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Everything that's Wrong with the Media: Marc Ambinder on Why Progressives Are Always Wrong


So. Tom Ridge confirms what progressives have long known to be true. [Namely, Bush and his cronies conspiring to raise the Terrorist Threat levels so as to up the President's approval ratings and win elections.] Here's Marc "Divide the Baby in Half" Ambinder to confirm why you must never again rely on our "free press" to protect democracy.
Journalists, including myself, were very skeptical when anti-Bush liberals insisted that what Ridge now says is true, was true. We were wrong. Our skepticism about the activists' conclusions was warranted because these folks based their assumption on gut hatred for President Bush, and not on any evaluation of the raw intelligence. But journalists should have been even more skeptical about the administration's pronouncements. And yet -- we, too, weren't privy to the intelligence. (emphasis added)
Marcy Wheeler saw that one off in fine style.
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Hey, but what about all that "gut hatred"? Thers, writing at FDL:
There was always a certain inverted genius about the accusation. Because I did hate George W. Bush! But it was nothing personal. Strictly business. See, I thought, correctly, as it emerged, and as indeed was absurdly easy to figure out at the time, that George Bush was making up ridiculous crap in order to sucker the nation into a disastrous war that would get a lot of people killed for no sane reason. It seemed to me, not unreasonably, that someone who would do such a thing was kind of an asshole. And hence I concluded that George W. Bush was an utter asshole, as were his advisers, cronies, Sith-lords, sycophants, and Internet Fan-Base. They were all crazy assholes. And they still are!

But then these crazy assholes turned around and said to people like Armbinder, "these people are calling us crazy assholes. Isn't that rude?" And Armbinder by his own account nodded, and I dunno, rubbed his chin, chewed his cud, and decided that Civil Discourse requires that when one must consider the competing claims of those who dislike liars and say so, on the one hand, and on the other hand, liars, the only sensible way to come to a decision is to figure out who's nicer.

And since it's not nice to call someone a liar, even if they are a liar, it's kind of not a fair competition.

You know who was a real dick? That kid who said the Emperor had no clothes. What a presumptuous little shit.

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Thers wins the internets with that snippet of blog. Because goddamn it, it ain't like Bush broke every fucking law, American and International, in committing these war crimes:


Here's just a few of the facts of what CIA interrogators did in our name, just the ones that come from this IG report, as masterfully summarized by Glenn Greenwald:

• Threats of execution, using semi-automatic handguns and power drills
• Threats to kill detainee and his children
• Threats to rape detainee's wife and children in front of him
• Restricting the detainee's carotid artery
• Hitting detainee with the butt end of a rifle
• Blowing smoke in detainee's face for five minutes
• Multiple instances of waterboarding detainees, of the type we prosecuted Japanese war criminals for using:
• Hanging detainee by their arms until interrogators thought their shoulders might be dislocated
• stepping on detainee's ankle shackles to cause severe bruising and pain
• choking detainee until they pass out
• dousing detainee with water on cold concrete floors in cold temperatures to induce hypothermia
• killing detainees through torture techniques, whether accidental or not
• putting detainee in a diaper for days at a time to live in their own filth

On that last point, Digby notes that this could have been used in tandem with another technique we know about, the use of forced enemas, a particularly degrading technique, part and parcel of the humiliations heaped on prisoners that were psycho-sexual in nature. A lot of these stem from misreadings of books like Raphael Patai's "The Arab Mind," which presumed a host of dubious generalizations about Muslims and their predispositions, all of it willingly lapped up by neoconservatives willing to believe that their opponents were somehow subhuman. As if anyone would react favorably to being made to live in their own shit. These stereotypical projections that manifested themselves in essentially an allowance for torturing brown-skinned people have dangerous and deadly repercussions.
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And the CIA hiring Blackwater to carry-out extra-judicial assassinations of members of AL Quaeda is all perfectly reasonable and legal. (Are there ever judicial assassinations)


Yes, Blackwater. That same company responsible for Nissour Square. (WEhich atrocity somehow managed to miss me entirely. WTF?)


THE killing of 17 Iraqis at Baghdad’s Nissour Square by contractors (read mercenaries) of the United States military firm Blackwater on September 17, once again highlights the controversial role played by the hired guns of the occupation forces. Similarly, in the second week of October, contractors working for an Australian-owned security company, under contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), fired on a car carrying civilians. Two Iraqi women were killed in this incident.

The apparently unprovoked Nissour Square incident by Blackwater guards has enraged all Iraqis, cutting across the ethnic and political divide. Prime Minister Nouri al-Malki demanded $8 million in compensation for each of the victims and the removal of Blackwater guards from Iraq within six months. A government spokesperson said that such a high compensation was demanded because “Blackwater uses employees who disrespect the rights of Iraqi citizens even though they are guests in the country.” MORE


And this is just one of the long lists of Bush's crimes. But we liberals are just crazy with gut-hatred for that statesman, Pres. Bush. Doncha just LOVE the "librul" media?
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Keith Olbermann interviews Russell Tice - NSA Wistleblower - on Countdown Part One


Breaking: former-NSA whistleblower on KO says domestic spying much worse (How the NSA do it?)

Mr. Tice talked at some length about the difference between large-scale technical surveillance and more focused directed surveillance. If I've understood him correctly, then I think I can explain what he was talking about by using email as an example.

If you were interested in screening huge amounts of email, but didn't have the capacity to capture or store it all, you might decide to just content yourself with the metadata. Metadata is just "data about data". For instance, in the case of email, some interesting metadata might be: (a) what language it's in (b) the sender's address (c) the recipient's address (d) the length in bytes (e) the length in lines (f) what kinds of attachments, if any (g) what mail program was used to compose it (h) what the Subject line was, and so on.

This sort of metadata is relatively easy to extract and takes up a lot less room than the actual data: the metadata for an email message with 2M of photos attached might fit in 1K. (And this is the point where it should dawn on you that similar metadata exists for faxes, phone calls, and every other electronic form of communication.)MORE



Russel Tice on Countdown with Olbermann - part 2



NSA whistleblower Russell Tice on Countdown w/KO, Day Two (update X4)

Yesterday, Russell Tice appeared on Countdown with Keith Olberman (video) (transcript) to talk about large-scale surveillance and data acquisition conducted during the Bush Administration. I wrote about it here, gimmeshelter wrote about it here, and mcjoan wrote about it here.
Tonight, Mr. Tice was back and was joined by James Risen of the NYT.

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The two tiers of surveillance that Mr. Tice described consist of all-encompassing metadata acquisition and more tightly focused data acquisition. Here's an example of how that might work (using email to illustrate, as I did yesterday): suppose you know that The Bad Guys all picked up a certain brand of cheap digital camera and that's what they're using to take pictures of potential targets and share them. Suppose that this particular model of camera has a default setting of 1846x948 pixels, and suppose that The Bad Guys are transferring these files around via email, using accounts on free mail providers like Yahoo and Hotmail and Gmail.

What might happen is that somebody writes an algorithm that looks at all the email and flags anything that is to a free mail provider, from a free mail provider, has attached photos, and has attached photos that are 1846x948. That's the first tier, based entirely on metadata.

Whenever a message is found that matches those criteria, the sender and recipient(s) are noted and from then on, everything they send or receive gets vacuumed up. And that extends way beyond email: if the sender's phone number or fax number or IM account or anything else can be identified, then everything associated with those gets included too. And per Mr. Tice's comments about pulling in data from external databases: their credit card records, their bank records, everything else.
That's the second tier, where every scrap of data is picked up.

Which means that if you happened to buy the same cheap digital camera as The Bad Guys and you happen to use Gmail, you're going to be swept up by that same algorithm and all of your data will be given the same special attention as theirs.MORE


James Risen on Countdown with Keith Olbermann


In addition to his two interviews with NSA whistle blower Russell Rice, Olbermann also had on NY Times journalist James Risen who first broke the story about this program in 2005.



Of Privacy, Terrorist Surveillance and Data Mining (v2.0)

?While the NSA and DHS do have not to date publicly discussed the specifics of their surveillance programs, we now have a whistle blower confirming that they do indeed exist, and that they are using machine learning and data mining techniques.

The sort of automated machine learning techniques that appear to be utilized by the NSA are are fairly common these days; on-line retailers use them to detect fraud, credit card companies use them to detect stolen cards, lenders (whether they actually use the results or not) use them to determine loan risks, and advertisers use them extensively to target ads.MORE



Questions to Ponder: The Societal Ramifications of Government Data Mining

What happens, as a society, to us when our expectation of privacy is degraded, knowing that there is at least a chance that any electronic communication will be viewed by a stranger, let alone the government? How does the change in expectation of privacy change how we view ourselves? Our other views on our expectations of privacy? Our other freedoms? Other people's freedoms?

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With the technical and non-technical (e.g., political, organizational, people level security, etc.) considerations taken into account, how does one prevent blackmail situations? How does one prevent those who run the system from using the data for personal gain?

Who would have access to the data collected, or portions of the data? Does one have the right to view one's own data set? If so, can one ask that mistakes be corrected? Who is responsible for the correctness of the data? Would corporations be able to, in any manner gain access to the data? Could one be able to look at a family member's data? A friend's? A stranger's? Could the data be sold? Could the data be subpoenaed in non-terrorist criminal and civil proceedings? Could it be used for as the basis for credit ratings? Could it be used by the IRS? By debt collectors? Could the military use it in the context of "don't ask, don't tell"?

How does one secure the system from hackers? And not just the actual data repositories, but also, the collection taps and the communication between those taps and the repositories. Compromising such a system would become the Holy Grail of identity thieves. Such a system would also become the primary target in e-warfare; a centralized repository with that level of information about every single US citizen would be irresistible. Computer security is a never ending competition in which the good guys can never loose a single round, but the bad guys only need to win once to achieve victory. Are we willing to take the risk of massive data theft inherent in having such a system?MORE



Will someone please explain to me why this story isn't headline news around the traditional media?
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Bruce Cockburn- The Trouble With Normal (3:35)

Strikes across the frontier and strikes for higher wage
Planet lurches to the right as ideologies engage
Suddenly it's repression, moratorium on rights
What did they think the politics of panic would invite?
Person in the street shrugs -- "Security comes first"
But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse

Callous men in business costume speak computerese
Play pinball with the 3rd world trying to keep it on its knees
Their single crop starvation plans put sugar in your tea
And the local 3rd world's kept on reservations you don't see
"It'll all go back to normal if we put our nation first"
But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse

Fashionable fascism dominates the scene
When ends don't meet it's easier to justify the means
Tenants get the dregs and landlords get the cream
As the grinding devolution of the democratic dream
Brings us men in gas masks dancing while the shells burst
The trouble with normal is it always gets worse
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Nazis in the military I'm so proud of my kills

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[Shawn Stuart, Iraq War veteran, at a 2006 neo-Nazi rally in Olympia, WA.]



Two years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center ran a devastating report describing the infiltration of neo-Nazis into the ranks of the American military. The Pentagon's official response was steadfast denial of the problem.
The SPLC's David Holthouse just published a follow-up report, and found, predictably, that the problem is getting worse as the conflict in Iraq drags on:
A new FBI report confirms that white supremacists are infiltrating the military for several reasons. According to the unclassified FBI Intelligence Assessment, "White Supremacist Recruitment of Military Personnel Since 9/11," which was released to law enforcement agencies nationwide: "Sensitive and reliable source reporting indicates supremacist leaders are encouraging followers who lack documented histories of neo-Nazi activity and overt racist insignia such as tattoos to infiltrate the military as 'ghost skins,' in order to recruit and receive training for the benefit of the extremist movement."
The FBI report details more than a dozen investigative findings and criminal cases involving Iraq and Afghanistan veterans as well as active-duty personnel engaging in extremist activity in recent years. For example, in September 2006, the leader of the Celtic Knights, a central Texas splinter faction of the Hammerskins, a national racist skinhead organization, planned to obtain firearms and explosives from an active duty Army soldier in Fort Hood, Texas. That soldier, who served in Iraq in 2006 and 2007, was a member of the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group.
I observed at the time that one of the uglier aspects of the presence of neo-Nazis in Iraq would be the behavior of American soldiers among civilians there: ... The source of the problem, as the report explained, was the extreme pressure military recruiters were under to fill their recruitment quotas. "Recruiters are knowingly allowing neo-Nazis and white supremacists to join the armed forces," said Barfield, "and commanders don’t remove them . . . even after we positively identify them as extremists or gang members." The military downplayed a neo-Nazi presence in the ranks, Barfield added, "because then parents who are already worried about their kids signing up and dying in Iraq are going to be even more reluctant about their kids enlisting if they feel they’ll be exposed to gangs and white supremacists."

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... This has the deadly potential to become a significant component of the predictable surge in far-right activity likely to manifest itself in the United States in the coming months and years, especially as Democrats and liberals expand their hold on power. We run the risk of re-creating the conditions that arose in Germany and Italy after World War I: the presence of scores of angry, disaffected, and psychologically damaged war veterans, fed a steady diet of "Dolchstosslegende," poised to organize into a political force aimed at "rebirthing" the nation and its heritage.

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iraqi journalist throws his shoes at Bush. calls him a dog.
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In October, it was reported that a damning documentary was to air on PBS, but, funnily enough, it was set to air after the Bush Administration had left office. Did PBS Bury an Expose on Torture? Then a week later, this explanation was offered, and the documentary finally aired. But it seems to have been buried under the election hoopla. Thanks to Glenn Greenwald's expose on John Brennan who is Obama's transition adviser re: intelligence policy, I found it again. It is now online. May I suggest...watch it.



Torturing Democracy



EDIT:And this is why I have trouble finishing the Shock Doctrine.

EDIT2: John Yoo, the Addington guy? Hague. NOW. Cheney and Rumsfeld? Right behind them. Pres. Bush? Straight Prison. Obama? DON'T YOU DARE LET THESE PPL GET AWAY WITH THIS.

EDIT3: The Spanish Inquisition? The SOVIET UNION? THAT is what the American models were? Backing out of the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war. Oh god. Oh god. And we want god to bless America?

A start. What will this mean in practice?
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International Criminal Court and Opposition to the Court


Arthur N.R. Robinson, President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, talks about the historical aspects of the attempts and the unified action of the international community to establish rules of behavior and the need for an International Criminal Court. Then, Executive Director of the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, John Burroughs, talks about the opposition that the George Bush administration has shown toward the International Criminal Court and the specific criticisms that have been levied against the ICC and the impact of this opposition to the ICC on global and American security. Series: Voices [2/2003] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 7070]


Oncology 101 and Colon Cancer in 2008


Dr. Andrew Ko of the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center explores how research and advances in technologies are impacting clinical care of colon cancer. Ko's research is in the development of new treatment strategies, including molecularly targeted therapies, for patients with gastrointestinal malignancies. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [8/2008] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 14831]

Treason

Aug. 5th, 2008 03:09 pm
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A month or so ago, Rep. Dennis Kucinich presented 35 articles of impeachment.

Since then we have learned...

More Suskind on Today Show: Evidence that "Bush committed an impeachable offense." (w/updates)

Bombshell: White House ordered forged document to sell war I have some more details on this story. Author Ron Suskind appeared on the Today show and said that Bush ordered the CIA to forge a letter after the invasion linking Saddam Husein and al-Qaeda, in an effort to justify the invasion after the fact. His new book is "The Way of the World."
President Bush committed an impeachable offense by ordering the CIA to to manufacture a false pretense for the Iraq war in the form of a backdated, handwritten document linking Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, an explosive new book claims.

Here's a link to video of the Suskind interview. Just hit launch in the corner.
There are two main points. First, Bush knew before he invaded that there were no WMDs and continued to lie to the American public and Congress. Many of us knew that (at least by now), but it's further evidence that Bush lied us into a war of choice, an illegal and immoral war.
Suskind says he spoke on the record with U.S. intelligence officials who stated that Bush was informed unequivocally in January 2003 that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction.
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Suskind reports that the head of Iraqi intelligence, Tahir Jalil Habbush, met secretly with British intelligence in Jordan in the early days of 2003. In weekly meetings with Michael Shipster, the British director of Iraqi operations, Habbush conveyed that Iraq had no active nuclear, chemical or biological weapons programs and no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
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Suskind says that Bush’s reaction to the report was: "Why don’t they ask to give us something that we can use to help us make our case."


Second, after the fact, Bush/Cheney ordered the CIA to forge a letter to justify the invasion:
"The White House had concocted a fake letter from Habbush to Saddam, backdated to July 1, 2001. It said that 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta had actually trained for his mission in Iraq — thus showing, finally, that there was an operation link between Saddam and al-Qaeda, something the Vice President's office had been pressing CIA to prove since 9/11 as a justification to invade."
He continues: "A handwritten letter, with Habbush's name on it, would be fashioned by CIA and then hand-carried by a CIA agent to Baghdad for dissemination."
CIA officers Richer and John Maguire, who oversaw the Iraq Operations Group, are both on the record in Suskind’s book confirming the existence of the fake Habbush letter.


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And then, of course, there is the Anthrax Killer. So a guy who was about to be indicted committed suicide, and therefore case is closed, right? WRONG!



Firedoglake points out just SOME of the questions that are coming to light...

-- Was Ivins, as Marcy and Glenn Greenwald have wondered, a conscious part of the disinformation campaign to convince Congress and the public to go to war with Iraq?
-- Did Ivins -- if he really was the anthrax killer -- have any co-conspirators, as the evidence suggests?
-- Why was security at Fort Detrick, home of USAMRIID, probably the nation's most sensitive and secretive weapons laboratory, so lax as to allow this to happen?
-- And finally (and perhaps most significantly), was the mere fact of this kind of weaponized anthrax's existence at Fort Detrick another example of the Bush administration's flagrant violations of international law?
You see, the process used to create this anthrax was in flagrant violation of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (more here). The United States is not just a cosigner, it is one of the chief authors of this particular international law, which has been in effect since 1972. Chief among its tenets is the prohibition against developing new biological-weapons processes.
The FBI's self-evident conclusion that the anthrax was produced at Fort Detrick is manifest evidence that we are violating that law -- and have probably been doing so for some time, even preceding the Bush regime.
Indeed, we've known since this spring that the anthrax was almost certainly produced there, when a Fox News report on a possible breakthrough in the case disclosed that "scientists at Fort Detrick openly discussed how the anthrax powder they were asked to analyze after the attacks was nearly identical to that made by one of their colleague

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Perhaps the most troubling aspect of the anthrax case is the one that emerges from the larger picture that has been taking shape in the years since the attacks: It is now perfectly clear that the attacks were used by the Bush administration to drum up public fearfulness to advance the "War on Terror" as a marketing device for a whole panoply of measures and policies, from the Patriot Act to the invasion of Iraq.
And yet the perpetrator of those attacks, it turns out, was a scientist on the administration's payroll. There is of course no evidence connecting Ivins with the BushCo "terra" marketing team beyond this coincidence, but this simple fact itself is reason enough for a full investigation.

Observe, as Blue Texan has, that the objects of the attacks were Democratic congressional leaders (Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy) and a major "liberal media" figure, Tom Brokaw of NBC. Perhaps it was only a coincidence that congressional Democrats and the media were going to be the Bush administration's chief obstacles in passing its initiatives under the rubric of the "war on terror".


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Furthermore, Glenn Greenwald documents even more questions:


The initial report from The Los Angeles Times' David Willman said that Ivins committed suicide "just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him for the attacks." But an article from The New York Times' Scott Shane this morning reported that the evidence against Ivins "was largely circumstantial" and that the "grand jury in Washington was planning to hear several more weeks of testimony before issuing an indictment." According to The Washington Post, Ivins enjoyed full-scale clearance at Fort Detrick as late as July 10 -- hardly what one would expect if the FBI were so certain that he was the anthrax attacker. And judging from an article in today's local Frederick newspaper, The Frederick-News Post Online, the FBI is still searching for evidence against Ivins, as they removed two computers from a public library there.M



One might also note, courtesy of Kevin Drum that


In the immediate aftermath of the 2001 anthrax attacks, White House officials repeatedly pressed FBI Director Robert Mueller to prove it was a second-wave assault by Al Qaeda....Mueller was "beaten up" during President Bush's morning intelligence briefings for not producing proof the killer spores were the handiwork of terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden, according to a former aide. "They really wanted to blame somebody in the Middle East," the retired senior FBI official told The News.



Oh, and Kevin Drum also reminds us that :

Bush Was Set on Path to War, British Memo Says



But behind closed doors, the president was certain that war was inevitable. During a private two-hour meeting in the Oval Office on Jan. 31, 2003, he made clear to Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain that he was determined to invade Iraq without the second resolution, or even if international arms inspectors failed to find unconventional weapons, said a confidential memo about the meeting written by Mr. Blair's top foreign policy adviser and reviewed by The New York Times.
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The memo also shows that the president and the prime minister acknowledged that no unconventional weapons had been found inside Iraq. Faced with the possibility of not finding any before the planned invasion, Mr. Bush talked about several ways to provoke a confrontation, including a proposal to paint a United States surveillance plane in the colors of the United Nations in hopes of drawing fire, or assassinating Mr. Hussein.


To make matters worse, there's also the <http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_07/014207.php">planning for Iran:

[A] lesson was learned in the incident: The public had supported the idea of retaliation, and was even asking why the U.S. didn't do more. [A former senior intelligence] official said that, a few weeks later, a meeting took place in the Vice-President's office. "The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington," he said.
The story contains no further details, but apparently that's not because Hersh doesn't know them. ThinkProgress asked Hersh about the Cheney meeting at a recent conference, and he said this:
There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don't we build — we in our shipyard — build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up. Might cost some lives.
And it was rejected because you can't have Americans killing Americans. That's the kind of — that's the level of stuff we're talking about. Provocation. But that was rejected.


Right then. Articles of impeachment against Bill Clinton were started because he lied about oral sex with his intern. Articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon were triggered by a breakin into the Democratic National Headquarter. WTF DOES PRES BUSH HAVE TO DO????
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9 Republicans vote for IMPEACHMENT hearings


In a stunning development which fell with the silence of a feather yesterday, 9 Republicans broke with their iron-fisted party to put country first, and voted to send Rep. Dennis Kucinich's article of impeachment HR 1345 to the Judiciary, where Chairman John Conyers will hold a hearings on abuses of power by the Bush administration, according to the Congressional Quaterly's CQToday. Ten Republicans abstained in this critical moment, while only 5 Dems did. The vote was neck and neck at many moments, with "Nays" pulling ahead twice.

Those Republicans are (Yea 238 - Nay 180):

Congressman Kevin Brady (TX)
Congressman Wayne Gilchrest (MD)
Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC)
Representative Don Manzullo (IL)
U.S. Congressman Tim Murphy(PA)
Congressman Ron Paul (TX)
Congressman Dave Reichert (WA)
Congressman Christopher Shays (CT)
Representative Mike Turner (OH)

One of the Republicans, Walter Jones, represents Camp LeJeune in North Carolina, one of the largest Marine bases in the country, and one which has borne heavily the sacrifice of the Iraq War.


Read more here and Go force the mainstream media to report this

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