Sunday, May 01, 2005

Judge Blocks Release of 9/11 Report

Judge Blocks Release of 9/11 Report: "Judge in Moussaoui Case Blocks Release of Sept. 11 Report
By Dan Eggen
The Washington Post "

Saturday, April 30, 2005


but this is just a lie:

Politics as Business (or is it Business as Politics?)

But this time, the "real journalism, fair and balanced" network added a swipe at seniors who like Social Security the way it is.

BG: GW Wired?

9/11 blogger: Hey look, the media talked about 9/11!

9/11 blogger: Hey look, the media talked about 9/11!this article is all over the news today.. over 92 instances on news.google.com alone.. is it anything new? no. why is it all over the news? to try to get the patriot act's monitoring laws on our libraries extended.. perhaps someone should've asked why there were no arab names on the flight manifests, or ask what names they booked the tickets under before they re-run the same info about how the terrorists ordered their tickets.. nah, just run the article.

Technorati Tag: sept11

'Too young to choose'

By MIKE WILKINSON and JAMES DREW, Blade Staff Writers

Printer-friendly version: "The federal probe into whether local Republican fund-raiser Tom Noe was illegally funneling money to the Bush campaign had been ongoing for months. It reached a turning point Wednesday night."

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A Useful Whitewash - by Alan Bock

A Useful Whitewash - by Alan Bock

New LA Times conservative columnist David Geler ... [Media Matters for America]

New LA Times conservative columnist David Geler ... [Media Matters for America]

Interesting?

village voice > news > Mondo Washington by James Ridgeway

village voice > news > Mondo Washington by James Ridgeway: "Mondo Washington
In the Name of Sibel Edmonds
Intelligence whistleblowers storm Capitol Hill, asking for the right to be heard."

Friday, April 29, 2005

Earthquakes: Natural or Man-Made?

Earthquakes: Natural or Man-Made?

Benefits and Costs of the U.S. Government�s War Making: The Independent Review: The Independent Institute

Benefits and Costs of the U.S. Government�s War Making: The Independent Review: The Independent Institute: "Benefits and Costs of the U.S. Government�s War Making
By Robert Higgs"

Ray McGovern: L'Affair Bolton

Ray McGovern: L'Affair Bolton: "Smells a Lot Like Robert Gates
L'Affair Bolton
By RAY McGOVERN
Former CIA analyst"

Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude: on blog betty, jane fonda, maureen dowd and yes, guys, you should read this too

Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude: on blog betty, jane fonda, maureen dowd and yes, guys, you should read this too

Another Lost Opportunity - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com 911

Another Lost Opportunity - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com: "April 27 - In the spring of 2001, one of the U.S. government�s most valuable terror informants gave the FBI a far more alarming account of Al Qaeda plans to attack inside the United States than has ever been publicly disclosed, according to newly available court documents.
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Algerian expatriate Ahmed Ressam, whose sentencing for a Millennium-eve plot to blow up the Los Angeles airport was unexpectedly postponed today, told bureau interrogators nearly four years ago that Al Qaeda commander Abu Zubaydah had been discussing plans to smuggle terrorist operatives and explosives into the country for the purpose of launching a strike on U.S. soil, the documents show.
The fresh documents, released in federal court in Seattle in recent days, shed new light on an issue that dominated last year�s hearings by the September 11 commission: precisely how much did the U.S. government know about Al Qaeda plans to strike inside the country in the summer of 2001 when the attacks on the World Trade Towers and Pentagon were in their final stages?
Ressam was scheduled to be sentenced today for his December 1999 attempt to smuggle a rental car filled with explosives across the Canadian border. He planned to use them to blow up Los Angeles airport on the eve of the New Year�s Eve 2000 celebrations. But after a dramatic hearing, in which prosecutors accused Ressam of ceasing his cooperation with the FBI two years ago and jeopardizing their cases against two terror defendants he had previously identified, U.S. Judge John Coughenour delayed the sentencing hearing so that Ressam could reconsider his stand. �I hope it�s not lost on Mr. Ressam, we need to see something happen in the next few months,� said Judge Coughenour.
Until his apparent change of heart, Ressam had been considered one "

WSJ editorial falsely claimed Abu Ghraib report ... [Media Matters for America]

WSJ editorial falsely claimed Abu Ghraib report ... [Media Matters for America]: "WSJ editorial falsely claimed Abu Ghraib report absolved senior officials"