The Abramoff affair: Snapshots from an empire of corruption:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/nov2005/abr2-n29.shtml


From Information Clearing House

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will present evidence to a second grand jury this week in his two year-old investigation into the outing of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson that could lead to a criminal indictment being handed up against Karl Rove,

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Testimony_from_Roves_former_assistant_may_1128.html


From Information Clearing House

With search warrants in hand, the feds rummaged through Cunningham's $2.55 million mansion in the exclusive conclave of Rancho Santa Fe, outside San Diego, looking for evidence linking the 8-term Republican to Mitchell Wade, the founder and CEO of MZM, Incorporated, one of the Pentagon's top 100 contractors.

http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair11292005.html



Pentagon Ends New Work On D.C. Firm's Contract:

Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.), a member of the House defense appropriations subcommittee, acknowledged last week that his relationship with MZM founder Mitchell J. Wade is being examined by federal authorities.Over the past three years it was also awarded several contracts, worth more than $600,000, by the Executive Office of the President.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/27/AR2005062701856.html


From Information Clearing House

Alito, told the Internal Revenue Service that its lawyers may secretly record conversations with taxpayers, despite an American Bar Association opinion barring lawyers from secretly recording any conversation.

http://tinyurl.com/9sykr


From Information Clearing House

The Hunt for Hercules N8183J: Last Friday, the Swiss prosecutor made it clear that he has no compunctions about picking a fight with the world's sole remaining superpower.

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,387185,00.html


From Information Clearing House

By Marie Cocco

We are a paragon of hypocrisy, promoting the rule of law and denouncing human rights violations among others while systematically breaching them ourselves. So blind is this administration to the consequences of its actions that it has now jeopardized its East European allies, who are under scrutiny by the European Union for violating human rights laws if they allowed the CIA "black sites" to flourish.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11176.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4480638.stm


Informant: ranger116

A union leader called the Department of Defense's proposed new 20-day time limit to challenge contract revisions "a bum's rush" and "unfair." He added: "They are busting the unions with this. Collective bargaining will mean nothing."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/112905LA.shtml

Open-government advocates say that Vice President Cheney is to executive branch secrecy what darkness is to the night. In 2001, Cheney famously refused to disclose the names of oil company executives and others who attended meetings of a White House energy task force that he headed, which helped draft a national energy policy. More recently, a government watchdog group has called attention to less noticed records that Cheney has sought to keep private: travel costs.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112905R.shtml

William Rivers Pitt writes: The Abu Ghraib images were bad enough. Now we have these so-called Aegis videos, allegedly showing contractors in Iraq driving the road between Baghdad and the airport. In the video, men speaking with Irish or Scottish accents use an assault rifle to indiscriminately blast other cars on the road. The video shows cars peppered with bullets careening to and fro, crashing into each other and rolling into the trees. In the background, Elvis Presley can be heard singing 'Mystery Train.'

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112905Q.shtml