happy dance/headdesk
Dec. 2nd, 2005 02:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelidonI don't normally regularly repost truthout.org stuff here, figuring that if you wanted to subscribe to their news feed, you would have already done it. But this excerpted list of stories today alternately makes me want to run around dancing like a loon, and bang my head repeatedly into my desk (well-cushioned at the moment by stacks of pre-vacation paperwork). Maybe there are clues here to be had. Maybe this nation will continue to wake up and smell the fact that we're not standing in a garden of roses, we're standing hip-deep in an ever-deepening pile of bullsh*t. But you know, all this manure we're in makes me hope that with some more planting and tending, maybe before too long, we'll be back in a garden after all. May it be so.
Abramoff Corruption Scandal Grows
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120205I.shtml
Many forces are bearing down on Mr. Abramoff. Last week, his closest business partner, Michael Scanlon, pleaded guilty to conspiracy in exchange for cooperating in the inquiry, being run by an interagency group, into whether money and gifts were used in an influence-peddling scandal that involved lawmakers.
Fitzgerald CIA Leak Investigation Centers In on Rove
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120205J.shtml
A conversation between Karl Rove's lawyer and a journalist for Time magazine led Mr. Rove to change his testimony last year to the grand jury in the CIA leak case, people knowledgeable about the sequence of events said Thursday.
Possibly 100 Different Rebel Groups in Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120205K.shtml
The insurgency consists not of a few groups but of dozens, possibly as many as 100. And it is not, as often depicted, a coherent organization whose members dutifully carry out orders from above but a far-flung collection of smaller groups that often act on their own or come together for a single attack, the officials say.
2 More US Allies Departing Crumbling Coalition
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120205L.shtml
Two of America's allies in Iraq are withdrawing forces this month and a half-dozen others are debating possible pullouts or reductions, increasing pressure on Washington as calls mount to bring home US troops
Blair Faces Allegations of Complicity in Torture
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120205M.shtml
Pressure is mounting on the White House to answer claims that the CIA is using UK airports to fly terrorist suspects to secret prisons in Europe for torture.
Justice Staff Saw Texas Districting as Illegal
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120205O.shtml
Justice Department lawyers concluded that the landmark Texas congressional redistricting plan spearheaded by Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) violated the Voting Rights Act, according to a previously undisclosed memo obtained by the Washington Post. But senior officials overruled them and approved the plan.
Abramoff Corruption Scandal Grows
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120205I.shtml
Many forces are bearing down on Mr. Abramoff. Last week, his closest business partner, Michael Scanlon, pleaded guilty to conspiracy in exchange for cooperating in the inquiry, being run by an interagency group, into whether money and gifts were used in an influence-peddling scandal that involved lawmakers.
Fitzgerald CIA Leak Investigation Centers In on Rove
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120205J.shtml
A conversation between Karl Rove's lawyer and a journalist for Time magazine led Mr. Rove to change his testimony last year to the grand jury in the CIA leak case, people knowledgeable about the sequence of events said Thursday.
Possibly 100 Different Rebel Groups in Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120205K.shtml
The insurgency consists not of a few groups but of dozens, possibly as many as 100. And it is not, as often depicted, a coherent organization whose members dutifully carry out orders from above but a far-flung collection of smaller groups that often act on their own or come together for a single attack, the officials say.
2 More US Allies Departing Crumbling Coalition
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120205L.shtml
Two of America's allies in Iraq are withdrawing forces this month and a half-dozen others are debating possible pullouts or reductions, increasing pressure on Washington as calls mount to bring home US troops
Blair Faces Allegations of Complicity in Torture
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120205M.shtml
Pressure is mounting on the White House to answer claims that the CIA is using UK airports to fly terrorist suspects to secret prisons in Europe for torture.
Justice Staff Saw Texas Districting as Illegal
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120205O.shtml
Justice Department lawyers concluded that the landmark Texas congressional redistricting plan spearheaded by Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) violated the Voting Rights Act, according to a previously undisclosed memo obtained by the Washington Post. But senior officials overruled them and approved the plan.
