Archive for June, 2006
The News Sieve
- How come most of the high-profile busts of home-grown terrorists, whether in Miami or New York, seem to involve less-than-intelligent dupes entrapped by police informants?
- Jeb Bush has been using his nonprofit foundation to run his political machine, paying a pollster and a former campaign finance director. Wonder if the Weekly Standard’s Fred [...]
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The News Sieve
- The Bush administration’s cyber security chief earned $577,602 last year under an agreement with his other employer, Carnegie Mellon University. And that school was awarded $19 million in contracts by Donald “Andy” Purdy’s division at the Department of Homeland Security.
- Yet more evidence that White House officials have been bragging about their [...]
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The News Sieve
- What’s all the fuss? There have been plenty of public references to SWIFT and the bank surveillance program since 2001, including descriptions by White House officials, long before the NY Times and other papers “disclosed” it last week. (Boston Globe)
- One step forward, two steps back? To cover the cost of President Bush’s [...]
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The News Sieve
- “Three Days in Rome: In which a neoconservative jack-of-all-trades, a pair of Pentagon hawks, and an Iranian exile with a knack for tall tales try to outflank the CIA and conjure a coup in Tehran.” (Mother Jones)
- Why is the chairman of Biosite, Inc., a manufacturer of diagnostic products for lab medicine, on the [...]
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The News Sieve
- White House’s most frequent “freebie” fliers: Karl Rove and his aides took at least $18,000 in free trips, Tim Goeglein (liaison to conservative groups) took $30,000 in trips. Among the countries visited: Norway, Latvia, Sweden, Australia. Who picked up the tab? Dozens of conservative and pro-business groups including the American Enterprise Institute, Southern Baptist [...]
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The News Sieve
- Dennis Hastert’s attorney, J. Randolph Evans, goes after the Sunlight Foundation for their reporting on Hastert’s real estate/earmarking scandal. And he should know what constitutes a scandal: Evans was Newt Gingrich’s counsel during the ethics troubles that forced the late House Speaker’s resignation. (And he’s currently chair of the Newt Gingrich Companies.) Evans, writing [...]
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What’s In a Name? Dems’ Response
To “Cut-N-Run”: The Three C Words
As the Democrats anguish over how to respond to Republican accusations that their Iraq policy is to “cut and run,” they just might want to hit back with their own quick sound bite.
It turns out that they already have one. Last October, Air America founder Anita Drobny trademarked “The Three C Words: Competence, Corruption and [...]
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The News Sieve
- Are the Daily Kos guys, Markos Moulitsas and Jerome Armstrong, involved in some kind of pay-for-play scheme in which politicians who use Armstrong’s consulting services get supported by Kos? (The New Republic’s The Plank)
- John McCain’s two-year investigative report into Jack Abramoff and the Indian-gaming scandals doesn’t name names.
- Congressman Alan Mollohan (D-WV) “helped [...]
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What’s In a Name?
Coming Soon to TV: Sons of Riches
The following shows just might be coming to your TV screens since their names were recently trademarked by the networks.
Most appealing: Lifetime’s doggie reality show, “Off the Leash.” Most offensive: A&E’s “Sons of Riches.” Most bizarre: Disney’s “Handmade Soap” and NBC’s “Animustard.” (Huh? Dogs that like mustard? Mustard made out of animals? Animated tubes of [...]
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The News Sieve
- The Pentagon may still define homosexuality as a disorder but that didn’t stop Donald Rumsfeld from hiring openly gay Stephen Herbits to oversee hiring at the Defense Department in 2001. He’s now one of Rummy’s top aides.
- “All right, you’ve covered your ass now“: President Bush’s response to the CIA briefer who told him [...]
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