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Julian Borger in Vienna Guardian Unlimited Feb 22, 2007 Much of the intelligence on Iran’s nuclear facilities provided to UN inspectors by US spy agencies has turned out to be unfounded, diplomatic sources in Vienna said today. The claims, reminiscent of the intelligence fiasco surrounding the Iraq war, coincided with a sharp increase in international…
Your Tax Dollars Are Used to Tell You Lies
Prepackaged News By Christopher Lee, Washington Post How much is good press worth? To the Bush administration, about $1.6 billion. That’s how much seven federal departments spent from 2003 through the second quarter of 2005 on 343 contracts with public relations firms, advertising agencies, media organizations and individuals, according to a new Government Accountability Office…
Cheney ‘interfered directly’ to get terror plea bargain
David Edwards and Nick Juliano, Raw Story Vice President Dick Cheney cut a deal with the prime minister of Australia to orchestrate a plea bargain with an Australian terror suspect that would keep him out of sight until after Australia’s national elections next month, an Australian television station reported. Cheney “interfered directly” to secure Guantanamo…
GOP Senator (Grassley, IA) Talks Impeachment
DesmoinesRegister – Iowa’s U.S. senators were met Tuesday with overflow crowds who pointedly questioned them about President Donald Trump’s actions during his first month in office and other issues. Although Republican Sens. Charles Grassley and Joni Ernst held meetings in small towns in northern and eastern Iowa, they drew big crowds. Considering that Trump carried…
Like FBI, CIA Has Used Secret “Letters”, Gag Orders
By Joby Warrick, Washington Post For three years, the Bush administration has drawn fire from civil liberties groups over its use of national security letters, a kind of administrative subpoena that compels private businesses such as telecommunications companies to turn over information to the government. After the 2001 USA Patriot Act loosened the guidelines, the…
