TIME.com: Confessions of a White House Insider -- Jan. 19, 2004

Cost of War "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." President Dwight D. Eisenhower April 16, 1953

AlterNet: The Killer Among Us: "[T]housands of Americans may already be dying because of Mad Cow disease every year....At Yale, out of a series of 46 patients clinically diagnosed with Alzheimer's, six were proven to have CJD at autopsy. In another study of brain biopsies, out of a dozen patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's according to established criteria, three of them were actually dying from CJD. An informal survey of neuropathologists registered a suspicion that CJD accounts for 2-12% of all dementias in general. Two autopsy studies showed a CJD rate among dementia deaths of about 3%. A third study, at the University of Pennsylvania, showed that 5% of patients diagnosed with dementia had CJD. Although only a few hundred cases of sporadic CJD are officially reported in the U.S. annually, hundreds of thousands of Americans die with dementia every year. Thousands of these deaths may actually be from CJD caused by eating infected meat. "

Al-Ahram Weekly | Region | The 40-day prisoner: "'When I get home,' a sergeant [guarding the prison camp] told Mohamed, 'I will never again vote for George Bush.'"

The Power and Interest News Report (PINR): "it is becoming harder for the Pentagon to rely on an all-volunteer military force to handle White House foreign policy initiatives. Many soldiers in the military originally enlisted during times of relative peace and did not expect to be deployed for months at a time in the Middle East, let alone being placed in a country that is sending home body bags and stretchers on a consistent basis."

Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | Guantanamo Bay: a global experiment in inhumanity: "Worldwide, the experiment is becoming the norm. It has been estimated that at least 15,000 people are being held without trial under the justification of the 'war on terrorism'. They include more than 3,000 detained in Iraq after the war, of whom at least 1,000 are still in detention; an estimated further 1,000 to 3,000 detained at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan; and an unknown number being held on the British territory of Diego Garcia....It is of grave concern that the example being set by the US and the UK is being used to legitimise repression internationally on an ever-increasing scale. From China, which has imprisoned up to 100 Chinese Muslims without trial, to Uzbekistan (up to 1,000), Yemen (200), Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, India and Indonesia, this alarming lead is being eagerly followed. In Israel and Chechnya, there would be far more people in prison without trial had not the authorities there taken matters one step further and authorised extra-judicial killings. They were safe in the knowledge that the US government boasted last year of killing alleged al-Qaida members in Yemen."

Bias Issue Faces Judge in Monsanto Case: "A federal judge now presiding over a price-fixing case involving the Monsanto Company did not disclose to the parties in the case that in 1997 and 1998 he was listed as a lawyer representing Monsanto in a case that covered some of the same issues, according to lawyers and court documents."

Cover story: Top Secret: "In what may be one of Washington’s best-kept secrets, the volume of federal government information deemed confidential is three times larger today than just five years ago....Aftergood is suing the CIA, seeking information on the amount of government spending on intelligence. He doesn't want the details, just the overall budget figure. His request for information on the agency's 1947 budget was denied. The CIA argues that release of even half-century-old information will lead to a "slippery slope," said Aftergood, "and the next thing you know the names of our agents in Baghdad will be in the newspaper."

The Miami Herald | 12/03/2000 | IF THE VOTE WERE FLAWLESS... Gore would have had the edge in glitch-free Florida balloting, based on a Herald analysis

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Muddying the world's conscience: "In June, USAid, the body that coordinates funding for US overseas aid, ordered US NGOs to identify themselves more clearly as part of the US operation or lose their funding. A USAid coordinator, Andrew Natosis, said US NGOs should consider themselves 'an arm of the US government'....The choices are beginning to look stark for NGOs providing humanitarian relief in 'war on terror' conflicts - either act as sub-contractors for the superpower or pull out. "

PINR - Current U.S. Troop Levels in Iraq Are Unsustainable: "A report released by the Congressional Budget Office recognized...that the active Army would be unable to maintain current troop levels in Iraq 'beyond about March 2004 if it chose not to keep individual units deployed to Iraq for longer than one year without relief.' Indeed, the Pentagon will now be relying on reserve soldiers for combat missions rather than for their traditional combat support roles."

Farm-Raised Salmon Linked to Pollutants : "The study illustrates the different approaches to health advisories by the different agencies. While the EPA only considers human health risks, the FDA is required by law to consider a range of factors, including the economic impacts of its standards on the food production system."

Uncharitable Care: How Hospitals Are Gouging and Even Arresting the Uninsured

Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Candidate for the Democratic Presidential Nomination - A BuzzFlash Interview

Local briefs - newarkadvocate.com: "Orange alert costing Ohio taxpayers COLUMBUS (AP) -- The state has spent more than $210,000 over the past three weeks on security costs related to the nation's orange terror alert. "

Yahoo! News - Boondocks

Greg Weiher: the Bush Administration's Ongoing Intelligence Problem: "People of this suspicious bent suggest that the administration's grip on power depends on the perpetuation of fear of terrorism. No terrorist threat, no 'George Bush, Warrior Bureaucrat!'
Remember jet-pilot George, posing on the deck of a nearly-beached aircraft carrier in front of that 'Mission Accomplished' banner? Remember Thanksgiving-surprise George, parading through a Baghdad mess hall with a fake turkey? Is it possible that we're now being presented with orange-alert George, guardian of the skyways?"

KR Washington Bureau | 01/06/2004 | Underdog Kucinich campaigns philosophy: `anything is possible'

News: "How the war machine is driving the US economy
Military Keynsianism might get Bush re-elected, but it is starting to worry economists"

Prosecutors Say Bills Were Inflated For Anti-Drug Ads (washingtonpost.com): "'Parents: The Anti-Drug' says [one of the high-profile ads]. The American taxpayers footed the multimillion-dollar tab for the entire campaign, and now federal prosecutors in Manhattan are alleging that two top executives at the ad agency deliberately padded bills for some of the earliest ads. "

Bush in 30 Seconds

Yahoo! News - Iraq's Arsenal of Ambitions: "But investigators have found no support for the two main fears expressed in London and Washington before the war: that Iraq had a hidden arsenal of old weapons and built advanced programs for new ones. In public statements and unauthorized interviews, investigators said they have discovered no work on former germ-warfare agents such as anthrax, and no work on a new designer pathogen -- combining pox virus and snake venom -- that led U.S. scientists on a highly classified hunt for several months. The investigators assess that Iraq did not, as charged in London and Washington, resume production of its most lethal nerve agent, VX, or learn to make it last longer in storage. And they have found the former nuclear weapons program, described as a 'grave and gathering danger' by President Bush (news - web sites) and a 'mortal threat' by Vice President Cheney, in much the same shattered state left by U.N. inspectors in the 1990s."

Iraq's Arsenal of Ambitions (washingtonpost.com): "'91 Gulf War Crippled Baghdad's Ability to Build Nonconventional Weapons " Dog bites man.

washingtonpost.com: The Relatively Charmed Life Of Neil Bush

The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page: "If we've learned anything in this past decade, it's that the right-wing scandal machine will find a way to smear anyone, and that a lot of the media will play along."

The Sunday Herald - Scotland's award-winning independent newspaper: "For a story that three weeks ago gripped the world's imagination, it has now all but dropped off the radar. "

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Terror suspect turned out to be a Welsh insurance agent

Justice Could Decide Leak Was Not a Crime (washingtonpost.com)

Le Monde.fr : Emoi en Israël après le tir essuyé par un pacifisteNot reported in English: along with the Israeli veteran who was seriously wounded when Israeli troops used live fire against protestors on the other side of the Wall, an American woman was also shot.

Willie Nelson, Taking Bush to Task (washingtonpost.com)

Garfield Heights factory explodes : "Michael Harris, who worked at the plant for two months earlier this year, said small fires were 'pretty regular things' at the facility.... The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which monitors safety conditions at the nation's workplaces, has fined Garfield Alloys thousands of dollars since 1980 for nearly 30 violations of safety rules. "

The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page Our So-Called Boom

Environmental Working Group || BodyBurden: "In a study led by Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, in collaboration with the Environmental Working Group and Commonweal, researchers at two major laboratories found an average of 91 industrial compounds, pollutants, and other chemicals in the blood and urine of nine volunteers, with a total of 167 chemicals found in the group. Like most of us, the people tested do not work with chemicals on the job and do not live near an industrial facility."

Yahoo! News - Saddam was held by Kurdish forces, drugged and left for US troops

Rumsfeld Visited Baghdad in 1984 to Reassure Iraqis, Documents Show (washingtonpost.com): "Page A42 "

Hussein Enters Post-9/11 Web of U.S. Prisons: "The C.I.A. has quietly established its own detention system to handle especially important prisoners. The most important Qaeda leaders are held in small groups in undisclosed locations in friendly countries in the developing world, where they face long interrogations with no promise of ever gaining release. For example, at least two of the top Qaeda figures captured since the Sept. 11 attacks-Abu Zubaydah and Ramzi bin al-Shibh-were held for a time in a secure location in Thailand. They were later moved to another country, officials said. "

The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page The story about Halliburton's strangely expensive gasoline imports into Iraq gets curiouser and curiouser. High-priced gasoline was purchased from a supplier whose name is unfamiliar to industry experts, but that appears to be run by a prominent Kuwaiti family (no doubt still grateful for the 1991 liberation). U.S. Army Corps of Engineers documents seen by The Wall Street Journal refer to "political pressures" from Kuwait's government and the U.S. embassy in Kuwait to deal only with that firm.

After Cheney's Private Hunt, Others Take Their Shots

ON THE STANDS Just in time: George W. Bush GI Joke action figure.

The Pentagon Invades Your Xbox : "Can the day be far off when the Department of Defense gets a producer credit for a Paramount film and Kuma Reality Games is granted office space in the Pentagon?"

U.S.: Hundreds of Civilian Deaths in Iraq Were Preventable
(Human Rights Watch Press release, December 12, 2003) : "Every death of a civilian in wartime is a terrible tragedy. But focusing on the exact number of deaths misses the point. The point is that the U.S. military should not have been using these methods of warfare."

The Observer | International | Army shells pose cancer risk in Iraq: "Readings taken from destroyed Iraqi tanks in Basra reveal radiation levels 2,500 times higher than normal. In the surrounding area researchers recorded radioactivity levels 20 times higher than normal....

Tedd Weymann, deputy director of UMRC, said: 'At one point the readings were so high that an alarm on one of my instruments went off telling me to get back. Yet despite these alarmingly high levels of radiation children play on the tanks or close by.'

The amount of DU used during the Iraq war has not been revealed, although some estimate it was more than a thousand tons."

Israel Cultivates a New Breed of Tourist (washingtonpost.com): "Benny Elon, Israel's tourism minister..., who leads the country's most hawkish political party, Moledet (Homeland), embarked on a campaign to cultivate a new breed of tourist....

Jeff Reed, 38, of Newport News, who described himself as a "full Gospel, born-again Christian" with an interest in "remaining proficient with handguns," said he heard about Operation Shiloh while listening to G. Gordon Liddy's radio show...."Had I not had training before, it would have been almost culture shock," Reed, a former police officer and paratrooper in the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division, said...."

Oakland Tribune Online - Local & Regional News: "They're saying, 'Go after it, guys. We're back in the fifties. Come up with all the crazy ideas you can -- if there are any crazy ideas left out there.' This is fossil Cold War mentality surfacing again"

Yahoo! News - Bush Seeks Help of Allies Barred From Iraq Deals: "President Bush found himself in the awkward position on Wednesday of calling the leaders of France, Germany and Russia to ask them to forgive Iraq's debts, just a day after the Pentagon excluded those countries and others from $18 billion in American-financed Iraqi reconstruction projects."

Diebold e-mail discusses price gouging Maryland: "An e-mail found in a collection of files stolen from Diebold Elections Systems' internal database recommends charging Maryland 'out the yin-yang,' if the state requires Diebold to add paper printouts to the $73 million voting system it purchased."

PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column Diebold makes a lot of ATM machines. They make machines that sell tickets for trains and subways. They make store checkout scanners, including self-service scanners. They make machines that allow access to buildings for people with magnetic cards. They make machines that use magnetic cards for payment in closed systems like university dining rooms. All of these are machines that involve data input that results in a transaction, just like a voting machine. But unlike a voting machine, every one of these other kinds of Diebold machines -- EVERY ONE -- creates a paper trail and can be audited. Would Citibank have it any other way? Would Home Depot? Would the CIA? Of course not. These machines affect the livelihood of their owners. If they can't be audited they can't be trusted. If they can't be trusted they won't be used.

AlterNet: Baker Takes the Loaf: "In the case of Jim Baker, who will be acting as a de facto Treasury secretary for international affairs, our elected Congress will have no chance to ask him who is paying his firm nor even require him to get off conflicting payrolls."

Guardian | Israel trains US assassination squads in Iraq: "Israeli advisers are helping train US special forces in aggressive counter-insurgency operations in Iraq, including the use of assassination squads against guerrilla leaders"

Moving Targets: Will the counter-insurgency plan in Iraq repeat the mistakes of Vietnam?: "An American who has advised the civilian authority in Baghdad said, “The only way we can win is to go unconventional. We’re going to have to play their game. Guerrilla versus guerrilla. Terrorism versus terrorism. We’ve got to scare the Iraqis into submission.”...

Rumsfeld repeatedly criticized Air Force General Charles Holland, a four-star Special Forces commander who has just retired, for his reluctance to authorize commando raids without specific, or “actionable,” intelligence. Rumsfeld has also made a systematic effort to appoint Special Forces advocates to the top military jobs....The new civilian Assistant Secretary for Special Operations in the Pentagon is Thomas O’Connell, an Army veteran who served in the Phoenix program in Vietnam, and who, in the early eighties, ran Grey Fox, the Army’s secret commando unit....
The Special Forces in-country numbers are not generally included in troop totals. Bush and Rumsfeld have insisted that more American troops are not needed, but that position was challenged by many senior military officers in private conversations with me. "You need more people," the former adviser, a retired admiral, said. "But you can't add them, because Rummy's taken a position. So you invent a force that won't be counted.""

At present, there is no legislation that requires the President to notify Congress before authorizing an overseas Special Forces mission. The Special Forces have been expanded enormously in the Bush Administration. The 2004 Pentagon budget provides more than six and a half billion dollars for their activities--a thirty-four-per-cent increase over 2003."

Exclusive: Cheney and the 'Raw' Intelligence Cheney’s office has denied that the veep bypassed U.S. intelligence agencies to get intel reports from the INC. But a June 2002 memo written by INC lobbyist Entifadh Qunbar to a U.S. Senate committee lists John Hannah, a senior national-security aide on Cheney’s staff, as one of two “U.S. governmental recipients” for reports generated by an intelligence program being run by the INC and which was then being funded by the State Department. Under the program, “defectors, reports and raw intelligence are cultivated and analyzed”; the info was then reported to, among others, “appropriate governmental, non-governmental and international agencies.” The memo not only describes Cheney aide Hannah as a “principal point of contact” for the program, it even provides his direct White House telephone number. The only other U.S. official named as directly receiving the INC intel is William Luti, a former military adviser to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich

AlterNet: Good-bye, Mr. President: The Secret Resignation Letters: "letters written by disaffected members of the Bush administration who so disagreed with administration policies that they preferred the uncertainty of the unemployment line to toeing the party line"

Independent News: "Repeated visits to the scene, interviews with Iraqi civilians and US soldiers, and close inspection of the battle damage by scores of correspondents have failed to eliminate several troubling and crucial questions. Where are the bodies? Did they exist? Or was this death toll - as some suspect - a fabrication which was intended to generate positive headlines for the US, after a disastrous weekend in which guerrilla attacks killed 14 foreigners, including seven Spanish intelligence officers?"

A new era of nuclear weapons / Bush's buildup begins with little debate in Congress Congress, with only a limited debate, has given the Bush administration a green light for the biggest revitalization of the country's nuclear weapons program since the end of the Cold War

News: "Bush Baghdad trip distracts media from black sheep brother"

The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page Representative Rush Holt of New Jersey, who has introduced a bill requiring that digital voting machines leave a paper trail and that their software be available for public inspection, is occasionally told that systems lacking these safeguards haven't caused problems. "How do you know?" he asks.

An Aggressive Conservative vs. a "Liberal to be Determined": "a format where conservatives out-number, out-talk and out-interrupt their liberal opponents. "

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | How British charity was silenced on Iraq

FT.com / Rebuilding Iraq

HoustonChronicle.com - Neil Bush deals detailed in divorce records

HoustonChronicle.com - Neil Bush provides sample for paternity case

Channelnewsasia.com president's brother had agreed to strategize with China's Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp at the same time the Bush administration is trying to help US firms compete more effectively against the Chinese.

United Press International: The Bush family saga

U.S. Newswire - House Leader Tom DeLay's Political Fundraising in the Name of Charity Concerns Philanthropy Watchdog; NCRP Urges IRS to Deny Tax-Exempt Status

AM - US budget 'out of control': Wall Street bank: "'The only thing I can tell you is evidently the word 'tomorrow' no longer exists in the vocabulary of otherwise responsible members of Congress'. So says Warren Rudman"

Islamist Turks still blame West | csmonitor.com: "There was no such thing as [mass suicide bombings] happening in Turkey before the Iraq war."

Medicare Bill Would Enrich Companies (washingtonpost.com): "The employers would get $70 billion in direct payments and $16 billion more in new tax breaks over the next 10 years. Thomas A. Scully, administrator of the federal agency that runs Medicare, said employers 'should be having a giant ticker-tape parade.'...They requested what Scully called 'a modest buyout,' equivalent to perhaps $350 per retiree. The bill, he said, provides more than twice that amount, a sum 'way beyond their wildest requests.' "

A New Age for AARP: "AARP Services, Inc., makes millions in royalties ($123 million last year) from the sale of health insurance, and could profit from passage of the bill."

CBS News | NYT: FBI Watching War Protesters | November 22, 2003 21:06:20

U.S. Seeks Advice From Israel on Iraq : "Some U.S. officials acknowledge that they blanch at the idea of the Pentagon adopting tactics from Israel, a nation regularly criticized for security tactics it employs to battle armed groups it has never managed to quell....Indeed,...the Israeli army's...current chief of staff, Moshe Yaalon, along with a group of retired heads of the Shin Bet internal security service and even some active-duty soldiers say the methods have been unduly harsh and threaten to destroy Israeli and Palestinian society if no solution is found to the conflict. But such concerns have not slowed the flow of information between Washington and Jerusalem."

CIA Seeks Probe of Iraq-Al Qaeda Memo Leak (washingtonpost.com): "If they had such a productive relationship, why did they have to keep trying?"

* TELL US THE TRUTH *

U.S. Military Returns to War Tactics (washingtonpost.com):"In a...public relations push to highlight what it deems to be successes in Iraq -- he showed a picture at a news conference on Thursday of the shot-up truck next to two bodies covered by black shrouds.....'The Americans want to follow the Israeli plan,' said Hamed Hassan, an elderly resident of Hawijat Ali. 'It doesn't work there. Why will it work here?' "

Right, the war was over. Now we're starting it again. Dead bodies are great PR and proof of US success.

New Doubts About Bush Trade Agenda (washingtonpost.com): "President Bush's free-trade agenda is in serious danger of slipping into reverse as next year's national elections loom"

Tobacco-state lawmakers push last-minute buyout plan: "the quota plan is an 'ill-advised scheme,' R. Bruce Josten, executive vice president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, wrote in a Nov. 14 letter to House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill."

Why are the AARP Board and CEO Providing a Virtual Soft Money Ad Campaign for The Republicans? - BuzzFlash Reader Contribution "AARP, which formally unveiled its new headquarters building in downtown Washington last month, has softened its earlier militancy because it is preoccupied with its profit-making enterprises, including $100 million in earnings from the sale of insurance, mostly Medicare supplemental policies."

FT.com Home UK: "Mr Livingstone said that the cost of policing the Bush visit would add £2 to the average council tax bill in the capital. 'I think most Londoners would be happy to give £4 for him not to come,' the mayor said."

DeadBrain - News, Politics, Satire, Spoof, Parody and Humour

Interwebnet.org - Blair's Constituency Divided

The Observer | UK News | 'Shoot-to-kill' demand by US

Mirror.co.uk - BRITS ARE NOT ANTI-US..WE JUST DON'T LIKE BUSH: "But tone matters in politics and Bush's tone was that of an upright finger directed at the rest of the planet."

Macon.com - Your Macon Everything Guide: "Officials at Georgia Military College turned away reporters and photographers who were invited to hear a speech Wednesday by a helicopter pilot involved in the rescue of Jessica Lynch."

30 Media Outlets Protest Treatment in Iraq: "U.S. troops are harassing journalists in Iraq and sometimes confiscating equipment, digital camera disks and videotapes."

FT.com / World / US: "US multinational companies are 'acutely worried' about the business consequences of Bush administration foreign policy"

Jacksonville.com: Metro: Anti-Iraq war veterans pulled from parade 11/12/03: "veterans have earned a special right to have their voices heard"

Yahoo! News - Senate Begins All-Night Debate on Judges: "We confirmed 98 percent of President Bush's judges and all we got was this lousy T-shirt."

FAST FACTS: "The United States military has had to face troops previously trained by its own military or supplied with U.S. weaponry in Panama, Iraq, Somalia, Haiti, and now in Afghanistan. Due to the advanced capabilities these militaries have acquired from past U.S. training and sales, the U.S. had to invest much more money and manpower in these conflicts than would have otherwise been needed."

Yahoo! News - Some experts skeptical about US economic rebound despite solid data: "David Rosenberg, chief North American economist for Merrill Lynch, said a closer look at the data show most employment gains were in low-wage jobs, with incomes barely budging and some key economic sectors left behind.
'We don't mean to dwell on the darker side of Friday's nonfarm payroll report, especially since everyone is dancing around the kitchen table ... (but) we end up being a tad skeptical,' Rosenberg said. "

Army Times - News - More News An act of ‘betrayal’
In the midst of war, key family benefits face cuts

Spin of the Day

MoveOn.org: Democracy in Action FREEDOM AND SECURITY: a speech by the winner of the 2000 presidential election.

Vote count marred by computer woes 5,352 Indiana voters equals 144,000 computer votes.

Analysis of an Electronic Voting System

FrontPage - Diebold-CD Wiki "The only possible motive I can see for disabling some of the security mechanisms and features in their system is to be able to rig elections."

Salon.com News | Osama University? On Oct. 21, the House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill that could require university international studies departments to show more support for American foreign policy or risk their federal funding.

The Yale Herald - Nov 7, 2003 - Jerry's phat ('cause of all the ice cream): "He is currently embarking on the Pants on Fire campaign in which, to highlight what he claims are the lies President George W. Bush, DC '68, has told the country, he drags a 12-foot statue of Bush with flaming pants behind his motorcycle on various trails around the country."

POLITICS-U.S.: Feith is the Answer "(V)irtually everything that has gone wrong in Iraq -- especially those matters that Congress is either investigating or is poised to probe -- is linked directly to his office. ''All roads lead to Feith,'' noted one knowledgeable administration official this week."

A PDF of the original report finding fault with electronic voting machines. Abstract:
Recent election problems have sparked great interest in managing the election process through the
use of electronic voting systems. While computer scientists, for the most part, have been warning of
the perils of such action, vendors have forged ahead with their products, claiming increased security and
reliability. Many municipalities have adopted electronic systems, and the number of deployed systems is
rising. For these new computerized voting systems, neither source code nor the results of any third-party
certification analyses have been available for the general population to study, because vendors claim that
secrecy is a necessary requirement to keep their systems secure. Recently, however, the source code
purporting to be the software for a voting system from a major manufacturer appeared on the Internet.
This manufacturer’s systems were used in Georgia’s state-wide elections in 2002, and the company just
announced that the state of Maryland awarded them an order valued at up to $55.6 million to deliver
touch screen voting systems.1
This unique opportunity for independent scientific analysis of voting system source code demonstrates
the fallacy of the closed-source argument for such a critical system. Our analysis shows that
this voting system is far below even the most minimal security standards applicable in other contexts.
We highlight several issues including unauthorized privilege escalation, incorrect use of cryptography,
vulnerabilities to network threats, and poor software development processes. For example, common voters,
without any insider privileges, can cast unlimited votes without being detected by any mechanisms
within the voting terminal. Furthermore, we show that even the most serious of our outsider attacks
could have been discovered without the source code. In the face of such attacks, the usual worries about
insider threats are not the only concerns; outsiders can do the damage. That said, we demonstrate that
the insider threat is also quite considerable. We conclude that, as a society, we must carefully consider
the risks inherent in electronic voting, as it places our very democracy at risk.

Why War? Features Here's a link blogger dot com appears to allow.

: What Diebold doesn't want you to know about their voting machines: they subtract votes. "I have been waiting for someone to give me an explanation as to why Precinct 216 gave Al Gore a minus 16022 [votes] when it was uploaded."

Apparently Blogger dot com doesn't want you to know either as they won't allow the link to be published.