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* cbs cleans house becos of rathergate, despite not finding that
the dox were forged. judymiller still writing for nyt. btw - there was some guy on the teeve - faux i think - who i think was referred to as the cofounder of cnn (it was late ok) - who suggested that krove did the rathergate thing ("the democrats are too stupid to do that".

* parently the wmd search has fininshed - which is funny. except that it isnt.

* heres an article about chertoff from june 03 "Keep your eye on Michael Chertoff. As bad for the law and Constitution as many of Bush's judicial appointees are, Chertoff has been the architect of prosecutions in the "war on terror." And he may have big changes in mind for you, me, the courts, and the Constitution." http://www.counterpunch.org/cassel06112003.html

* oh yeah - and chertoff has the requisite mob linx

* somehow its taken a few days for people to realise that blackwells already specifically illegal letter also fraudulently used the Seal. http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=545 (altho rawstory already mentioned it earlier)

* " The U.S. Special Counsel, the principal protector of federal whistleblower and merit system rights, has abruptly ordered more than 20 percent of his headquarters legal and investigative staff to relocate or be fired. According to a letter of protest filed today by three national whistleblower watchdog groups, those targeted for forced moves are all career employees hired before Bloch became Special Counsel, as part of a purge to stifle dissent and re-staff the agency with handpicked loyalists." i hate scottbloch. http://www.peer.org/press/554.html

* "The elections are like all the other Wizard of Oz spectacles put on by the Bush administration in Iraq since April 9, 2003 -- the appointment of Garner, the appointment of Bremer, the appointment of an Interim Governing Council, the capture of Saddam, the "transition to sovereignty," etc., etc. Each of these was supposed to be some magical turning point and the beginning of sunshine and rainbows, and instead the situation has deteriorated every single month for the past nearly two years." http://www.juancole.com/2005/01/allawi-pockets-will-not-be-able-to.html

* ukr to pull all 1600 troops outta iraq http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64197-2005Jan10.html

* btw - i mwentioned a while back that scowcroft and zbig could really cause some trouble (the good sort) if they decided to. they seem to be slowly turning up the heat. i hope the frog boils. (altho the 'realist' moniker is likely to ensure they are discredited, as scowc himself points out. he must shake his head in disbelief as much as the rest of us)

* will tridge change the colorcodes? only 7 days *shudder* till inauguration. i will be drunk and teary all day. unless someone happens to deliver any other mind altering substance.

* "Chesapeake lawmaker withdrew a bill on Monday that would have required women to report fetal deaths, after he received more than 500 e-mails from people concerned that the measure would punish women who have miscarriages." http://americablog.blogspot.com/archives/2005_01_01_americablog_archive.html#110547516062155231

* wapo "But when historians look back at the Bush presidency, they're more likely to note that what sets Bush apart is not the crises he managed but the crises he fabricated. The fabricated crisis is the hallmark of the Bush presidency." waapaam http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A2304-2005Jan11?language=printer

* oh dexter. the nyt is truly laughable much of the time. "Dr. Allawi announced that he would expand the Iraqi Army to 150,000 soldiers from 100,000. It is unlikely that any of those additional soldiers would be ready to fight by election day." http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/12/international/middleeast/12iraq.html?oref=login&pagewanted=all&position=

* " In light of recent reports that conservative journalist and pundit Armstrong Williams received $240,000 from the Department of Education (DOE) through a contract with Ketchum Public Relations, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) today has filed a series of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to 22 government agencies, including all cabinet agencies." information wants to be free. http://www.citizensforethics.org/activities/20050111/

* did Dog kill the leftcoasters?


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