Friday

Yahoo! News - Expected Peace Appointee Is Criticized: "Pipes' appointment to the U.S. Institute of Peace would be akin to naming former Ku Klux Klan figure David Duke to a civil liberties post."
PAC actions net McCarty $2,000 fine "To this day we do not know where the $150,000 came from to pay for a campaign to overthrow three Supreme Court justices. This was a big thing. This was not a run for the dogcatcher of Podunk, Florida. This involved the election of the president of the United States."
News Leak Blows Big Opportunity "For all the hoopla over the case, the official confirmed, it was essentially a government-arranged “sting” that never involved any contact with actual terrorists."

Thursday

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Amateurish blusterer whose deal of a lifetime was doomed from the start So a guy walks into a missle factory...
ABCNEWS.com : Less in Missile Plot Than Meets the Eye? "Court documents show much of the case is based on the government's key cooperating witness, an informant seeking lenient treatment on federal drug charges."

Wednesday

Yahoo! News - Why Bush, GOP can block all inquiries: "When the Republicans ran the Congress and Clinton was in the White House, there was no accusation too small for them to pursue," says California Rep. Henry Waxman, the senior Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee. "Now that President Bush is in power, there's no scandal so large that they have any interest in examining it."
PhiladelphiaWeekly.com: "It's a sad day when even a dissenting opinion becomes an issue at a festival founded on the premise of rebellion and alternative ideas."
Hutton Inquiry Web Site
Yahoo! News - Poll Suggests Public Worried Over Economy: "Almost three-fourths of Americans think the current national budget deficit is a problem, a poll says."
Yahoo! News - Dead UK Scientist Believed Iraq Had Few Weapons: "(Saddam Hussein's weapons) program was small. He couldn't have killed very many people even if everything had gone right for him."
Yahoo! News - Virginia State Republican Chair Resigns

Tuesday

Newsday.com - Today We Face Another 'Watergate': "Now our lives as a free people are also being threatened by an administration bent on grabbing unprecedented power, a timid Congress and an uninformed electorate."

Monday

TSA in 'witch hunt,' air marshals say: "[To] invoke, or threaten to invoke, the USA Patriot Act, a law meant to battle terrorism, to target patriotic employees seems to be not only illogical, but a misuse of the law as well."
The Salt Lake Tribune -- Leavitt fights to keep rec shows All hail Bush's choice to head the EPA. The Outdoor Industry Association is voting with their wallet and planning to leave Salt Lake City after Gov. Leavitt gave millions of acres to the oil & gas industry.
Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Iraq dossier blow for Blair:
· Doubts raised by two more officials
· Kelly portrayed as key expert
· Words 'not wrong but lots of spin'
WhiteHouseforSale.org | Home Page
Yahoo! News - Deputy AG to Leave Justice Department: "Thompson, 58, joins a group of key figures to leave the Justice Department this year."

Sunday

The Observer | International | 'Bring us home': GIs flood US with war-weary emails: "The rules of engagement are crippling. We are outnumbered. We are exhausted. We are in over our heads. The President says, 'Bring 'em on.' The generals say we don't need more troops. Well, they're not over here."
Where is the money?: Your tax dollars at work.
Yahoo! News - Army Begins Burning Chemical Arms in Ala.: Army destroys evidence connecting Iraq WMD to US military.
AlterNet: IVINS: Government by Deception
MoveOn.org: Democracy in Action: "Millions of Americans now share a feeling that something pretty basic has gone wrong in our country and that some important American values are being placed at risk."
Iraqi Trailers Said to Make Hydrogen, Not Biological Arms
Boston Globe Online / Nation | World / CIA warned administration of postwar guerrilla peril: "The obvious critique is that they ignored this beforehand because it didn't fit their expectations.''
Yahoo! News - Depiction of Threat Outgrew Supporting Evidence