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ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINE CORRUPTION
*100,000 phantom Texas primary votes in one county
*Press banned from Florida public meeting on elections and machines
*New voting machine memory card failures
The Republican Appearance of Guilt
Summary
Diebold whistle-blower faces judge
Florida Election Official Hammered For Exposing Diebold
Maryland Gov fouls voting machines
ELECTION CORRUPTION
*Media blacks out election reports, belittles complaints
Florida voter rolls twisted again
20% of Iowa voters face exclusion
Break in at Florida Democratic Office
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
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
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
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 AND CORRUPTION 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
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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. 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.
Chart names over 150 Repugs under investigation, indicted or convicted
The Master site on Congressional Corruption
Ohio 'coingate' jumps from $50 million to $265 million
No Reforms
Village Voice on Hastert
Doolittle's Indians
All the lobbyists men
Earmarks and Bribery - The Repug elephant in the room
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
AG refuses to step aside in Abramoff case
AG Replaces Abramoff Prosecutor
The guilty pleas
Abramoff and the Russians
K. Harris Caught
CONGRESSIONAL ETHICS COMMITTEE INACTION
Potential meetings of House and Senate Ethics Committees blocked by Republicans.
Ethics. What ethics?