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Exclusive Interview: Murray Waas on How Cheney "Authorized" Libby to Leak
Classified Information
Democracy Now!
We turn now to the ongoing controversy over the outing of CIA operative
Valerie Plame. Three months ago Vice President Cheney's chief of staff
Lewis "Scooter" Libby resigned after being charged with obstruction of
justice, lying to the FBI and committing perjury before a federal grand
jury in connection to the Plame case. So far Libby is the only White House
official to be charged in the case. He is sch! edule to go on trial next
January - two months after the mid-term elections. But newly released court
documents raise new questions about the role of the Vice President in the
affair...

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Conyers Writes to Bush and Cheney
John Conyers, Jr.
Dear Mr. President and Mr. Vice President: Yesterday, the National Journal
and AP reported that the Vice President's former Chief of Staff, I. Lewis
(Scooter) Libby, had testified to a federal grand jury that as part of an
effort to discredit Ambassador Joseph Wilson and defend your
Administration's use of prewar intelligence, he had been authorized by the
Vice President and other White House superiors to leak classified
information to journalists. Moreover, cor! respondence filed by Special
Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald also reveals that Mr. Libby has asserted
that he had been authorized to disclose to the media a still-classified
portion of a National Intelligence Estimate about alleged efforts to
develop nuclear weapons to the media...

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Credibility
Eli Stephens, Left I on the News
Without exception in any media I've been listening to today, the story of
what George Bush said today goes like this: "George Bush disclosed today
new details of a terrorist plot aimed at the tallest building in Los
Angeles." Why do they do that? George Bush and his administration have no
credibility whatsoever. This is the administration which claimed there were
WMD in Iraq. This is the administration which says that the people locked
up in Guantanamo are all members ! of al Qaeda and the "worst of the
worst," when a recent report reveals that only 8% of them were actually al
Qaeda (and I suspect even that number utilizes a loose interpretation).
This is an administration which has repeatedly lied to the American people
and the world about all sorts of things...

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Ex-CIA official faults use of data on Iraq
Intelligence ‘misused’ to justify war, he says
Walter Pincus, The Washington Post
The former CIA official who coordinated U.S. intelligence on the Middle
East until last year has accused the Bush administration of
"cherry-picking" intelligence on Iraq to justify a decision it had already
reached to go to war, and of ignoring warnings that the country could
easily fall into violence and chaos after an invasion to overthrow Saddam
Hussein. Paul R. Pillar, who wa! s the national intelligence officer for
the Near East and South Asia from 2000 to 2005, acknowledges the U.S.
intelligence agencies' mistakes in concluding that Hussein's government
possessed weapons of mass destruction. But he said those misjudgments did
not drive the administration's decision to invade...

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The Iraqi Glorious Resistance harvest
24th January to February 4th 2006
Al-Moharer
The Resistance and liberation Forces Command has issued 12 military
statements concerning its Jihadi operations and its different military
confrontations against the Occupations forces and their allied in the
period between January 25th and February the 4th and which covered all
Iraqi Districts s and concentrated mainly on the cities of Samawa, Tarymia,
Kirkuk, Nassyria, Baqouba, Abu Ghraib, Al Qaeem, Baghdad, Diyala, Ramadi,
H! aditha, Erbil, Mosul, Habanyya, and Durra and on every square inch of
the sacred soil of Great Iraq, where the intrepid Mujahideens achieved
heroic epics against the bloodthirsty US Zionist occupiers...

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Defense: the Only Salvation from US Imperial Aggression
Zack Krasuk, I'n'I
...What can the American people do? The fate of the world rests with you.
You don’t have to lose your job. You don’t have to become a second Cindy
Sheehan, a tree hugger or a hippie. But you can dedicate 30 minutes a day
to writting letters to your congressmen and senators, organizing,
protesting, making rallies, giving speeches at your local college, or
anything within your power to contribute to Bush’s impeachment...

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Neocons Weigh In on Iran's A-Bomb
Robert Dreyfuss
Robert Joseph and Richard Perle weighed in this week on the idea of
attacking Iran. While many other neocon and right-wing commentators have
done the same, Joseph and Perle are important because the former is a
senior U.S. government official and the latter is considered the chief
spokesman for the neoconservative faction outside the government...

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Sunni Mosque Bombing In Iraq Kills Eight
AP
A car bomb killed at least eight people Friday outside a Sunni mosque in
Baghdad and gunmen abducted a Sunni cleric, raising sectarian tensions as
the election commission gave the final go-ahead for talks to begin in
earnest on a new government. The blast occurred about 10 yards from the
Iskan al-Shaabi mosque in the tense Dora neighborhood, shattering windows
and showering glass on worshippers at the main weekly Muslim prayer
service...

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Roadside bomb kills two US marines near Fallujah
IrelandOnline
A roadside bomb blast has killed two US Marines near the western Anbar
province city of Fallujah, the military said today. The victims, assigned
to 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, were killed
yesterday when an explosion targeted their patrol during combat operations
near Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad...

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Do We Have To Arrest Bush & Company Ourselves?
Jesse, Editor TVNewsLIES
Do we have to make citizens’ arrests of Bush & company? We have smoking gun
after smoking gun and the criminals in charge of our nation do nothing. It
is quite clear they are all (with few exceptions) in on the crimes. We have
TONS of EVIDENCE that both presidential elections have been stolen. That
alone should be enough to arrest the people who have taken over our nation
via electoral coup! But wait…there is more…lots more! We have EVIDENCE !
that there was inside involvement in 9/11…nothing happens. We have EVIDENCE
that George W. Bush lied about the reasons for invading Iraq, about what he
knew about the potential doom of Katrina in advance, and he knew (and may
have been involved) about 9/11…nothing happens. We have testimony that Dick
Cheney approved the leaking of top secret information…nothing happens. Do
we have to arrest these criminals ourselves?...

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Polls: Brainwashed Americans Support Iran Attack
Kurt Nimmo, Another day in the empire
As the scam artist George Hull knew, there is a sucker born every minute.
It really is not very difficult to fool clueless Americans, brainwashed by
corporate television, and get them on board the Straussian neocon plan to
mass murder thousands, possibly millions of Arabs and Muslims. "The
escalating crisis over Iran’s [nonexistent] nuclear program appears to have
persuaded the U.S. public that Tehran now poses a greater threat! to the
United States than any other country, or even al-Qaeda, according to recent
surveys," writes Jim Lobe...

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The Devil lives in the detail
Demonising Iran
William Bowles , I'n'I
The latest dissection by Medialens of the corporate media’s devious and
misleading coverage of Iran, is an excellent dissection of how the media
distort and lie about events and, as the article points out, alleged intent
on the part of the Iranians is almost always presented as a 'slip of the
pen’ eg, "I accept that it would have been better to have said 'alleged
nuclear threat’. I am sorry that my wording was not as precise as it c!
ould have been." (Email to Media Lens from James Robbins, BBC
correspondent, January 24, 2005) "We should have said 'nuclear activities’,
not 'nuclear weapons activities’." (Corrections and clarifications, The
Guardian, February 7, 2006) But of course the damage has not only already
been done, it continues to be done...

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Petrodollars and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation: Understanding the Planned
Assault on Iran
Michael Keefer, GlobalResearch.ca
Iran has been in the gun-sights of George W. Bush and his entourage from
the moment that he was parachuted into the presidency in November 2000 by
his father’s Supreme Court. A year ago there were signs, duly reported by
Seymour Hersh and others, that the United States and Israel were working
out the targeting details of an aerial attack on Iran that it was
anticipated would occur in June 20! 05 (see Hersh, Gush Shalom, Jensen).
But as Michel Chossudovsky wrote in May 2005, widespread reports that
George W. Bush had "signed off on" an attack on Iran did not signify that
the attack would necessarily occur during the summer of 2005: what the
'signing off’ suggested was rather "that the US and Israel [were] 'in a
state of readiness’ and [were] prepared to launch an attack by June or at a
later date. In other words, the decision to launch the attack [had] not
been made" (Chossudovsky: May 2005)...

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Twenty-Three Intel Experts Say LA Terror Plot a Sham
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com
Following yesterday's highly suspiciously timed announcement that the US
government had foiled a 2002 terror plot against the Los Angeles Library
Tower, intelligence experts and White House reporters have uniformly
debunked the story. As we reported yesterday, in an orchestrated set-up,
George W. Bush announced that a plan to fly a plane into the LA Library
Tower was thwarted in 2002 and within minutes news networks were sho! wing
footage of the same building being destroyed in the movie Independence
Day...

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200 Insiders Against the World
Inside the Global Dominance Group
PETER PHIILLIPS
The leadership class in the US is now dominated by a neo-conservative group
of some 200 people who have the shared goal of asserting US military power
worldwide. This Global Dominance Group, in cooperation with major military
contractors, has become a powerful force in military unilateralism and US
political processes. A long thread of sociological research documents the
existence of a dominant ruling class in the US, whic! h sets policy and
determines national political priorities. C. Wright Mills, in his 1956 book
on the power elite, documented how World War II solidified a trinity of
power in the US that comprised corporate, military and government elites in
a centralized power structure working in unison through "higher circles" of
contact and agreement...

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Hinchey Statement On News Report That Cheney Authorized
Congressman Maurice Hinchey, OrbStandard.com
Today's revelation in National Journal that Vice President Cheney and other
White House superiors authorized Scooter Libby to disclose classified
information to the news media in order to defend the Administration's use
of pre-war intelligence on Iraq is alarming. That the vice president would
put his own political gain before the safety and security of the American
people by approving the release of classified in! formation to the press
warrants a full congressional investigation, including testimony from the
vice president himself...

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War Crimes and Commanders-in-Chief
George Bush and Tomoyuki Yamashita
DAVE LINDORFF
It's pretty easy to trace the war crime of torture in Iraq, Afghanistan and
Guantanamo Bay back to the Oval Office. The memos are all there. But George
Bush is guilty of worse war crimes than torture, bad as torture may be. He
is also guilty of violating another Geneva Convention involving the
protection of non-combatants. The U.S. military has violated a number of
basic international rules of war in Iraq and Afghanista! n, not even
counting the biggest one--starting an unprovoked war of aggression. For
starters, there was the much-touted "Shock&Awe" campaign of aerial
bombardment of Baghdad, which targeted markets, targeted sites located in
residential districts, and which used weapons in an urban setting--depleted
uranium shells, anti-personnel bombs, incendiary bombs, etc.--which were
guaranteed to kill many civilians, and which in many cases are banned, or
banned in such situations...

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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2006
Today in Iraq
Gunmen shot dead Sunni tribal leader Rashid Safi and four of his relatives
after a funeral on Tuesday. The bodies were discovered in a garbage dump.
Two bodies found riddled with bullets and dumped in south Baghdad. One man
killed and two wounded when gunmen open fire on a group of Shi’ites in al
Amiriya district west of Baghdad. Police pursued two men trying to plant a
roadside bomb in Dura. They wounded one and the second one committed
suicide. Eight p! eole wounded by roadside bomb in al Muqdadiya...

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THE REAL ENEMY
Malcom Lagauche
...I would like to send a message to the Muslims who are outraged by the
cartoon of the prophet. In the long run, the cartoonist is about as
significant as a pimple on a pig’s ass. The real danger is monstrous: the
hatred of Muslims and Arabs in the U.S. It is encompassing. Don’t lose
sight of the real problem. Vent your anger with the cartoonist, but save
your real actions for those who invade your countries and the stooges who
support them, such as King Abdullah, Hosni Mubarak, th! e Saudi and Kuwaiti
royal families and the stooges now operating Iraq. They offer much more
harm to Islam than any cartoonist...

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We Lost Iraqi Hearts and Minds Long Before the Current Occupation
Bert Sacks, Seattle Times (Washington)
I recently attended an alumni meeting in Seattle of a well-known East Coast
college. The president of the college spoke and a hundred alumni came to
listen. I used the chance to speak to several of them about something I
know well from my nine trips to Iraq: the 12 years of U.N. and U.S.
economic sanctions on Iraq, reinstated after the Gulf War in 1991 and
ending with this war in 2003.
It was enlightening (...) Then I spoke with two more alumni, one a former
Marine on his way to fish in the Caribbean. When I spoke about 500,000 dead
Iraqi children, I felt I'd breached an unspoken rule of etiquette: One just
doesn't talk about our responsibility for dead Iraqi children. The talk
quickly went back to fishing...

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Bush Recycles Terror Plot Disinfo in the Nick of Time
Kurt Nimmo, Another day in the empire
In a brazen effort to divert attention away from the lukewarm grilling of
the Straussian neocons over the massive NSA violations of the Fourth
Amendment, Bush "defended his anti-terrorist policies anew today, asserting
that the United States and its allies had foiled a terrorist plot meant to
bring down a Los Angeles building that is the tallest in the United States
west of the Mississippi River," according to the New York! Times. "Osama
bin Laden himself was involved in the plot, which was to be carried out by
Southeast Asian men on the assumption that they would not arouse as much
suspicion as Middle Easterners, Mr. Bush told the National Guard
Association"...

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