Judge to White House: Find those 'lost' e-mails already

Facciola stands firm, tells 'em to keep digging.

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Impeachment Petition Deadline Midnight Wednesday July, 30th

Dennis Needs YOUR help NOW!-sign the petition at kucinich.us-spread the word in any way YOU can!-Get at least 10 of your friends to do the same.-The Deadline is Wednesday July, 30th at *MIDNIGHT*

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Former Ramstein medical chief denounces McCain

outrage from Col. Katherine Scheirman (Ret.), the retired Chief of Medical Operations for US Air Force in Europe Headquarters at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany. "Senator Obama has voted for the troops when John McCain has not, most recently on the new GI Bill. I am happy that Senator Obama puts the welfare of our troops above politics

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Death toll climbs in Iraq bombings

ore than 55 people have been killed and nearly 300 injured in a wave of suicide bombings across Iraq. The explosions punctured a period of relative calm in which violence dropped to a four-year low.

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B. Fein & Jane Hamsher; Impeachment, War on terror, FISA

An hour long discussion between constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein and Jane Hamsher on the Bush administration's illegal actions and the weak response of Democrats in Congress. Interesting question: do we need a second revolution?? (Madison quoted on dangers to the "liberty" of the citizenry during a time of war...)

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Anti-Terror Prosecutor Ignored Because His Wife Was Democrat

In today’s Justice Department report on Monica Goodling’s and other DOJ officials’ politicization of the department, the investigators reveal a disgraceful example: Goodling refused to hire “one of the one of the leading terrorism prosecutors in the country” because his wife was a Democrat

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DOJ: Gonzales Aides Violated Federal Law

A new Justice Department report concludes that politics illegally influenced the hiring of career prosecutors and immigration judges, and largely lays the blame on top aides to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

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Call to action. Voter rolls in several states PURGED!!!

Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy have teamed up to investigate several cases in which legal voters have been purged from the rolls and will be denied the chance to vote. Affected states include Florida, Ohio, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada...

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McCain's son resigns from board of bank days before it fails

On Saturday - an unusual day for such a thing - John McCain's son Andrew resigned from the boards of the troubled Henderson, Nevada, Silver State Bancorp. It was for "personal reasons," the little son of a pol claims.

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Top McCain Fund-Raiser Lobbying Bush Admin for Chevron

Chevron has launched “an unusually high-powered battle” to convince the Bush administration to pressure Ecuador to quash a toxic waste dumping case. Chevron’s lobbying offensive is being led by former senators Trent Lott and John Breaux, along with Wayne Berman, a top fund-raiser for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)

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Trouble @ Justice Department: Another Resignation over Bloch

Is there anyone over at the Office of Special Counsel who is still loyal to their boss, Scott Bloch? Apparently bad morale reaches all the way up Bloch's inner circle. The Special Counsel's top deputy, Jim Byrne, resigned yesterday and...

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Trouble @ Justice Depart: WHO IS SCOTT J. BLOCH REALLY?

Mark Crispin Miller looks behind the headlines of the OSC's (Office of Special Counsel in the Justice Department) investigation of Karl Rove.

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New Prosecutorial Misconduct Alleged in Siegelmam Case

When Attorney General Michael Mukasey appeared as a nominee before the Senate Judiciary Committee, senators led by New York’s Chuck Schumer expressed their concern about the highly suspect prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don E. Siegelman. The questions have continued through almost every appearance that Mukasey has made before both the House

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Make Freddie and Fannie Go Green

Don't just bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: require them to start building environmentally responsible homes.

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Impeachment Hearings are the Appropriate & Necessary Next...

As the House Judiciary Committee took up the question of how best to address what its chairman described as "the Imperial Presidency of George W. Bush," it was the ranking Republican in the room, Iowa Congressman Steve King, who observed that, "We are hear having impeachment hearings before the Judiciary Committee."

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THE MYTH OF A TOSS-UP ELECTION - Center for Politics

Barack Obama is not a national hero like Dwight Eisenhower, and George Bush is no Harry Truman. But if history is any guide, and absent a dramatic change in election fundamentals or an utter collapse of the Obama candidacy, John McCain is likely to suffer the same fate as Adlai Stevenson.

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GOP Insider Slams Bush & Party: Just "Phenomenal Arrogance"

There is wide-spread acknowledgment, even within the party itself, that the Republican brand is currently poisonous. "There is a phenomenal arrogance like a fog that has clouded people's thinking and ability to see what is real..We have to go down in history as some of the worst messengers. And President Bush has been horrible."

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Navy official: 9/11 Flight 93 was shot down

Interesting statement indeed during Gitmo war crimes trial...

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Ron Paul Heads, CFR, NWO and Iraq

http://www.thesoapboxroadshow.comsome errors in narration@ 3:45 "it was seen as a fever by some of his (Cheney's) colleagues, even a disquieting obsession."@ 5:04 GENERAL FRANKS says to RUMSFELD "maybe I better quit".@ 5:50 "25 million Iraqis would rush..."

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Krugman: NYT Urged me to ‘Lay Off' the Bush Administration

On Friday at the Netroots Nation conference, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman spoke on a panel about “How the media learned to bend over backwards to please the right.” Krugman discussed the right wing’s success at pressuring the media and how some of that filtered down to him.

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FROM THE PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS OF AMERICA:

Thanks to those of you who live-streamed the show last week! Our numbers stayed on par with Rachel Maddow (her show preceded ours). All I can say is let's do it again!

Please join me on Richard Greene's Clout on Air America next Tuesday, July 22--I'll be co-hosting with Richard and Tim Carpenter. Keep us on the air by listening to the live-stream on your computer, and calling into the show.

Click here to listen in at 9:00 PM EDT, 6:00 PM PDT, Tuesday July, 20.

The more of you who tune in via your computer--where PDA response is measured--the more likely we’ll stay on the air. The same is true for phone calls, so please call in to the show at 866-303-2270, too.

Our guest in the first hour will be PDA's endorsed Healthcare NOT Warfare candidate Howard Shanker (AZ 01).

Stay online and listen to the second hour featuring PDA Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign co-chair, Norman Solomon. Norman is serving as an Obama delegate to the Democratic National Convention and is leading PDA's platform efforts on the healthcare plank of the Democratic Party platform.

It's going to be a great show, please join me! Listen here.

Until Tuesday,

Mimi Kennedy
PDA Advisory Board Chair

P.S. PDA's inside-the-party efforts are bearing fruit. Besides the platform effort Norman will talk about on the show, PDA will have a big presence in Denver. Read about it here, and look for an upcoming announcement soon.

Secret Photos of Bush's Abu Ghraib Prison WARNING:Mature

(this video was apparently made by Australian television which got a hold of the STILL SECRET batch of Abu Ghraib photos. You will have a very hard time watching this video. I couldn't get through the whole thing.)This is a video made of Abu Ghraib prison, and contains many photos and videos that have not been seen. This is a little dated but was brought to my attention today and needs to be seen and Dugg. Warning:Video is very Graphic!

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Obama in Iraq/ Maliki's statement/ bombings in Baghdad

Truthout article, Monday 21 July 2008by: Juan Cole, Informed CommentDer Spiegel proves al-Maliki story correct; series of bombings hit Baghdad.

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Iraq Confirms: We Want U.S troops Out in Two Years

(more bad news for the Bushies and the war-mongers)The Iraqi Government said today that it had a vision for all US combat troops to leave the country by the end of 2010 — another apparent endorsement of Barack Obama’s war strategy during his visit to Baghdad. The sudden and unexpected Iraqi comments on the desire for a timetabled withdrawal was greeted with dismay by the White House & McCain.

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Testing the Maiden Post

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