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t r u t h o u t: Torture in Iraq, and More Articles October 23, 2005

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t r u t h o u t | 10.23

The Case against the Cheney Cabal
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102305A.shtml
Whatever news Fitzgerald makes this week, the case has shed light on how Cheney and his clique of advisers cleared the way to war, and how they obsessed over critics who got in the way. The Cheney gang has been fighting a battle for decades with the intelligence bureaucracy, which they see as "dim and timid."

Leak Case Renews Questions on War's Rationale
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102305B.shtml
The legal and political stakes are of the highest order, but the investigation into the disclosure of a covert CIA officer's identity is also just one skirmish in the continuing battle over the Bush administration's justification for the war in Iraq.

CIA to Avoid Charges in Most Prisoner Deaths
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102305C.shtml
Despite indications of CIA involvement in the deaths of at least four prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, CIA employees now appear likely to escape criminal charges in all but one of those incidents, according to current and former intelligence and law enforcement officials.

Miers Family Received 'Excessive' Sum in Land Case
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102305D.shtml
Harriet Miers collected more than 10 times the market value for a small slice of land in Dallas where the state wanted to build a highway off-ramp. The windfall came after a judge who received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Miers' law firm appointed a close professional associate of Miers to the three-person panel that determined how much the state should pay.

Nicholas D. Kristof | Mr. Bush, This Is Pro-Life?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102305E.shtml
Kristoff: "Village women are the least powerful people on earth. That's why more than 500,000 women die every year worldwide in pregnancy - and why we in the West should focus more aid on preventing such deaths in poor countries." But Bush and his allies have blocked funds for the UN Population Fund that would have helped these women.

Missing Links
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102305F.shtml
Proponents of Intelligent Design have exploited a vexing question at the heart of Darwin's theory. Scientists can - and must - answer back. "We shouldn't dismiss questions, even if some are ill-intentioned," says Marc Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. "But at the same time, we need to realize that science has real answers to these questions."

Colleges Protest Call to Upgrade Online Systems
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102305G.shtml
The federal government, vastly extending the reach of an 11-year-old law, is requiring hundreds of universities, online communications companies and cities to overhaul their Internet computer networks to make it easier for law enforcement authorities to monitor e-mail and other online communications.

Schumer: Miers Lacks Votes to Be Confirmed
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102305H.shtml
Democrat Charles Shumer said that President Bush's Supreme Court choice lacks the votes now to be confirmed. On the 18-member GOP-controlled Judiciary Committee, "there are one or two who said they'd support her as of now," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, who sits on the committee.

Torture in Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102305X.shtml
The New York Review of Books has published an excerpt of a report from Human Rights Watch: "Leadership Failure: Firsthand Accounts of Torture of Iraqi Detainees by the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division." Read this to understand how torture has become a "sport" for US soldiers in Iraq.

Old Bush vs. New
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102305Y.shtml
The Bush administration is bracing for a powerful new attack by Brent Scowcroft, the respected national security adviser to the first President George Bush. Scowcroft's critique of both of the style and the substance of the Bush White House is slated to appear in Monday's edition of the New Yorker magazine.

Frank Rich: Karl and Scooter's Excellent Adventure
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102305Z.shtml
Frank Rich asks what the real reason for the Iraq war was: "We don't yet know whether Lewis (Scooter) Libby or Karl Rove has committed a crime, but the more we learn about their desperate efforts to take down a bit player like Joseph Wilson, the more we learn about the real secret they wanted to protect: the 'why' of the war."


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