The White House sought to deflect politically charged questions Wednesday about President Bush's use of prewar intelligence in Iraq, saying Democrats, too, had concluded Saddam Hussein was a threat.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110305C.shtml

Bob Herbert: The reporter, Dana Priest, gave us the best glimpse yet of the extent of the secret network of prisons in which the CIA has been hiding and interrogating terror suspects. Worse stories are still to come - stories of murder, torture and abuse. We'll watch them unfold the way people watch the aftermath of terrible accidents. And then we'll ask, "How could this have happened?" Ultimately the whole truth will come out and historians will have their say, and Americans will look in the mirror and be ashamed.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110305B.shtml

Bush may find himself besieged by charges of cronyism, but that doesn't seem to have affected his picks for a panel assessing intelligence matters.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110305A.shtml

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called on Thursday for access to all foreign terrorism suspects held by the United States after a report of a covert CIA prison system for al Qaeda captives.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10869.htm



International Committee of the Red Cross Seeks Access to CIA Prison
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1103-01.htm

The inside story of how the Bush administration pushed disinformation and bogus intelligence and led the nation to war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10871.htm

The United States risks losing sight of some key foreign policy issues, including relations with China and the Muslim world, because of its "single-minded focus" on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a former senior Pentagon official said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10864.htm

Strike the Root
by Robert Kaercher

11/02/05

In the long run, Fitzgerald and his deputies are only distracting people from the bigger picture of the inherently criminal and destructive nature of the state in all its activities by giving them the false impression that government somehow punishes its own deviant behavior through some legalistic mechanism or other. Government is itself a weapon of mass destruction...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/kaercher/kaercher2.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Not as crazy as Scalia, but just as bad

CounterPunch
by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St.Clair

11/02/05

"There's been sedate talk in the mainstream press about Alito's legal caution, his sense of fairness, his steady temperament, his understated humor, his respect for the law as the executive instrument of fairness in American society. How anyone can come to this bizarre conclusion passes our understanding. Alito's record, from inside the prosecutor's office, his justice department briefs and in his judicial opinions, displays a rancid right-winger whose views fume with prejudice against the weak and the poor...

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn11022005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The American Prospect
by Greg Sargent

11/02/05

When Patrick Fitzgerald announced the indictment of Scooter Libby, he also gave dispiriting news to those hoping the full account of the Plame scandal would eventually be revealed. Not only did he not plan to release a report, he said, he could not release one -- meaning he'd likely close up shop without revealing much of what he knows about the ways that All the Vice President's Men (and the veep himself, and Karl Rove) sought to discredit a leading war critic. But a close reading of the Code of Federal Regulations suggests that there's another way the truth could come out -- even information outside the 'four corners of the indictment,' to which Fitzgerald claimed to be bound. Even if Fitzgerald can't reveal those details, someone else perhaps can: the attorney general...

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=10563


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp