A REFERENCE GUIDE TO REPUBLICAN SCANDALS
Organized Into Five Diaries with 200+ Story Links
This diary is dedicated to writers who are looking for handy references from recent media and blog sources. It covers Republican Scandals (mon), Republican government and Bureaucratic misdeeds (tues), Republican attacks on our Freedom and Liberty (wed), the corporate power grab and corruption (thur) and the evils of monopoly media (fri)
There are links to over 200 stories and blogs organized into specific categories for quick reference. It is a resource for those who produce campaign literature, press releases, speeches, blogs and letters-to-the-editor.
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ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINE CORRUPTION
Current Status:
Republican government is demanding all states and elections use touch-screen machines in November Election. No federal investigations of machine integrity. Bipartisan congressional hearings blocked by Republicans.
*The Republican Appearance of Guilt
*Diebold whistle-blower faces judge
*Florida Election Official Hammered For Exposing Diebold
Summary
Maryland Gov fouls voting machines
Diebold Machine Open Infrared Port
ELECTION CORRUPTION
*Florida voter rolls twisted again
*20% of Iowa voters face exclusion
*Break in at Florida Democratic Office
But there is fallout
VP SECRET MEETINGS TO CRAFT ENERGY POLICY
Current Status:
All requests for information and documents blocked by WH. Currently ignored by congress and media. Bipartisan congressional hearings blocked by Republicans.
The ghost still haunts his office
911 WARNINGS
Current Status:
Ignored by congress and press. Bipartisan congressional hearings blocked by Republicans.
Terrorist of 911 ID'd 13 times
Conspiracy Review
WH OUTING OF SECRET AGENT
Current Status:
One WH indictment. Trial date Jan. 2007. Status of investigation unknown but ongoing. Bipartisan congressional hearings blocked by Republicans.
*250 pages of new VP emails
AG withholds emails
Plame was secret. Damage significant
Libby claims he was authorized to leak
Summary (Truthout)
DOWNING STREET MEMOS, WH PRE-IRAQ WAR LIES
Current Status:
No official action. Independent investigations ignored by congress and media. Bipartisan congressional hearings blocked by Republicans. Now there is a WH version of the Memos.
AfterDowningStreet.orgis a good source going back to day one
The actual memos
The Guardian adds new stuff on WH memos
Downing Street Memo moves West
INCOMPETENT PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT OF WAR ON IRAQ
Current Status:
No official action. No unofficial action. Independent investigations ignored by congress and press. Bipartisan congressional hearings blocked by Republicans. WH claims success.
*Bagdad coroner reports 7000 local executions - leaves town
Comments from Powell's staff
Reality in Iraq
How to Create 240,000 Terrorists in three years
Last Thoughts of an "embed"
FAILURE OF US RUN IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION
*First Iraq Contractor Fraud Conviction
Iraq Reconstruction now limited to new prisons
The actual sums are incredible
Life in Iraq after $20 billion Reconstruction
CPA Guilty plea
ABUSE AND TORTURE OF PRISONERS
Blame the enlisted men and women - it's how the WH supports our troops. WH claims legal right to continue, but deny they do it.
*Enlisted man court-martialed while Officers walk, again
President Declares New torture law "does not apply"
Guantanamo torture documented in new government papers
Abu Ghraib - Col. gets immunity. Sgt. faces 29 year shaft
Nearly 100 Dead Prisoners
New Abu Ghraib Pics
Village Voice Roundup
British Prisoner Abuse
Rights. What rights?
Domestic torture and abuse
Insert your name here *
The international Community Opinion
Abu Ghraib amplified
LACK OF BODY AND VEHICLE ARMOR
Current Status:
WH claims, "Problem solved". Defense Department now forbids soldiers from purchasing own body armor. Republican congress holds no one responsible, Official estimates show over 300 died directly because they had no body armor. Typically five to ten times as many are wounded as die which totals 1500 to 3000 soldiers.
Wounded soldier charged for loss of body armor
And Just Why Do Troops Need Body Armor?
Lack of Armor, Dec 2003
Lack of armor, Oct 2004
Lack of Armor, Jan 2006
DELAY AND OTHER CORRUPTION
Bipartisan congressional hearings and investigations blocked by Republicans. No Ethics Committee actions.
*Ohio 'coingate' jumps from $50 million to $265 million
The list begins:
Congressional Ethics
The costs of Repug Corruption
ABRAMOFF CORRUPTION OF REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS
Ethics Committee sees nothing to be concerned about.
*Miami Judge Refuses to Delay Sentencing for Abramoff
*Abramoff Names Names at Vanity Fair
*Earmarks and pork
*Pay Abramoff $25,000. Meet George Bush
Chart names over 150 Repugs under investigation, indicted or convicted
AG refuses to step aside in Abramoff case
AG Replaces Abramoff Prosecutor
The guilty pleas
The Master site on Congressional Corruption
No Reforms
Village Voice on Hastert
Doolittle's Indians
All the lobbyists men
Abramoff and the Russians
K. Harris Caught
Earmarks and Bribery - The Repug elephant in the room
CONGRESSIONAL ETHICS COMMITTEE INACTION
Potential meetings of House and Senate Ethics Committees blocked by Republicans.
Ethics. What ethics?
Now it is time to laugh
The Joy of Boys