AntiWar.Com
by Paul Craig Roberts

12/06/05

The Bush administration has made it abundantly clear that it believes, with no apologies, that the ends justify the means. Lying is simply a means to an end. What Condi Rice is telling Europeans is 'pay no attention to our lies; just accept that we are liars for a good and proper cause.' What other proof do we need of the Bush administration's low esteem for truth than the fact, revealed by the Los Angeles Times, that the Bush administration has been caught paying journalists to write favorable stories about the war in Iraq? First they rigged the 'intelligence' used to start a war; then they rigged the news reports about the war. And these people think they should be trusted?

http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=8216


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Boston Globe

12/05/05

Senator Lincoln D. Chafee hopped out of the driver's seat of his beige Toyota Prius -- a car with a dent on the side and 'I Am Electric' emblazoned across the back window -- and dashed through the rain. He'd forgotten his umbrella at the office, so he was soaked before he made it inside Meadowbrook Farms Elementary School. Then, for the better part of an hour, he talked with a classroom of third-graders about the importance of saving the rain forests. 'The challenge is to balance between the animals and our needs,' the Rhode Island Republican told the children. 'We're all part of the earth ourselves. We have to share it.' Chafee is the closest thing to a GOP flower child in Washington these days. He's a Brown University classics major who spent seven years shoeing horses before turning to the family business of politics. His liberal positions would be well-suited for a centrist Democrat. The ease with which he speaks of living in harmony with nature marks him as a product of the '60s, and a child of a household that always had a compost pile...

http://tinyurl.com/98zjv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Guardian [UK]

12/06/05

The full extent of British logistical support for the CIA's secret 'ghost flights' emerged yesterday as Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, said the agency's operations were 'a vital tool' in the campaign against terrorism. The Guardian publishes for the first time today the details of more than 200 flights in and out of Britain of aircraft owned or controlled by the CIA. The agency has used almost 20 airports across the UK during the period when its agents have been snatching terror suspects and taking them to countries where they may be tortured. As well as enjoying access to a number of RAF bases, the agency has been flying in and out of civilian airports across the country. Its destinations include not only major airports such as Heathrow and Gatwick, but small airports at Bournemouth on the south coast and Wick in the north of Scotland. Last night MPs, who have formed a campaign group to challenge British support for the CIA's so-called extraordinary renditions programme, met for the first time and demanded that the government come clean about the use of UK facilities...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1659057,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Detroit Free Press

12/05/05

FEMA realized its response to Hurricane Katrina was 'broken' and braced for rioting over woefully low supplies in Mississippi in the days just after the storm, according to new documents released Monday. The correspondence among Federal Emergency Management Agency officials, provided by a special House committee investigating the government response to the storm, follows the release last week of more than 100,000 documents by Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco...

http://tinyurl.com/b2wfp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

MSNBC

12/05/05

In March 2003, the Italian national anti-terrorism police received an urgent message from the CIA about a radical Islamic cleric who had mysteriously vanished from Milan a few weeks before. The CIA reported that it had reliable information that the cleric, the target of an Italian criminal investigation, had fled to an unknown location in the Balkans. In fact, according to Italian court documents and interviews with investigators, the CIA's tip was a deliberate lie, part of a ruse designed to stymie efforts by the Italian anti-terrorism police to track down the cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, an Egyptian refugee known as Abu Omar...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10341210/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Indianapolis Star

12/05/05

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice aggressively defended U.S. tactics against terrorism on Monday as tough but legal, and countered European complaints over reports of secret CIA-run prisons there by saying America's efforts with its allies have been 'a two-way street' that have saved European and American lives. Commencing a five-day visit to a Europe that has seethed with resentment over the reports of U.S. prisons and detainee mistreatment, Rice delivered the Bush administration's most forceful response to a month of growing trans-Atlantic acrimony...

http://tinyurl.com/599l9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.rense.com/general69/PUB.HTM


Informant: Milo

Accomplices

The European general public clamors to know: "How can European countries make themselves accomplices of American secret services by allowing these CIA planes to use their airports or by installing bases where the principles of democracy are flouted?"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120505H.shtml

This Vietnam experience came back to me, writes Les Payne, when I heard that the US military has been planting stories in Iraq newspapers. Having survived training as a US Army journalist, I can report that this military specialty resembles the real thing about as much as Army food resembles food.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120505E.shtml

Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s views on abortion caused a stir this week, but another memo that surfaced from his years as a Reagan administration lawyer was notable for its strong support of the police. Alito wrote that he saw no constitutional problem with a police officer shooting and killing an unarmed teenager who was fleeing after a $10 home burglary.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120505C.shtml