 United Nations summit dont
represent U.N. reform. They are a clear onslaught against any move
that could strengthen the United Nations or international law.


Cindy Sheehan, mainstream media and Bush propaganda - Other - Article
- 2005-08-31
George W. Bush once joked before a Gridiron crowd, "you can fool some
of the people all of the time, and those are the ones I have to
concentrate on." That offhand joke accurately describes how Bush gains
support for his Iraq policy.

Mainstream media commentators sometimes help Bush fool the public.
They often parrot Bush's talking points as if they were "news" and let
his outright lies go unquestioned. When it comes to the Cindy Sheehan
story, some mainstream reporters still allow Bush to frame the debate
in deceptive ways.

IMTV - Here is the BBC article with the quote. Bush, "You can fool
some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you need to
concentrate on."


Republicans accused of intimidating against climate change scientists
- Guardian, The - Article - 2005-08-30
Some of America's leading scientists have accused Republican
politicians of intimidating climate-change experts by placing them
under unprecedented scrutiny.


Twenty Things We Now Know Four Years After 9/11 - Independent Media TV
- Article - 2005-08-30
Much new information has been revealed this year, with corroborating
documents verifying aspects of the story we only surmised previously.
So without further ado, below are the twenty things we now know four
years after 9/11, based mainly on documented evidence found in the
Bush-friendly mainstream media.


Halliburton Contracts Illegal - But Bush Busts The Whistleblower -
Independent Media TV - Article - 2005-08-29
Greenhouse said that when the Pentagon awarded Halliburton a five-year
$7 billion contract, it pressured her to withdraw her objections,
actions which she claimed were unprecedented in her experience.

In a letter from her attorney's office, Greenhouse told members of
Congress that the Army gave the no-bid contracts to Halliburton's
subsidiary KBR for political reasons.

Greenhouse charged that contracts were approved over her reservations,
some of which were handwritten on the original contracts, and
extensions of contracts were awarded because underlings signed them in
collusion with senior officials without her knowledge.


Bunny Bugs the War Profiteers - Independent Media TV - Article -
2005-08-30
You most likely haven't heard of a feisty woman named Bunnatine
"Bunny" Greenhouse, even though you pay her salary. For over 20 years
now, Greenhouse has overseen contracts at the Army Corps of Engineers.
And up until last Saturday, Greenhouse was the highest-ranking
civilian member of the Army Corps of Engineers. She has been demoted
for "poor job performance," despite an untarnished career as one of
the country's highest-ranking procurement officers. And from what
you'll see, her performance has been anything but "poor."


Pat Robertson Doesn't Just Speak for Himself - Independent Media TV -
Article - 2005-08-31
The comments made by Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson calling for
the assassination of the popular and democratically elected Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez are repellent, nonetheless customary of a
confused man who has purposely swapped the compassionate teachings of
Jesus with his spiteful doctrine of murder and mayhem.


Veil of secrecy - Toledo Blade, The - Article - 2005-08-27
WHEN President Bush issued Executive Order 13223 on Nov. 1, 2001, the
action drew objections mainly from historians who were concerned that
they might lose access to records from past presidential administrations.

What started out as a tactic to forestall embarrassing revelations
about Bush appointees and others who served in the Reagan and Bush I
administrations has become part and parcel of Mr. Bush's extraordinary
obsession with official secrecy.


Army Contract Official Critical of Halliburton No-Bid Contract Is
Demoted - New York Times - Article - 2005-08-29
A top Army contracting official who criticized a large, noncompetitive
contract with the Halliburton Company for work in Iraq was demoted
Saturday for what the Army called poor job performance.

The official, Bunnatine H. Greenhouse, has worked in military
procurement for 20 years and for the past several years had been the
chief overseer of contracts at the Army Corps of Engineers, the agency
that has managed much of the reconstruction work in Iraq.

IMTV - She is on record as saying in a congressional hearing that the
Halliburton No-Bid contract is, "the most blatant and improper abuse I
have witnessed" in 20 years as a government contract supervisor.


More tax cuts, more financial chaos - Seattle Post-Intelligencer -
Article - 2005-08-28
When Congress returns next month, President Bush's latest effort to
distract us from the bloody mess in Iraq will be to shift the national
dialogue toward more, ever-bigger tax cuts.


March of the Warmongers - Capitol Hill Blue - Article - 2005-08-29
Don't much care for warmongers. Never have. Never will.

Warmongers march under the flag of false patriotism to justify
unleashing the greatest military firepower in the history of the world
on some primitive backwater for the misused claim of freedom.

They craft careful, public relations-designed names to their efforts:
Operation Just Cause, Operation Iraqi Freedom, as if words can justify
the meaningless slaughter of human beings.


George W. Bush's Noble Cause - 'Political Capital' - Common Dreams -
Article - 2005-08-29



Britain heads for clash in the UN with US - Guardian, The - Article -
2005-08-27
Disagreement over America's bid to derail UN reform


Leaked Document Exposes Bolton's Reforming Genius - Huffington Post,
The - Article - 2005-08-27
So the verdict seems to be in: John Bolton's charm offensive is
proving every bit as effective at the U.N. as it was with the Senate,
which President Bush had to bypass to install him as ambassador.


Click Here To Read John Bolton's Edits To The UN Document... -
Huffington Post, The - Article - 2005-08-25
Ambassador Bolton has recommended scrapping more than 400 passages
from the 38-page draft prepared for the September summit, a copy of
the document obtained by The Huffington Post shows.


REPOST: Galloway Testifies Before Senate Investigation - U.S.
Government - Video - 2005-08-25
IMTV - If you haven't seen this, it is truly must see video, it starts
slow, but after the first Senator speaks...Galloway kicks butt. If you
don't have speakers, here is a partial transcript.


Bush White House Afraid of the Truth - Other - Article - 2005-08-25
When the reality of inconvenient facts or opinions collides with their
official rhetoric, the Bush Administration will smear and often times
fire long-serving and hard-working government employees and bury or
withhold crucial information. For example, Army Chief of Staff General
Shinseki was fired after he said that the occupation of Iraq would
require several hundred thousand troops, and the administration buried
a report on poor working conditions in Central American countries
prior to CAFTA's approval.

IMTV - Many examples of the same type of behaviour documented!


The US vs The UN - Independent, The - Article - 2005-08-26
America's controversial new ambassador to the United Nations is
seeking to shred an agreement on strengthening the world body and
fighting poverty intended to be the highlight of a 60th anniversary
summit next month.

American ambassador seeks to (undercut) UN's global strategy with 750
amendments after just three weeks in the job.


The War on Error - Vermont Guardian - Article - 2005-08-26
For millions of people, reality itself has become the issue. One group
firmly believes that the United States is a model of democracy with no
aspirations for empire, and only intervenes when it is attacked or
some humanitarian emergency requires the actions of a benevolent
superpower. The other group is equally convinced that the same nation
is on the verge of fascism, seeking to impose its will on the world,
and using any pretext "including attacks on its own people" to justify
a global grab for resources.


Bush drive to save fuel fails to include cars and biggest SUVs -
Guardian, The - Article - 2005-08-24
The Bush administration yesterday put forward a plan to make the US's
burgeoning fleet of pickup trucks, minivans and some sports utility
vehicles go further on a gallon of gas in response to the soaring cost
of petrol.

But the plan, which would not be implemented until 2008, was condemned
by environmental groups because the largest SUVs, such as the Hummer
H2, would not be affected. It would also not affect cars.


Anti-Iraq war parents to take protests across nation - Reuters -
Article - 2005-08-24
Parents of soldiers killed in Iraq plan to follow President George W.
Bush around the country in the coming months, hoping to generate
nationwide anti-war sentiment after camping out at his Texas ranch.


Halliburton worker admits bribes - BBC - Article - 2005-08-23
IMTV - How many times does this company have to get busted before
something is done about it.

Documenting the Halliburton / Cheney Crimes and Controversies

Documenting the Halliburton / Cheney Crimes and Controversies - Part II

A former employee of Halliburton subsidiary KBR has admitted taking
$110,300 (£61,225) in bribes from an Iraqi firm it awarded a US contract.


The Bombs in the Basement - Crisis Papers, The - Article - 2005-08-22



Pain in the Gas - Other - Article - 2005-08-23
The reasons given to Americans for waging war against Iraq over a
decade ago, and what was to be expected from the latest rematch, are
all connected. But those facts have been twisted by political spin and
long lost in the fog of historical engineering.

In Their (Bush Adminstration's) Own Words...


'Dead Wrong:' Inside an Intelligence Meltdown - CNN - Video - 2005-08-22
President Bush's case for pre-emptive war against Iraq was based
substantially on evidence that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons
of mass destruction. But a presidential commission described the
pre-war intelligence as "dead wrong." CNN Presents pieces together the
chain of events that led to the faulty intelligence.

IMTV - Very late and without important information from Richard Clarke
and Paul O'Neill about Bush's obsession with Iraq, but other than
that, not bad. It was very surprising to see something as critical as
this in the corporate media. I watched on on Sunday night and it was
pretty good.

It will be shown again on Saturday, August 27th


Bush Knows True Reasons He Started Iraq War, But He Won't Tell -
Independent Media TV - Article - 2005-08-22
Every year, right around the anniversary of 9/11 the Bush
administration spins the public about the reasons 1,864 American
soldiers have died fighting for a lie in Iraq . And every year, it's
just as crucial that the media tell the public the truth about the
reasons the war was started.

The disinformation campaign the White House launched last weekend
should leave no doubt that the war in Iraq was hatched well before
9/11 and is part of a broader strategy to remake the entire Middle
East into a so-called Pax Americana, a blueprint drafted by hardcore
neoconservatives years ago that called for overthrowing Middle East
dictators and installing U.S. approved governments in the region.


Terror's Toll - Other - Article - 2005-08-18
When politicians and the media keep score of who's winning the war on
terror, they tally up body counts, battlefield victories, and the
number of suspects "brought to swift justice." Unlike last week's
intelligence report that stated it's the goal of terrorists to
collapse the enemy's economy, they downplay the high toll the attacks
take on a nation's psyche and its economic health.


Karl Rove's War Against Cindy Sheehan - Intervention Magazine -
Article - 2005-08-21
To slander opponents so their political positions are discredited --
Karl Rove's doctrine has been immensely effective in defeating Bush's
challengers; will it now be effective in defeating grieving mother
Cindy Sheehan?

IMTV - How the Rove / Bush Team slandered 3 veterens John McClain, Max
Cleland, John Kerry and are now on the offensive with Cindy Sheehan.


The Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan - New York Times - Article - 2005-08-21



Iran's Meddling In Iraq - Another Reason For Expecting A US Strike? -
Content Clix - Other - Article - 2005-08-22
Iran meddling in Iraq won't stand it in good stead.


August 24 DC Protest - Activists Against TeenScreen Will Attend -
Independent Media TV - Article - 2005-08-19
TeenScreen is planting the seed of mental illness in the minds of
children. School kids are being conned into taking a survey full of
loaded questions and the results are being used to convince parents
their children are mentally ill and need dangerous brain-damaging drugs.


Bush Administration Seeks New Judge in Indian Trust Case - Associated
Press - Article - 2005-08-16
The Justice Department took the unusual step Monday of asking that a
new judge be assigned to a 9-year-old lawsuit by American Indians
seeking a century's (and billions) worth of unpaid oil and gas
royalties (which have been illegally withheld and mis-manged for more
than one hundred years).

IMTV - More honesty from the Bush Administration, if your losing the
game, change the referee !


Bush Administration calls for new judge in Cobell v. Norton case -
Other - Article - 2005-08-16
IMTV - A more direct version of the deceitful move by the Justice
Department.


What Bush's man really thinks: abortion is a 'tragedy' - Australian,
The - Article - 2005-08-18
GEORGE W. Bush's nominee for the US Supreme Court has supported
allowing prayer in state schools and the use of memorial services as a
way of highlighting the "abortion tragedy".


Here's the GOP PLAN - Nation, The - Article - 2005-08-15
One need not be a student of Tom DeLay's dirty dealings to recognize
that the corruption of Washington is very nearly complete. Occupied by
a president and vice president who are oilmen first and statesmen
last, a Congress where Republicans and Democrats delay their votes
until they have checked their campaign fund-raising receipts and a
judiciary that is rapidly being packed with "bought" corporate lawyers
such as Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, the nation's capital often
seems completely beyond redemption.


Officer Says Pentagon Barred Sharing Pre-9/11 Qaeda Data With F.B.I. -
New York Times - Article - 2005-08-16
A military intelligence team repeatedly contacted the F.B.I. in 2000
to warn about the existence of an American-based terrorist cell that
included the ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks, according to a
veteran Army intelligence officer who said he had now decided to risk
his career by discussing the information publicly. The officer, Lt.
Col. Anthony Shaffer, said military lawyers later blocked the team
from sharing any of its information with the F.B.I.

The commission said in its final report last year that American
intelligence agencies had not identified Mr. Atta as a terrorist
before Sept. 11, 2001, when he flew an American Airlines jet into one
of towers of the World Trade Center in New York.


A Cancerous Tumor in the Body Politic: Time for Surgery - Independent
Media TV - Article - 2005-08-17
Going from the microcosmos to the macro, today there is a cancer
growing in the body of the American polity. Its aggressive nature has
forced its way into the social and political fabric of our lives, and
is destroying both from within.


Nigerian Senate probes N280bn Halliburton contract - Other - Article -
2005-08-15
THE (Nigerian) Senate has launched a probe into the $2 billion (about
N280 billion) gas to liquid project awarded by the Chevron/NNPC joint
venture to Halliburton, the American-based multinational service
company that was recently accused of paying $180 million bribe to past
Nigerian officials.


White House fears indictment - UPI - Article - 2005-07-14
White House officials told The Washington Post they fear someone in
the Bush administration may be indicted regarding the leak of a covert
CIA operative's name.


Standing on the Shoulders of Perjury Law - Los Angeles Times - Article
- 2005-08-15
Rove and Perjury.....


Did Republican Speaker Hastert Accept Turkish Bribes? - Democracy Now
- Article - 2005-08-10
Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds is accusing the FBI of covering up
improper contacts and financial dealings between certain Turkish
nationals and the office of House Speaker Dennis Hastert. We speak
with Sibel Edmonds and Vanity Fair journalist David Rose.


Social Security Lessons - New York Times - Article - 2005-08-15
Social Security turned 70 yesterday...But I'd like to revisit Social
Security for a moment, because it's important to remember what Mr.
Bush tried to get away with.


How Bush would gain from war with Iran - Guardian, The - Article -
2005-08-15
The US has the capability and reasons for an assault - and it is hard
to see Britain uninvolved


Rescued soldier: I was used - Times Online - Article - 2005-08-09
JESSICA LYNCH, the former US army supply clerk who became a national
icon after her capture and rescue during the invasion of Iraq in 2003,
says she was "used" by the Pentagon to "show the war was going great".


Republican Precedents - Other - Article - 2005-08-13
Analysis of one of Bush's statements concerning Cindy Sheehan


GOP Pays Legal Bills in Voter Suppression Case - Associated Press -
Article - 2005-08-11
The Republican Party says it still has a zero-tolerance policy for
tampering with voters even as it pays the legal bills for a former
Bush campaign official charged with conspiring to thwart Democrats
from voting in New Hampshire.


Road Bill Reflects The Power Of Pork - Washington Post - Article -
2005-08-11
Three years ago, President Bush went to war against congressional
pork. His official 2003 budget even featured a color photo of a
wind-powered ice sled -- an example of the pet projects and alleged
boondoggles he said he would no longer tolerate.

Yesterday, Bush effectively signed a cease-fire -- critics called it
more like a surrender -- in his war on pork. He signed into law a $286
billion transportation measure that contains a record 6,371 pet
projects inserted by members of Congress from both parties.


Side Issue in the Plame Case: Who Sent Her Spouse to Africa? -
Washington Post - Article - 2005-08-11
...the CIA has maintained that Wilson was chosen for the trip by
senior officials in the Directorate of Operations counterproliferation
division (CPD) -- not by his wife -- largely because he had handled a
similar agency inquiry in Niger in 1999. On that trip, Plame, who
worked in that division, had suggested him because he was planning to
go there, according to Wilson and the Senate committee report.

The 2002 mission grew out of a request by Vice President Cheney on
Feb. 12 for more information about a Defense Intelligence Agency
report he had received that day, according to a 2004 report of the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. An aide to Cheney would later
say he did not realize at the time that this request would generate
such a trip.


Arar drags Bush's policies into court - Toronto Star - Article -
2005-08-10
Canadian Maher Arar made history in a Brooklyn courtroom yesterday
when his lawyers forced the Bush administration to defend its
treatment of him when he was detained in the United States, then
whisked off to face torture in Syria.


CIA Commander: U.S. Let bin Laden Slip Away - Newsweek - Article -
2005-08-15

In his book titled "Jawbreaker" - the decorated career CIA officer
criticizes Donald Rumsfeld's Defense Department for not providing
enough support to the CIA and the Pentagon's own Special Forces teams
in the final hours of Tora Bora, says Berntsen's lawyer, Roy Krieger.
(Berntsen would not divulge the book's specifics, saying he's awaiting
CIA clearance.) That backs up other recent accounts, including that of
military author Sean Naylor, who calls Tora Bora a "strategic
disaster" because the Pentagon refused to deploy a cordon of
conventional forces to cut off escaping Qaeda and Taliban members.
Maj. Todd Vician, a Defense Department spokesman, says the problem at
Tora Bora "was not necessarily just the number of troops."

Ironically, he has sued the agency over what he calls unacceptable
delays in approving his book..."They're just holding the book," which
is scheduled for October release, he says. "CIA officers, Special
Forces and U.S. air power drove the Taliban out in 70 days. The CIA
has taken roughly 80 days to clear my book."

Video of CIA Commander being interviewed on CNN


Republican Rep.: U.S. Intel Knew 9/11 Plotters Were Al-Qaida Year
Before Attacks - Associated Press - Article - 2005-08-09
The Sept. 11 commission will investigate a claim that U.S. defense
intelligence officials identified ringleader Mohammed Atta and three
other hijackers as a likely part of an al-Qaida cell more than a year
before the hijackings but didn't forward the information to law
enforcement.

Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa. and vice chairman of the House Armed Services
and Homeland Security committees, said Tuesday the men were identified
in 1999 by a classified military intelligence unit known as "Able
Danger." If true, that's an earlier link to al-Qaida than any
previously disclosed intelligence about Atta.


United States Sent Anthrax Culture to Saddam in the 1980's - Times
Online - Article - 2005-08-09
The culture was sent to the United States, which exported samples to
Iraq during Saddam's war against Iran in the 1980s. Inspectors have
found that this batch of anthrax was the dictator's choice in his
attempts to create biological weapons.


57% Say Iraq War Has Made the USA More Vulnerable to Terrorist Attacks
- USA Today - Article - 2005-08-09
An unprecedented 57% majority say the war has made the USA more
vulnerable to terrorism. A new low, 34%, say it has made the country
safer. The question is critical because the Bush administration has
long argued that the invasion of Iraq was undertaken to make the USA
safer from terrorism.