Why in the hell would anyone get into their car on election day, drive down to their local voting precinct, and actually vote for Palin as vice president?

It’s obvious that the woman is hiding something. What does it take for you republican morons to see that she’s nothing more than Bush in a dress?

If you think our economy can suffer through this shit a little longer… if you like the prospect of going to war with Russia and/or Iran… IF YOU WANT FOR MORE YEARS OF THE SAME… then go ahead and vote the Palin/McCain ticket! (intentional)

If you love America and are tired of a sour economy and endless wars, but can’t see yourself voting for a black man, then why not just stay the hell home that November day? I promise, you (and every other American) will be thankful you did!

No-shows stall hearing in Palin inquiry

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNN) — Alaska lawmakers investigating Gov. Sarah Palin’s firing of the state’s public safety commissioner put off a Friday hearing after most of the witnesses they subpoenaed last week failed to show up.

Subpoenas were never served on seven of the 13 people after Alaska’s attorney general scuttled a deal with legislative leaders to arrange for their statement, state Sen. Hollis French, the investigation’s manager, said Friday.

Two aides to the governor — now the Republican vice presidential candidate — were served and refused to comply, and Palin’s husband, Todd, was among the no-shows.

But French said Stephen Branchflower, the special counsel conducting the investigation, still plans to complete it by early October.

“I have spoken to Mr. Branchflower this morning. He is continuing to gather information and expects to complete his investigation by October 10,” he said.

French, a Democrat, has become a lightning rod for allies of the Alaska governor, who have accused him of turning the investigation in a “partisan circus.” Palin has halted her cooperation with the investigation, which was commissioned by a bipartisan committee of the Legislature before she became Sen. John McCain’s running mate. (emphasis mine)

Sounds a lot like Bush, doesn’t she?

Do you really want to vote in someone who can so easily throw their nose up to the rule of law? I thought people were tired of politicians that were above the law?

THINK, GODDAMNIT!

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I don’t understand why the justice department told Mr. Ivins what was about to happen. By warning him, they gave him time to hide/destroy evidence, to flee, or perhaps even commit suicide - which he did! Makes no sense, unless they didn’t really have enough evidence against him.

Report: Anthrax suspect kills self before filing of criminal charges

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top U.S. biodefense researcher apparently committed suicide just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him in the anthrax mailings that traumatized the nation in the weeks following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a published report.

The scientist, Bruce E. Ivins, 62, who worked for the past 18 years at the government’s biodefense labs at Fort Detrick, Maryland, had been told about the impending prosecution, the Los Angeles Times reported for Friday editions. The laboratory has been at the center of the FBI’s investigation of the anthrax attacks, which killed five people. [...]

Besides the five deaths, 17 people were sickened by anthrax that was mailed to lawmakers on Capitol Hill and members of the news media in New York and Florida just weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks. The victims included postal workers and others who came into contact with the anthrax.

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Wiring warning came months before soldier electrocuted

WASHINGTON (CNN) — An Army sergeant complained about faulty wiring in Iraq months before another soldier was fatally electrocuted in a shower in the same quarters, according to documents released Wednesday by a congressional committee. [...]

“I think that the Army has some responsibility in this,” [KBR executive Tom] Bruni said.

“Well, if they have some, who would have the rest?” the Virginia representative [Tom Davis] asked. “Just conceivably, who else could have it, if the Army just has some responsibility? Would KBR have some then?”

“The responsibility lies with the Army,” Bruni replied.

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And we’re supposed to be proud of our government? Of our military?

Incompetence in our government is something I’ve grown accustomed to over the years. When stupid people vote in greedy imbeciles, incompetence is the name of the game.

Years of incompetent political leadership eventually “trickles down” into the Pentagon. And before you can say “waterboarding,” a good man loses his life to highly questionable circumstances… followed directly with fuzzy memories.

Committee says fuzzy memories hurt Tillman probe

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A “striking lack of recollection” by White House and military officials prevented congressional investigators from determining who was responsible for misinformation spread after the friendly fire death of Army Ranger Pat Tillman, a House committee said Monday.

Although military investigators determined within days that the onetime NFL player was killed by his own troops in Afghanistan following an enemy ambush, five weeks passed before the circumstances of his death were made public. During that time, the Army claimed Tillman was killed by enemy fire. [...]

The panel concluded that the lack of information “makes it impossible for the committee to assign responsibility for the misinformation in Corporal Tillman’s and Private Lynch’s cases.”

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Welcome to our country’s brand’spanking-new low point.

If our government truly didn’t think they were doing something wrong in their choice of interrogation techniques, they wouldn’t be destroying evidence. They KNOW what they’ve been doing is wrong and illegal!

Lawyer: Gitmo interrogators told to trash notes

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Pentagon urged interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to destroy handwritten notes in case they were called to testify about potentially harsh treatment of detainees, a military defense lawyer said Sunday.

The lawyer for Toronto-born Omar Khadr, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, said the instructions were included in an operations manual shown to him by prosecutors and suggest the U.S. deliberately thwarted evidence that could help terror suspects defend themselves at trial.

Kuebler said the apparent destruction of evidence prevents him from challenging the reliability of any alleged confessions. He said he will use the document to seek a dismissal of charges against Khadr.

A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon, said he was reviewing the matter Sunday evening.

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From Yahoo:

A Cedarburg man said the Pentagon is covering up his son’s death.

Army Spc. Stephen Castner was killed in July of 2006 when his Humvee hit a roadside bomb

An initial investigation into Castner’s death cleared the Army of any wrongdoing and now a new report is backing that up.

But his father said that’s not true.

He said his son might still be alive if the military had provided the correct training and equipment.

When the Army first concluded it did nothing wrong, Castner appealed to the inspector general.

This week, it ruled there was no reason to reopen the Army investigation.

The inspector general acknowledges that Army investigators made inaccurate statements, but said those statements did not affect the outcome of the report.

Castner disagreed.

“Stephen’s death illustrates the lack of preparedness, the lack of regard for the lives of the soldiers,” Steve Castner said.

Castner said he plans to appeal to the inspector general and ask for a new report.

More here, also.

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From the Associated Press:

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From HuffingtonPost

Attorney general Michael Mukasey’s decision to launch a full’scale FBI probe into the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes has sent several alarmed agency employees scrambling to find lawyers. To lead the probe, the A.G. named John Durham, a hard-nosed veteran prosecutor who is assembling a team of deputies and FBI agents. Some CIA veterans fear the move is tantamount to unleashing an independent coun sel on Langley. “A lot of people are worried,” says one former CIA official, who asked not to be identified talking about sensitive matters. “Whenever you have the bureau running around the building, it’s going to turn up some heads. This could turn into a witch hunt.” Justice officials say Durham was assigned to investigate the 2005 decision to destroy the tapes–not the activities recorded on them, including the use of waterboarding on Al Qaeda suspects. But at this point, Durham has no formal mandate on the probe’s scope, giving him the freedom to ex pand it if he chooses. “We’re going to follow this wherever it leads,” says one Justice official, who asked not to be identified discussing an ongoing probe.

One key figure, Jose Rodriguez, the former CIA chief of clandestine services who gave the order to destroy the videotapes, has retained Robert Bennett, a renowned defense lawyer who represented Bill Clinton in the Paula Jones lawsuit. Another potential witness, George Tenet, who was CIA director when the tapes were made, will be represented by former FBI general counsel Howard Shapiro. Roy Krieger, a Washington lawyer who has repre sented about 100 CIA employees, says that two agency officers have approached him about representation, though neither has retained him yet.

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We’ll have to keep a close eye on this. It will be interesting to see if anything comes of this. I said yesterday no way……time will tell.

From Capitol Hill Blue:

Capitol Hill Blue reports that Bush was so livid that Attorney General Makasey is pursing the CIA tapes case investigation that he wanted to fire him. If he knew who Mukasy selected to lead a full’scale criminal investigation was he’d have gone into an apoplectic rage.

Even without the vast powers of a special prosecutor, federal prosecutor John H. Dunham could be a barbed harpoon in Bush’s side for the rest of his presidency and beyond. He’s the career prosecutor U.S. Attorney General Janet C. Reno appointed to investigate allegations that FBI agents and police officers in Boston had been in bed with the mob. Janet Reno!

When Reno appointed Dunham to investigate corruption in Boston she knew he would be unrelenting in uncovering the truth. He wouldn’t (and wasn’t) be deterred by political pressure. Whether she read this 2001 article praising him in The Hartford Courant or not she certainly knew that he would leave no rotting log unturned in the seamy underside of Boston mob’s corruption of law enforcement.

Capitol Hill Blue reports:

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While the administration may put on a public face of cooperation, the White House will take a tough stance from prosecutors who will seek interviews with current and former administration officials who participated in a meeting where destruction of the videotapes was discussed.

White House insiders describe the President’s mood as “dour” and “resigned” to the implications of a Justice Department investigation but legal observers in Washington believe the administration can successfully stall the probe and doubt the effectiveness of an administration trying to examine its own criminal behavior. LINK

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Like this will go anywhere……. again, this administration investigating itself. We all know where that ends up. And something that bugs me about this whole ugly thing. They’ll investigate whether tapes of TORTURE were destroyed, but it’s no big deal that they tortured to begin with. What’s wrong with that picture.

More at Yahoo News

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The Bush administration, (you know, the people that put CORRUPTION in the word corruption.), are siding with the Justice Department in their attempt to have the SCOTUS toss out a lower court ruling that, ultimately, will hinder investigations into corruption cases within Congress. Specifically, the request arrives from the FBI investigations of disgraced democrat, William Jefferson, of Louisiana.

Gives one pause, doesn’t it? I mean, what if the conservative-leaning, GOP-butt-licking SCOTUS sides with the lower court on this? For the aforementioned cases, and any new charges of corruption that might (or rather, probably will) arise in the near future, would these participants be more likely to “wriggle off the hook”? Something to ponder.

High court asked to review Congress raid

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court to toss out a lower court ruling that says the FBI was wrong to raid Democratic Rep. William Jefferson’s office, a decision the Bush administration argues will hinder corruption investigations of Congress.

In an appeal filed this week, government lawyers said that only the nation’s highest court can decide whether the 18-hour raid was an unconstitutional breach of congressional authority or a proper tactic in a lengthy corruption inquiry.

“Only this court can resolve this important question,” the Justice Department wrote in its 28-page appeal, filed Wednesday. “Until it does so, investigations of corruption in the nation’s capital and elsewhere will be seriously and perhaps even fatally stymied.”

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Nothing, repeat NOTHING!, will come of this! Do not get your hopes up. Do not entertain the idea that any oversight of any caliber exists in our government. There simply isn’t any. Oversight will not occur until after a democrat takes the office of president again or when republicans really are in the minority, or both.

Justice, CIA to probe destruction of taped interrogations

CIA Director M. Hayden: Agency will cooperate fully.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Justice Department and the CIA will jointly investigate the destruction of videotapes of CIA interrogations of two al Qaeda suspects, a top official said.

The Justice Department’s assistant attorney general for national security, Kenneth L. Wainstein, announced the investigation Saturday in a letter to the CIA’s top lawyer, John Rizzo.

The probe will determine “whether further investigation is warranted,” Wainstein said.

CIA Director Mike Hayden said his agency will cooperate fully.

“I welcome it as an opportunity to address questions that have arisen over the destruction back in 2005 of videotapes,” he said.

Also from the article:

“President Bush and Vice President Cheney learned about the videotapes Thursday, when Hayden briefed them about the tapes and their subsequent destruction, administration officials said Friday.”

That’s their official position, for now, and they’re sticking by it! *wink*

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Since reading of Gloria Davis’s death in Iraq I have had her name on my google alerts. I’ve wondered what on earth really happened to her. It was one of those “non-combat deaths” that was under investigation. There are many of those. There has been nothing in the news regarding her…..until I ran across this news today. And I still have to wonder what happened to her. Did she really commit suicide, or was she silenced? War is ugly. Money. It’s always about the money. In all things, follow the money. I wonder…..if war were not so profitable, would there be war at all?

From DailyKos:

From OneThousandReasons: Remember Gloria Davis?

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By LARRY MARGASAK
The Associated Press

No sh*t! They’re all under indictment or under investigation.

WASHINGTON - When he was a keeper of the federal purse strings, Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska told another Republican senator who opposed the infamous “bridge to nowhere,” “I don’t threaten people. I promise people.”

His home’state GOP colleague, Rep. Don Young, was not to be outdone. Last month he told a fellow House member who opposed education money for native Alaskans: “There is always another day when those who bite will be killed, too, and I am very good at that. Those that bite me will be bitten back.”

Stevens and Young may not be promising, threatening or biting anymore, now that both are under federal investigation.

The investigations - and a questionable land deal that entangled the third member of Alaska’s congressional delegation - also may have ended a modern-day gold rush that sent billions of federal dollars to the state.

Alaska’s entire delegation is under an ethical cloud, something congressional historians say is unprecedented:

• Stevens is contending with an extraordinary FBI and IRS raid on his Girdwood, Alaska, home and a probe into his dealings with businessmen who oversaw remodeling of the house.

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In my opinion, this story alone is enough to send our present administration packing. How does it make you ‘patriotic’ trolls feel to know your messiah literally drops his trousers and takes dumps like this on our troops? You people really are morons! You better like America. I have a feeling no other country would welcome you.

Documents show Pat Tillman’s last words were to Spc. Bryan O’Neal, who was at Tillman’s side as he was killed. Tillman told his panicky comrade to stop ’sniveling.’

New documents shed light on Tillman’s death

GI’s last words, lawyers- congratulatory e-mails made public in testimony

SAN FRANCISCO - Army medical examiners were suspicious about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Pat Tillman’s forehead and tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player’s death amounted to a crime, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
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The doctors - whose names were blacked out - said that the bullet holes were so close together that it appeared the Army Ranger was cut down by an M-16 fired from a mere 10 yards or so away.
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The medical examiners- suspicions were outlined in 2,300 pages of testimony released to the AP this week by the Defense Department in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.

Among other information contained in the documents:

  * In his last words moments before he was killed, Tillman snapped at a panicky comrade under fire to shut up and stop “sniveling.”
  * Army attorneys sent each other congratulatory e-mails for keeping criminal investigators at bay as the Army conducted an internal friendly-fire investigation that resulted in administrative, or non-criminal, punishments.
  * The three’star general who kept the truth about Tillman’s death from his family and the public told investigators some 70 times that he had a bad memory and couldn-t recall details of his actions.
  * No evidence at all of enemy fire was found at the scene - no one was hit by enemy fire, nor was any government equipment struck.

Complete story at MSNBC.com

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