Congressman Ney is at center of influence peddling scandal

U.S. threatens to cut aid over court / Congress wants immunity accords for Americans

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Two more top spies quit troubled CIA "Goss and his minions can do a great deal of damage in short order."

Ummmm, Dallas 21, Chicago 7: "The UN atomic agency is expected to let South Korea off the hook for making small amounts of weapons-grade plutonium"

The Columbus Dispatch - Election More voting questions raised

Yahoo! News - Guardsmen Say They're Facing Iraq Ill-Trained: "Some of us are going to die there, and some of us are going to die unnecessarily because of the lack of training,' he said. 'So I don't care. Let them court-martial me. I want the American public to know what is going on. My men are guilty of one thing: volunteering to serve their country. And we are at the end of our rope."

www.GovExec.com - I Spy Mismanagement (11/24/04)

Clear Channel billboard pictures Bush with the "L" word. You know, the English word that translates "Fuhrer" or "Duce."

From last night's "60 Minutes": Military analyst John "Pike says the military is trying to minimize the casualty count" by failing to include up to 30,000 wounded and ill in its casualty counts. "It’s an effort Pike believes is misguided, because he says that even if Americans understood the full human cost of the war, public support would not weaken.

'I think that all of the public opinion polling that we're seeing suggests that the public is prepared to sustain far higher casualties than politicians give them credit for,' says Pike."

One still holds out a faint hope that by "full human cost," he means the direct cost to US servicemembers, not the conservatively estimated 16,000 Iraqi civilians killed or the 400,000 Iraqi children suffering from wasting due to malnutrition.

Remember Afghanistan? "[T]his year Afghanistan has established a double record -- the highest drug cultivation in the country’s history, and the largest in the world....The fear that Afghanistan might degenerate into a narco-state is slowly becoming a reality as corruption in the public sector, the die-hard ambition of local warlords, and the complicity of local investors are becoming a factor in Afghan life.

The soldiers' story: the war the video cameras do not see