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By Tom Hamburger, LA Times When Karl Rove and his top deputies arrived at the White House in 2001, the Republican National Committee provided them with laptop computers and other communication devices to be used alongside their government-issued equipment. The back-channel e-mail and paging system, paid for and maintained by the RNC, was designed to…
How They’ll Try to Bury Impeachment and Fail
afterdowningstreet.org UPDATE #2: Conyers has canceled the noon meeting with Veterans for Peace, suggesting that the 10 a.m. hearing is expected now to run more than 2 hours. VFP rightly sees this as a success for our cause. UPDATE: Harold Burbank says Ralph Nader says Ralph Nader will be testifying. Add him to the list…
White House Manual Details How to Deal With Protesters
By Peter Baker, Washington Post Not that they’re worried or anything. But the White House evidently leaves little to chance when it comes to protests within eyesight of the president. As in, it doesn’t want any. A White House manual that came to light recently gives presidential advance staffers extensive instructions in the art of…
With New Embassy, US Presence in Iraq Appears Permanent
US Embassy in Iraq to Be Biggest Ever By Anne Gearan, The Associated Press The new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad will be the world’s largest and most expensive foreign mission, though it may not be large enough or secure enough to cope with the chaos in Iraq. The Bush administration designed the 104-acre compound–set to…
