Interior Dept. Inquiry Faults Procurement (TechNews.com) Army's Abu Ghraib interrogators and Navy's Guantanamo interrogators were hired via IT contracts with the Department of the Interior.

Former CIA Director Used Pentagon Ties to Introduce Iraqi Defector

Ron Jacobs: Kucinich Surrenders: "the fact that the Kerry people fought even the inclusion of a statement that called the Iraq war wrong from its inception proves once again how little difference there really is in the campaigns of the two men running for president of the United States "

KRT Wire | 07/15/2004 | Civil rights panel says disenfranchisement of voters was deliberate

baltimoresun.com - DiBiagio voices frustration over pace of top cases: "Maryland U.S. Attorney Thomas M. DiBiagio has told his staff he wants three 'front page' indictments for public corruption or white-collar crimes by November and is frustrated with the pace of cases against elected officials, according to...two July e-mails and a staff meeting agenda, all written by DiBiagio."

U.S. Won't Turn Over Data for Iraq Audits (washingtonpost.com): "The Bush administration is withholding information from U.N.-sanctioned auditors examining more than $1 billion in contracts awarded to Halliburton Co. and other companies in Iraq without competitive bidding, the head of the international auditing board said Thursday. "

State Reports - Prisoners of the CensusMaps of 10 states by county and/or Congressional district, showing how the prisoner census shifts voting power from diverse urban precincts towards rural areas with a strong stake in the prison-industrial complex.

Yahoo! News - Fair Use Bill Gains Ground

Blackwell, Householder at odds over firings - zanesvilletimesrecorder.com Contracts released this week by Householder show the House Republican Campaign Committee -- funded largely by donations from GOP House member campaigns -- owes fired consultants Brett Buerck and Sisk $100,000 and $50,000, respectively, in severance pay.

Buerck and Sisk were fired by the caucus in early June, after they became centerpieces for federal and state investigations into alleged heavy-handed fundraising and campaign irregularities.

Paying the Price: The Mounting Costs of the Iraq War

The Washington Dispatch: "In the midst of our bloodiest war, the fratricide of the Civil War, Mr. Lincoln managed to get reelected. The "Greatest Generation" made it through WWII without having to alter the traditional, scheduled, legal election process. Throughout the Cold War we teetered on the brink of a nuclear war with the Soviet Union - yet we somehow maintained the regular, constitutionally mandated requirements of our republic. Nineteen hijackers, however, have turned the entire federal government inside-out (i.e. the creation of the Department of Homeland Security - the largest reorganization of the government since the Defense Department was created in 1948); suspended some of our civil liberties (i.e. the USA PATRIOT Act); and opened the door to the Trotskyite "creative destruction" embraced by the neocon chickenhawks who started whispering into President Bush's ear by midday on Sept. 11th."

Use this link: web.mit.edu/simsong/www/iraqreport2-textunder.pdf
to access a searchable version of the Senate's report on intelligence. It's a 14 megabyte file. Then search for "Feith" and read through the first item found to get this:
"The August 20th meeting is clear evidence of the Administration politicizing an
analytical process that should be protected from the meddlesome reach of policy officials."
And here I thought it was the CIA's fault. It's that durned liberal media!

Is Fabulous President George W. Bush a Fabulous Homosexual? Baptists Are Saving Homosexuals asks what conservative Christians demand to know

Telegraph | News | Fury over Pentagon cell that briefed White House on Iraq's 'imaginary' al-Qaeda links: "Mr Feith's cell undermined the credibility of CIA judgments on Iraq's alleged al-Qa'eda links within the highest levels of the Bush administration.
The cell appears to have been set up by Mr Feith as an adjunct to the Office of Special Plans, a Pentagon intelligence-gathering operation established in the wake of 9/11 with the authority of Paul Wolfowitz. Its focus quickly became the al-Qa'eda-Saddam link.
On occasion, without informing the then head of the CIA, George Tenet, the group gave counter-briefings in the White House."

Bay Area group in flap over anti-war billboard / Clear Channel kills nonprofit's ad for N.Y.'s Times Square: "I'm constantly shocked by how there is such an effort to really prevent people from contemplating the difficult issues of our time,'' Waters said. 'The message of the sign was trying to get people to think about this. And clearly, it's not what the powers-that-be want people to do."

HoustonChronicle.com - Reviewers of DeLay's ethics got his money: "Four of the five Republicans investigating an ethics complaint against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay have received campaign contributions from DeLay's political action committee"

MSNBC - Exclusive: Election Day Worries: "Ridge's department last week asked the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel to analyze what legal steps would be needed to permit the postponement of the election"

Kerry to Reach Out to 'People on the Right': "Kerry seemed unconcerned about antagonizing his liberal supporters"

Yahoo! News - Question of Pressure Splits Panel Democrats on the committee, while acknowledging that they had unanimously approved the report, said they disagreed with the conclusion that there had been no political pressure.