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Rumsfeld has NOT left the Bush Administration NOR has he relinquished Pentagon War powers
Rumsfeld’s transition raises questions By Rowan Scarborough – THE WASHINGTON TIMES – January 25, 2007 On Jan. 4, Mr. Rumsfeld opened a government-provided transition office in Arlington and has seven Pentagon-paid staffers working for him, a Pentagon official said. The Pentagon lists Mr. Rumsfeld as a “nonpaid consultant,” a status he needs in order to…
FEMA Knew Of Toxic Gas In Trailers
By Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post The Federal Emergency Management Agency since early 2006 has suppressed warnings from its own field workers about health problems experienced by hurricane victims living in government-provided trailers with levels of a toxic chemical 75 times the recommended maximum for U.S. workers, congressional lawmakers said yesterday. A trail of e-mails…
Snipers say they felt pressure to raise kill count in Iraq
John Byrne, Raw Story The murder trial of the “Painted Demons,” an elite US sniper unit that prided itself on fomenting fear in the so-called triangle of death has revealed a shocking — but perhaps not unexpected — product of war. According to the LA Times, the Painted Demons’ trial at Camp Victory, on the…
Could Our Democracy Withstand Another 9/11?
By David T. Z. Mindich, AlterNet On a cold January morning in 1933, Adolf Hitler was sworn in as chancellor of one of the world’s great democracies. While the world has duly noted its 75th anniversary last month, it is not the cold January morning but a hot February night that should command our greatest…
