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New Docs Show Effort to Oust U.S. Attorneys

ABC News

08/11/09

Newly released emails from the Bush administration indicate that senior White House aides may have been directly involved in the firing of a U.S. attorney for apparently political reasons. The documents released today by the House Judiciary Committee suggest that the White House was angry at then New Mexico U.S. Attorney David Iglesias because he was not aggressively pursuing the prosecution of a Democratic congressional candidate...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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A Vindication for Iglesias?

Michael Isikoff, Newsweek: "The former federal prosecutor at the center of the controversy over the 2006 U.S. attorney firings said today that he feels fully vindicated by newly disclosed e-mails from the Bush White House showing that Karl Rove and his deputies were actively involved in arranging his dismissal from the Justice Department. 'This confirms my worst nightmares,' David Iglesias, the former U.S. attorney in New Mexico, said in an interview with NEWSWEEK. 'There were improper and potentially illegal - as in criminally illegal - reasons for my removal.'"

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Target Of Obama-Era Rendition Alleges Torture
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/08/11-8

Big Powers Faulted for Abuse of Geneva Conventions
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/08/11-3

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Obama asked Supreme Court to block release of Iraq abuse torture photos

This spring, a lower court granted a request by the American Civil Liberties Union, a US rights group, that the photographs be made public and ordered the Defense Department to make them available by the end of May.

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Government rhetoric on torture rings hollow

The evidence tells a very different story.
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Spencer Ackerman, The Washington Independent: "Even as a wrongful-death lawsuit moves forward against the controversial private security company formerly known as Blackwater, the firm seeks to renew its contract with the State Department to guard diplomats when the deal expires next year. And the State Department shows no signs of ruling the company out of competition, despite a high-profile incident in 2007 that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead."

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Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "Sergio Kochergin, back home from his second deployment in Iraq, held a gun in his mouth, trying to muster the courage to pull the trigger. Untreated post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and accompanying nightmares and insomnia, heavy substance abuse, and several failed attempts at self-medication had taken their toll on him."

https://www.truthout.org/081109A?n

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My 1933 Nightmare

By David Michael Green

Can we really live in a country populated by so many fools, people who can so readily, proudly and belligerently be made into tools of their own destruction? Can the greatest political, economic, cultural and military power on the world's stage possibly be so incredibly backward at its core?

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Joseph Stiglitz, The Guardian UK: "Questions are being raised as to whether the policy of jump-starting the economy through a massive fiscal stimulus has failed. Has Keynesian economics been proven wrong now that it has been put to the test?"

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Bob Egelko, The San Francisco Chronicle: "The Obama administration is fighting on multiple fronts - in courts in San Francisco, Washington and London - to keep an official veil of secrecy over the treatment of a former prisoner who says he was tortured at Guantanamo Bay."

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New York Daily News
by Mort Zuckerman

08/09/09

Obama’s spending and borrowing leaves U.S. gasping for air …. The unprecedented, improbable and indeed almost unimaginable global financial crisis has virtually put an end to the comfortable notion that American and Western capitalism would dominate the world economy. In turn, the financial meltdown threatening another Great Depression has been the rationale for a phenomenal expansion of government spending to prop up demand and fend off economic disaster...

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