Yacht owned by defense contractor docked at Cunningham's slip North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest Riverside County News: "A defense contractor whose real estate dealings with Rep. Randy 'Duke' Cunningham have raised ethical questions has another connection to Cunningham: He owns a boat docked at a Washington yacht club ---- a boat on which Cunningham stays while working in the Capitol."

Project for an Accountable Congress: Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH)

TimesDispatch.com | Psychological warfare effort to be outsourced: "Federal law prohibits sending propaganda to Americans, and some experts worry that psychological warfare messages, especially disinformation efforts, might blow back to American audiences via the Internet and satellite news channels.
'In this age of the Internet and instant access, it's of great concern,' said Nancy Snow, a propaganda expert at California State University-Fullerton. 'If you plant false stories, how can you control where that story goes? You can't.'
Others question whether the money could be better spent.
So far, said defense analyst William Arkin, American propaganda efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan have 'produced nothing positive and nothing negative.' He suggested the $100 million might be better spent on guns and bullets."

Ex-White House Official to Join Fuel Co. - Yahoo! News: "A former White House official and one-time oil industry lobbyist whose editing of government reports on climate change prompted criticism from environmentalists will join Exxon Mobil Corp., the oil company said Tuesday. "

Beacon Journal | 06/13/2005 | Officers say arms can't end Iraq war: "Lt. Col. Frederick P. Wellman, who works with the task force overseeing the training of Iraqi security troops, said the insurgency doesn't seem to be running out of new recruits, a dynamic fueled by tribal members seeking revenge for relatives killed in fighting.
``We can't kill them all,'' Wellman said. ``When I kill one I create three.''"

U.S. Campaign Produces Few Convictions on Terrorism Charges: "Those statistics have been used repeatedly by Bush and other administration officials, including Gonzales and his predecessor, John D. Ashcroft, to characterize the government's efforts against terrorism.
But the numbers are misleading at best."

Memo: U.S. Lacked Full Postwar Iraq Plan: "A briefing paper prepared for British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top advisers eight months before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq concluded that the U.S. military was not preparing adequately for what the British memo predicted would be a 'protracted and costly' postwar occupation of that country."

Cabinet Office paper: Conditions for military action - Sunday Times - Times Online

More babies, young kids going hungry in US - Yahoo! News: "In 2003, 11.2 percent of families in the United States experienced hunger, compared with 10.1 percent in 1999, according to most recent official figures"

Ministers were told of need for Gulf war �excuse� - Sunday Times - Times Online: "The briefing paper, for participants at a meeting of Blair's inner circle on July 23, 2002, said that since regime change was illegal it was "necessary to create the conditions" which would make it legal."

2005.06.09: Impeach Bush Now!: "Downing St. Memo is Evidence for Bush Impeachment"

Bush Aide Softened Greenhouse Gas Links to Global Warming - New York Times: "A White House official who once led the oil industry's fight against limits on greenhouse gases has repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play down links between such emissions and global warming"

Drug Safety Panel Is Criticized: "The new drug safety board established by the Food and Drug Administration to restore confidence in the nation's drug supply will actually set back efforts to improve the safety of the medications Americans take and will not make it any easier to take dangerous drugs off the market"

toledoblade.com: "Workers' comp bureau concealed $215M loss; Taft, Petro knew about fund's woes many months ago"

Consortiumnews.com: "To some extent, the news media's reluctance to solve the Mystery of Bush's Iraq War Lies may be explained by a well-founded fear of retaliation from Bush's powerful defense apparatus - from the Wall Street Journal's editorial page to the screamers on Fox News and right-wing talk radio.
But there may be another motive, a fear of the logical consequence that would follow a conclusion that Bush willfully deceived the American people into a disastrous war that has killed almost 1,700 American soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis.
If that conclusion were to be accepted as true, it would force mainstream editors into a tough decision about whether they should join the supposedly fringe position advocating Bush's impeachment.
Certainly, the ignominy of impeachment would stand out as a logical remedy for a leader who so grievously violated the public trust and sent so many American soldiers to unnecessary deaths."

Costs of Marijuana Prohibition: Economic Analysis

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Abuse, Dismission Provoke Shame in Nation | theledger.com

Analysts Behind Iraq Intelligence Were Rewarded: "Two Army analysts whose work has been cited as part of a key intelligence failure on Iraq -- the claim that aluminum tubes sought by the Baghdad government were most likely meant for a nuclear weapons program rather than for rockets -- have received job performance awards in each of the past three years, officials said."

Scandal rocks Ohio GOP insider / He can't account for millions state put in his rare coin fund: "Noe's lawyers said as much as $13 million of the state's $50 million investment in his funds cannot be accounted for. Noe, meanwhile, has become the focus of at least six investigations or audits involving either his handling of the coin investments or his campaign fund raising. Federal investigators are also looking into his contributions to President Bush in 2004, when he was a 'pioneer' for Bush, raising more than $100,000.
And suddenly, Republicans who once stood staunchly at Noe's side, and at his fund-raising parties, can't seem to run away fast enough from him. "