Naming names

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

12/19/05

Crime, as a popular American saying goes, does not pay. The criminals are eventually caught, exposed -- and made to pay the price. The only question is how much damage they can do in the interim. The damage to Iraq, and to the volatile situation in the Middle East, is considerable. We won't know for many years how many Iraqis died -- the United States military, while it keeps a count of its own war dead, doesn't bother counting dead Iraqis. We don't know the extent of the bombing -- except that it is being kept a secret. ... What we are facing is a conspiracy against humanity, a cabal motivated by an idea that is criminal in itself, and which consists of the assertion that the United States must run the world – for 'our own good,' of course. But that is what every tyrant and would-be conqueror has asserted in the past ...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8241


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

WorldNetDaily
by Vox Day

12/19/05

America was founded on the principle that it is right to sacrifice blood for liberty. It is telling that the Bush defenders make precisely the opposite argument, that it is right to sacrifice liberty in order to avoid the shedding of American blood. In this they are, like the Dear Leader, avowedly anti-American. That George Bush is in open and repeated violation of his oath to uphold and defend the Constitution is no longer debatable. In keeping with his many anti-constitutional actions, he has publicly declared that he has no way of knowing what is, and what is not constitutional...

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47970


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Detroit Free Press

12/17/05

Facing angry criticism and challenges to his authority in Congress, President Bush on Saturday unapologetically defended his administration's right to conduct secret post-Sept. 11 spying in the United States as 'critical to saving American lives.' Bush said congressional leaders had been briefed on the operation more than a dozen times. That included Democrats as well as Republicans in the House and Senate, a GOP lawmaker said. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she had been told on several occasions that Bush had authorized unspecified activities by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest spy agency...

http://tinyurl.com/b2yfw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Houston Chronicle

12/18/05

House Republican leaders worked late tonight on a bill that would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northern Alaska to oil and gas exploration. The GOP leaders had to quell a rebellion of moderate Republicans to pass a Defense Department spending bill that included language that would grant energy companies access to what's believed to be the largest, untapped oil deposit left onshore in the United States. The real battle could come this week over in the Senate, where Democrats have vowed to try to strip the drilling language from the legislation...

http://tinyurl.com/adkc6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

USA Today

12/18/05

Republican congressional leaders agreed to trim deficits by $41.6 billion and sought to unlock the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling Sunday in a frenzied year-end bid to enact the core of a conservative agenda. 'We're going to move the nation's business' through Congress, vowed Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. But Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid accused the GOP of breaking Senate rules to suit their purposes, and threatened to slow action to a crawl. 'The arrogance of power of the Republicans ... is beyond my ability to comprehend,' he said....

http://tinyurl.com/dq6ks


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Las Vegas Review-Journal

12/18/05

The United States operated a secret prison in Afghanistan as recently as last year, torturing detainees with sleep deprivation, chaining them to the walls and forcing them to listen to loud music in total darkness for days, a human rights group alleged Monday. The prison was run near Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a report based on the accounts of several detainees at the U.S. prison for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay...

http://tinyurl.com/732qn


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

CNN

12/18/05

Democratic House leaders called Sunday for an independent panel to investigate the legality of a program President Bush authorized that allows warrantless wiretaps on U.S. citizens, according to a letter to House Speaker Dennis Hastert. 'We believe that the President must have the best possible intelligence to protect the American people, but that intelligence must be produced in a manner consistent with our Constitution and our laws, and in a manner that reflects our values as a nation,' the letter says...

http://tinyurl.com/9cc3p


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

CNet

12/16/05

Handing a stiff rebuke to President Bush, the U.S. Senate on Friday refused to end the filibuster that is blocking a four-year extension of the Patriot Act. In a 52-to-47 vote, the Senate failed to reach the 60-person majority required to cut off a filibuster and force a vote on the Republican-backed extension of the portions of the controversial law that are set to expire on Dec. 31. The vote makes it more likely that lawmakers will enact an alternate proposal, backed by critics of the Patriot Act, that would extend those 16 sections for only three months. That would yield additional time for negotiations when senators return from their holiday vacation in January...

http://tinyurl.com/ajrlw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/ap/2005/12/18/ap2400133.html


Informant: Ted Glick

From ufpj-news

by John Prados, TomPaine.com

Bush is backed into a corner as a tsunami of evidence shows he lied to America.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051219/no_room_to_spin.php