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Over the past decade Vibration & Sound Solutions Ltd., a small Alexandria defense contractor, has received a steady flow of federal contracts to work on "Project M" - $37 million in all from annual "earmarks" by Congressional supporters such as Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.).

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061906N.shtml

The vote was 93-6 to shelve the proposal, which would have allowed "only forces that are critical to completing the mission of standing up Iraqi security forces'' to remain in 2007.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5889377,00.html


From Information Clearing House

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/

Not only are America's prisons and jails largely failing the 13.5 million adults who pass through them each year, but the American public is also failing the prisons and jails, a bipartisan study group concluded in a report released Wednesday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060906O.shtml

On a voice vote, the House defense appropriations subcommittee passed a $427 billion measure for the Pentagon budget year that begins Oct. 1, including operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,100181,00.html


From Information Clearing House

06/07/06

When they're not lying, they're obfuscating. When they're not obfuscating, there's no comment, or the information is 'classified'. All through the cast of characters that comprise the Bush administration -- Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, Ashcroft, Gonzales, et al -- none of them have ever been open and honest about any matter of policy. And these are the people whose version of what happened on 9/11 has been accepted as the truth of the matter...

http://www.unknownnews.org/060607a-hh.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp