Whatever Happened to Extraordinary Circumstances

By Bill Scher on July 17, 2007 - 1:05pm. I'll say this for Sen. John McCain. He thinks ahead. During today's Senate floor debate, Sen. Carl Levin urged McCain and his fellow conservatives to refrain from filibustering his Iraq proposal, and allow for an "up-or-down" vote.

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Christian Right Activists Disrupt Hindu Chaplain In The Senate | TPMCafe - Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4

Today was a historic first for religion in America's civic life: For the very first time, a Hindu delivered the morning invocation in the Senate chamber — only to find the ceremony disrupted by three Christian right activists.

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Senator's Number on 'Madam' Phone List - washingtonpost.com - Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4

Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) apologized last night after his telephone number appeared in the phone records of the woman dubbed the "D.C. Madam," making him the first member of Congress to become ensnared in the high-profile case

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Liberate With Extreme Prejudice: Another Civilian Slaughter in Afghanistan. D... (Comment, Write, Trackback, Comments, *)-Empire Burlesque - Chris Floyd Online - Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4

While the Anglo-American media goes into hyperdrive over a pair of utterly bungled terrorist wannabe attacks in the UK, the actual, highly efficient slaughter of innocent civilians in Afghanistan by American forces continues at a frenzied pace.

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How to run for a Republican presidential nomination

How to run for a Republican presidential nomination By Rick Perlstein on June 26, 2007 - 11:32am. Make up your ideology as you go along.

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Think Progress » Giuliani Skipped ISG Meetings For Motivational Events Featuring 'Christianity' And 'Pumping Music' - Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4

Giuliani Skipped ISG Meetings For Motivational Events Featuring 'Christianity' And 'Pumping Music'

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Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Bush Policy Detained in Iran

Excerpt: Blowback, Detainee-style The Plight of American Prisoners in Iran By Karen J. Greenberg

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Annals of National Security: The General's Report: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties. by Seymour M. Hersh

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FBI Finds It Frequently Overstepped in Collecting Data - washingtonpost.com

An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more than was documented in a Justice Department report in  …

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Bank Shot: Bush Shafts Enron's Victims

Wall Street's investment banks just got another one step closer to making defrauding investors an accepted line of business.

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Think Progress » BREAKING: Top White House Officials Subpoenaed Over Attorney Scandal

BREAKING: Top White House Officials Subpoenaed Over Attorney Scandal

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Last Plamegate Worry for Bush-Cheney By Robert Parry June 6, 2007

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Official: Cheney Urged Wiretaps - washingtonpost.com

Vice President Cheney told Justice Department officials that he disagreed with their objections to a secret surveillance program during a high-level White House meeting in March 2004, a former senior Justice official told senators yesterday.

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Documents Emerge Two Years After Col. Westhusing's Controversial Suicide in Iraq

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Washington X-ray

By Rick Perlstein on June 5, 2007 - 2:20pm. Personally , I find the Libby letters fascinating, an unmatched window into that most baffling of questions for ordinary citizens: how Washington thinks, especially, but not exclusively, its rightward precincts...

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Onetime Giuliani Insider Is Now a Critic

Jerome M. Hauer is questioning some of Mr. Giuliani's claims about his role in the Sept. 11 disaster.

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