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Libby was convicted of:
obstruction of justice when he intentionally deceived a grand jury investigating the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame;
making a false statement by intentionally lying to FBI agents about a conversation with NBC newsman Tim Russert;
perjury when he lied in court about his conversation with Russert;
a second count of perjury when he lied in court about conversations with other reporters.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/06/cia.leak/index.html
Bush fired lots of US lawyers then lied about the reason, then changed it
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Top_Justice_official_resigns_Top_House_0305.html
You cant shoot the flooding sea you dickhead
'It is a national security threat that is unique because there is no enemy to point your guns at and we have no control over the threat.'
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1153513,00.html
Britain is dull, its boring it has a more free press than the US and the TV news is not so dominated by a corporate bastard elite. We list our problems then ignore themhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/global/article1471409.ece?token=null&offset=0 ========================================== Secret Prisioners KHALED EL-MASRI, a German citizen born in Lebanon, was a car salesman before he was detained in December 2003 http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-elmasri3mar03,0,3264255.story?coll=la-opinion-underdog David Hicks - aussie held without trial http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/hicks-trial-at-risk/2007/03/04/1172943276209.html Road to Gitmo Clip here - 2 more terrorits or aid workers released, how likely are they to be deeply resentful of the US http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/03/03/two-more-former-gitmo-detainees-acquitted/ "They were talking about using sexual humiliation on these guys, or certain stress positions they had used, or in Afghanistan they would make the guy sit in the snow naked for long periods of time. They said that the detainees that they had were not covered by the Geneva Conventions, which I continued to hear in Iraq too." http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/torture/ Oh yeah imprision those kids baby, look to the UK please, due to overcrowdind we didnt imprision sex perverts but did imprision kids. http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2007/02/detention_center.html
Long term Psyke effects of torture, its not just harsh interrogation
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whistleblowers Retired Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski Blows the Whistle on Bush's Impending War With Iran http://www.holyshit.net/retired_lt_col_karen_kwiatkowski_blows_the_whistle_on_bushs_impending_war_with_iran Its not Just Walter Reed http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/04/AR2007030401394.html Mass firings of U.S. attorneys The decision to fire the U.S. attorneys en masse was made late last year by two top aides to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales—chief of staff Kyle Sampson and deputy A.G. Paul McNulty—according to a senior department official who asked not to be identified talking about personnel. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17438150/site/newsweek/?from=rss http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/3/5/115929/8429 Obama blew up stuff right http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/2001-days-since-911-a_b_42647.html ================================================ Faltering Allies A few days ago the chief of the Israeli police resigned after an investigation that found several of Israel’s highest police officers guilty of corruption and negligence. This came within a week of the forced resignation of Israel’s Chief of Staff from the military because of the fiascos of the second Lebanon war. It was also some ten days after Israel’s minister of justice was convicted of sexual assault while on duty, and a couple of weeks after Israel’s president – who holds a largely symbolic position – resigned temporarily following charges of rape and sexual misconduct. It was also the same day that the head of Israel’s tax authority resigned because of possible corruption charges. In the meantime, several other investigations are still pending, not least two or three directed at the Prime Minister himself, Ehud Olmert, concerning corruption and favoritism. And an appeal to the Supreme Court has already been filed against the minister of police’s choice for a new police chief – again, because of old charges of corruption of which the nominee had been acquitted only through a particularly narrow benefit of the doubt. http://hnn.us/articles/35958.html BBC silenced By Blair recently over Cash for Peerages scandol
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6425053.stm
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/alan_rusbridger/2007/03/common_sense_won_the_day.html
Good old English racism
Less than 4 per cent of the people arrested under anti-terror laws since the September 11 attacks five years ago have been convicted of terrorist offences,
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2332004.ece

http://alternet.org/audits/48829/
President Bush will get a good reception from the right-wing governments he is visiting: his close allies in Mexico, Colombia, and Guatemala. Colombia is in the midst of a huge national scandal over the responsibility of government officials for mass murder and assassinations of political opponents. More trade unionists are killed in Colombia each year than in the rest of the world combined. Guatemala is another right-wing ally with a terrible human rights record: two weeks ago three Central American parlimentarians were murdered by a Guatemalan police death squad. All three governments have been linked to narco-trafficking, but President Bush will likely praise them for their co-operation in the war on drugs.


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Its all about me, Gen Y and other such foolishness from old people
"Research shows [narcissists] are aggressive when they have been insulted or threatened," says Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University and lead author of the report, called "Egos Inflating Over Time." "They tend to have problems with impulse control, so that means they're more likely to, for example, be pathological gamblers [or] commit white-collar crimes."
http://alternet.org/story/48834/
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