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CounterPunch
by Robert Fisk

06/11/06

So, it's another 'mission accomplished.' The man immortalized by the Americans as the most dangerous terrorist since the last most dangerous terrorist, is killed -- by the Americans. A Jordanian corner-boy who could not even lock and load a machine gun is blown up by the US Air Force -- and Messrs Bush and Blair see fit to boast of his demise. To this have our leaders descended. And how short are our memories...

http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk06102006.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Christian Science Monitor
by Daniel Schorr

06/09/06

There are leaks from the Ship of State, and then there are leaks. There are punitive leaks, like the outing of a covert CIA officer, whose husband had offended the White House by contradicting its position on Iraq's interest in nuclear weapons. There are public-spirited leaks by whistle-blowers, lifting the veil on secret prison camps and warrantless wiretapping. And then there are leaks of bogus information, sometimes called disinformation, intended to influence public opinion in some direction. Such a leak was the planting of information that Wen Ho Lee, a Taiwan-born nuclear scientist working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, had been identified as a spy for China...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0609/p09s02-cods.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.fredoneverything.net/Athens.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

MSNBC

06/11/06

The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman says he's prepared to force telephone company executives to testify about the White House's eavesdropping program if the Bush administration doesn't fully cooperate in drafting new rules on what's allowable. 'If we don't get some results, I’m prepared to go back to demand hearings and issue subpoenas if necessary,' Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said Sunday on CNN's 'Late Edition.' Specter said he was more hopeful, after talking Thursday with Vice President Dick Cheney, that committee hearings and subpoenas could be avoided... [editor's note: What is this "drafting new rules" stuff? The FIRST step is prosecuting the thugs, not trying to find a way to give them legally what they took illegally - TLK]

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13262308/