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Just a quick thought. I really can’t believe the bill that the Bush administration is pushing Congress to pass is 3 pages in length. Doesn’t that seem, I don’t know, a little short when they are requesting $700 billion for a bailout? Shouldn’t there be a lot more to it? Shouldn’t [...]

I think we all heard about the three men that were caught plotting to assassinate Barack Obama in Denver.  Well, it seems the FBI wanted to toughen the charges against the men to a charge of conspiracy but again, BushCo partisan politics stands in the way of justice.  A Karl Rove appointee turned down the [...]

The US could be planning an air strike that would take place in just a few weeks. I would not be shocked if this was the case. It also wouldn’t surprise me if BushCo decided to do this because they think it will help out their “war hero” McCain. I think the [...]

Maverick? Yeah right. More like McSame

From ThinkProgress:
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan will publish a memoir in April titled “What Happened.” In an excerpt posted by his publisher, McClellan implicates “the President himself” in the Valerie Plame scandal:
“The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost [...]

I doubt these e-mails will ever see the light of day. They will claim they’ve been destroyed and have no record of any of these e-mails. The American public will probably just let them get away with lies once again. It’s sad really. The Republicans know they can get away with [...]

From Reuters: U.S. State Department investigators looking into the shooting deaths of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad last month offered immunity deals to Blackwater security guards, The New York Times reported on Monday.
The investigators from the agency’s investigative arm, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, did not, however, have the authority to offer such immunity grants, [...]

A private watchdog group is asking the White House to show immediately that it has not destroyed archives of at least 5 million e-mails that were improperly deleted from internal servers. So far, the Bush administration has refused to provide such assurances.
A motion filed Friday by the National Security Archive seeks to compel the White [...]