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POPSinteractive guide: Who in the Bush administration broke the law, and who could be prosecuted
Each scandal is represented by a colored circle that encompasses the people who are implicated. As it's easy to see, many of the players here are mixed up in two, three, or more of the alleged crimes. Hence all the overlapping circles (Venn-diagram heaven!). The best way to make sense of this legal tangle is to mouse over the title of an individual scandal, which will highlight everyone implicated. For example, the wiretapping bubble ensnares George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, David Addington, John Ashcroft, John Yoo, and Alberto Gonzales. At the same time, Ashcroft and Gonzales fall into the overlapping circle for monkey business related to DoJ hiring. Mouse over a person's name for information on how each person is involved. Mouse over the title of each circle for specifics about the particular scandal. And if all else fails, fall back on this golden rule of wrongdoing in the White House: All roads lead to Gonzales.
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POPSAshcroft Still In Favor of Torture Re-writing history and the laws that govern conduct. This conduct is " unbecoming" and this man and many others should be arrested. Even World War II veterans, most, will not support any form of torture.
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POPSAshcroft defends waterboarding before House panel Since Ashcroft doesn't believe waterboarding is torture, I guess it's just another way to ask a question in his mind, maybe the House committee should use it on him to get better responses. Wouldn't that be just! Of course, that's a tongue-in-cheek remark, we all KNOW it is TORTURE.
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POPSFormer US Atty: Ashcroft Forced Out For the record, Iglesias is pushing a new book, " In Justice ." Still, this doesn't really seem all that wild an accussation, given the history of the Bush admin. and Iglesia's own story.
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POPSJustice Dept. Wrongly Considered Politics in Hiring The article goes on: Under the changes instituted under Ashcroft and continued under his successor, Alberto Gonzales, the political appointees were encouraged to become more involved in the hiring process, Fine said. Tuesday's report is the first to come out of a series of inspector general investigations that arose out of the firings of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006. Fine's investigators also are looking into whether the firings were prompted by partisan political reasons, whether Gonzales and his aides misled Congress about the firings and whether civil-rights and voting-rights cases were politicized. This is how we wound up with so many underqualified attorneys from Regent University .
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POPSAre You On The Govt. Detainee List? "ARE YOU ON THE LIST? The federal government has been developing a highly classified plan that will override the Constitution in the event of a major terrorist attack" Beware of a false-flag operation. It's a trigger to put martial law in place and dissidents behind bars. Read the clipped source. Then, GO MAKE SOME NOISE WHILE YOU CAN!!
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POPS "Citizens' Subpoena" Demand Answers on Torture! If you have not participated in any on-line activism but wished you had. Now is the time to begin. Just click this link or copy and paste it into your browser. https://secure.aclu.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=DemandtheTruth
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POPSHey, it was legal! on admitting to govt sanctioned waterboarding- they won't be able to blame the "rogue" CIA this time!
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POPSWhy Jose Padilla's 17-Year Sentence Should Disgust all Americans Is a corrupted US-American "justice" making the U.S.A. a terrorist rogue state? But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt ... that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation ... And so let freedom ring ... from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. --Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Aug. 28, 1963
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POPSThe terror threat at home, often overlooked
More But outside Tyler, Texas The case is almost unknown. In the past nine months, there have been two government press releases and a handful of local stories, but no press conference and no coverage in the national newspapers. Experts say the case highlights the increased cooperation and quicker response by US agencies since Sept. 11. But others say it points up just how political the terror war is. "There is no value for the Bush administration to highlighting domestic terrorism right now," says Robert Jensen, a journalism professor at the University of Texas in Austin. "But there are significant political benefits to highlighting foreign terrorists, especially when trying to whip up support for war. Mr. Levitas "The government has a severe case of tunnel vision when it comes to domestic terrorism. I have no doubt whatsoever that had Krar and his compatriots been Arab-Americans or linked to some violent Islamic fundamentalist group, we would have heard from John Ashcroft himself.
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POPS '24' Producer:::Hillary As President Is 'Nuts' Saying that he was “probably going to get behind Rudy" for the White House, Mr. Surnow named comedian Dennis Miller as another entertainer who has “come out” as a conservative in the overwhelmingly liberal Hollywood environment and said that another popular comedian, Adam Sandler “is going to come out and support Rudy Giuliani.”
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POPSA Nightmare That Won't End "We believe the cause of trying to wake up our little area of the Midwest to the raging lunacy of the Bush Administration's plans to launch war on Iran is worth our work, our paint, and our possible inconvenience. So all this pre-Halloween weekend, we will be at work to stencil as many of these fluorescent orange banners as possible. Then, on Monday, it'll be time to synchronize our watches and hit the Twin Cities pedestrian overpasses. Maybe it's not Mission Impossible after all--it's scary stuff alright but not that hard to do something, to hold a banner and communicate with our fellow citizens AND our elected leaders."
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POPSCHENEY'S LAW" --on FRONTLINE this TUESDAY EVENING
On Tuesday, in "Cheney's Law," Kirk tells one of the most significant stories of our times. Kirk outlines how two men - Vice President Dick Cheney and his legal adviser, David Addington - used a little-known group inside the Justice Department to interpret the law so as to greatly enhance presidential power. Their assertion of virtually unlimited presidential authority to conduct the war on terror, both abroad and at home, raises profound constitutional questions. Especially controversial is the role of Congress to act as a check on executive power. But it would be a revolt inside the Justice Department itself -- triggered by a conservative law professor, Jack Goldsmith, appointed by the president -- that would finally lead to a "no" to Cheney's lawyer, David Addington. For awhile, under Attorney General John Ashcroft, that "no" stood. But when Ashcroft left and President Bush appointed his old friend Alberto Gonzales as attorney general, some of the "no's" were then reconsider
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POPSCIA veterens challange 9/11 statement Read & make up your own mind. Why haven't authorities in the U.S. and abroad published the results of multiple investigations into trading that strongly suggested foreknowledge of specific details of the 9/11 attacks, resulting in tens of millions of dollars of traceable gains? Why has Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI translator who claims to have knowledge of advance warnings, been publicly silenced with a gag order requested by Attorney General Ashcroft and granted by a Bush-appointed judge? How could Flight 77, which reportedly hit the Pentagon, have flown back towards Washington D.C. for 40 minutes without being detected by the FAA's radar or the even superior radar possessed by the US military? How were the FBI and CIA able to release the names and photos of the alleged hijackers within hours, as well as to visit houses, restaurants, and flight schools they were known to frequent?
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POPSThe Terror Presidency Excerpts from the much-talked-about book by Jack Goldsmith, recounting his days of advising the White House on the legal boundaries of American executive power. Goldsmith explains how he was made to sign off on the unprecedented orders of presidential authority we know and love today. He famously was present at the dramatic hospital-room showdown on national surveillance between Gonzales, Card and a frail Ashcroft, calling it "the most amazing scene I'd ever witnessed." Goldsmith resigned 10 months in. They believed cooperation and compromise signaled weakness and emboldened the enemies of America and the executive branch. When it came to terrorism, they viewed every encounter outside the innermost core of most trusted advisers as a zero-sum game that if they didn't win they would necessarily lose.
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POPSRENO 911 It makes me sad when I realize that some of those left wing nutbags actually believe their own delusions.
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POPSGOOD News? BAD News! Don't count your Chickens!
Despite his vaunted "genius" for political skulduggery, in the end Rove too is a drab factotum, a bagman, a greasy cog in a vast machine that will keep grinding on, killing and corrupting, without him. (Assuming that Rove is actually stepping away from the machine, which is most unlikely.) Stories of far greater significance than the slinking exit of a dirt-smeared toady have appeared in the last two days -- items far more revelatory of the hellish world that the porcine minion has helped make on behalf of his masters. The boiling core of this hell is Iraq. Stories breaking while Rove and Bush were puddling up on the White House lawn revealed a new abyss of criminality in the war crime that the tearful tyrant and his henchman have engendered: the Mafia running guns to Bush's favored extremist factions in Iraq. As the Guardian reports, Italian anti-Mafia police, tracking down a drug deal, instead came across shipment of 105,000 AK-47s procured by the underworld for their paying clien
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POPSFree Speech Zones and John Ashcroft As I read more thoroughly into the issue of civil liberties, I become more and more discusted at my findings. Our country was "founded on the basis of including and protecting everyone's voice."
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