Links: Dick Cheney vs The Rule Of Law & The Media

Thursday, 31 May 2007, 3:43 pm
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Cheney's Lawyer Had Visitor Log Eliminated

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053007L.shtml

A lawyer for Vice President Dick Cheney told the Secret Service in September to eliminate data on who visited Cheney at his official residence, a newly disclosed letter states.

Patrick Fitzgerald: Up to Three Years for Libby

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052507S.shtml

Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby betrayed the public's trust and deserves to spend two to three years in prison for obstructing the CIA leak investigation, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said Friday.

GOP Rivals Embrace Unproven Iraq-9/11 Tie

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052807A.shtml

In defending the Iraq war, leading Republican presidential contenders are increasingly echoing words and phrases used by President Bush in the run-up to the war, reinforcing the misleading impression that Iraq was responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Paul Krugman | Trust and Betrayal

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052807D.shtml

"Future historians will shake their heads over how easily America was misled into war. The warning signs, the indications that we had a rogue administration determined to use 9/11 as an excuse for war, were there, for those willing to see them, right from the beginning - even before Mr. Bush began explicitly pushing for war with Iraq," writes Paul Krugman.

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