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Month: October 2005
Iraq War Grief Daily Witness (photo) Day 149
this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters
cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing.
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Read MoreDeLay :: Gotcha – Fingerprints et al! ¶ Abramoff & Bob Ney – Updated
LATEST PHOTOS ◊ Tom DeLay Perp Walk ☺ ☻
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Thumbs Up for CT man!
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Purple ink?
Guess DeLay got to vote 10 times …
“Now Ronnie Earle has the mug shot he wanted,” said DeLay lawyer Dick DeGuerin, referring to the Travis County district attorney who sought the indictments. “I wanted to avoid the circus. . . . He wanted a perp walk, and we did not want to do it.”
Video grab of former House Majority leader Tom DeLay's lawyer Dick DeGuerin holding Delay's booking sheet outside of the Harris County sherrif's office in Houston October 20, 2005. NBC/Reuters
DeLay wants new judge, new trial location
Citing partisan differences, U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, wants a new judge to hear his conspiracy and money-laundering charges somewhere other than Travis County. DeLay’s lawyer on Thursday asked state District Judge Bob Perkins, a Democrat, to remove himself from the case because of donations the judge made to the Democratic Party, its candidates and the political organization, Moveon.org.
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Read MoreMiller Explains Her Security Clearance
Last weekend (was it only last weekend? it seems like months ago now), Judith Miller revealed in her NYT account of her grand jury testimony that when she was embedded with troops in Iraq in 2003 she had a special security clearance:
I told Mr. Fitzgerald that Mr. Libby might have thought I still had security clearance, given my special embedded status in Iraq. At the same time, I told the grand jury I thought that at our July 8 meeting I might have expressed frustration to Mr. Libby that I was not permitted to discuss with editors some of the more sensitive information about Iraq.
That raised some eyebrows.
Now, Miller has decided to clarify that status and that raises even more questions:
But Miller told the paper for a story published Thursday that her “clearance” was akin to the routine nondisclosure form for all reporters “embedded” with military units, which she signed when she was deployed with the 75th Exploitation Task Force. The unit’s job was to find weapons of mass destruction.
Miller said she also agreed to additional ground rules permitting her to discuss some secret information only with two of the paper’s top editors.
Wait a minute: didn’t she say in her own words, in her own NYT article that she told Fitzgerald she couldn’t discuss sensitive info with any of her editors?
One of Miller’s lawyers, Floyd Abrams says her special status was “unusual” and:
“Although the form she signed was similar to that signed by other journalists, her selection to be exposed to highly classified information was approved at a significantly higher level than is generally done, and this was because she was routinely exposed to secret information,” he said.
Judith Miller, propaganda tool of the neocons, given special security status by someone at a “significantly higher level”. What’s wrong with this picture?
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Urgent: Massive relief effort needed for quake victims
[From the diaries by susanhu. See also tcharles123‘s diary yesterday on UNICEF.]
The UN is urgently calling on all nations to conduct a massive relief effort for the quake victims. Time is not on their side as winter sets in and the roads become impassable.
Write your congresspeople and demand the US (or Canada or the UK or FR or AU… where ever you are from) send choppers and transport planes and fucking marines, I don’t care, send these people help asap before they die.
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