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White House Defense Crumbling in Leak Case

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White House Defense Crumbling in Leak Case

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102105I.shtml

Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald now knows that Vice President Dick

Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis " Scooter " Libby, met three times with

a New York Times reporter before the leak of Valerie Plame's identity;

that Libby initiated a call to NBC newsman Tim Russert; and that Libby

was a confirming source for a Time magazine reporter regarding the wife

of Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson.

 

Aide Says FEMA Ignored Warnings

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102105J.shtml

For 16 critical hours, Federal Emergency Management Agency officials,

including former director Michael D. Brown, dismissed urgent eyewitness

accounts by FEMA's only staffer in New Orleans that Hurricane Katrina

had broken the city's levee system.

 

Post-Rove Thinking Underway

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102105K.shtml

Out of the hushed hallway encounters and one-on-one conversations,

several scenarios have begun to emerge if Rove or vice presidential chief

of staff I. Lewis Libby is indicted and forced out.

 

Bush Steps Back from Commitment to Palestinian State

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102105L.shtml

President Bush conceded Thursday that Palestinians may not have an

independent state before his term ends in three years, as he had once

envisioned.

 

Tom Engelhardt | Name That War

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102105M.shtml

Tom Engelhardt writes that our President launched his war of choice in

Iraq, an invasion given the soaring name Operation Iraqi Freedom. What

followed - from the days of unrestrained looting after Baghdad fell to

the present violent and chaotic moment - has gone strangely nameless.

 

Joe Conason | Fitzgerald Is No Ken Starr

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102105N.shtml

With the mounting anticipation that Bush administration officials will

be indicted in the CIA leak investigation, Joe Conason writes that we

have arrived at the stage that was always inevitable: a wave of

preemptive attacks on special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald and his expected

prosecutions.

 

Water Privatization in Latin America

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102105O.shtml

Although transnational water companies have suffered setbacks in places

like Puerto Rico, Bolivia and Uruguay, they continue with plans to

appropriate the region's hydrological resources—rivers, aquifers, wells

and aqueduct systems. While " privatization " has become a loaded term in

the water business, companies prefer a softer discourse, employing

concepts such as " decentralization, " " civil society participation " and

" sustainable development. "

 

Cover-Up Seen as Focus in Leak Inquiry

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102105Z.shtml

As he weighs whether to bring criminal charges in the CIA leak case,

Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special counsel, is focusing on whether Karl

Rove, the senior White House adviser, and I. Lewis Libby Jr., chief of

staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, sought to conceal their actions

and mislead prosecutors, lawyers involved in the case said Thursday.

 

 

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