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Bob Barr: The "Change" of the Republican Party

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:37:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Powerful. The neo-republican party exposed from a former republican who pushed to impeach Clinton. Barr's credibility from being a very influential republican Congressman, and earlier experience in the CIA, make his arguments formidable.

During the last 8 years republicans have left their own platform, especially regarding limited government and individual liberty which they once championed.

Listen on REAL audio beginning at 1:00:00 mark.

Despite much talk of democracy the Libertarian candidate is being excluded from debates from the two-party tyranny.

Ron Paul and Bob Barr are just two effective witnesses to the "change" of the republican party and the great danger to freedom it poses.

[Note: My posting of select Democracy Now excerpts is not necessarily an endorsement of all their philosophy and views, only of some of the facts and relevant news and interviews they have, usually entirely passed over by the MSM].

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

Libertarian Presidential Candidate and Ex-Republican Rep. Bob Barr on Impeachment, Opening Up the Debates, and Why He Left the GOP

A decade ago, Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr was serving as a Republican congressman from Georgia and led the Republican drive to impeach President Bill Clinton. Since then he has become a vocal critic of the Republican Party, the war in Iraq and the erosion of civil liberties. Barr joins us in St. Paul. [includes rush transcript]

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BOB BARR: The Republican Party left me. I mean, the Republican Party of this early twenty-first century is a party that has no regard for individual liberty, that is focused dramatically on increasing the size, the scope, the power of the federal government, particularly in the executive branch.

This is a party that bears no relationship to the Republican Party of ages past.

Tags: republican party, gop, change, bob barr for president, libertarian, constitution, 2008 candidates

Google Chrome and Big Brother

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:39:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Wow. Read this and it will raise your eyebrows and make you wonder about Google. This appears in the Money report for good reason. Anyone noticed all the government, even CIA contracts, that Google has obtained lately? Consider how the "love of money is the root of all sorts of evil", and that surveillance and security merchandisers are driving the changes in government, globally, toward more totalitarian population control and that Google increasingly holds all the data and technological means they want.

The public image of Google should change based upon this and other evidence as it moves closer toward the globalist corporations and the fascism they are enabling and building by partnering with governments for revenue while the people's liberties are increasingly trampled and power becomes consolidated.

Clip Source: www.abcnews.go.com

Is Google Turning Into Big Brother?

The Debut of Chrome, Google's New Browser, May Have Been Quiet for a Reason

Is Chrome, Google's new browser, part of an ambitious effort by Google to own all of the world's data?

(ABC News Photo Illustration)

While we're transfixed by the presidential election, in the world of high tech another duel between two well-funded, take-no-quarter candidates has just emerged … and in the long run the impact on our daily lives may be nearly as great -- and perhaps even sinister.

As you probably heard, on Monday -- that is, on a national holiday, when business announcements are almost never made -- Google rolled out Chrome, its new Web browser.

why would a company that knows it has a solid and newsworthy product on its hands intentionally dampen media coverage of it?

If Google pulls off this strategy, it will be the most valuable company on the planet. It will also be the scariest … and we should start worrying about that right now.

totalitarian) tendencies

Tags: google, big brother, surveillance, government contracts, globalism, fascism

Ron Suskind vs. Bush Admin on Iraq-9/11 Fakery

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:06:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Suskind's book has provided documentation of evidence and inside witnesses within the CIA and British Intelligence sources that a fake letter was ordered "from the White House" pretending to be from Saddam's Intelligence Chief to Saddam (whom the U.S. relocated and paid $5 million to) which was laden with lies and a claim of ties between Mohammad Atta (supposed 9/11 ringleader), Al Qaeda, and Iraq--back-dated prior to 9/11--which provided deliberately false claims to connect Iraq to 9/11. The White House has denied (see previous clipmark) but award-winning journalist Suskind summarizes his sources and defends his allegations on Democracy Now (see first podcast "listen" link).

The second podcast, Aug. 14, includes House Judiciary Chair John Conyers who has already started an investigation under way which will lead to some kind of action. Conyer's stated the the Senate Intelligence Committee, headed by Jay Rockefeller, has the power to review classified documents to verify this.

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

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Tags: bush, 9/11, cia, iraq, al qaeda, mohammad atta, cheney, neoconservatives, war

CIA Official: Cheney Likely Ordered Forged Letter to Saddam

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:18:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This was intended to link Iraq to 9/11. This vindicates my statement about the White House denial and that it was likely Cheney who considers himself "not a part of the Executive branch", but it was drafted on White House letterhead. We now have DOCUMENTED PROOF of a conspiracy to lie and fabricate evidence for war with Iraq!--all likely headed by Dick Cheney, chief of the neoconservative Fifth Column that hijacked the government by using 9/11 as their pretext for everything.

For Cheney to use White House letterhead to order a forged letter from the CIA is also a blatant usurpation of power, making use of power that is not his ("not part of Executive branch"). Did Bush know or did Cheney act alone?

Clip Source: rawstory.com

Tape: Top CIA official confesses order to forge Iraq-9/11 letter came on White House stationery

In damning transcript, ex-CIA official says Cheney likely ordered letter linking Hussein to 9/11 attacks

A forged letter linking Saddam Hussein to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks was ordered on White House stationery and probably came from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a new transcript of a conversation with the Central Intelligence Agency's former Deputy Chief of Clandestine Operations Robert Richer.

Suskind posted the transcript at his blog

Suskind's new book asserts that senior Bush officials ordered the CIA to forge a document "proving" that Saddam Hussein had been trying to manufacture nuclear weapons and was collaborating with al Qaeda.

On Tuesday, the White House released a statement on Richer's behalf.

The denial, however, directly contradicts Richer's own remarks in the transcript.

Tags: cheney, iraq, saddam, 9/11, war

Forged Letter to Saddam Used to Justify Iraq War

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:15:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The White House denies THEY controlled this. But.

1. They do not deny there was a forged letter, if you read closely, to link Saddam to 9/11 falsely.

2. Dick Cheney (lead neocon in making the case for war, and member of the Project for New American Century blueprint for regime change in Iraq written in Sept. 2000) even admits he is not part of the Executive Branch.

So the White House officially did not control this, but Cheney (who was "visiting the CIA daily", it was reported) and the neocons in the Office of Special Plans did this.

Again, 9/11 was centrally used to claim to justify war with Iraq where even per Bush "Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11", yet this was the link they established to the public. 9/11 was a Neo-Con job, and this demonstrates further how they used it.

Clip Source: www.politico.com

Book says White House ordered forgery

A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein.

Suskind writes in “The Way of the World,” to be published Tuesday, that the alleged forgery – adamantly denied by the White House – was designed to portray a false link between Hussein’s regime and al Qaeda as a justification for the Iraq war.

“The White House had concocted a fake letter from Habbush to Saddam, backdated to July 1, 2001,” Suskind writes. “It said that 9/11 ringleader Mohammad Atta had actually trained for his mission in Iraq – thus showing, finally, that there was an operational link between Saddam and al Qaeda, something the Vice President’s Office had been pressing CIA to prove since 9/11 as a justification to invade Iraq. There is no link.”

part of “false pretenses” for war

arguably impeachable offense.

Tags: bush, cheney, iraq war, saddam hussein, cia

Bush Warns Pakistan, Threatens Action

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:37:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: After spending hundreds of millions of taxpayers money for aid to Pakistan for over 7 years, now this. After helping Musharref (via CIA) seize power through a coupe. After knowing the ISI help the Taliban (while still giving millions to Pakistan), now this. (Hint: there is no real threat from the Taliban, but they have to stick to the official story for invading Afghanistan and 9/11. The Taliban resists the US invasion of Afghanistan of course, and the Islamic Pakis and ISI of course resent that too but have been bribe with money thus far). Now the self appointed ruler of the world, who claims Afghanistan is US property, threatens retaliation into Pakistan, a sovereign country, should any groups support Taliban resistance in Afghanistan. Oh, and Obama support this plan too, because he is a member of the CFR and their global agenda too.

Clip Source: www.thenews.com.pk

Bush warns Pakistan of ‘serious action’

LONDON: The United States has accused Pakistan’s main spy agency of deliberately undermining Nato efforts in Afghanistan by helping the Taliban and al-Qaeda militants they are supposed to be fighting, the Sunday Times reported.

President George W Bush confronted Yusuf Raza Gilani in Washington last week with evidence of involvement by the ISI in a deadly attack on the Afghan capital and warned of retaliation if it continues.

Gilani also met Michael Hayden, director of the CIA, who confronted him with a dossier on ISI support for the Taliban.

Bush warned that if one more attack in Afghanistan or elsewhere were traced back to Pakistan, he would have to take ìserious actionî.

They were very hot on the ISI,î said a member of the Pakistan delegation

An intercepted telephone conversation apparently revealed that ISI agents masterminded the operation. The United States also claimed to have arrested an ISI officer inside Afghanistan.

Tags: bush, pakistan, afghanistan, taliban, war on terrorism, obama

Key Al-Qaeda Agent Killed or Propaganda?

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:00:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: interesting analysis of reports here, you decide. Note in particular the timing of the claimed event, and of course bodies are never identified and found, no forensic evidence. Why use unmanned million dollar drones and missiles if the target is so critical?

Clip Source: www.legitgov.org

Al-Qaeda expert re-killed by CIA

It's 'Groundhog Day' at the CIA!

Abu Khabab al-Masri 'died' in January 2006 and again on Monday. Once again, the 'mainstream' media announces the re-killing of another 'key al-Qaeda operative' by a 'CIA-operated unpiloted drone!' These top al-Qaeda operatives - and their subsequent deaths - are more bountiful than poppy fields in Afghanistan or oil smuggling routes in Iraq.
BTW, who keeps picking up the US $5 million reward?

The Financial Times reports:

Al-Qaeda expert killed by CIA

Western diplomats said it would be a boost to morale in the Bush administration

CBS News reports:

Officials: Al Qaeda's Mad Scientist Killed --CIA Drone Targeted Chemical Weapons Expert Abu Khabab Al-Masri On Afghanistan-Pakistan Border

. The timing of the report on al-Masri's death also aroused suspicion - coinciding with a visit to the White House by Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani.

Tags: terrorism, al-qaeda

Bush Will Issue Mass Pardons

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:46:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: interesting read

Clip Source: www.informationclearinghouse.info

Bush Will Issue a Mass Pardon

efore leaving office George W. Bush will issue a mass pardon, the largest collection of presidential pardons in American history. Bush will pardon himself, Vice President Cheney, and a long list of officials involved in torture, eavesdropping, destruction of evidence, the CIA leak case and a range of potential crimes.

As George Bush signs the pardons and boards the helicopter to depart Washington as his presidency finally ends, even then, he and those pardoned will worry about the statute of limitations.

Eavesdropping without court order violates a statute, FISA, that includes severe criminal penalties. If the courts ultimately conclude that these laws were broken, as I predict they ultimately will, considering the number of individual violations, and the penalties for each violation, the potential sentencing liability for anyone convicted would be huge.

Get ready for a long-overdue debate that has barely begun

Tags: bush

Another Terrorist Kangaroo Trial With alot at Stake

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:24:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: So the government caught bin Laden's driver, we are told to believe, but yet they lost bin Laden? Right! It's all a lie and another show trial for a fictitious account to justify a fake war for regime changes.

It is not only Mr Hamdan's future that will be determined by the trial. There is great concern among members of the Bush administration that they too could find themselves before foreign or international courts for the role they played in facilitating and encouraging the torture of detainees.

The infamous "torture memos" circulated by Vice-President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Charles Addington, and two former administration figures, Douglas Feith and Alberto Gonzales, covertly approved the abuse of prisoners by the CIA. These men were publicly warned recently by Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Colin Powell when Mr Powell was Secretary of State, to "never travel outside the US

Clip Source: www.independent.co.uk

Bin Laden's driver is in the dock, but America's war on terror is on trial

The first military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay begins tomorrow. Its outcome will determine far more than the fate of a minor al-Qa'ida figure

Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's personal driver, will enter a specially built courtroom in Guantanamo Bay tomorrow for the first full trial of any of the hundreds of detainees to have been sent to America's infamous prison camp since the 9/11 attacks nearly seven years ago.

The driver is alleged to have gone mad as a direct result of being kept in solitary confinement for 22 hours a day in a tiny cell; he is hardly the ideal subject for the first major test of President George Bush's much-criticised system of military commissions to bring terrorism suspects to justice.

Mr Hamdan drove al-Qa'ida's supreme leader between safe houses to avoid US missiles, according to prosecutors

Tags: war, bin laden, guanatamo, military comissions trial

Bush, Mukasey, Cheney Claim Exec Privilege, Obstructing in Plame Case

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:17:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: But the Executive has no "privilege" to violate the law, nor to obstruct justice. And Cheney, by his own words, is not part of the "executive branch". Mukasey, the new AG replacing Alberto (Speedy) Gonzales, shows why he was chosen by Bush, i.e. to continue to obstruct justice.

As even republican federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said on the Plame case, "a cloud hangs over the VP office", and Scott McClellan just opened up and published his account that Bush personally admitted authorizing the Plame leak! This is stonewalling to avoid prosecution for a "high crime" worthy of impeachment by George and Dick both.

Clip Source: www.washingtonindependent.com

Mukasey Claims Executive Privilege

Attorney General Michael Mukasey pre-empted a contempt of Congress vote by the House oversight committee this morning by claiming executive privilege. Henry A. Waxman's House oversight committee subpoenaed Mukasey to issue a ton of documents related to the Valerie Plame Wilson scandal, including the interview special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald had with Dick Cheney.

The oversight committee has spent a year trying to get its hands on interviews Fitzgerald had with Cheney and President George W. Bush about what Waxman calls "the despicable outing of Ms. Wilson." Fitzgerald is fine with the interviews being made public, but the Bush administration isn't. Waxman called the executive privilege claim "ludicrous."

Cummings argued at an oversight committee business meeting this morning that Cheney can't claim executive privilege because he's announced he's not part of the executive branch.

Tags: bush, cheney, valerie plame, joe wilson, cia leak, impeachment

Bush Wants Bin Laden "Dead or Alive"--Again!

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:18:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Right! Too bad he already died in Dec. 2001, which is why Bush suddenly lost interest ("I'm really not that concerned about one man"), and the CIA closed down its Bin Laden unit.

Scenario: use UK Special Ops and UAV drones and fire a missile at a "safe house" near the Paki border, then claim to have killed Bin Laden--great propaganda! Especially if done before Sept. 11, 2008.

It's all a lie, and Bush knows it, which is why he has been caught contradicting himself many times. Or, just ask the neocon contractors like SITE, let them track the websites of the "bin Laden videos" that keeping popping up before elections! Surely they could find the source of those videos, if they wanted.

The FBI does not list 9/11 on Bin Laden's wanted poster, and they say "there is no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11".

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Get Osama Bin Laden before I leave office, orders George W Bush

President George W Bush has enlisted British special forces in a final attempt to capture Osama Bin Laden before he leaves the White House.

Defence and intelligence sources in Washington and London confirmed that a renewed hunt was on for the leader of the September 11 attacks. “If he [Bush] can say he has killed Saddam Hussein and captured Bin Laden, he can claim to have left the world a safer place,” said a US intelligence source.

The Special Boat Service (SBS) and the Special Reconnaissance Regiment have been taking part in the US-led operations to capture Bin Laden in the wild frontier region of northern Pakistan. It is the first time they have operated across the Afghan border on a regular basis.

The hunt was “completely sanctioned” by the Pakistani government, according to a UK special forces source. It involves the use of Predator and Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles

Tags: bin laden, propaganda, bush, war on terrorism

Powerful:Democracy Now Interview of McClellan--podcast

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:11:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Must-hear interview. The Bush administration cannot deny the claims from this insider. It is also interesting to hear the questions put to him by some good reporters in the run up to Iraq that the MSM decided not to let us hear!
Hard evidence for wrong doing in the administration and he is about to testify before the Judiciary committee on the CIA leak of Plame, by Rove, Libby, and likely orchestrated by Cheney. Also how the White House Iraq Group used the NY Times as their primary propaganda conduit, including Judith Miller.

Great podcast (have to listen to other news first before interview).

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

Ex-White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan Speaks Out on the Bush Admin Lies and Media Allies that Led the US to War

The former White House press secretary joins us for the hour on the heels of his explosive new book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception. McClellan says former White House aides Karl Rove and Lewis “Scooter” Libby lied to him about their role in the CIA leak case, criticizes the corporate media for acting as “complicit enablers” in what he calls the Bush administration’s deliberate manipulation of the public to build support for invading Iraq

Scott McClellan, served as White House press secretary from 2003 to 2006. He is author of What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception.

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Tags: bush administration, war, cheney, mcclellan, plame, cia leak

McClellan to Testify before House on CIA Leak

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:21:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More hard evidence surely for Kucinich's impeachment resolution against Bush, for the President to authorize the leak of a CIA agent (which is McClellans published record in his new book) is considered a high crime, no misdemeanor.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

McClellan to testify before House in CIA leak case

WASHINGTON - President Bush's former spokesman, Scott McClellan, will testify before a House committee next week about whether Vice President Dick Cheney ordered him to make misleading public statements about the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity.

McClellan will testify publicly and under oath before the House Judiciary Committee on June 20 about the White House's role in the leak and its response, his attorneys, Michael and Jane Tigar, said on Monday.

In his new book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," McClellan said he was misled by others, possibly including Cheney, about the role of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in the leak. McClellan has said publicly that Bush and Cheney "directed me to go out there and exonerate Scooter Libby."

Tags: bush, plame, mcclellan, cia leak, impeachment

The Wolf is Back; Neocons Control "Security" Policy

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:28:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The return of Wolfowitz to Bush government was missed by many. Dated December article, but very important.

When you see "Security" think "war planning" instead. The pairing of he and James Woolsey (both of the infamous Project for a New American Century) in the same panel is an indication of "fixing the intelligence around the policy" to go to war again.

Clip Source: www.newsweek.com

An Old Face Resurfaces

The Bush administration has offered the former World Bank president a new public service position.

Don't ever say the Bush administration doesn't take care of its own. Nearly three years after resigned as deputy Defense secretary and six months after his stormy departure as president of the World Bank

has offered Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the War, a position as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board, a prestigious State Department panel

The 18-member panel, which has access to highly classified intelligence, advises Rice on disarmament, nuclear proliferation, WMD issues and other matters.

Wolfowitz, now a visiting scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, will replace former senator Fred Thompson

other panel members include Robert Joseph, the former National Security Council official in charge of Iraq WMD intelligence, and ex-CIA director James Woolsey

Tags: paul wolfowitz, neoconservatives, war policy, bush administration

Former White House Press Sec'y Blows Whistle on Bush Administration

Wed, 28 May 2008 04:21:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: very credible insider says propaganda used to start Iraq war, and much more, including Cheney, Libby, Rove on Plame case.

Clip Source: www.politico.com

Exclusive: McClellan whacks Bush, White House

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” to governing at the expense of candor and competence.

Among the most explosive revelations in the 341-page book, titled “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception” (Public Affairs, $27.95):

• McClellan charges that Bush relied on “propaganda” to sell the war.

• He says the White House press corps was too easy on the administration during the run-up to the war.

• He admits that some of his own assertions from the briefing room podium turned out to be “badly misguided.”

CIA leak case

McClellan asserts that the aides — Karl Rove, the president’s senior adviser, and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the vice president’s chief of staff — “had at best misled” him

Tags: war, bush, scot mcclellan

Clipmarks | blueridge's 'cia' clips

Bob Barr: The "Change" of the Republican Party

Libertarian Presidential Candidate and Ex-Republican Rep. Bob Barr on Impeachment, Opening Up the Debates, and Why He Left the GOP

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Google Chrome and Big Brother

Is Google Turning Into Big Brother?

The Debut of Chrome, Google's New Browser, May Have Been Quiet for a Reason

Ron Suskind vs. Bush Admin on Iraq-9/11 Fakery

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Thursday, August 14, 2008

CIA Official: Cheney Likely Ordered Forged Letter to Saddam

In damning transcript, ex-CIA official says Cheney likely ordered letter linking Hussein to 9/11 attacks

Forged Letter to Saddam Used to Justify Iraq War

Book says White House ordered forgery

Bush Warns Pakistan, Threatens Action

Key Al-Qaeda Agent Killed or Propaganda?

Bush Will Issue Mass Pardons

Another Terrorist Kangaroo Trial With alot at Stake

Bin Laden's driver is in the dock, but America's war on terror is on trial

Bush, Mukasey, Cheney Claim Exec Privilege, Obstructing in Plame Case

Bush Wants Bin Laden "Dead or Alive"--Again!

Get Osama Bin Laden before I leave office, orders George W Bush

Powerful:Democracy Now Interview of McClellan--podcast

Ex-White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan Speaks Out on the Bush Admin Lies and Media Allies that Led the US to War

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McClellan to Testify before House on CIA Leak

McClellan to testify before House in CIA leak case

The Wolf is Back; Neocons Control "Security" Policy

An Old Face Resurfaces

Former White House Press Sec'y Blows Whistle on Bush Administration

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