We all know how items in the news often escape the corporate media machines. Here are a few juicy tidbits we may have missed: * Mounting Opposition to the Patriot Act by Business Groups Even business is realizing that inner...
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[From the diaries by susanhu w minor edits.]
This fairly mundane picture of aide to the president Miers poring over papers with George W Bush was circulated yesterday, after Miers’ nomination for the SCOTUS.
Turns out the date on this photo is Aug 6, 2001. In Crawford, Texas. That’s right.
As it turns out, yes, according to Tuesday’s Los Angeles Times [which] observes that early in the Bush presidency “Miers assumed such an insider role that in 2001 it was she who handed Bush the crucial ‘presidential daily briefing’ hinting at terrorist plots against America just a month before the Sept. 11 attacks.” Editor & Publisher
AP is reporting that U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein today ruled that the Abu Ghraib photos be released. NEW YORK – Saying the United States “does not surrender to blackmail,” a judge ruled Thursday...
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Read MoreThe EPA gave mayor Ray Nagin very good news orally. Happy happy joy. They are going to open areas in NO where the waters have subsided, as soon as the EPA can produce doctored results that say everything is wonderful… no...
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