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Bush Nominates Federal Judge Roberts President Bush chose federal appeals court judge John G. Roberts Jr. on Tuesday as his first nominee for the Supreme Court, selecting a rock solid conservative whose nomination could trigger a tumultuous battle over the direction of the nation's highest court, senior administration officials said....
Posted: Tue, Jul 19, 2005 5:00pm PDT
The NOC Program: A Look at Valerie Plame's "Nonofficial Cover" as a CIA Operative As pressure mounts for President Bush to fire senior adviser Karl Rove for his role in the outing of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame, we take a look at her reported work as a "NOC" - "nonofficial cover". We speak with investigative journalist Bob Dreyfuss, the first American reporter to cover the CIA's Non-Official Cover program....
Posted: Tue, Jul 19, 2005 7:52am PDT
Gunmen attack convoy in Chechnya; agencies report at least eight killed ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP) - Gunmen attacked a two-car convoy carrying security forces in Chechnya on Tuesday and news reports said at least eight people were killed....
Posted: Tue, Jul 19, 2005 7:48am PDT
Beirut clashes follow Geagea amnesty At least one person has been killed and several others wounded in clashes that broke out in Beirut after the Lebanese parliament granted former militia leader Samir Geagea amnesty....
Posted: Tue, Jul 19, 2005 7:46am PDT
Insidious Karma Strange isn't it? Bush senior takes a shot at Phillip Agree two decades ago and the bullet seems to be headed for Bush Junior's right hand man, Karl Rove...
Posted: Fri, Jul 15, 2005 11:00am PDT
San Francisco Shouldn’t Homeport Iowa or Feinstein Senator Dianne Feinstein’s attack on the Board of Supervisors yesterday for barring the homeporting of a warship here revealed a profound disconnect between her values and those of the people who live in her native city. With the largest gay population per capita of any major American city, San Franciscans stand entirely opposed to any institution preventing LGBTQ people from openly declaring and living out their identity. Historically, our city can be cited as one of the most vehemently anti...
Posted: Fri, Jul 15, 2005 6:23am PDT
Bush administration refuses to relinquish US control of Internet A statement published by the US government last week reverses previous promises to relinquish control of the Internet’s Domain Name and Addressing System (DNS) and transfer it to an international body....
Posted: Fri, Jul 15, 2005 6:16am PDT
Bush admin may be responsible for botching effort to thwart London bombing ABC News just reported that the British authorities say they have evidence that the London attacks last week were an operation planned by Al Qaeda for the last two years. This was an operation the Brits thought they caught and stopped in time, but they were wrong. The piece of the puzzle ABC missed is that this is an operation the Bush administration helped botch last year....
Posted: Fri, Jul 15, 2005 6:12am PDT
Rove Deathwatch, the home game. We know it is going to happen, the question is when.
Can you guess the correct date and time of Karl Rove's political demise?...
Posted: Thu, Jul 14, 2005 1:26pm PDT
BTL:Despite Earlier Denials, Presidential Adviser Karl Rove Played Key Role in... ...Illegal Disclosure of CIA Agent's Identity ~ Interview with Robert Jensen, professor of journalism at the University of Texas, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, Jul 14, 2005 6:27am PDT
How the U.S. Exposed Thousands of Americans to Lethal Bacteria to Test Biological Warfare The Homeland Security Department last month released what they said was nontoxic gas into New York's Grand Central Station to trace how chemicals might flow through the terminal in a terrorist attack. We speak with biological and chemical terrorism expert Leonard Cole, who asks what this "nontoxic gas" actually was. He wrote a book about how - in the 1950s and 1960s, U.S. government scientists ran a series of tests to determine how easy it would be to expose large numbers of people ...
Posted: Wed, Jul 13, 2005 8:37pm PDT
Karl Rove character assassinated JH Hatfield, author of "Fortunate Son" Karl Rove was one of Hatfields' sources for the story of Bush's 1972 cocaine arrest described in "Fortunate Son". See book at: www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-84-0 - 11k...
Posted: Wed, Jul 13, 2005 10:03am PDT
London bombings: Why does Blair oppose an inquiry into intelligence failures? Speaking in Parliament this week, Prime Minister Tony Blair rejected demands from the Conservative Party opposition for an inquiry into the July 7 London bombings that have so far have resulted in 52 confirmed deaths....
Posted: Wed, Jul 13, 2005 6:49am PDT
Exposure of Rove’s lies throws Bush White House into crisis The Bush White House has been plunged into political crisis by the confirmation of widespread suspicions that chief Bush political strategist Karl Rove was one of the officials who revealed the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame. The exposure of Plame was part of a “dirty tricks” campaign to discredit Plame’s husband, Joseph Wilson, a former ambassador who became a prominent critic of US policy in Iraq....
Posted: Wed, Jul 13, 2005 6:48am PDT
G8 Protest: OOPS! SF cops admit they "might" have arrested the wrong people the sf chronicle reported today on their website that the police have stated that they may have arrested the wrong people....
Posted: Tue, Jul 12, 2005 11:45am PDT
Henry Waxman on Karl Rove: "The President Said He Would Fire Anybody He Found Responsible In Washington calls are intensifying for President Bush's chief advisor Karl Rove to resign because of his role in the outing of undercover CIA operative, Valerie Plame. We speak with Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) who is calling for Congressional hearings into Rove's role as well as journalist David Corn of The Nation....
Posted: Tue, Jul 12, 2005 7:35am PDT
San Francisco Bay Area Muslims Condemn Terrorism in the Name of Islam - Press Conference In an hour long noon time press conference at the Islamic Center of San Francisco, one day after the London Train and Bus Bombings, All muslim organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area were joined by leaders of the Jewish, Christian and other Interfaith communities to jointly condemn yesterday's terrorism....
Posted: Fri, Jul 8, 2005 1:25pm PDT
Green Party Calls For Open Source Voting Systems GREEN ACTION ALERT: Open-source Voting Equipment...
Posted: Fri, Jul 8, 2005 6:08am PDT
Veterans Group Issues "Declaration ofImpeachment" VFP issues call for impeachment and online petition....
Posted: Wed, Jul 6, 2005 6:53pm PDT
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