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William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "President Obama is in the process of losing what may be the most important argument of his young administration. The argument is not about health care, bank bailouts, the economy, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, the environment or the auto industry, though arguments on these issues are indeed ongoing and hanging in the balance. No, the Obama administration is losing the argument about the past being less important than the future."

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Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: "By refusing to release photos of those tortured by US forces, Obama sadly continues yet another element of the Bush regime, organized around an attempt to regulate the visual field, to mandate what can be seen and modify the landscape of the sensible and visible. And equally important, as Judith Butler points out, the Obama administration's application of the state-secrecy privilege grants it the power to determine 'which lives count as human and as living, and which do not.'"

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"China is beginning to cancel Congress's credit card," he told Fox News on June 10. It "doesn't want to lend much more money to the United States and especially is worried about the Fed's policy of printing money to buy new debt."

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Hundreds of Thousands of Workers Will Lose Unemployment Benefits Soon

Workers laid off early in the downturn are soon to be left without the basic sustenance of an unemployment check.

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Mortgage defaults spread as even 'safe' borrowers falter

No longer is the real estate bust simply the result of exotic, subprime loans that doubled payments and blew up in homeowners' faces.

http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/2017811.html



Credit Losses Rising Anywhere and Everywhere

The delinquency rate on U.S. mortgages surged to a record 9.12 percent in the first quarter of this year. Late payments rose in ALL categories, including prime fixed-rate loans, the absolute "cream of the crop" in the mortgage world.

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A congressionally-mandated report by Inspectors General of five separate intelligence agencies confirms that the Bush administration carried out "unprecedented," massive surveillance activities beyond the warrantless wiretapping program that had previously been revealed.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/11/igs-massive-spying-program/



Bush Personally Ordered Visit to Ashcroft's Hospital Bed

George W. Bush personally ordered White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and Chief of Staff Andy Card to visit an ailing Attorney General John Ashcroft in the hospital in March 2004 after Ashcroft's deputy Jim Comey refused to certify the warrantless surveillance program.

Just look at this profile in courage:
http://washingtonindependent.com/50466/bush-personally-ordered-visit-to-ashcrofts-hospital-bed



Keith Olbermann: Bush Authorized Illegal Surveillance Beyond Wiretapping?



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What Arias does say is: "This year alone, the governments of Latin America will spend nearly $50 billion on their armies. That's nearly double the amount spent five years ago, a ridiculous sum in a region where 200 million people live on fewer than $2 a day and where only Colombia is engaged in an armed conflict."

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By Tim Gatto

The truth is that political parties don't run this country, money does. Our entire political system is based on wealth. This has been true in some degree since the day we gained our independence, but it has never been as apparent as it is now.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23032.htm



Practically On The Table'

By Ralph Nader

Face it, America. You are a corporate-controlled country with the symbols of democracy in the constitution and statutes just that - symbols of what the founding fathers believed or hoped would be reality.

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By David Edwards and Ron Brynaert

When the committee was informed by Director Panetta, everyone was stunned across the board, Republicans and Democrats. As well as we should be in terms of having something absolutely concealed from all members of Congress. The top leadership of the Congress didn't know. So this is serious.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23030.htm

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More Democrats Call for Investigating the CIA

Alex Isenstadt, The Politico: "Calls for an investigation into the Central Intelligence Agency intensified this weekend amid revelations that former Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the concealment of a covert agency spy program from Congress. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) said that the Senate Intelligence Committee should 'absolutely' investigate the program."

http://www.truthout.org/071209T?n

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CIA lies

CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff

If this were the democracy that the Founding Fathers thought they were creating, word from CIA Director Leon Panetta that his agency had lied to Congress and specifically that it had lied repeatedly from 9-11-2001 through the end of 2008 concerning an as-yet undisclosed secret program, would have virtually every member of Congress in a state of rebellion, demanding answers...

http://counterpunch.org/lindorff07102009.html



Calls grow for probe of CIA al Qaeda program

MSNBC

07/13/09

Congressional demands for an investigation grew on Monday over new disclosures that a secret CIA program to capture or kill al-Qaida leaders was concealed from Congress for eight years, perhaps at the behest of former Vice President Dick Cheney. The program, which never got off the ground and remains shrouded in mystery, was designed to target leaders of the terrorism network at close range, rather than with air strikes that risked civilian casualties, government officials with knowledge of the operation said Monday...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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How Bush and Cheney Revived the CIA's "Murder Inc."

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... the CIA had conducted in the early 1950s ("Project Artichoke") to develop interrogation and mind-control methods while using human guinea pigs. ...

http://middleeast.about.com/b/2009/07/13/how-bush-and-cheney-revived-the-cias-murder-inc.htm

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THE CIA Assassination Program

By Adam Serwer

Siobhan Gorman reports in the Wall Street Journal that the CIA program recently disclosed to Congress by Leon Panetta was designed to target high-level Al Qaeda leaders for assassination--something the CIA has been explicitly barred from doing since the Ford administration.

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Stop The Presses! The CIA Lied

By Emile Schepers

The C.I.A. was invented to spread lies, and to do a lot of other, worse things. It came into being after the end of the Second World War, when U.S. foreign policy was revamped to fight the Cold War, started out lying and has never stopped.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23036.htm



Cheney, the CIA, and Congress: Now What?

By Mcjoan

Senators are shocked, shocked I say, to discover that Dick Cheney directed the CIA to lie to them about a post-9/11 intelligence program. Certainly no one could have foreseen that.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23037.htm



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