AlterNet: The Secret in the CIA's Back Pocket: "the report is potentially very embarrassing for the administration, because it makes it look like they weren't interested in terrorism before 9/11, or in holding people in the government responsible afterward"

KR Washington Bureau | 10/18/2004 | As election approaches, U.S. troops experience difficulties voting: "U.S. service members based in Iraq and across the globe can't be confident that their votes will be counted in this year's presidential election"

In Court Clerks' Breach, a Provocative Precedent (washingtonpost.com): "The Vanity Fair sources do not deny the importance of in-chambers confidentiality, a lifetime obligation spelled out in the written code of conduct that all law clerks pledge to uphold when they come to the court. They simply felt bound by a higher duty.

'We feel that something illegitimate was done with the Court's power [in Bush v Gore], and such an extraordinary situation justifies breaking an obligation we'd otherwise honor,' one clerk told the magazine. 'Our secrecy was helping to shield some of those actions.'"

t r u t h o u t - GOP Faces 'Civil War' over Bush's Faith-Based Rule: "And for those who don't get it? That was explained to me in late 2002 by Mark McKinnon, a longtime senior media adviser to Bush, who now runs his own consulting firm and helps the president. He started by challenging me. 'You think he's an idiot, don't you?' I said, no, I didn't. 'No, you do, all of you do, up and down the West Coast, the East Coast, a few blocks in southern Manhattan called Wall Street. Let me clue you in. We don't care. You see, you're outnumbered 2 to 1 by folks in the big, wide middle of America, busy working people who don't read The New York Times or Washington Post or The L.A. Times. And you know what they like? They like the way he walks and the way he points, the way he exudes confidence. They have faith in him. And when you attack him for his malaprops, his jumbled syntax, it's good for us. Because you know what those folks don't like? They don't like you!' In this instance, the final 'you,' of course, meant the entire reality-based community."

Hiding Behind the Skirts of the Very People He Betrays, Insulting the Intelligence of America