billmon speak, you listen

* "The Feds in D.C. are looking at two more cases against Abramoff--a tax evasion case and a RICO one.
It's easy to see where this is leading. Abramoff will be forced to rat out bit players in his scandals, especially collaborators at other lobbying firms. These collaborators will then, in turn, be pressured to rat out members of Congress." (link)

* the repugs sent in a fake iraqi to slam sheehan - she is married to a VOA'er (link)

* billmon discusses the implications of the release of the darby abu-ghraib pictures. and gets it spot on. (link)

* "On Thursday morning, at about 5:30am, (campcasey-ites) were blasted awake by a fourteen-car convoy of Secret Service SUVs which roared through the camp at high speed while leaning on their horns the whole time." (link)

* "Horowitz, for his part, gets the Over the Top Award for this headline:
"COINCIDENCE OR PLANNING? Cindy Sheehan's Planned Protest Will Coincide with Expected Terror Attacks in Iraq"" (link)
speechless.

* raimondo (re Able Danger): "As we approach the fourth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the official story of what happened that day, and how it happened, is beginning to unravel in a spectacular manner... Is it possible that Bin Laden had allies, enablers, some of them inside the U.S. government?" (link)

* is there something weird going on in the world when a bumpy plane landing in toronto in which no-one was hurt gets a bunch more coverage than a plane crash in greece that kills 130 and a plane crash in venezuela that kills 160?