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View Article  Carol Lam wins another one

Much has been made of Carol Lam’s favorable reputation in public corruption cases, and by all accounts – including off-the-record comments -- rightly so. Lam was recently characterized at a congressional hearing as the foremost prosecutor in the country in regard to public corruption. But it looks as though Lam’s office also moved forcefully against other powerful entities as well as against public officials.

 

On March 1, 2005, the U.S. Attorney’s office of the Southern District of California in San Diego – Lam’s office – announced that major military contractor Titan Corporation, based in California, had pled ...   more »

View Article  How to find the missing emails

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is no such thing as a missing email. [With grateful thanks to a friend, for passing along the reminder re ‘whois’:]

Re e-mails between White House and Justice Department:

 

The e-mails were sent on e-mail accounts run by the Republican National Committee. The RNC is claiming that many, if not all, of the e-mails subpoenaed by the Congress may have been deleted.

 

Keep looking. Here's how:


The RNC's web site (RNC.ORG) is hosted by SMARTECHCORP.NET. Relevant whois data is:

Registrant Name: Republican National Committee
Registrant Organization: Republican National Committee
Registrant Street1: ...   more »

View Article  His buying a gun was a danger sign, too -- and the next danger is copycatting

The sad young man whom nobody noticed has certainly taken his revenge. The receding fellow feeling suffered inwardly by Mr. Cho at Virginia Tech can only be imagined or reconstructed from his writings at this point, but the harm done to thirty-two other families of the slain, to the wounded and their families, and to his own family, is tragically apparent.

 

According to yesterday’s television news reports including a touching interview with the family’s mailman, 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui came from a quiet family and a quiet neighborhood, in a quiet northern Virginia suburb, and was a quiet young man. He ...   more »

View Article  FEINGOLD INTRODUCES BILL TO END U.S. MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ

FEINGOLD INTRODUCES BILL TO END U.S. MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ
Senate Majority Leader Reid Cosponsors Legislation Forcing President to Safely Redeploy Troops by March 31, 2008

April 10, 2007 [From the office of Senator Russ Feingold:]

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Russ Feingold introduced legislation today to effectively end U.S. military involvement in Iraq. The bill, supported by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, requires the President to begin safely redeploying U.S. troops from Iraq 120 days from enactment, as required by the emergency supplemental spending bill passed by the Senate. The bill ends funding for the war, with three narrow ...   more »

View Article  Imus in the toilet, and don't even think about asking me to apologize

Imus in the Toilet

 

 

Halfway following the most recent Imus gaffe – not that it’s much of a surprise, or particularly illuminating, regarding what the major media outlets will tolerate [pay handsomely, for years] as long as the bigmouths pull in the advertisers – I have to admit that one point does strike me anew.

 

No one – no one, even among all the better-thinking persons who criticize Imus’ unfathomable remark about ‘nappy-headed Hos” – points out that, racial injustice aside, these girls are YOUNG, and Imus is SIXTY-SIX YEARS OLD.

 

At the risk of coining ...   more »

View Article  Elizabeth de la Vega's UNITED STATES V. GEORGE W. BUSH ET AL -- book review

United States v. George W. Bush et al. (Seven Stories Press, 2006) is a helpful and highly accessible book for any reader currently interested in finding out more about impeachment.

 

Elizabeth de la Vega, the author, is a former federal prosecutor who lays out in 240 small-format and easily-understood pages the legal case against President Bush and Vice President Cheney: that they and their top personnel fraudulently misled the nation into a war falsely represented as necessary to America’s defense and protection.

 

De la Vega served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in ...   more »