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Witnesses have told congressional investigators that the chief of the General Services Administration and a deputy in Karl Rove’s political affairs office at the White House joined in a videoconference earlier this year with top GSA political appointees, who discussed ways to help Republican candidates.
With GSA Administrator Lurita Alexis Doan and up to 40 [...]

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WASHINGTON - Monica Goodling, a senior Justice Department official involved in the firings of federal prosecutors, will refuse to answer questions at upcoming Senate hearings, citing Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, her lawyer said Monday.
“The potential for legal jeopardy for Ms. Goodling from even her most truthful and accurate testimony under these circumstances is [...]

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Oh what a shock…….
WASHINGTON - Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (news, bio, voting record) said Monday he won’t block Senate passage of an Iraq war spending bill even if the GOP fails to kill its troop withdrawal deadline because he knows President Bush will veto it.
Facing a cliffhanging vote this week, McConnell promised to [...]

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Bur$atil has been posting alot about the housing bubble. It’s BAD down here. I live right down the road from the hospital they are speaking about in this article. There’s more brand new EMPTY houses than you can count. Since I’ve been here I can’t tell you how many people in the [...]

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Homeland Security…..keepin us safe!!!! Heckuva job Skeletor!!! He still has a job because????? Oh yah…..he’s loyal. Notice the “insufficient detention capacity”….. I feel another Haliburton contract coming on!
WASHINGTON –Teams assigned to make sure foreigners ordered out of the United States actually leave have a backlog of more than 600,000 cases and [...]

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I say hand him over………
MONTEVIDEO (AFP) - An attorney for a victim of Uruguay’s 1973-1985 dictatorship has asked his government to request the extradition of former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger over his alleged role in the notorious Operation Condor.
Condor was a secret plan hatched by South American dictators in the 1970s to [...]

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Seems the Green Zone isn’t even safe anymore…….yah, that’s progress. Things are going swimmingly!!
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A rocket landed in Baghdad’s heavily fortified international Green Zone on Monday, rocking the U.S. embassy but causing no casualties, witnesses said.
U.S. embassy spokesman Lou Fintor would not say exactly where the rocket landed for security reasons [...]

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H/T to Patriot for sending me. A scathing letter from Sean Penn. Good on you Sean.
Four and a half years ago, I addressed the issue of war in an open letter to our President. Today I would like to again speak to him and his, directly. Mr. President, Mr. Cheney, Ms. Rice [...]

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I guess in the end, Reaganomics didn’t work for this guy!
March 26 (Bloomberg) — David Stockman, President Ronald Reagan’s budget director, was indicted for fraud for misleading investors while chairman of bankrupt auto-parts maker Collins & Aikman Corp., his lawyer said.
Stockman, who was also Collins & Aikman’s chief executive officer, was accused with [...]

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