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Condolezza Rice: ‘I Am Proud Of The Decision to Invade Iraq' (983 diggs) In an interview with Bloomberg TV yesterday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was unable to acknowledge the failure of Iraq. She said: "But I know that great historical events go through difficult phases and often emerge with the world left for the better. And I am proud of the decision of this administration to overthrow Saddam Hussein."

Independence Day: Let Us Remember Who We Are (815 diggs) Kucinich's fourth of July impeachment message.

Protesters disrupt Bush's July 4th address at Monticello (1,112 diggs) President Bush delivered a July 4th address before a naturalization ceremony for new citizens at Thomas Jefferson's home of Monticello that was repeatedly interrupted by protesters who called out "war criminal" and "impeach Bush."

NSA Spy Judge Defends the Law, Congress to Strip His Power (881 diggs) Just days before the Senate will convene to give a final blessing to President Bush's secret, warrantless wiretapping program, a federal court judge ruled that his legal justification for the surveillance has no legal merit. He's the same judge Congress is trying to save the nation's telecoms, such as AT&T and Sprint, from having to face in court.

U.S. Arms Dealer Tests Legal Bounds in Middle East Arms Baza (384 diggs) Former congressman Curt Weldon is helping broker deals between Russian and Ukranian weapons suppliers and the Iraqi and Libyan governments as part of his new job with a private American defense consulting firm, Wired.com has learned.

Karl Rove refuses to appear before House Judiciary panel (1,511 diggs) Karl Rove, former White House deputy chief of staff and President Bush's top political adviser, is refusing to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to testify on "politicization" within the Justice Department. Rove had been scheduled to appear next Thursday, July 10.

Jon Soltz: McCain Flips At Legit Question (1,027 diggs) That's why the McCain campaign went into all-out outrage mode over General Clark's comments. It wasn't about being offended. It was about lashing out so strongly that the media would cower in fear, and not even think about putting a question like this to McCain -- a question to which he has no answer, and is afraid of being exposed on that point.

Judge: FISA trumps state secrets, binds executive branch (797 diggs) A federal judge has struck a blow to the Bush Administration's use of the "state secrets" privilege in a lawsuit over its domestic surveillance practices. The ruling alsoundercuts the Democrats' rationale for signing off on retroactive immunity for the telecoms.

Secret-Spilling Wikileaks Plans to Save Journalism (936 diggs) After 18 months of publishing government, industry and military secrets that have sparked international scandals, led to takedown threats and briefly gotten the site banned in the United States, Assange says Wikileaks is just getting started changing the world.

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Presidency (1,428 diggs) He's a complete disaster!

U.S.military to patrol Internet (717 diggs) WASHINGTON, June 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. military is looking for a contractor to patrol cyberspace, watching for warning signs of forthcoming terrorist attacks or other hostile activity on the Web.

Hersh: Cheney 'Privately' Says He Prefers U.S to Strike Iran (873 diggs) Seymour Hersh in the MSNBC interview: "If Israel goes — I’ll tell you what Cheney’s says privately, and whether or not you, how I know this is, — what he says privately is, “we can’t let Israel go because, first of all, they don’t have the firepower, we do. We have much more firepower. And secondly, if they go, we’ll be blamed anyway."

Americans: How Ignorant Are We? (1,387 diggs) Ask the political scientists and you will be told that there is damning, hard evidence pointing incontrovertibly to the conclusion that millions are embarrassingly ill-informed and that they do not care that they are. There is enough evidence that one could almost conclude that we are living in an Age of Ignorance.

Fox News airs altered photos of NY Times reporters (5,642 diggs) During a segment in which Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade labeled New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe "attack dogs," Fox News aired photos of Steinberg and Reddicliffe that appeared to have been digitally altered to add yellowed teeth and exaggerated features.

Closer to war with Iran than anyone knows? (1,978 diggs) The man who broke the My Lai and Abu Ghraib stories says we're closer to war with Iran than anyone knows.

US Torture Tactics at Guantánamo Inspired by Communist China (941 diggs) The military trainers who came to Guant ánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of "coercive management techniques" The recycled chart is the most vivid evidence of the way Communist interrogation methods that the United States long described as torture became the basis for Guantanamo Bay.

Conservatives on WALL-E: 'Fascist, Fear-Mongering Nonsense' (2,131 diggs) Pixar's Wall-E portrays a lonely robot ’s quest for love, as he is left to clean up a trashed earth. Meanwhile, the over-indulged humans wait it out aboard gigantic spaceships run by a monolithic corporation-turned-government that “resemble spas for the fat and lazy.” Somehow, this touching love story has outraged the radical right.

McCain Accepts Money From Terrorist Fundraiser (1,686 diggs) [Reported by Diggers as Possibly Inaccurate] The co-host of a recent top-dollar fundraiser for Sen. John McCain oversaw the payment of roughly $1.7 million to a Colombian paramilitary group that is today designated a terrorist organization by the United States.

Six Years Later, McCain Says He Still Would’ve Invaded Iraq (1,489 diggs) Get a clue you two-thirds of America who've concluded the war was a mistake because of no WMDs, no ties to al-Qaeda, 4100 Americans dead, 29,000 wounded, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed, an emboldened Iran, a resurgent Taliban in Pakistan and a 2 trillion dollar price tag -- McCain says there was "no question" it was the right thing to do.

Would Bill Gates be No. 2? (596 diggs) Now that Bill Gates no longer has to worry about running Microsoft, why not help run the country? The Microsoft Corp. co-founder is mentioned by some in political circles as the "dream running mate" for Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

Reagan's secret use of domestic CIA propaganda (1,019 diggs) As historians ponder George W. Bush's disastrous presidency, they may wonder how Republicans perfected a propaganda system that could fool tens of millions of Americans, intimidate Democrats, and transform the vaunted Washington press corps from watchdogs to lapdogs. Now revealed, the Reagan administration built a domestic covert propaganda system

Don't Want To Be A US Citizen? Be Prepared to Owe Big Bucks! (2,318 diggs) Congress just passed a new law that will stop your capital -- or at least a good portion of it -- at the border, should you decide not to be a U.S. citizen anymore. Is it, perhaps, in preparation for the possibility that Americans might rebel at the debt and taxes incurred by their government by leaving for lower-tax locales?

ABC News: White House Blocks Search for Bin Laden (1,863 diggs) ... secret plan that would send U.S. special forces into the wild tribal regions of Pakistan to capture or kill Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, but the White House has balked at giving the mission a green light....

Bush Signs War Supplemental, By Daniel W. Reilly - CBS News (641 diggs) President Bush signed the last major war funding bill of his presidency Monday morning, culminating months of deliberations with Congress on a massive measure to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan well into next year.

HBO Film: Hacking Democracy Deibold/Global Voting Solutions (1,285 diggs) How can we have a democracy if we cannot secure our voting system? This full length movie examines how we count our votes. They found that it is a very corrupt innacurate system that allows a corrupt system to continue to run. Al Gore in 2002 was defeated but they uncovered a rigging of the system & was not due to machine failure. Negative votes...