A DECADE ago Newt Gingrich’s Republican revolutionaries seized control of Congress after 40 years of Democrat rule by promising to end the culture of graft and corruption on Capitol Hill.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1918775,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Lieberman is so much of service to the Bush Administration that the Prince of Darkness himself, Dick Cheney, bestowed praise upon him in a speech on December 6 to another gathering of troops.

http://progressive.org/mag_wx120705


From Information Clearing House

The Bush administration seems to be losing sight of the fact that the rules also say the majority party of the moment may not use its powers to strip citizens of their rights, politicize the judicial system or rig the election process to keep itself in office.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/05/opinion/edvoting.php


From Information Clearing House

The U.S. government, in an unusual retreat, urged a federal appeals court on Friday to set aside its ruling that allowed the United States to hold an American citizen as an enemy combatant without being charged.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11268.htm

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said yesterday that the U.S.-led war on terror has undermined the global ban on torture. Her statement did not go over well with U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton, who called Arbour's statement "inappropriate and illegitimate."

http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2005/12/bolton_now_whin.html


From Information Clearing House

THE row over treatment of terrorist suspects by the US showed no signs of abating yesterday as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she could give no guarantee that terrorism detainees would not be abused despite clear rules against torture.

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=2373312005


From Information Clearing House

They know, that information is power. So they fabricate it (Niger uranium documents), disseminate it through the corporate press (Judith Miller), pay for positive spin in that "free press" (Armstrong Williams), stage favorable press briefing questions, set up "unrehearsed" encounters between the president and troops (October 2005 teleconference), buy positive press coverage of the U.S. occupation in the "free" Iraqi press.

http://www.counterpunch.com/leupp12092005.html


From Information Clearing House

In reality, many are arriving as freight on commercial airliners -- stuffed in the belly of a plane with suitcases and other cargo.

http://www.10news.com/news/5504608/detail.html


From Information Clearing House

All that's new is the openness about it

By Naomi Klein

In Iraq the dirty work is already being handed over to Iraqi death squads, trained by the US and supervised by commanders like Jim Steele, who prepared for the job by setting up similar units in El Salvador.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11271.htm

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,389158,00.html


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