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…
Etopia News – Asked about the bill’s prospects on the New Mexico State Senate floor, Mr. Brown said, “If we can get all the Democrats to show up, I think it has a reasonable chance of passing.” He said (at around 1 pm PST) that it should be known “in a few hours” where the…
A war with flags but no faces By Jonathan Turley USAToday.com – Posted 8/16/2006 Photo by Jim Watson, AFP/Getty Images When Congress starts to regulate the images that can be used to oppose the war… It wants to deny opponents of any face or name that would remind citizens of the true costs. Of course,…
Does Cheney ‘Validate’ al-Qaeda? By Robert Parry -consortiumnews.com- March 1, 2007 Captured al-Qaeda documents reveal that Osama bin Laden’s principal goal in the 9/11 attacks was to lure the United States into a clumsy counterattack in the Middle East that would alienate Muslims, help al-Qaeda recruit more jihadists and bog down the American military in…
